1967Best.-Nr. 150244N.p.: N.p. 1967. Five vintage borderless black and white photographs from the set of the 1967 film. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer James Johnson. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Truman Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Most Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one Very Good with a tear to the top right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 149408N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Julie Andrews and her husband director Blake Edwards on the set of "Darling Lili" in 1970. Edwards and Andrews were married for over four decades from 1969 until Edwards' death in 2010. 7.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 146012Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert Blake and Scott Wilson from the 1967 film. Crop annotations in manuscript pencil and the stamp of photographer Michel Ciment stamp on the verso. 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. Nominated for four Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus some light creasing and edgewear. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 144377Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage photograph of Mary Linda Rapelye on the set of the 1967 film. Manuscript annotations in pencil and press agency stamps on the verso. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 781. Ebert II. Penzler 101. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 140554Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. With a few annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Rob Salinger Moore works as a television reporter and his wife Micki Reinking is a lawyer who is having difficulty getting pregnant to the chagrin of Rob. While working Rob meets a cellist Maude Irving who he begins dating without mentioning his wife. She soon becomes pregnant as well as his current wife and he ends up marrying Maude as well. To hide his bigamy he uses work as an excuse to spend days with one woman and nights with another. The women eventually find out about each other as they go into labor at the same time and are at the same hospital on the same floor. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper is present dated March 7 1984 with a credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Later generation photocopy with revision pages throughout dated variously between March 6 1984 and March 22 1984. Pages Very Good plus wrapper missing bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 139505Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1974. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1974 film based on the 1971 novel by Evelyn Anthony. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with manuscript notation on the verso in his hand. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 139514Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1962 film showing directed Quine scrutinizing the setup of a dinner scene with Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak. Based on the short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp first published by "Colliers" in 1956. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 135474Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1964. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The second of the "Pink Panther" films based on the 1962 book by Harry Kurnitz which in turn was adapted from Marcel Achard's play "L'Idiote." Probably one of five funniest films of the 1960s and the defining installment in the well-loved Pink Panther series. While "A Shot in the Dark" was ably preceded by "The Pink Panther" in 1963 it was the first to feature the series' underrated maestro Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. United Artists unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 136751Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1968. Vintage pressbook for the first release of the groundbreaking 1968 film based on the nonfiction book by Truman Capote. Laid in are all 4 of the original pressbook inserts drawing equal attention to the best selling book and its filmed realization. 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. 11 x 17 inches. Unfolded. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 136893Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the detective television series dated variously between 1958 and 1960. Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed with his manuscript name on the front wrapper of each episode. 36 scripts contain pink blue white and yellow revision pages many bound separately and laid in at the rear. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the series starring the sophisticated sharp-dressed jazz-loving private eye Peter Gunn played by Craig Stevens. Probably the only television show to ever rival the best films noir of the big screen with minimalist dialogue and bleak open-ended conclusions that challenge even the best of television today. Creator Blake Edwards would use the success of the series to jump start his film career going on to direct "Breakfast at Tiffany's" 1961 and the "Pink Panther" film series starring Peter Sellers. Noted composer Henry Mancini won an Emmy and two Grammy Awards for the show's well-loved theme song including the first Grammy ever awarded for Album of the Year. Scripts in Very Good to Near Fine condition. Mimeograph on eye-rest green or white stock. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 134332N.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. 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. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Bernie Abramson unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 132191London: 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. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 132443London: Rank Film Distributors 1959. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. 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. 8 x 10 inches. One still with faint stains and light corner creases to most else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 132495London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Collection of 3 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1960 US film. With British certificate labels on the rectos. A late 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. 8 x 10 inches. Brief corner creases else Near Fine. Hirschhorn p. 370. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 132873London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1965. Vintage full-color still photograph from the UK release of the 1965 US film. 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. Shot on location in Austria and throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 132163London: Warner-Pathe 1962. Two vintage vintage black-and-white publicity photographs of Jack Lemmon from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light corner creases to one and a closed tear to one of the mimeograph snipes. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 132722London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. 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. A story set in Connecticut shot at Universal Studios in California. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 127344N.p.: Bernie Abramson 1967. Vintage silver gelatin reference photograph from the brutal 1967 film based on Truman Capote's nonfiction book. 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. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Bernie Abramson unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 120996Syracuse 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
