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1966Best.-Nr. 169553Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing director Joseph Losey with Monica Vitti and a camera crew on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. Based on the British comic strip which originally appeared in 1963. Modesty Blaise a former criminal mastermind occasionally employed by the Secret Service must protect a shipment of diamonds en route to a small Middle Eastern kingdom from a crime syndicate. Monica Vitti's first English-speaking role. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location throughout Italy the Netherlands and England. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. About Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1921Best.-Nr. 23159George H. Doran Co. NY 1921. HBDJ 1921 1st Edition with Colophon on Title page NF/VG- 191 pgs Pictorial cloth with Paste On Label on Front of 2 Children with White Turkey with Hat on. Interior nice tight clean light FoX Wear Book in Very good overall condition. DJ light chipping & tiny Tears pieces Extremities & tiny chips crease & bottom DJ spine & top small pieces missing Very minor soiling to the outer page edges in a couple spots. Pastedown cover illustration still NICE bright . No other markings tears clips creases or other significant signs of wear or use. . Copies of any of the Nancy and Nick series are becoming increasingly rare No Growup could Find their was to This LAND but once Nancy & Nick had on the Magical Green Shoes found their way by Magical Mushroo It was the Oddest Place you Ever Saw. Everything happened Backwards or Up-Side-Down in Topsy-Turvy-Land. B/W frontispiece of 2 children with Baby Elephant at Table neatly polka-dotted in black with Bib around his Neck. First Edition. Hard Cover. George H. Doran Co. NY hardcover
1993Best.-Nr. 29371LONDON: PHOENIX HOUSE. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. SIGNED by actorTerence Stamp on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Tiny pen tick at edge of front end-paper A novel. . PHOENIX HOUSE. unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 157320N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 British film showing director John Schlesinger talking with actress Julie Christie between takes. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel about a young flirtatious heiress who is relentlessly pursued by three young men. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location throughout Dorset and Wiltshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 015343Paris Musée d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou - Collection "Photographie contyemporaine" III 1993 In-4 Broché, couverture illustrée à rabats
193758, [8 ads] pages. Features: Cover photo of memorial service for Ramsay MacDonald; Seven photos illustrated Ramsay MacDonald's last homecoming - Bermuda to Lossiemouth; Nice photo of M. Chautemps and M. Delbos of France outside French embassy in London; Two-pages of photos entitle "An Australian Problem - The Primitive 'Black Fellow' [Aborigine] of the Bush, Threatened with Extinction - 'Living Human Fossils' of Australia; One-page illustration of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret inspecting the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum; One-page illustration of construction of the New Waterloo Bridge; Fifteen photos of the Quetzal - the Aztec symbol bird - first speciments ever kept alive in captivity or photographed; Article on ships includes cross section illustration of boat with flash steam propulstion; Wonderful three-page article 'English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century' includes five beautiful colour photos of clothing samples; Five-photos illustrate airplane de-icing techniques; Photo of the 'Ayro' wheel being demonstrated to air apprentices; Photo of wreckage after German plane crashed into Croydon hangar; Photo of Prince Bernhard's car after it crashed with a truck; Article and colour photos of jewels found at Tsarskoye Selo; Colour centrefold illustration of the Cango Caves in South Africa; Nice one-page colour Dunlop tire ad with red background; Photos of personalities of the week include: J.D. Low, J.A. Brett, Nahas Pasha with Sir Miles Lampson, E.O.W. Hunt, D.E. A. Pettit, the Maharaja of