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19282221596<p>"Wm Fox" to Jesse Lasky at Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. Times Square New York City on the new processes of producing talking films. 11" x 8 1/2" on his William Fox Fox Studio West 55th Street New York City letterhead August 21 1928. Very good closed file holes at top edges.</p><p>In part: ".You already know of my great interest in the successful development of talking motion pictures. I am anxious therefore too see your company produce movietone pictures that are as near perfect as it is possible to obtain from the experience we have gathered. I realize that one of the things that would retard your progress would be improper printing - and there is more danger of failure here than in any other step of the work. The only one that thoroughly understands the proper development and printing of sound pictures today is our laboratory."</p><p>Fox 1879-1952 was born in Hungary; originally named Wilhelm Fried. He founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.</p>
1780017670Bushy Park: Manuscript 1780. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. One folio page 18-line handwritten document dated July 17 1773. Signed by: North as Prime Minister; C. Townsend; C.J. Fox Newcastle; Hardwicke; Thomas Coutts attorney. It concerns payment to James Lord Forbes. American Revoluton; Revolutionary War; Frederick Lord North 1732-1792. Manuscript Paperback books
1780017670Bushy Park: Manuscript 1780. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. One folio page 18-line handwritten document dated July 17 1773. Signed by: North as Prime Minister; C. Townsend; C.J. Fox Newcastle; Hardwicke; Thomas Coutts attorney. It concerns payment to James Lord Forbes. American Revoluton; Revolutionary War; Frederick Lord North 1732-1792. Manuscript Paperback
19311023071<p>WYETH Newell Convers. <strong><em>The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come</em></strong>. By John Fox Jr. A Limited Edition with Pictures by N.C. Wyeth. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1931. 4to x 322pp. Quarter-vellum stamped in gilt with light blue patterned cloth covers; t.e.g. Light blue endpapers; 15 hand-tipped color plates. Light evidence of aging to vellum else a remarkably bright clean copy in original box with printed label some light edgewear else remarkably sharp. <strong><em>Signed and numbered by the artist N.C. Wyeth</em></strong>.</p><p>First edition limited issue being #327/512 copies. A fascinating story of a young Kentucky boy who finds himself at odds with those around him when he joins the Union Army to fight in the American Civil War. Wyeth's gorgeous watercolor illustrations magnificently capture this powerful story.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1715M4877Amsterdam 1715. Excellent. Size : 495x570 mm 19.5x22.375 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: ; Maps Central America unknown
1930248H3785London: The Blue Peter Publishing Company Ltd. 1930. Book. Illus. by Spurling Jack Signed. Fair. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Third Impression. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Affixed to first blank leaf is a heartfelt handwritten note signed by the artist Jack Spurling 1870-1933 to a Mr. Hardcastle dated 15 December 1929. On opposite leaf is affixed a typed gift plate from one Lt. L.B. Whetstone R.N. beneath which is written in pencil "H.M.S. Dauntless August 1930". Laid-in is a one-page colour-illustrated magazine ad for this volume which reads in part "The life and colour of the golden days of sail painted by Mr. Jack Spurling 30 colour plates and one photogravure and described by Mr. Basil Lubbock. As great a treasure for book-lovers as for sea-lovers." "Appended are a subject index an index of the names of ships which occur in the text and a foldout chart of the routes chiefly followed by the clippers in pursuit of their various trades." - Editor's Note. 12.4" x 10.5". XII 153 pages. All plates photogravure and chart present. Binding shaken. Both hinges open. Front free endpaper loose but present. Above-average wear to gilt decorated blue publisher's cloth. Light to moderate foxing to contents. The Blue Peter Publishing Company, Ltd. Hardcover
2007C89636Last Gasp. As New. 2007. Hardcover. 0867196769 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 268 pp. ; 401 ills. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Last Gasp hardcover
173913984Amsterdam: Renard 1739. Copper-engraved sea chart with full orginal colour in very good condition. A highly decorative sea chart of the English Channel by the master-engraver Renard.<br/> <br/>The marine atlases of 17th and 18th century Holland were best sellers. The nation that led the world in overseas commerce also led in the arts of engraving and cartography. Plus there was a large audience of mariners and mariners' parents who needed to study the obscure straits and recently discovered island groups their sons were seeing. Louis Renard 1678-1746 was from a Huguenot family. He moved from France to the Netherlands and became a book dealer and publisher in Amsterdam in 1703. Louis Renard first published Atlas de la Navigation et du Commerce qui se fait dans toutes les parties du monde in 1715. It was re-issued unchanged by the Ottens in 1739. The charts were printed from plates made by Frederick de Wit in 1675 Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas. These were corrected by Renard using primarily van Keulen.<br/> <br/>Koeman Atlantes Neerlandici Ren 1. Renard unknown books
