1959réf. 84634New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1959. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; light peach cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 192pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Inscribed on half-title page: "For Karl Burkhardt - who loves Ocracoke as I do - this book is inscribed by the author Stephen W. Meader". Trace soil to covers and edges of textblock with light creases to text margins; Good. Dustwrapper price-clipped tanned with shelf-soil 0.5" tear to upper front spine fold and tiny tears chips and rubbing to extremities; Very Good. Meader's illustrated chapter book intended for young readers tells the story of a boy who is unhappy with his move from a busy city to Ocracoke North Carolina until he begins hunting fishing fighting large storms and meeting wild ponies. 84634. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1941réf. 84633New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc 1941. Octavo 20.5cm; light green cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 309pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Inscribed by author on half-title page: "This is Karl Burkhardt's book inscribed with the good wishes of his friend the author - Stephen W. Meader". Light sunning and rubbing to board edges with light crinkled effect to lower margin of text; Good. Dustwrapper price-clipped tanned with shelf-soil light residue to rear flap and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Good. Meader's illustrated chapter book intended for young readers focuses on two friends that open a blueberry farm in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania to maintain small business success in their hometown as commercial farms raise prices. 84633. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc unknown books
2000réf. 163706Los Angeles: Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment 2000. Draft script for the 2001 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with two manuscript leaves bound in after the title page listing special effects and audio elements of the film and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the script underlining the same. Loosely based on Guy Elmes' 1957 film "Across the Bridge" based in turn on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene. After he is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel for flagging a transaction as illegal an investment banker decides to swap identities with a fast-talking con man. Set in New York Texas and Mexico and shot on location in New York City Los Angeles CA and Needles CA. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 2/17/00 with credit for director and screenwriter George Gallo. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication rectos only with a single white revision page dated 2/18/00. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment unknown
2000réf. 163706Los Angeles: Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment 2000. Draft script for the 2001 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with two manuscript leaves bound in after the title page listing special effects and audio elements of the film and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the script underlining the same. Loosely based on Guy Elmes' 1957 film "Across the Bridge" based in turn on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene. After he is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel for flagging a transaction as illegal an investment banker decides to swap identities with a fast-talking con man. Set in New York Texas and Mexico and shot on location in New York City Los Angeles CA and Needles CA. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 2/17/00 with credit for director and screenwriter George Gallo. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication rectos only with a single white revision page dated 2/18/00. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment unknown books
réf. 23202En.d. First Edition. Original 117 page shooting script for Enemies A Love Story by Roger L. Simon based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer which was released in 1989. Bradbound in printed front cover. Very good or better copy with some minor handling and some coffee cup marks to the front cover. The film was directed by Paul Mazursky and stars Ron Silverman Anjelica Huston Lena Olin Malgorzata Zajaczkowska Alan King Judith Malina and Elya Baskin. unknown
1966réf. 152256N.p.: N.p. 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotations on the front wrapper noting the title and "First Draft" as well as annotations to the bottom right corner of the title page noting "first draft" and the name of screenwriter Johnny Crawford. Note that this script bears no relationship at all to the "Predator" action film series that began in the 1980s. Housed in a white envelope with manuscript ink annotations noting the title date and draft and crediting Crawford and story writer Ernest Haycox. Based on the 1948 story "Dead-Man Trail" by Ernest Haycox. A man carrying a large shipment of gold dust tries to shake bandits off his trail on his way from California to The Dalles Oregon. Blue card wrappers. Title page present dated December 1966 with credits for screenwriter Johnny Crawford and story credits to Ernest Haycox. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1966réf. 152256N.p.: N.p. 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotations on the front wrapper noting the title and "First Draft" as well as annotations to the bottom right corner of the title page noting "first draft" and the name of screenwriter Johnny Crawford. Note that this script bears no relationship at all to the "Predator" action film series that began in the 1980s. Housed in a white envelope with manuscript ink annotations noting the title date and draft and crediting Crawford and story writer Ernest Haycox. Based on the 1948 story "Dead-Man Trail" by Ernest Haycox. A man carrying a large shipment of gold dust tries to shake bandits off his trail on his way from California to The Dalles Oregon. Blue card wrappers. Title page present dated December 1966 with credits for screenwriter Johnny Crawford and story credits to Ernest Haycox. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2007réf. 33292DC Comics 2007 First Printing stated in white and orange-stamped leather and illustrated papered boards no markings binding tight pages bright shelf & edgewear to boards mostly to tips & tops rear panel scuffed with quiet staining a little quiet staining to page block edges lacks slipcase else Fine copy of this compendium collecting the limited series in one volume with drawings and 4 pages cut from the original story now restored as well as an interview with the Eisner-Award winning duo of Loeb & Sale; lg thick 4to; 400pp fully illus in color. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy oversize book additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for expedited or overseas shipment. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. DC Comics hardcover