Kapur-Thala; General Iwane Matsui and his wife, Miss Lilian Baylis, Dr. C. Tate regan, Clive Forster Cooper, H.L. Murphy, Maurice Hely-Hutchinson, Herr Walther Funk, Laurence D. Holt, Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, M. Janson of Belgium; Ten photos of Japanese military recruits being honoured with ceremonies, scrolls, money and 'senin-baris'; Three interior photos of Hitler's mountain home near Berchtesgaden where he recently spoke with Lord Halifax for five hours; Three photos from Goering's estate where he too met Lord Halifax; Nice colour Peek Frean's ad; Colour ad for Craven 'A' cigarettes; Nice Martell ad shows butler bowing mid-table between two imbibing gentlemen; Harrod's Christmas gift ideas; Classy Bentley car photo ad; and more. Unmarked with above-average external wear. A worthy vintage reference copy. Book
1934Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongst the ice-floes of the coast of Labrador; Famous Figures in Football - G. (Geoffrey) N. Foster and Dr. R. Cove-Smith - article with photo; Sixty Years of Soccer - article with photos of William McCracken, Fanny Walden, G.O. Smith, Victor Watson, and Clifford Bastin; The Secret of Druid's Cross (mystery story); Why Keep a Log Book?; Field Hockey Tactics - article with photos; Making Morris Motors - photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of Morris cars; The Poacher's Wirelss (fiction); The Reversed Watermark (fiction); The Hooghly River - the World's Worst (article); The Story of Stamp Collecting. No table of contents. Covers loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
196320 pages. Features: How They Keep Horse Racing Honest - Science Invades the Sport - article with photos; Why Protestants Mourn Pope John; Zenith TV ad; The Fort Henry Guards - article with colour photos; Birth of a Stamp - Ernst Roch and Canada's new Five Cent Stamp featuring the Queen - article and great photos; Boy Scout Shadow Compass. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1962Features: Let's keep the filibuster, by Hodding Carter; The Kremlin's Persecution of Jews - a firsthand report on the newest campaign inside Russia to stamp out an age-old religion and way of life; The Mutiny of Marlon Brando - how the petulant superstar broke the budget in a marathon remake of Mutiny on the Bounty; Famous people who don't remember me - a veteran Government official's amusing encounters with Winston Churchill and other celebrated figures; People on the way up - Seena Hamilton, discus champ Dave Weill, Nancy Schoonover, bus magnate George Sage; On Trial - Jimmy Hoffa and Adam Clayton Powell, part 2 of 3; How to get along with the Bees; Dinner with the Kennedys - what to expect when you receive Washington's most sought-after invitation, a bid to spend a gala evening at the White House; Radio's Pill Pusher - Carlton Fredericks, self-styled 'foremost nutritionist' has amassed a fortune endorsing vitamins and wonder foods. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
196147 pages. Features: The secret delights of the shunpiker - Bill and Vivian Heine have explored the quiet back roads of many parts of Canada; Millie Perkins is Glad She was Fired - the girl film fans knew as Anne Frank is free to fulfill her new ambition - to become an actress; De Gaulle is the Man for Me - Field Marshall Montgomery on leadership towards the resolution of the East-West strife; A spoonful of syrup may stamp out Polio - mobile medical teams test the oral vaccine Sabin in Wedgeport and Comeau Hill, N.S.; School that teaches the three Ps - Poise Posture and Presence - Phyllis Leeman's Pixie School of Modelling in New Westminster, B.C.; Humourous signs keep people off the grass; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
194966 pages. Features: Design for leather; Junior craftsman project; Woodcarving caricaturist - Alfred Perry of Cedar Grove, Ontario - article with photos; Painting in oils is easy; Felt Spectacle case; Food casting; The Sculptured Shillalagh; Stamp collecting; Hobby cures a soldier - Private Jerome Biegel of the U.S. Army carves matches; How to Make Crepe-Paper Flowers (part 2); Home Weaving Service; Message from the Hon. Paul Martin; 1949 National Hobby Exhibition; List of hobby exhibitors; Feature exhibits, Phil. S. Quelch's operating miniature sawmill; Profitable little animals; Mosaic pictures from human hair; Neville C. Seymour and his silk strand etchings; The Narcissus; Garden Glimpses; Fine Wood Inlay; Model Railroads; Shell Craft; Spiral Coil Applique; Camera Kinks; Your Photography; Weaving with Reeds; A Hall Lantern; Birch Bark Art; Hobby-Craft Patterns; Model Plane Contest; What's New; and more. Interesting full-page ad for Canadian government annuities shows regretful elder woman holding broom outside boarding house. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very uncommon vintage Canadian hobby publication. Book
