‎Mauritius‎

‎Kelly Charles; Howe Maurice L.‎

‎Miles Goodyear : First Citizen of Utah; Trapper Trader and California Pioneer‎

‎Western Printing Company 1937. Very Good. Kelly Charles. Miles Goodyear : First Citizen of Utah; Trapper Trader and California Pioneer. Howe Maurice L. Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company 1937. #91 of 350. 152pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt stamping. Signed by author. Book condition: Very Good. Light moisture staining to bottom of front cover. Previous owner's name in ink on front free endsheet. Small stain to rear free endsheet. Extremely neat underlining in ink throughout. Inscribed twice by Maurice L. Howe on the front free endsheet and front flyleaf. Western Printing Company hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : RKELMIL00JG

‎O'Meara Maurice A.‎

‎Elegies par Guillevic‎

‎Illinois State University 1976. Fine. O'Meara Maurice A. Elegies par Guillevic. Carbondale Illinois: Illinois State University 1976. 116pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Near fine with previous owner's name in pen on front pastedown. Illinois State University hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : UOMEELE00LR ISBN : 0809307375 9780809307371

‎Sullivan Maurice S.‎

‎Jedediah Smith Trader and Trail Breaker‎

‎Kraus Reprint 1980. Fine. Sullivan Maurice S. Jedediah Smith Trader and Trail Breaker. Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1980. Reprint. 233pp. 8vo. Black buckram. Book condition: Near fine. Kraus Reprint hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : RSULJED00JN

‎Desmond Davis director screenwriter producer; Margaret Abrams novelist screenwriter; John Moulder Brown Maurice Denham starr‎

‎The Uncle Original screenplay for the 1965 film‎

‎London: British Lion Film Corporation 1964. Draft British script for the 1965 film. Based on the 1962 novel by Margaret Abrams and adapted by her for the screen. <br/><br/>A coming-of-age story about a young boy 7 years old who finds himself the uncle of a nephew his same age. <br/><br/>Director Davis began his career as camera operator on "A Taste of Honey" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Tom Jones." His best known film is "Clash of the TItans" 1981. Shot on location in Shepperton Studios. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated April 1964 with credits for screenwriter/novelist Abrams and screenwriter Davis. 107 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. British Lion Film Corporation unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 133022

‎Alex Gottlieb story screenwriter; Victor McLeod and Maurice Tombragel screenwriters; George Waggner director; Dick Foran Leo C‎

‎Horror Island / Man Made Man-Made Monster Post-production script with a nine-page "Double Bill Trailer"‎

‎Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1941 film "Horror Island" along with a script for a "Double Bill Trailer" in which this film was featured with another George Waggner film of the same year "Man Made Man-Made Monster." The latter film was based on a story called "The Electric Man" written by H. J. Essex director of "I the Jury" 1958 Sid Schwartz and Len Golos with Joseph West Waggner as screenwriter. <br/><br/>Hal Erickson: "It has been alleged that 'Horror Island' was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s second features. While it certainly looks that way it remains an enjoyable outing from fade-in to fade-out. In the tradition of 'Ten Little Indians' a group of disparate types are lured to a supposedly haunted mansion on a remote island. Their 'host' is peg-legged privateer Tobias Leo Carrillo who possesses half of a valuable treasure map. One by one the treasure-hunters are killed off by a mysterious assailant with Tobias the first victim. <br/><br/>White wrappers production No. 1132 dated March 22 1941 with credits for cast members Dick Foran Leo Carrillo Peggy Moran Fuzzy Knight John Eldredge and Lewis Howard as well as director Waggner. 133 leaves mimeograph duplication. <br/><br/>The "Double Bill Trailer" script is in white wrappers side-stapled rubber-stamped copy No. 6883 production nos. 1137 and 1119 dated March 29 1941 with credits for both films and "Central Files" in holograph pencil in the upper left corner. 8 leaves mimeograph duplication. <br/><br/>Pages Near Fine with a small corner crease to the first page. Wrapper Very Good plus or better with a touch of toning and short corner creases to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Wrappers encapsulated in archival mylar. Universal Pictures unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 126200