18917927London: Chatto & Windus 1891. First edition. Fine. Original publisher's primary blue cloth gilt there are examples of remainder bindings extant octavo. Edges untrimmed 32 pp. publisher's ads at rear mostly uncut pictorial bookplate of Herbert & Sarita Ward to front pastedown. Fore-edge foxed otherwise a Fine copy with outstanding provenance. <br /> <br /> An extraordinary association copy of a noted rarity a sharp critique of the "Scramble for Africa". The copy of Herbert Ward sculptor writer and member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was directly under the command of Major Edmund Barttlelot at the rear column having been appointed by Stanley as a lieutenant. The infamous column features heavily in Fox Bourne's work with the entirety of chapter five dedicated to the topic. Ward and his work My Life with Stanley's Rear Guard are quoted extensively and Fox Bourne clearly makes an example of Ward's illegal and immoral behaviour. A particularly disturbing example is the case of the execution of Burgari who was initially charged with stealing food from Ward before attempting to flee. Two officers Troup and Jameson wanted the punishment to be downgraded but Ward along with Bonny and Barttlelot voted for the death penalty. <br /> <br /> Fox Bourne became secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society in 1889. He edited its journal Aborigines' Friend and lobbied for the rights of indigenous peoples and especially advocated for those in Africa. He stated that indigenous people had fundamental rights to their land their rites and their institutions. He later published Civilisation in Congo Land A Story of International Wrong-Doing in 1903 focusing on the horrendous treatment of the indigenous population by the Belgian government. Fine. Chatto & Windus unknown
182723959Newcastle: J. Hodgson 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii 2 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. illustrated with engraved frontispiece folding table 7 plates 2 of which by Thomas Bewick and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from "Mrs. Charles C. Fox dated 15 Nov. 1915. One of the most significant 18th century collections of Natural History and Ethnography. A catalogue of the museum's holdings that includes a section entitled "Utensils of Savage Nations" which includes material from New Zealand "Owhyhee and other Sandwich Islands" "Otaheite and Society Islands" George's Island the Pacific Northwest etc including material collected during Cook's voyages and a number of natural history specimens are described like the wombat illustrated the koala and the duck-billed platypus from Australia and an extensive foreign ornithological section which includes many specimens from the South Seas. Forbes lists only one copy and could find no references to this rare work. Some spotting or browning to plates and offsetting from plates to text. Interior contents fresh and clean. Rubbing to backstrip extremities. J. Hodgson hardcover
184753117London: John Murray 1847. First edition. 8vo. vii 492 pp. with 16 pp. of advertisements dated July 1846. Publisher's cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt on the spine. Tips slightly curled and rubbed; a clean tear at the rear joint and at the spine crown have been expertly repaired and are barely noticeable. Original owner's neat signature on the front pastedown. Polymath William Henry Fox Talbot inventor of the negative/positive photographic process the photogravure printing process which afforded reproduction of images from life to ink on paper translator of Assyrian cuneiforms and etymologist of the English language here states "in giving the opinion of previous inquirers I have frequently quoted Johnson and also Thompson's Etymons of English Words. But it is evident that Johnson had no taste for etymology so that the assistance to be derived from him is usually rather meagre."<br/><br/>Limited to 500 copies. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1891168943London: Chatto & Windus 1891. The gains have been cumbrously and expensively procured. by blundering and bad faith First edition scarce of this repost to Henry M. Stanley and condemnation of the "Scramble for Africa". "The chief reason for finding fault with this Expedition is that by exposing its blunders and ill effects something may perhaps be done to deter civilised Englishmen from ever again sanctioning or applauding such proceedings" preface. Records show only a single copy appearing at auction in the last two decades. In 1890 as the secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society Henry Fox Bourne 1837-1909 began denouncing atrocities being committed in the Congo Free State "emerging as a fierce public critic to European territorial claims in Sub-Saharan Africa" Mitchell. Here quoting extensively from In Darkest Africa and other expedition narratives he levels charges of mendacity of motive and callousness in the face of suffering: "Stanley himself neither knows nor cares how many thousands of slaughtered natives should be added to the 311 dead Zanzibaris Soudanese and Somalis to make up the huge total of mortality incident to the methods and exploits of the Emin Relief Expedition" p. 188. Fox Bourne was nothing if not relentless: his 1903 Civilisation in Congoland elaborated on the horrendous treatment meted out to colonial subjects by the Belgian government. Provenance: with the January 1908 ownership inscription on the front free endpaper of Florence Kelsey born c.1857 the wife of Arthur Kelsey 1835-1922 an East India Company assistant surgeon who subsequently entered private practice in 1863. Loosely inserted is an early twentieth-century cigar label showing Emin Pasha. Octavo. 