1951Best.-Nr. 861821951. Blake George Editor. The Trials of Patrick Carraher. London: William Hodge and Company Limited 1951. Octavo. xiii 278 pp. Illustrated with fold-out map. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped spine. Moderate shelfwear spine faded. Blindstamp to front free endpaper. Red and black ink title page. Internally clean. A very good copy. $35. The "Glasgow Hard Man." A compelling installment in the Notable British Trials series documenting the dual murder trials of Patrick Carraher. After narrowly escaping a murder conviction in 1938 for culpable homicide Carraher's luck ran out in 1946 when a second fatal stabbing led him to the gallows. unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 53384n.p.: Division Leap and Hierophant 2015. First printing. Fine. Limited first edition collection reproducing all eight issues of Blake Donner's zine devoted to the spirituality of freight train graffiti with essays by Davis Greg Bennick Travis Low and Laura Hamblin. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black and white pictorial wrappers. Edition of 250 copies. Illustrated in black and white. Sharp clean and tight. (Division Leap and Hierophant) unknown books
2025Best.-Nr. 17161New York: Tor 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink to decorative page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 358pp. Faint shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with blind-stamped framed and pasta-wrapped fork to upper board and spine lettered in silver. Edges sprayed hot pink. Gentle bumping to tail of spine else fine. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first edition of this darkly fun novel from Olivie Blake the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six. Good girls deserve a treat! ABOUT THIS BOOK: DELUXE EDITION-a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power lust and eating your fill as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . . Good girls deserve a treat. Every member of The House the most exclusive sorority on campus and all its alumni are beautiful high-achieving and universally respected. After a freshman year she would rather forget sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey. Meanwhile adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter Sloane's clothes don't fit right her girl-dad husband isn't as present as he thinks he is and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House's academic liaison Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves. As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power. Publisher. Signed by the author in ink to decorative page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 358pp. Faint shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with blind-stamped framed and pasta-wrapped fork to upper board and spine lettered in silver. Edges sprayed hot pink. Gentle bumping to tail of spine else fine. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first edition of this darkly fun novel from Olivie Blake the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six. Good girls deserve a treat! ABOUT THIS BOOK: DELUXE EDITION-a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power lust and eating your fill as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . . Good girls deserve a treat. Every member of The House the most exclusive sorority on campus and all its alumni are beautiful high-achieving and universally respected. After a freshman year she would rather forget sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey. Meanwhile adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter Sloane's clothes don't fit right her girl-dad husband isn't as present as he thinks he is and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House's academic liaison Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves. As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power. Publisher. Tor hardcover books
1893Best.-Nr. 375973London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Original grass green cloth heavily stamped in gilt t.e.g brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of binding. A VERY FINE COPY. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Bentley 369: "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance." Wade Yeats Bibliography 218 quoting a letter from Yeats: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." Bentley 369; Wade Yeats Bibliography 218. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux bookplate in each vol. Bernard Quaritch unknown books
1884Best.-Nr. 55357Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1884. Very good. First edition of this posthumous selection from Thoreau's journal aptly following the theme of the season. Transcendentalist Thoreau idealizes one of the most powerful strains of the American spirit a "spiritual seeker philosopher and poet . who encouraged his readers to try the experiment of life for themselves" Walls xiii. Independent-minded and a committed naturalist his writing have had an enormous impact on popular American environmentalism. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Black coated endpapers top edge gilt. Illustrated with double-page map of Concord. Publisher's ads at fore and rear. 2 vi 382 16 pages. Early Connecticut bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Moderate spotting and wear to binding. Faint tidemark to margin of last few leaves else clean. Tight. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 52490London: Jonathan Cape 1981. First printing. Near fine. Uncorrected proofs for the first edition of this Dahl novella in which a boy whips up a heinous concoction of household "ingredients" to pacify his cantankerous grandmother. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original dark orange printed wrappers with provisional price £4.50 and date of publication "May 7 1981". Illustrated throughout in black and white. 96 pages. Wrappers with light wear slight bump at spine head. Jonathan Cape unknown books