1990réf. 169544N.p.: Carolco 1990. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1990 film showing Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1966 short story "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. A wild and violent ride in the spirit of Paul Verhoeven's earlier release "Robocop" 1987 about a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that he is a secret agent with a memory chip implanted in his brain by the government. Nominated for two Academy Awards Best Sound Best Effects and winner of the Academy's Special Achievement Award for visual effects. 10 x 8 inches. About FIne. Spicer US. Carolco unknown
1990réf. 169544N.p.: Carolco 1990. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1990 film showing Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1966 short story "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. A wild and violent ride in the spirit of Paul Verhoeven's earlier release "Robocop" 1987 about a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that he is a secret agent with a memory chip implanted in his brain by the government. Nominated for two Academy Awards Best Sound Best Effects and winner of the Academy's Special Achievement Award for visual effects. 10 x 8 inches. About FIne. Spicer US. Carolco unknown books
1974réf. 599768Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice-Hall 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and slight toning. Warmly Inscribed by the author to author and editor Charlotte Zolotow: "For Charlotte - Wish many thanks for all the encouragement you've always give me - Dale xo." Everyone says Annabelle and Nellie are almost twins but Annabelle struggling to measure up to her older sister's accomplishments knows different. From the library of Charlotte Zolotow editor and publisher at Harpers celebrated childrens books department and acclaimed author of over 65 childrens books. She is credited for her contributions to the Childrens Liberation Movement which believed the rights and emotional concerns of children be recognized and treated as the equal of adults. Prentice-Hall hardcover
1974réf. 599768Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice-Hall 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and slight toning. Warmly Inscribed by the author to author and editor Charlotte Zolotow: "For Charlotte - Wish many thanks for all the encouragement you've always give me - Dale xo." Everyone says Annabelle and Nellie are almost twins but Annabelle struggling to measure up to her older sister's accomplishments knows different. From the library of Charlotte Zolotow editor and publisher at Harpers celebrated childrens books department and acclaimed author of over 65 childrens books. She is credited for her contributions to the Childrens Liberation Movement which believed the rights and emotional concerns of children be recognized and treated as the equal of adults. Prentice-Hall hardcover books
1841réf. 167561841. Women's Educational Movement. Rural Repository News Journal 1841 Poughkeepsie Female Academy Founding Story and Engraving. Large Item. Poughkeepsie Female Academy- Hudson NY. This news journal the "Rural Repository" leads with a full page story on the opening of the Poughkeepsie Female Academy and engravings. More than 30 years later Vassar College would open near the same site. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." This document predates Seneca Falls by 7 years. unknown
1841réf. 167561841. Women's Educational Movement. Rural Repository News Journal 1841 Poughkeepsie Female Academy Founding Story and Engraving. Large Item. Poughkeepsie Female Academy- Hudson NY. This news journal the "Rural Repository" leads with a full page story on the opening of the Poughkeepsie Female Academy and engravings. More than 30 years later Vassar College would open near the same site. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." This document predates Seneca Falls by 7 years. unknown books
1931réf. 012089NY: The Century Co 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price 1897 - 1997 American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. A sea-going juvenile. Book apparently unread - blue linen stamped in gilt prictorial endpapers. Striking dustjacket pictorial in orange blue and white. Dustjacket is dustily soiled more so at spine and chipped at corners and head of spine. Still presentable overall. JUVENILE. The Century Co hardcover
1931réf. 012089NY: The Century Co 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price 1897 - 1997 American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. A sea-going juvenile. Book apparently unread - blue linen stamped in gilt prictorial endpapers. Striking dustjacket pictorial in orange blue and white. Dustjacket is dustily soiled more so at spine and chipped at corners and head of spine. Still presentable overall. JUVENILE. The Century Co hardcover books
1970réf. 148340Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Edy Williams and David Gurian from the 1970 film. Based on an original story by Roger Ebert who also helped write the screenplay. Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big with their rock band "The Kelly Affair" stopping first to visit Kelly MacNamara's 1966 Playboy Playmate Dolly Read estranged aunt. Kelly's aunt introduces the band comprised of Kelly Read Casey Anderson 1968 Playboy Playmate Cynthia Myers and Petronella Danforth Marcia McBroom to a flamboyant producer named Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell John LaZar who changes their name to "The Carrie Nations" and has them perform at one of his orgiastic parties after a set by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Throughout the success of the new band the girls use drugs and alcohol attempt to maintain romantic relationships even a lesbian tryst with Erica Gavin director Meyer's "Vixen" and find "Z-Man" to be a murderous transsexual. The film proved to be sexploitation and exploitation to its psychedelic limits at the time was Meyer's biggest box-office draw to date and gave the director a new audience: mainstream filmgoers in mainstream cinemas. Originally intended as a sequel to "Valley of the Dolls" 1967 with an original screenplay by Jacqueline Susann Twentieth Century-Fox found the script unsatisfactory and sought new material. The film was released as part of a settlement with Susann with the disclaimer "This is not a sequel to VALLEY OF THE DOLLS." One of few X-rated films released by Twentieth Century-Fox another being "Myra Breckenridge" 1970. Pam Grier got her start in this film as an uncredited party attendant. Meyer regulars like Charles Napier Lavelle Roby and Haji all make appearances. Set in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. Criterion Collection 836. Meyer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970réf. 148340Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Edy Williams and David Gurian from the 1970 film. Based on an original story by Roger Ebert who also helped write the screenplay. Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big with their rock band "The Kelly Affair" stopping first to visit Kelly MacNamara's 1966 Playboy Playmate Dolly Read estranged aunt. Kelly's aunt introduces the band comprised of Kelly Read Casey Anderson 1968 Playboy Playmate Cynthia Myers and Petronella Danforth Marcia McBroom to a flamboyant producer named Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell John LaZar who changes their name to "The Carrie Nations" and has them perform at one of his orgiastic parties after a set by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Throughout the success of the new band the girls use drugs and alcohol attempt to maintain romantic relationships even a lesbian tryst with Erica Gavin director Meyer's "Vixen" and find "Z-Man" to be a murderous transsexual. The film proved to be sexploitation and exploitation to its psychedelic limits at the time was Meyer's biggest box-office draw to date and gave the director a new audience: mainstream filmgoers in mainstream cinemas. Originally intended as a sequel to "Valley of the Dolls" 1967 with an original screenplay by Jacqueline Susann Twentieth Century-Fox found the script unsatisfactory and sought new material. The film was released as part of a settlement with Susann with the disclaimer "This is not a sequel to VALLEY OF THE DOLLS." One of few X-rated films released by Twentieth Century-Fox another being "Myra Breckenridge" 1970. Pam Grier got her start in this film as an uncredited party attendant. Meyer regulars like Charles Napier Lavelle Roby and Haji all make appearances. Set in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. Criterion Collection 836. Meyer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1937réf. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
1937réf. 152130N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Sabu Dastagir commonly known only by his given name Sabu. With a mimeo label snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of National Film Archive library. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Rudyard Kipling's story "Toomai of the Elephants" which originally appeared in Kipling's 1895 collection "The Jungle Book." A young Indian boy helps guide his father and a government elephant hunter to the secret elephant camp in the jungle. A breakthrough role for Sabu who would go on to work under exclusive contract for film mogul Alexander Korda in "The Thief of Bagdad" 1940 "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "The Jungle Book" 1942. Set in colonial India shot on location in Gwynedd Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1835réf. 59895Boston: James Munroe and Company 1835. First edition. 4to. viii 527 1 pp. Includes literary essays speeches and discourses delivered before various civic and educational organizations biographical sketches of prominent Americans especially jurists reviews of books reprinted from judicial periodicals and judicial and political papers originally written for speeches and addresses; "some of these compositions have never before appeared in print" from the preface. Story 1779-1845; Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court 1811-1845 published legal treatises at an incredible rate an "example of industry in legal scholarship that has yet to be equaled" DAB. Original green pebbled cloth some wear to spine ends. Corners bumped gilt spine title. James Munroe and Company unknown
1835réf. 59895Boston: James Munroe and Company 1835. First edition. 4to. viii 527 1 pp. Includes literary essays speeches and discourses delivered before various civic and educational organizations biographical sketches of prominent Americans especially jurists reviews of books reprinted from judicial periodicals and judicial and political papers originally written for speeches and addresses; "some of these compositions have never before appeared in print" from the preface. Story 1779-1845; Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court 1811-1845 published legal treatises at an incredible rate an "example of industry in legal scholarship that has yet to be equaled" DAB. Original green pebbled cloth some wear to spine ends. Corners bumped gilt spine title. James Munroe and Company unknown books
1856réf. 509665Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1856. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 540pp. Reddish-brown cloth stamped in gold on spine. Owner's early bookplate on front pastedown and name on front flyleaf spine a bit sunned and a little frayed at the ends a few signatures are sprung but the binding is tight a very good copy of a scarce novel. Mary Hayden Pike was a novelist and abolitionist who graduated from the Charlestown Massachusetts Female Seminary in 1843. Her writings reflect her abolitionist views: her first novel Ida May is the story of a white child sold into slavery Caste is a novel about racial discrimination. Wright II 1904. Phillips, Sampson, and Company hardcover
1856réf. 509665Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1856. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 540pp. Reddish-brown cloth stamped in gold on spine. Owner's early bookplate on front pastedown and name on front flyleaf spine a bit sunned and a little frayed at the ends a few signatures are sprung but the binding is tight a very good copy of a scarce novel. Mary Hayden Pike was a novelist and abolitionist who graduated from the Charlestown Massachusetts Female Seminary in 1843. Her writings reflect her abolitionist views: her first novel Ida May is the story of a white child sold into slavery Caste is a novel about racial discrimination. Wright II 1904. Phillips, Sampson, and Company hardcover books
réf. 44041NY: Clarion Books a Houghton Mifflin Imprint 1996. First edition with a 1 present in the number line with no medal present; publisher bookplate signed by author and laid in; 4to.; glossy pictorial boards hardcover; color illustrations; 1997 Caldecott Medal Winner; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. NY: Clarion Books a Houghton Mifflin Imprint, 1996 hardcover
