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Blake Edwards director screenwriter; Robert Bob Willoughby photographer; Evelyn Anthony novel; Julie Andrews Omar Sharif starr
The Tamarind Seed Original screenplay for the 1974 film with six original film still photographs
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue pink and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. <br/><br/>Bob Willoughby 1927-2009 studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles worked as a photographer for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" and as a set photographer for every major studio documenting some of most important films of the era and creating intimate portraits of some of Hollywood's greatest celebrities. <br/><br/>Willoughby moved his family to County Cork Ireland in 1972 working on only a handful of films through the late 1970s and early 1980s this was one of his final films though he would continue to photograph exhibit and publish books for the remainder of his life. <br/><br/>Based on Evelyn Anthony's 1971 novel about a woman on holiday in the Caribbean who meets a handsome Russian. Judith Farrow Andrews meets Feodor Sverdlov Sharif and together they visit all the beautiful spots on the island but Judith's ties to the British government and Feodor's to the Russian government cause problems for their romance. An underrated but serious look at espionage in the Cold War. <br/><br/>Set in Barbardos and shot on location there and in London and Paris. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers marked copy No. 122. Title page present dated April 1973 with credits for screenwriter Edwards. 127 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two silver brads. Stills Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 131474
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Blake James Carlos
Borderlands
Avon Books 1999. Very Good. Blake James Carlos. Borderlands. New York: Avon Books 1999. 1st Edition. 241pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. No dust jacket as issued. Avon Books hardcover books
Bookseller reference : UBLABOR00NJ
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McKelvey Blake
The Rochester Historical Society Publications Vol. XXII : Rochester in the Civil War
Rochester Historical Society 1944. Very Good. McKelvey Blake. The Rochester Historical Society Publications Vol. XXII : Rochester in the Civil War. Rochester NY: Rochester Historical Society 1944. 266pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt titles. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners and lightly browned endsheets. Rochester Historical Society hardcover books
Bookseller reference : RMCKROC00DPE
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Ross Blake
The Golden Crucible
Paul Elder and Company 1930. Very Good. Ross Blake . The Golden Crucible. San Francisco CA: Paul Elder and Company 1930. 97pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Edges bumped. Paul Elder and Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : UROSGOL00VF
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Bernie Abramson photographer; Truman Capote book; Richard Brooks director; Robert Blake Scott Wilson starring
In Cold Blood Original reference photograph of Scott Wilson from the 1967 film
N.p.: Bernie Abramson 1967. Vintage silver gelatin reference photograph from the brutal 1967 film based on Truman Capote's nonfiction book. Stamped twice on the verso once in red Columbia Pictures and once in black ORIGINAL PRINT / Pictorial Press Ltd. with contact information. <br/><br/>This image shows Dick Scott Wilson taking a rifle from the back seat of his car just prior to entering the house and committing the vile crime that is the subject of the film. <br/><br/>Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Bernie Abramson unknown books
Bookseller reference : 134332
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Blake Edwards director; Tom Waldman and Frank Waldman screenwriters; Bing Crosby Fabian Tuesday Weld starring
High Time Collection of 3 photographs from the 1960 film
London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Collection of 3 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1961 UK release of the 1960 US film. With British certificate labels on the rectos. <br/><br/>A later Bing Crosby film about a widowed restaurant owner who decides to go back to college where he falls in love with one of the professors. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Brief corner creases else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 370. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132495
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Blake Edwards director; Sherman Clark still photographer; J. P. Miller screenwriter; Jack Lemmon Lee Remick Charles Bickford
Days of Wine and Roses Collection of 7 original photographs from the 1962 film
London: Warner-Pathe 1962. A collection of 7 vintage vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Distributor rubber-stamps and mimeograph snipes on the versos. <br/><br/>Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women whom he convinces to start drinking leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral of addiction. Henry Mancini composed the score and along with Johnny Mercer won an Academy Award for the for the title song. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner-Pathe unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132191
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Blake Edwards director; Robert Willoughby still photographer; Arthur Ross screenwriter; Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis Natalie Wood
The Great Race Original photograph from the 1965 film