‎SENDAK Maurice and Tony Kushner‎

‎Brundibar‎

‎New York: Michael Di Capua Books / Hyperion Books for Children 2003. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Based on the opera by Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister as retold by Tony Kushner and with numerous illustrations by Maurice Sendak. A near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket that has some minor wear. Michael Di Capua Books / Hyperion Books for Children unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 130288 ISBN : 0786809043 9780786809042

‎Vernon Sewell director; Maurice McLaughlin Frank Driscoll Michael Leighton screenwriters; John Slater Alfred Marks Garry Mar‎

‎Johnny You're Wanted Original British front-of-house card from the 1956 film‎

‎London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors 1956. Vintage black-and-white British front-of-house card from the 1956 UK film. <br/><br/>A truck driver picks up a lady hitchhiker drop her off at her request and she is subsequently murdered. The police suspect Johnny the truck driver as he was the last to see the woman alive. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A couple of light creases else Near Fine. Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 132097

‎David Burton director; Harold Buchman screenwriter; Maurice Rapf screenwriter; George Montgomery Virginia Gilmore William Hen‎

‎Heil Jennie Jennie Original screenplay for the 1940 film‎

‎Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final Draft script for the 1940 film. Script belonging to actress Dorris Bowdon best known for her role as Rosasharn in "The Grapes of Wrath" who had a key supporting role in this film. From the actor's estate. <br/><br/>A drama about the clash between a stern German immigrant Montgomery and his eldest son's modern American wife Jennie Gilmore. After he kicks out one of his daughters Bowden for going on a date Jennie rallies the rest of the family to resist his authoritarian ways and convince him to let them pursue their dreams. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 34 and production No. 556 dated July 19 1940. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated July 19 1940 noted as Final Draft with credit for screenwriter Buchman. 124 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated between 7-24-40 and 7-29-40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 133073

‎Maurice Walsh‎

‎Green Rushes First UK Edition‎

‎London: Chambers 1935. First UK Edition preceding all others. <br/><br/>A phenomenally popular novel in the UK and Ireland upon publication and basis for the iconic 1952 John Ford film "The Quiet Man" starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. The UK edition went well into multiple printings the small first printing having always been extremely scarce particularly in jacket. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in an about Very Good dust jacket. Neat contemporary owner name on the front endpaper. Slight lean with a strip of fading along the bottom edge of the boards light foxing to the page edges. Jacket has a few chips and short closed tears at the extremities the largest being at the crown affecting a portion of the title "EEN" in "GREEN". A very presentable copy overall. Chambers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 131704

‎Art and Francoise Mouly Spiegelman editors contributors Charles Burns cover illustration Maurice Sendak David Sedaris Jules‎

‎Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids First Edition‎

‎New York: HarperCollins Harper Collins 2001. First Edition. First Edition. Fine in pictorial boards and no dust jacket as issued. A fascinating compilation of new literary children's cartoon stories put together by Art Spiegelman and his wife New Yorker editor Mouly who have both publicly decried the regrettable lack of worthy children's cartoons in the current market. A lavish production with a multitude of brand-new pieces by today's most talented and cutting-edge comic artists including Spiegelman Burns Maurice Sendak Jules Feiffer and Paul Auster. HarperCollins [Harper Collins] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 124310 ISBN : 0060286261 9780060286262

‎LEBLANC Maurice novel; STEVENS Dalton illustrations‎

‎The Crystal Stopper‎

‎Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1913. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; dark green cloth with titles stamped in white and large pictorial label mounted to front cover; viii2871pp with frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations by Dalton Stevens. Contemporary bookplate mounted to front pastedown gentle sunning to spine with light wear to extremities and some softening to spine ends and mild surface wear to pictorial label; contens clean with hinges sound; Very Good lacking the rare dustjacket. The fifth novel in Leblanc's series featuring Arsène Lupin French gentleman burglar and master of disguise first serialized in Le Journal in 1912 as Le Bouchon de Cristal. Though now more than a century removed from his creation the exploits of Leblanc's signature character are the basis for the French Netflix series Lupin starring Omar Sy.HUBIN p.249. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 52846