1930Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
196048 pages. Features: Great one-page colour-photo Molson's Canadian ad shows the tall bottles they used before the stubbies; Why Single Out Sex as the Only Real Road to Sin? - asks Morley Callaghan; How W.S. (Shakes) Morrison Shook Parliament; Is Anybody Winning the Trading-Stamp War?; The Lavish and Lovely Laurentian Mountains; Can Little Bill Smith lick the heavyweights of Labour? - this transport union leader squares off with Hoffa and Banks; How I Learned About Strangers; A Visit with Mr. & Mrs. Jan Rubes - he's a Czech political refugee; Loneliness - perhaps the most common and least studied social problem of our time; Sir John A. MacDonald's first and only trip to the west - he 'pacified' the Indians, admired the embryo cities, and got stung in a Victoria hotel; Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst movies of 1959; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
2001Best.-Nr. BN453848Aurum Press 2001. 2001. Hardcover. Country Life: Edwin Lutyens Country Houses: From the Archives of Country Life Country Life: Edwin Lutyens Country Houses: From the Archives of Country Life Gavin Stamp Aurum Press hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. 1238257(um 1965). Ca. 450 S. (Hauptband) und (Supplement-Bände) : 16 S.; 13; 29; 25; 19; 24 und 21 S. ; zusammen sehr zahlr. Illustr. (s/w). 1 x kart.; 7 x geheftet; 21 cm.
1951Best.-Nr. 26556Faber & Faber Ltd London 1951 HBDJ 1951. Stated 1ST Edition THUS. VG/VG AS-IS. Green Tweed cloth Hardcover Titled & decorated in Gold Gilt on Spine Cvr. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. an unmarked hardback . Dustjacket Protected Clear Mylar. Back DJ light wear FOX TINY edge chips TEARS Lists thru Best Nature Stories Interior nice tight light wear Fox. 256 pgs 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 in. A classic book for bibliophiles first published in 1919 here reprinted in a new edition. 8vo. 256pp. New Edition. Very light foxing to fore-edge but still very clean not price clipped. .What true bookworm does not Love to Browse around an old-Fashioned bookshop such as the Parnassus at Home which has a warm & comfortable Obscurity a kind of Drowsy dusk stabbed here & there by Bright cones of Yellow Light from green shaded Electrics & where the Air was heavy with the delightful Fragrance of mellowed Paper & Leather surcharged with a strong bouquet of Tobacco & what better guide could there be than its Proprietor Roger Mifflin.This is setting for charming Romance & Intriging Mystery. This is a great classic on books and book collec. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber Ltd, London hardcover
1957Best.-Nr. 25932Stephen Daye Press NY 1957 DJ Design by Francis Reisz. HBDJ1957 1st Edition THUS FINE-/GOOD AS-IS Gold BEIGE TWEED Cloth & lettered in Purple & White on Spine DJ some Scuffing & small tears chips wear front some scuff rub & small chips Extremities O/W DJ Nice Bright Nice Interior Nice Tight Clean DJ PriceClipped Spine DJ small end chips. 298 pgs Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox Back DJ Light Soil Wear & Tiny Corner chip tears. Small mended tear front DJ & light stain. .A collection of fairy tales from numerous traditions: Chinese Irish Spanish Native American even extraterrestrial ! With Gaiety & wit the author has created fairyland of desert foothills forest & Sea. Here we meet Spanish Elves who came with the Early Explorers holding court with their Queen Conchita Maria Delphina Dolores in her undersea Palace with its shimmering Gardens. Leprechauans dwell among the mighty meet Misty-Moisty Mary & Stitch absent minded Tailor . First Thus. Hard Cover. Stephen Daye Press, NY hardcover