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1965. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1965 UK release of the 1965 US film. <br/><br/>A professional daredevil convinces auto makers that a race from New York to Paris will help to promote automobile sales. A rival vows to win the race in a car of his own invention. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Austria and throughout California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132873
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Blake Edwards director; Sherman Clark still photographer; J. P. Miller screenwriter; Jack Lemmon Lee Remick Charles Bickford
Days of Wine and Roses Two original photographs from the 1962 film
London: Warner-Pathe 1962. Two vintage vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. <br/><br/>Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women whom he convinces to start drinking leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral of addiction. Henry Mancini composed the score and along with Johnny Mercer won an Academy Award for the for the title song. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light corner creases to one and a closed tear to one of the mimeograph snipes. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner-Pathe unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132163
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Blake Edwards director; Stanley Shapiro screenwriter; Tony Curtis Janet Leigh Keenan Wynn Linda Cristal starring
Strictly for Pleasure The Perfect Furlough Collection of 7 British front-of-house cards from the 1958 film
London: Rank Film Distributors 1959. Collection of 7 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Tony Curtis stars as a sex-starved soldier who wins a date with pinup model Linda Cristal. Janet Legih Curtis' real life wife plays an Army shrink tasked with keeping things chaste. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. One still with faint stains and light corner creases to most else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132443
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Blake Edwards director screenwriter; F. Hugh Herbert play; Debbie Reynolds Curt Jurgens John Saxon Alexis Smith starring
This Happy Feeling Collection of 8 photographs from the 1958 film
London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Based on a play by F. Hugh Herbert about a young woman who asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss. When her rescuer suggests that she get out of her wet clothes she escapes and finds safety in the home of a retired actor. <br/><br/>A story set in Connecticut shot at Universal Studios in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132722
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R. G. Springsteen director; Gene Evans Robert Blake and Timothy Carey starring
Revolt in the Big House Original Film Pressbook
Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1958. Original pressbook for the 1958 film noir. <br/><br/>A prison riot goes wrong when a racketeer's Gene Evans attempts to manipulate his cellmate Robert Blake go unheeded. One of Blake's numerous outsider roles; he played fugitives murders and gangsters as well as figures within the system such as his stint as Tony Baretta an undercover police detective. He would eventually be found liable for the wrongful death of his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley in 2005. <br/><br/>One sheet folded twice as issued 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages several short closed tears and a few tiny chips. <br/><br/>Lyons US. Martin 327. Spicer US. Allied Artists unknown books
Bookseller reference : 125434
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Cecil writing as Nicholas Blake Day Lewis
The Smiler with the Knife First Edition
New York: Harper and Brothers 1939. First Edition. First Edition. Nicholas Blake is the pseudonym of British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis created in 1935 to help him earn income through writing. He wrote 20 mystery novels most featuring as this does gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Jacket is lightly chipped with light toning to the spine and a few short closed tears. Harper and Brothers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 130937
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Bernie Abramson photographer; Truman Capote book; Richard Brooks director; Robert Blake Scott Wilson starring
Original reference photograph from "In Cold Blood
N.p.: Bernie Abramson 1967. Vintage silver gelatin reference photograph from the brutal 1967 film based on Truman Capote's nonfiction book. <br/><br/>A candid photograph that captures the essence of the story's cold-blooded killers in transit driving the vehicle in which they spend much of the film. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Bernie Abramson unknown books
Bookseller reference : 127344
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William Blake P. Berger author; Daniel H. Conner translator
William Blake: Poet and Mystic First American Edition
New York: E.P. Dutton 1915. Octavo. First American Edition. Publisher's tan cloth spine title and rule gilt top page edges gilt. Very Good plus condition lacking the dust jacket. Slight spine lean and toning light rubbing at the extremities rear pastedown and title page hinges professionaly repaired and a couple of tiny chips to a few leaves. A dense exploration of the writer painter and printmaker. A very presentable copy. E.P. Dutton unknown books
Bookseller reference : 120733
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BLAKE George
AN ORATION PRONOUNCED JULY 4th 1795 at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence
