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1993rif. 56236Hopewell NJ: Ecco Press 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Author's first book. Signed by the author. Ecco Press hardcover books
1993rif. 622733Hopewell New Jersey: The Ecco Press 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on the page edges thus near fine in a near fine dust jacket with fading on the spine. The Ecco Press hardcover books
1957rif. 23958Paris: Mauclaire 1957. Large 8vo pp. 65. In French. Illustrated. Paper wraps. Marking in text cover little stained and worn VG. Mauclaire unknown books
1930rif. 35706NY: Viking Press 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Slight spine lean ink name on front free endpaper else a very good hardback in a chipped and edgeworn jakcet that has an internally repaired closed tear to the front panel. Viking Press hardcover books
1937rif. 45110New York: Random House. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. NY: Random House 1937. 159 pages hardbound. Contents are bright and clean. The black cloth binding is tight with slight fading to top edge and spine. Overall VG. . Random House hardcover books
1960rif. 147254N.p.: N.p. 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Incomplete as issued noted as part one of two. Engaged Czechoslovakian immigrants Bogdan and Shari are promptly separated on their first day in New York City. Luckily Shari befriends Harold a young architect who with the help of his world-wise mother and spacious modern apartment! cares for Shari. Meanwhile Bogdan searches frantically for his fiancee but eventually must leave New York to seek employment in Texas. Prolific French screenwriter Jacques Deval was best known for "Tovarich" 1937 and "Tuesday's Guest" 1950. Set in New York City. Dark green untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jacques Deval. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 39. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1932rif. 30055New York: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket good sound copy lightly shelfworn minor external soiling spine cloth a bit faded discoloration in gutters one-time owner's "Property of" statement handwritten on front endpaper and the same person's signature and date on the page following the dedication page. Novel about a young Frenchwoman who finds herself stranded at the age of eighteen in a remote South American port; she manages to make her way to Panama where she takes up prostitution as a means of earning the money for her passage back to France. You can stop thinking about Marlo Thomas now. Her activities get her mixed up with some of the complicated international aspects of the Canal Zone and at various times she encounters a Japanese spy a German agent and an American Secret Service man. One contemporary reviewer commented that the author "lays much stress on the importance of the Canal Zone to the United States of America and other countries and yet one cannot help feeling that he regards the whole thing as just a little ludicrous and that he is privately pointing the finger of scorn at men who can allow their time to be taken up by such immense trivialities." Originally published in France in 1931 as "Marie Galante" although in this translation she's called Chéri which was also the title of the British edition the book served as the basis for a 1934 American film adaptation under that title starring Spencer Tracy and Ketti Gallian and that same year was adapted by its author for a stage musical with music by Kurt Weill. In the film version not surprisingly the heroine is not a prostitute; it was released in the latter half of 1934 so the Hays Office wouldn't be having any of that! . The Viking Press hardcover books
1937rif. 33588New York: Random House 1937. Very Good /Good. New York: Random House 1937. First US Edition. Octavo 21 cm; 159pp. Boards in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine wrapped in gilt price-clipped jacket. Jacket overall scuffed rubbed bumped and creased with minor closed tears to margins and minor loss to head of spine. Tape repair to back panel. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with fading to top margin and dust soiling to top edge. Endsheets offset otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Good only jacket. Originally written as a play by Deval in French in 1933 he also directed the 1935 film of the same name. Random House unknown books
1851rif. M15074Paris:: Victor Masson 1851. 1851. 8vo. iv 441 pp. Original quarter calf over marbled boards gilt-stamped spine title; lightly rubbed. Presentation gilt-stamping on spine. Very good. TREATMENTS FOR THE EYE BOUND IN A "PRIX DE VACCINE" PRIZE BINDING. FIRST EDITION. "Deval investigated whether the amaurosis weakness of sight is sthenic or asthenic. He follows Sichel in the classification amaurosis due to the retina to the optic nerve to the brain to the spinal cord ganglionary or abdominal trifacial or ophthalmic amaurosis. He praises for torpid amaurosis galvanic electricity." – Hirschberg. BINDING: This volume bears indication on the spine that it was awarded to a M. Julien as the "Prix de Vaccine" for 1850. The French government supported research into vaccines and vaccination actively awarding prize monies beginning in 1801. "Deval was the most outstanding among the pupils of Julius Sichel." He studied medicine and graduated 1834 as doctor in Paris dedicating . . . "himself to ophthalmology after he had been trained by Sichel for four years." / He published numerous case reports and we have to assume that he treated many patients. Deval "tells us that his institute was visited by a great number of physicians and students and that he taught some of them ocular operations and as soon as he was sure that they had a steady hand he let them operate on his patients. These operations were quite successful. Deval never operated with the strictest indication. He was overtaken by his knife-happy colleagues and died a poor man." – Hirschberg. REFERENCES: Albert Source book of ophthalmology 581; Becker 106; Hirschberg The history of ophthalmology Vol. 7 pp. 213-15. Victor Masson, 1851. hardcover books
1932rif. 004988Viking 1932. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Fine copy in a near fine jacket.store stamp on pastedown.stamp of store on front panelink name under front pastedown.Excellent copy of this Deco Classic. Viking Hardcover books
1937rif. 23855NY: Random House 1937. First Edition. 8vo pp. 158. Untrimmed and partially unopened. A very good copy in a chipped and partially torn dj. This is a "round-robin" copy signed by the 15 members of the cast at the NY production which opened on October 15 1936. Included are signatures by John Halliday Marta Abba Irina Feodorova Margaret Dale Amanda Duff and others. Random House unknown books
1932rif. 98490New York: Viking Press 1932. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated by Lawrence S. Morris. Advance Reading Copy. Near fine in unprinted wrappers in moderately worn about very good dustwrapper. World weary eighteen-year-old French beauty trapped in Panama becomes involved in international spying and intrigue and sells herself in order to raise the money to return to France. Basis for the 1934 Henry King film Marie Galante featuring Spencer Tracy Ketti Gallian and Ned Sparks. The example here in a very uncommon format. Viking Press unknown books
1932rif. 63745New York: Viking Press 1932. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Lawrence S. Morris. Tiny bookstore stamp on the front fly spine a bit cocked and boards very slightly soiled a near fine copy in modestly age-toned very good plus price-clipped dustwrapper with a number of very small nicks and tears. World weary eighteen year old French beauty trapped in Panama becomes involved in international spying and intrigue and sells herself in order to raise the money to return to France. Basis for the 1934 Henry King film Marie Galante featuring Spencer Tracy Ketti Gallian and Ned Sparks. Viking Press hardcover books