1942A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: John Mix Stanley, Pioneer Painter; Music Sheets for Stamp Collectors; Furniture of the Boston Tories; Antiques in Domestic Settings - Ante-Bellum Homes in Natchez; Cogdell and Mills, Charleston Sculptors; Here Lyes Buried - Taste and Trade in Charleston Tombstones; The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of Early American Furniture; English Silver of American Interest; A Note on Nankin, Colonial Calico; Check List of the Works of Cogdell and Mills; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 161-220. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
1944Features: Photos of British troops and supplies at Arnhem, plus battle photos; Photos of damage to Channel ports; photos of sea forts protecting London; and more. Average wear. Prior owner's name and stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Page 397 loose but present (because page 415 has been removed and is not included). Centerfold (loose but present) provides a large and fascinating cut-away diagram of 'the secrets of the flying bomb' - how the robot's flight and dive are automatically controlled. Book
1957Best.-Nr. 25942Stephen Daye Press NY 1957 HBDJ1957 1st Edition THUS FINE-/GOOD AS-IS OP Gold BEIGE TWEED Cloth & lettered in Black & White on Spine DJ some Scuffing & small tears chips wear front some scuff rub & small chips Extremities O/W DJ Nice Bright Nice Interior Nice Tight Clean DJ PriceClipped Top Spine DJ small chips. 298 pgs Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox .A collection of fairy tales from numerous traditions: Chinese Irish Spanish Native American even extraterrestrial ! With Gaiety & wit the author has created fairyland of desert foothills forest & Sea. Here we meet Spanish Elves who came with the Early Explorers holding court with their Queen Conchita Maria Delphina Dolores in her undersea Palace with its shimmering Gardens. Leprechauans dwell among the mighty meet Misty-Moisty Mary & Stitch absent minded Tailor . First Thus. Hard Cover. Stephen Daye Press, NY hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. 29084CONTEMPLATIVE Study of Spirit of 1 man From birth to Lowering into the Final LONELY Well of His Own Mind. His Own Inarticulate emotions One comes from the Experience of Walking an INCH ABOVE THE EARTHHBDJ First Edition 1955 on Title & Copyright Pg. GREY CLOTH WITH Gold Gilt titles on cvr Hardcover. Condition: . Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Very Good jacket Book Very good conditon of this poets work. Small press run by regional printer makes this a hard book to find. No underlinings. 62 pgs Dietz Press, Inc RICHMOND hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 26707Doubleday New York 1925 HB NODJ VG-/GOOD NOJacket. AS-IS 1925. 1st Edition. 1st printing Dates Match on Title & Copyright page Binding is ORANGE & Black plaid Design Hardbound. Book Condition: GOOD VG-/GOOD NOJacket. AS-IS 157 pgs Orange w/ black title at spine. Some shelf wear. front board is Nice Plaid on front cvr. . 6 X 7 3/4 in. Interior nice tight Clean light Fox Wear Slight Lean to book Publishers Orange Dye Top outer pgs topedge. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Doubleday, New York, hardcover
1953Best.-Nr. 23267Harcourt Brace. New York NY 1953. One of the First Autobiographies By a Film Director. Stories of Greta Garbo Marion Davies Irving Thalberg F. Scott Fitzgerald ETC HBDJ 1953 Stated 1st Edition Interior Nice Tight Clean light FoX Wear Black Cloth Lettered in White Green Red on Spine Cover FINE-/VG- DJ some Tiny chips Extremities & Small Triangular Piece top Front DJ Not affecting Title 292 pgs Appendix Index Small pieces End DJ Spine & along Side Rubbing spine DJ 8Vo. Across Entire top Back DJ tiny piece Missing Small Mended Tear DJ Small triangular piece Missing front bottom DJ Corner DJ protected clear Mylar . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Harcourt Brace., New York, NY, hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 29527HBDJ STATED 1ST PUBLISHED THIS EDITION IN 1954 1st Edition EX-LIBRARY usual wear rub POCKET STAMP etc. IN GOOD CONDITION. BACK OF DJ MENTIONS FEW OF 500 AUTHORS TAPE RESIDUE RED CLOTH COVER EDGES FEW MENDED TEARS PGS Everyman’s Library J.M. DENT. LONDON Made in Great Britain hardcover
1878IN 4. DEMI BASANE [MOY]. 575 PP. 2 PPL EN NOIR. [BE]