Boston MA: Printed and sold by Benjamin Edes 1795. First edition. 8vo. 28 pp. Wanting the half-title. Ownership signature "Sam Dana's 1795" at head of title page; Samuel Dana 1767-1835 Boston lawyer politician and judge served in many local offices and in the U.S. House of Representatives 1814-1815. Sabin 5770. Evans 28307. Original self-wrappers stitched. Scattered foxing else very good. <br/><br/> Printed and sold by Benjamin Edes unknown books
Bookseller reference : 65786
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BLAKE Nicholas pseud. of Cecil Day Lewis
A Penknife in My Heart
London: The Crime Club / Collins 1958. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 89-192pp. Spine ends gently nudged else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s 6d. net with light wear to extremities gentle sunning to spine and rear panel with some light dust-soil a few tiny nicks and closed tears; Very Good. HUBIN p.36. The Crime Club / Collins unknown books
Bookseller reference : 52933
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BLAKE William
The World Is Mine: The Story of a Modern Monte Cristo. A Novel Upper cover subtitle: "The Extravagant Story of a Modern Monte Cristo Limited Preview Edition
New York: Simon and Schuster 1938. Advance Reading Copy. Special Limited Preview Edition" of which this is no. 158 of an unspecified number. Octavo 21.5cm.; publisher's yellow card wrappers printed within double rule bound over glossy pictorial card wrappers jacket flap samples pasted inside wrappers; 8viii741pp. Wrappers rather chipped and toned along extremities slight spine lean else Very Good internally fine. This limited advance reading copy presented in manuscript to a Mr. James Tropp. Novel of modern Spain culminating with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Simon and Schuster unknown books
Bookseller reference : 46973
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BLAKE William
The Copperheads
New York: Dial Press 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vii8-741pp. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn with rather long splitting along spine and flap edges though with no significant loss some damp-spotting to jacket panels and top textblock edge else Very Good in Good or better jacket. Historical novel by the Marxist economist and author based on the activities of Northern "copperheads" who disseminated anti-Union propaganda during the Civil War. Dial Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 46975
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BLAKE William J.
The Painter and the Lady
London: Cassell and Company Limited 1939. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; ix1389pp. Jacket quite brittle and worn with several long closed tears and crude tape repair to verso 2" loss at spine foot remaining spine panel a bit sunned foxing to textblock edges else Very Good in a Good only copy of the jacket. Novel by the Marxist economist and author set in the south of France "a tale of pre-Danzig days of the France of the Popular Front; of young idyllic love of passion at white-heat of democracy menaced by money-lust" rear jacket panel. Cassell and Company Limited unknown books
Bookseller reference : 46982
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BLAKE William J.
The Angel: A Novel Based on the Life of Alexander I of Russia
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket greenish black topstain; 6438pp. Some chipping and tiny closed tears to jacket extremities corners bumped else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Doubleday & Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 46983
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BLAKE William
The World is Mine
New York: Simon and Schuster 1938. Fourth printing. Octavo 22cm; cloth boards; dustjacket; viii7413pp. Tight Near Fine unmarked copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper price on rear flap $3.00 scuffed on front panel with light edgewear just Very Good. A novel of modern Spain culminating with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Simon and Schuster unknown books
Bookseller reference : 41952
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BLAKE William J.
We are the Makers of Dreams
New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22cm. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; tan top-stain; 342pp. Bit of foxing to text block edges and age-mottling to endpapers else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper unclipped with mild rubbing to extremities and a couple of tiny closed nicks VG to Near Fine. An attractive copy of this somewhat uncommon late novel by the one-time Parisian expatriate banker later Marxist economist and husband of the New Zealand novelist Christina Stead. Simon and Schuster unknown books
Bookseller reference : 40521
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Benford Gregory writing as "Sterling Blake.
CHILLER by Sterling Blake pseudonym
New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books 1993. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #158602 Bantam Books unknown books
Bookseller reference : 158602 ISBN : 0553093762 9780553093766
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Benford Gregory writing as "Sterling Blake.
CHILLER by Sterling Blake pseudonym
New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books 1994. Octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Signed on the title page by Benford. A very good or better tight square unread copy of this bulky paperback. Copies signed by Benford are uncommon. #158594 Bantam Books unknown books
Bookseller reference : 158594 ISBN : 0553568663 9780553568660
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Gowing Mrs. Aylmer Emilia Blake Gowing
A KING'S DESIRE .