‎RAILROAD WORKERS FRANKS Maurice R.‎

‎The Closed Shop is Dictatorial‎

‎Buffalo: Railroad Trainmasters of North America n.d. Quarto bifolium. Opens to printed broadside 11" x 17". Printed in black and orange ink; text in four columns. Original folds else fine. Wartime polemic from the editor of the Railroad Workers' Journal arguing that the closed shop is tantamount to the "yellow dog" contract in reverse benefitting only organizers and not the rank and file. Undated but clearlyi a wartime production ca 1940s. Railroad Trainmasters of North America unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 48090

‎HINDUS Maurice text: GROPPER William jacket design‎

‎Broken Earth‎

‎New York: International Publishers 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in green on spine and publishers logo embossed at lower front cover; dustjacket; 67-2873pp. Spine ends gently nudged contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper else Fine. In an attractive example of the dustjacket designed by William Gropper; price-clipped gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with several tiny nicks and small tears along upper edge mended by clear tape on verso; Very Good. Attractive copy of this first-hand account by the Russian-American foreign correspondent written after revisiting his birthplace in the Soviet Union and dealing with "the peasant his daily life his wife and children the village school the Church the Soviet the political and social regeneration of the village" from front flap. With an introduction by Glenn Frank. International Publishers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 47602

‎Collis Maurice‎

‎QUEST FOR SITA: OF RAVANA THE DARK ANGEL AND HIS PARADISE AT LANKA OF HANUMAN AND THE DIVINE VULTURES JATAYUS AND SAMPATI .‎

‎New York: The John Day Company 1947. Octavo pp. i-vi vii viii ix-x xi-xii 1-162 163-164: blank illustrations by Mervyn Peake original pictorial cloth front panel stamped in red spine panel stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. An adaptation of the middle part of the Sanskrit epic RAMAYANA circa 500 B.C. the adventures of an exiled prince questing for his abducted princess attributed to the poet Valmiki. See Barron ed. Fantasy and Horror 1999 2-46. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some tanning to spine panel and long flap folds. #164811 The John Day Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 164811

‎Renard Maurice‎

‎THE FLIGHT OF THE AEROFIX . cover title‎

‎New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Octavo pp. 1 2-24 printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 14. Renard is "generally regarded in France as the most important native sf writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1993 p. 1003. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-898. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12139. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction p. 734. "Friends of the Library" rubber-stamped at upper edge of front cover some tanning to paper stock a very good copy. #163890 Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 163890

‎Champagne Maurice‎

‎LA CITÉ DES PREMIERS HOMMES. ROMAN‎

‎Paris: Éditions Jules Tallandier 1950. Octavo pp. 1-5 6-256 Later printing. Vernian SF first published in 1926. Part of Tallandier's "Grandes Aventures et Voyages Excentriques" series. See Lofficier and Lofficier p. 530 and Versins p. 158 neither providing the correct publication date for the first edition. A very good copy. #162944 Éditions Jules Tallandier unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 162944

‎SINE aka Maurice Sinet‎

‎Tel Père Tel Fils Like Father Like Son‎

‎Paris: Filipacchi Denoël 1978. First Edition. Quarto 27cm x 23cm. Pictorial paper boards hardcover; 28pp; illus. Near Fine copy; shelf wear to corner tips; two gently bumped corners else clean and tight. A collection of erotic cartoons of French political cartoonist Siné Maurice Sinet. Inscribed by Siné to French screenwriter Jacques Sigurd. In French language only. Filipacchi Denoël unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 43812