2 pp. publisher advertisements at end. Original light brown cloth remainder binding for the Times Book Club spine lettered in black with book club device at foot in black front board with black frame edges untrimmed. Spine toned boards lightly foxed endpapers browned text generally clean: a very good copy. Angus Mitchell Roger Casement: 16 Lives 2014. hardcover
1887998F18Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1887 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". None. Inscribed by the author to his own mother this is the very scarce first edition of Samuel Middleton Fox's entertaining science fiction novel about a society's failure to run a futuristic pleasure city. The very scarce first edition of this work complete in two volumes.Signed by the author with a presentation inscription to the half title of volume I reading 'For Mama from the Author Xmas'. The author's mother was Quaker Rachel Elizabeth Fox.This inscription additionally provides the date 1886 indicating that he inscribed this copy for his mother prior to the official publication date of 1887.A thrilling and entertaining science fiction novel anonymously authored offering 'a fairly mild-mannered Satire of high society featuring a pleasure city on the Riviera which proves too expensive to run' according to The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction.With a publisher's catalogue to the rear of volume II.Fox only published one other novel 'George: A Story in Drab and Scarlet' in 1890. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright. Fading to back strips with shelf wear to back strip head and tail and bumping to back strip heads. Front hinge of volume II strained but firmly held. Author's inscription to half title of volume I. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting throughout and the odd handling mark. Very Good William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
19296209New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1929. First edition in English. 8vo 337pp. MGM vault copy with stamps and labels to front endpaper and spine of jacket. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in orange in illustrated jacket. Pushing at spine ends else nicely preserved in original jacket heavily chipped and partially split along folds and lacking the front inner flap which is provided in facsimile under the Mylar protector. <br /> <br /> Wonderful association copy of this horror/mystery novel originally published in French Les mains d'Orlac in 1920 and here translated into English by Florence Crewe-Jones. In 1935 MGM released the film Mad Love based on the Crewe-Jones translation the original drafts of the screenplay written by director Karl Freund and Guy Endore author of The Werewolf of Paris. Though not a box office hit the film is considered today by critics to be one of the more influential horror movies of the 1930's.<br /> <br /> <br /> The book itself is scarce in jacket and this copy is quite interesting for its association with MGM studios. <br /> <br /> Barron Fantasy and Horror 4-125. Hubin pg 342. Locke Spectrum of Fantasy pg. 182. . E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown
200082416Wesleyan. New. 2000. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - Corresponds to ASIN: B001SEGSK8. Xiii 3 80 pages 30 illus. 25 in color bibliog. 8vo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Wesleyan hardcover
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200082415Wesleyan University Press. New. 2000. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- xiii 3 80 pages 30 illus. 25 in color bibliog. 8vo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Wesleyan University Press hardcover
198987287Villa Stuck. New. 1989. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 141 pages; many color and black and white illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . Villa Stuck paperback
200685726Yale University Press. New. 2006. Paperback. 0300115954 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 160 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Yale University Press paperback
201187632Museum; University of Washington Press Distribution. New. 2011. Hardcover. 1883015456 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 232 pages; over 200 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum; University of Washington Press (Distribution) hardcover
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2014113585Marquand Books. New. 2014. Hardcover. 0615864546 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . Marquand Books hardcover