London: John Long 1904. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-viii 9-319 320 original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Emilia Blake Gowing 1846-1905 "married an actor whose stage name was Walter Gordon in 1887 and worked as an actress and elocutionist; she also did recitations. She published verse and recitations from 1874 plays and fiction. She published three novels of a fantastic tendency in the period: AS CAESAR'S WIFE 1902 BY THAMES AND TIBER 1903 and A KING'S DESIRE 1904. The half-English half-Italian heroine of BY THAMES AND TIBER gets lost in the Roman catacombs and dreams for half the book of the sacrifice of a martyr ancestress in the days of Nero. A KING'S DESIRE is Saharan and Ruritanian: the monarch of a tiny German state loves an Englishwoman of mysterious parentage." - Kemp Mitchell and Trotter Edwardian Fiction p. 157. Most of Mrs. Gowing's books are quite scarce especially her novels. Some light stains to cloth on front cover top edge of text block dusty some foxing to text block early and late and to page edges endpapers tanned a very good copy. #156890 John Long unknown books
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Savage Blake pseudonym of Harold Leland Goodwin
RIP FOSTER RIDES THE GRAY PLANET .
Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company 1952. Octavo illustrations by E. Deane Cate original pictorial blue boards stamped in white and black all edges stained red pictorial endpapers. First edition. Whitman 2304 reprinted in 1958 as ASSIGNMENT IN SPACE WITH RIP FOSTER. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with several nicks and closed tears and wear at upper spine end. A nice example of the uncommon jacket. #136527 Whitman Publishing Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 136527
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Blake Sally Mirliss writing as "Sara.
A HOUSE DIVIDED: A NOVELLA AND OTHER STORIES .
New York Toronto London Sydney: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1968. Octavo cloth. First edition. Eleven stories. The author's first collection of short fiction. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #135892 McGraw-Hill Book Company unknown books
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Poor Agnes Blake
BOSTON NEIGHBOURS IN TOWN AND OUT
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1898. Octavo inserted frontispiece original pictorial tan cloth stamped in red blue black and gold. First edition. Eight stories several first published in CENTURY MAGAZINE and NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. Wright III 4301. Cloth rubbed at spine ends a very good copy. #133500 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
Bookseller reference : 133500
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Fuller Henry Blake
THE CHATELAINE OF LA TRINITE .
New York: The Century Co. 1892. 12mo illustrations original gray-green cloth stamped in red silver gold and blind top edge stained silver other edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's second novel. BAL 6464. Wright III 2075. Cloth a bit dust soiled a very good copy with bright cover stamping. #133128 The Century Co. unknown books
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Fuller Henry Blake
WITH THE PROCESSION: A NOVEL .
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1895. Octavo original gray green cloth stamped in black silver and gold. First edition. One of Fuller's many stories set in his native city Chicago this one a novel showing the social progress of the Marshall family the father of which is successful Chicago businessman. BAL 6466 first state printing A. Wright III 2080. Early penciled signature of a Chicago owner dated 29 June 1895 on front free endpaper private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A clean bright very good copy. #129089 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
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Delaire Jean pseudonym of Mrs. Muirson Blake
AROUND A DISTANT STAR .
London: John Long 1904. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-8 9-12 13-301 302: printer's imprint 303-304: ads seven inserted plates with illustrations by Alfred Touchemolin original pictorial light green cloth stamped in dark green yellow and white. First edition. Of several noted bindings no priority established this copy has lettering on spine panel in dark green and is most likely a later binding state. Noted with and without inserted publisher's catalogue at rear this copy does not have the catalogue. "A spacecraft fitted with a super-telescope flies to the planet Kallistos around a star nearly 2000 light years distant for the express purpose of witnessing the last days of Christ duly revealed by the light which has only just reached that world from earth. The alien life forms encountered include carnivorous plants. Pure science fiction in spite of the religious motivation." - Locke Voyages in Space 61. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 559. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 67. Bleiler 1978 p. 58. Reginald 04022. Some bubbling to cloth on spine panel and along bottom edge of rear panel a bright nearly fine copy. #89812 John Long unknown books
Bookseller reference : 89812
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Fuller Henry Blake
FROM THE OTHER SIDE: STORIES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL .
Boston and New York: Houghton 1898. Octavo original decorated maroon cloth. First edition. Four short stories with European settings. BAL 6468. Wright III 2078. Cloth bruised at lower rear corner endpapers tanned from flaps of dust jacket no longer present else a bright near fine copy. #115765 Houghton unknown books
Bookseller reference : 115765
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Fuller Henry Blake
WALDO TRENCH AND OTHERS: STORIES OF AMERICANS IN ITALY .
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1908. Octavo original decorated brown cloth. First edition. BAL 6473. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 F-464. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips endpapers tanned a sound good copy. #115493 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
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Blake Nicholas pseudonym of Cecil Day Lewis
THE CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN
New York: Popular Library 1945. Small octavo cover art by Hoffman pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library #60. A Nigel Strangeways mystery. Mild edge crease a nearly fine copy. #127168 Popular Library unknown books
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Delaire Jean pseudonym of Mrs. Muirson Blake
AROUND A DISTANT STAR .
London: John Long 1904. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-8 9-12 13-301 302: printer's imprint 303-304: ads 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1904" inserted at rear seven inserted plates with illustrations by Alfred Touchemolin original pictorial green cloth front panel stamped in white black and orange spine panel stamped in gold bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Of several noted bindings no priority established this copy has the lettering on spine panel in gold and is most likely an earlier binding state. Noted with and without a publisher's catalogue inserted at rear this copy has the catalogue. "A spacecraft fitted with a super-telescope flies to the planet Kallistos around a star nearly 2000 light years distant for the express purpose of witnessing the last days of Christ duly revealed by the light which has only just reached that world from earth. The alien life forms encountered include carnivorous plants. Pure science fiction in spite of the religious motivation." - Locke Voyages in Space 61. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 559. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 67. Bleiler 1978 p. 58. Reginald 04022. Some staining to top quarter of front panel where a lending library label was removed considerable foxing throughout text block a good tight copy which is externally bright and fairly attractive. #75321 John Long unknown books
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Delaire Jean pseudonym of Mrs. Muirson Blake
A PIXIE'S ADVENTURES IN HUMANLAND
London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd 1927. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-136 note: first leaf is a blank original light brown wrappers printed in black. First edition. Fantasy satire by the author of AROUND A DISTANT STAR an interplanetary novel published in 1904. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 67 describing the hardbound issue Locke dates the book 1926 probably in error; printing statement in this copy reads: "First published in MCMXXVII". Bleiler 1978 p. 58. Reginald 04023. A fine copy. This paperbound issue is uncommon. #77541 The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd unknown books
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Blake Patricia and Max Hayward editors
HALF-WAY TO THE MOON: NEW WRITING FROM RUSSIA .
New York Chicago San Francisco: Henry Holt and Company 1964. Octavo cloth. First edition. Short fiction and poetry by Vasili Aksyonov Alexander Solzhenitsyn and others. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of dust soiling to rear panel. #116474 Henry Holt and Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 116474
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Sophia Jex Blake Margaret Todd
Margaret Todd The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake First Edition 1918
Margaret Todd. Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1918. First Edition. 574 pages. Original cloth board. 9 x 6 in. Frontispiece portrait of Jex-Blake. <br/><br/>Sophia Jex-Blake was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom. She led the campaign to secure women access to a University education when she and six other women collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. A leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women in London and Edinburgh at a time when no other medical schools were training women. In addition to her medicine work she led the campaign for women's rights to a University education in the UK. Comes with rare pamphlet reprinted from R.F.H. Magazine detailing her life. Very good. unknown books
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Edwards Blake
Blake Edwards Signed Check
Hollywood Writer Director and Producer and husband of Julie Andrews. He is best remembered for works like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Pink Panther." Signed Check boldly signed in approval: "Blake Edwards." In excellent condition. unknown books
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BLAKE William NONESUCH PRESS
The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil with the First Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips
London: The Nonesuch Press 1937. 8vo. 9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches. 36pp. Illustrations throughout. Folder with extra suite of 17 electrotypes in rear pocket. Publisher's patterned cloth boards.<br/> <br/>Limited to 1000 numbered copies this no. 691 printed by the Curwen Press from design by Meynell.<br/> <br/>This fascinating work looks at the illustrations of the iconic English poet painter and figure in the field of visual arts William Blake. "17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake's original proofs all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype" Dreyfus.<br/> <br/>Dreyfus 110. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
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Blake William
Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts Done in Water-Colour by William Blake
Cambridge: Fogg Museum of Art 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 20p. tied booklet containing text plus 30 unbound plates 5 in color. Original flapped cloth portfolio with cloth ties. Folio. Moderate cover soil. Fading and wrinkling on cloth ties. Former owner's red ownership stamp on title-page and faintly on portfolio cover. Copy No. 191 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Prefatory Note by Chester N. Greenough. Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. <br/><br/> Fogg Museum of Art hardcover books
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Blake Daniel H.