‎Lovecraft Howard Phillips Levy Maurice‎

‎LOVECRAFT: A STUDY IN THE FANTASTIC . Translated by S. T. Joshi‎

‎Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1988. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-4 5 6 7-9 10 11-147 148: colophon 149-150: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks pictorial wrappers. First edition in English. "By far the best critical work to date on Lovecraft ." - Barron ed Horror Literature 8-70. A fine copy. Bookmark signed by Lévy laid in. #161120 Wayne State University Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 161120 ISBN : 0814319564 9780814319567

‎CORBETT Jim Sir Maurice Hallett Introd‎

‎Man-Eaters of Kumaon‎

‎Camden SC: Culler Publishing 1990. Limited Edition. Large octavo 27cm. Red leather over boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; pictorial endpapers; 233pp; illus. Very faint foxing to text block edges else a tight Near Fine copy. No. 747 of 1500 copies in this deluxe limited-edition reprint in the publisher's "Jim Corbett Collection" series. Color illustrations for this edition by Robert Bateman Bob Kuhn and Guy Coheleach. Culler Publishing unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 41906

‎ISAAC LOEB PERETZ SAMUEL Maurice‎

‎Prince of the Ghetto‎

‎New York: Jewish Publication Society of America 1948. First Edition. Octavo 22cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 294pp. Tight clean copy Very Good or better in the original dustwrapper slightly chipped at edges Very Good. "Retellings" by Samuel of the Yiddish folk tales of Isaac Loeb Peretz; includes a biographical sketch and several additional essays on Yiddish culture and the art of translation. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 40487

‎Sandoz Maurice‎

‎FANTASTIC MEMORIES‎

‎London: Guilford Press 1958. Octavo boards. First British edition. Collects seventeen short stories two more than the 1944 Doubleday Doran edition but it doesn't have the Salvador Dali illustrations. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1439. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear along top and bottom edges mostly spine ends and soiling to rear panel. #159228 Guilford Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 159228

‎WULLENS Maurice ed. Pierre Boujut Jean Paul Samson Laure Duga et al contribs‎

‎Les Humbles. Revue littéraire mensuelle des Primaires. Cahiers no. 8-9 Aout-Sept 1938‎

‎Paris 1938. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 64pp. Covers slightly browned and foxed; internally clean and unmarked text unopened; Very Good. Late single issue of this notable anarchist-literary journal which ran from 1917 to 1939 under the single-handed control of Maurice Wullens a Flemish-born schoolteacher anarchist and later accidental collaborationist with national socialism. Uncommon. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 38911

‎THOREZ Maurice‎

‎Die Volksfront für Brot Freiheit und Frieden. Die Erfolge der antifaschtischen Einheitsfront in Frankreich‎

‎Strassburg: Prometheus Verlag 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 44pp. Slight agint to wrappers and text paper; still a clean unworn copy Very Good. German-language edition of Thorez' then head of the French Communist Party comments at the 7th World Congress of the COMINTERN. Prometheus Verlag unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 38780

‎CLARK John Maurice‎

‎Preface to Social Economics: Essays on economic theory and social problems‎

‎New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1936. First Edition. Later issue dust jacket with an ad for War Bonds not implemented until 1941 on rear panel. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's cloth in brown decorative dust jacket; xxi1435pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities with a few small shallow losses none approaching text; Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 34556

‎Renard Maurice‎

‎NEW BODIES FOR OLD‎

‎New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii vii a-viii a 9-308 309-310: blank note: last leaf is a blank original olive green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black all edges stained green. First edition in English. The author's first and best novel first published in 1908 as LE DOCTEUR LERNE. Renard ". stands out as one of the most original authors to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century . LE DOCTEUR LERNE impresses the reader with its up-to-date flavor and topicality. In his best pages Maurice Renard comes across as someone far ahead of his time someone who could be called a science fiction visionary." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 560-63. ". a major step toward a recognizable modern science fiction ." - Anatomy of Wonder 1981 p. 13. ". generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930 ." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 1003. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1855. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 646. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12141. A fine copy in fine printed dust jacket printed on green paper stock. A superior copy of a book seldom found in nice condition. #152481 The Macaulay Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 152481