WAUPUN WIS. NOV. 30TH 1861. in manuscript: DEAR BR. DOOLITTLE. PROF. CONATTY OF KENOSHA AND MYSELF ARE TRYING TO RAISE A COMPANY TO BE CALLED THE 'TEACHERS' COMPANY' FOR THE FIRST WISCONSIN CAVALRY. WE HAVE JUST COMMENCED AND IT IS GOING TO BE EXCEEDINGLY DIFFICULT TO RAISE MEN NOW; BUT CAN YOU NOT ASSIST THIS GREAT AND GLORIOUS CAUSE BY SENDING ME ONE OR MORE MEN WE WANT THE TEACHER ELEMENT PREDOMINANT BUT THE POINT IS TO RAISE A COMPANY OF GENTLEMEN TO GO IN IT BE HE TEACHER OR NOT. YOURS FRATERNALLY D.H. BLAKE
Printed broadside 5" x 8" with salutation in ink manuscript. Some margin browning and light margin chipping else Very Good.<br/><br/> Blake was Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Waupun. Beneath his printed signature is written in ink "Pastor Cong. Ch". Professor Conatty was T.J. Conatty a public school teacher in Kenosha and a prominent figure in the Wisconsin Teachers' Association. He was later implicated in a bribery scheme with James Rood Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin 1857-1869. On Conatty's behalf Doolittle was to use his influence with President Lincoln to obtain cotton permits during General Banks's occupation of New Orleans; in return Doolittle would receive 25% of the profits. We haven't ascertained whether Senator Doolittle is the "Br. Doolittle" to whom this printed letter is addressed. <br/> This unusual ephemeral Civil War broadside is unrecorded. Waupun is in southeastern Wisconsin about sixty miles northwest of Milwaukee.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of October 2020 or anywhere else. unknown books
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FITCH Blake
Blake Fitch: Expectations of Adolescence- Contact Sheet 146
Syracuse NY: Light Work - Robert B. Menschel Media Center 2008. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 1 through July 18 2008. Brief essay by Andy Grundberg and with curator's commentary by Hannah Frieser. Includes numerous color images. A near fine copy in wrappers. Light Work - Robert B. Menschel Media Center unknown books
Bookseller reference : 121136 ISBN : 0935445579 9780935445572
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HOONE Jeffrey editor Blake Fitch Barry Anderson KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Philip Zimmermann Kerry Skarbakka Binh
Contact Sheet 142
Syracuse NY: Light Work 1995. First edition. Softcover. Text by Jeffrey Hoone and numerous others. Includes color and black and white images by Blake Fitch Barry Anderson KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Philip Zimmermann Kerry Skarbakka Binh Danh Beatrix Reinhardt Don Gregorio Anton Yee Ling Tang Abigail Hadeed Laura Heyman Thilde Jensen and Rishi Singhal. A fine copy in wrappers. Light Work unknown books
Bookseller reference : 120996 ISBN : 0935445536 9780935445534
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Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Company
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BLAKE'S IMPROVED STEAM PUMPS AND PUMPING ENGINES
New York 1890. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper has title printed in blue with vignette of a steam engine in background and the words "For Sale By Miller Chapman & Castle Butte Montana." Rear wrapper with an engraving of Blake's Vertical Marine Duplex Pump. 2 78pp with numerous additional pages i.e. 15A-15D 73A-73B etc. Profusely illustrated with the Company's products. Some wrapper spotting and text margin spotting else Very Good.<br/><br/> A classy showcasing of this Company's steam machinery with dozens of engravings. It is dated 'January 1 1890' on page 1. OCLC records several versions of this Catalogue all of them scarce one with a San Francisco merchant's name on the front wrapper.<br/>Romaine 193 reference. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 27621
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BLAKE Wendon
Complete Painting Course
NY:: Bonanza Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0517456923 . With over 700 color and black and white illustrations. Fifth printing thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket.; 400 pages . Bonanza Books, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 57098 ISBN : 0517456923 9780517456927
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Blake Francis
Political Tracts: Consisting of I. A Proposal for the Liquidation.
1789. London 1789. First edition. London 1789. First edition. Essays Calling for the Abolition of Tithes Reduction of the Public Debt and Other Matters Blake Francis Sir 1738-1818. Political Tracts: Consisting of I. A Proposal for the Liquidation of the National Debt; An Explanation of the Proposal; An Appendix Containing a Narrative of Proceedings Thereon at Various Public Meetings; II. The Efficacy of a Sinking Fund of One Million Per Annum; the Propriety of an Actual Payment of the Public Debt; The True Policy of Great Britain; The Conclusion; III. The Abolition of Tithes and the Reform of the Church Revenue; The Doctrine of Prescription Considered; a Narrative of Proceeding at a County Meeting Held at Morpeth December 22 1784 Respecting the Payment of Tithes; A Letter to the Freeholders of the County of Northumberland On the Same Subject; The Conclusion. London: Printed for J. Debrett 1789. iv 13 14-355 1 pp. Includes one-page publisher list. Octavo 8" x 5". Original paper boards hand-lettered title to spine untrimmed edges. Light soiling moderate edgewear spine heavily abraded front board detached. Toning and light foxing to text. Gift inscription from the author's son Francis Blake Jr. dated 1876 to front free endpaper interior otherwise clean. $450. First edition. Blake a member of Lincoln's Inn was a political reformer who called for the abolition of tithes and later repeal of the Corn Laws. Political Tracts collects his principal essays which were composed between 1786 and 1787. This title was re-issued the following year with some additions and a somewhat different collation but with the same publication date on the title page. Francis Blake Jr. was a notable inventor and photographer. OCLC locates 5 copies all of the later 1789 edition. English Short-Title Catalogue N39972. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 54536
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Blake AP. A. P.
TO THE RESCUE OF AMERICAN COMMERCE
Boston: J.E. Farwell & Co. 1869. 12pp. Stitched partly uncut. Light wear title and last page dustsoiled Good. Blake seeks subscribers for $2000000 of the capital stock of his new Company which intends to purchase "a line of American Steamships between Boston and Liverpool." $1.5 million will be used for purchasing the steamers and the other half million for this and that. He anticipates profitable traffic in passengers and freight. He includes a Form of Subscription estimates of profit and other useful material including a description of the steamer Ontario which "is already fully ship-rigged." OCLC records many many microform copies but only one of the real thing. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt or Decker. OCLC 47720650 1- WRes. Hist. Soc. J.E. Farwell & Co. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 18495
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Blake William.
A Letter from William Blake to Thomas Butts dated Jany. 10 1802.
Slim 12mo. Northampton MA: Gehenna Press 1964. Slim 12mo 16pp. With 6 wood-engravings 4 printed on Japan tissue all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers printed label on upper cover mint as issued. Loosely inserted is the business card for Louis Smith of Smith Glass and Mirror in Northampton with a fine woodcut of a rooster signed by Baskin in pencil. The company is still in business in Northampton. § Limited to 500 copies but surely fewer than that this is number 26. There were also 25 de luxe copies with an extra suite of the plates. Only two copies are recorded as having sold in the last 30 years and this is the only copy we have ever seen. The letter is classic Blake to his great patron: "I hear a voice you cannot hear that says I must not stay I see a hand you cannot see that beckons me away. Naked we came here naked of Natural things & naked we shall return; but while clothed with the Divine Mercy we are richly clothed in Spiritual & suffer all the rest gladly."Bentley Blake Books 94. Gehenna Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123975
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