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1950ref. 131050Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson an uncredited member of the crew with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown and annotations throughout in holograph pencil. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Weidman's 1937 novel and Vera Caspary's loose adaptation. Harriet Boyd Hayward is a fashion designer who partners with Teddy Dailey whom she loves and Sam Jaffe and starts a new business dedicated to selling affordable women's dresses. A rival fashion company lead by Noble Sanders momentarily distracts Harriet but at the last minute she realizes her true devotion to Teddy and Sam. Screenwriter Polonsky was blacklisted shortly after the film's release refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped as REVISED FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper copy No. 3 and production No. 2446.8 dated August 4 1950. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated August 4 1950 noted as Revised 1st Draft Continuity with a credit for screenwriter Polonsky. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 168. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Script Breakdown: self wrappers as issued. 88 leaves dated 10/2/50 mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1977ref. 127206Burbank CA: Mars Production Corporation / Virgo International Pictures 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1977 film. A redneck hotel owner in Texas murders innocent victims and feeds them to his pet crocodile. Tobe Hooper's next film after the legendary "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" 1974 and six years before his next big hit "Poltergeist" 1982. 4 pages folded twice 8.5 x 14 inches. A couple of tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Mars Production Corporation / Virgo International Pictures unknown books
1927ref. 132431Hollywood: Universum Film UFA / Paramount Pictures 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film a shortened 115 minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock who is credited on the herald. Interestingly the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA apparently just prior to the formation of the larger umbrella production company Parufamet which included UFA Paramount and MGM. 4.5 x 6 inches folded 8.75 x 6 inches unfolded. Near Fine with some light soil. Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 133021San Diego CA: Legend Films 1972. Draft British script for the 1973 film. Alec Guinness plays here against type imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Guinness' Hitler is an enclosed depressive who sinks slowly into madness depression and ultimately suicide as his 1000-Year Reich collapses around him. A co-production between Italy and the UK made by Ennio De Concini better known for his many exploitation films of the 1970s. Blue titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 10th July 1972 with credits for screenwriter-director De Concini screenwriters Fusco and Reinhardt and English adaptation writer Moffat. 128 leaves roneograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Legend Films unknown books
1958ref. 132326N.p.: N.p. 1958. Draft script for a play based on the classic 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Actress Mary Henry's copy profusely annotated throughout. Ms. Henry played one of three "phantoms" in the play who do not speak but who are generally present. Nothing is known about the production of this play the playwright or the actors involved but the nature of the mimeograph would place the production in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Tan side-stapled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bergman and playwright Vinciguerra in typescript at the upper center of the front wrapper. 27 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good lacking rear wrapper side stapled. N.p. unknown books
1945ref. 129333Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Selznick studio printing of Clemence Dane's modern stage adaptation of Friedrich Frederick Schiller's 1801 play "Mary Stuart." Issued internally by the studio for consideration as a film adaptation though ultimately unproduced. Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 0103 with credits for Schiller and Dane. Title page present with credits for Schiller and Dane. 79 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. David O. Selznick unknown books
1959ref. 51460New York: Random House 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; gray vinyl cloth with titles stamped in black and gilt and photographic still mounted to front cover; dark yellow-orange topstain; dustjacket; xiv23-1055pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket with some trivial wear to extremities and gentle sunning to spine panel. Ford's stage adaptation of Faulkner's 1951 novel written in the form of a three-act play with each act preceded by a narrative section. Ford removed the narrative sections and revised the remainder of the novel for dramatic unity. Petersen Collection A49.1. Random House unknown books
1959ref. 45822New York: Random House 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; gray vinyl cloth with titles stamped in black and gilt and photographic still mounted to front cover; dark yellow-orange topstain; dustjacket; xiv23-1055pp; illus. Inscribed by Ruth Ford to Harlan P. Kleiman on the front endpaper: "To Harlan / with great expectations / Ruth Ford." Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.95 with sunning to spine and front panel extremities some light dustiness and trivial wear to crown. Distinguished copy of Ford's stage adaptation of Faulkner's 1951 novel written in the form of a three-act play with each act preceded by a narrative section. Ford removed the narrative sections and revised the remainder of the novel for dramatic unity. Inscribed to Harlan Phillip Kleiman screenwriter Broadway producer and co-founder of New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. Provenance: From the collection of Broadway star Sondra Lee. Petersen Collection A49.1. Random House unknown books
1919ref. 42351New York: Women's League of the United Synagogue of America 1919. Fourth 1946 Printing. 16mo 14.5cm.; publisher's blue card wrappers; mixed paginations; full-page illus. throughout. Spine edges rather rubbed the whole a bit toned and soiled most heavily so to rear cover contemporary ownership inscription inside upper cover else Near Very Good overall. Collection of Jewish stories adapted for a juvenile audience from Louis Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews. Women's League of the United Synagogue of America unknown books
1957ref. 24125Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1957. First Edition. Slim octavo 24cm.; publisher's cloth in dark grey pictorial dust jacket; xiii175pp. General light shelf wear to top dust jacket extremities spine a bit toned else Very Good or better overall. Harvard University Press unknown books
1956ref. 22339New York: Random House 1956. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 20.5cm.; simulated cloth photographic plate mounted to upper cover red topstain; in cream pictorial dust jacket; 10180pp.; photographic frontispiece 2 plates. Jacket spine a hint toned else Fine. Illustrated with photographs from the original stage production. Random House unknown books
1953ref. 24796New York: Random House 1953. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original simulated cloth photographic plate mounted to upper cover top edge dyed dark purple; in cream decorative dust jacket; 6178pp.; photographic double-page title page. Lower edge of rear jacket cover shows signs of creasing spine darkened else a Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. "A Random House Play." Comedy involving a woman and her husband and lover trapped on a desert island; adapted from Roussin's La Petite Hutte 1947. Random House unknown books
ref. 76139NY:: Payson & Clarke Ltd. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. Printed by the Plandome Press. First edition thus. Uneven toning and soiling to boards else very good in tan paper covered boards with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. . Payson & Clarke Ltd., hardcover books
1971ref. 9007144New York: Schirmer 1971. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Text is in French and English. Schirmer paperback books
1971ref. 9006855New York: Boosey & Hawkes 1971. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher's original wrappers. Boosey & Hawkes paperback books
1791ref. 41520United States of America i.e. Worcester Mass.: Pr. at the press in Worcester Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas 1791. Folio extra 400 mm; 16". New Testament ONLY. 1 f. pp. 7891012; 19 plts. Present here is the extracted New Testament from => the first folio Bible printed in America from the press of the printer whom Ben Franklin called the "Baskerville of America." Being also only the fourth complete Protestant Bible in English printed in the former British colonies its text is the standard King James version printed in double-column format in roman type; and Thomas's production is famous for its typography its achievement in size the pages are 15.5" tall and especially its illustrations. The plates 19 of them were engraved by four of America's greatest artisans: J. Norman Alexander Doolittle Joseph H. Seymour and Samuel Hill. "An alphabetical table of proper names" was planned but not printed as indicated by the catchword on the final page; the table does appear in the quarto edition Thomas printed the same year. This volume does contain at its end the whole Bible's "Index to the Holy Bible" and its several "tables" of Weights Measures and Coins; Time; Offices and Conditions of Men; and Kindred and Affinity. Hills 29; O'Callaghan 38; Herbert 1353; Rumball-Petre Rare Bibles 171; Evans 23186 Wright Early Bibles of America pp. 7488. 18th-century mottled calf nicely rebacked with edges of boards renewed and text block resewn. Old waterstaining from light to severe throughout extending across text and image areas of plates with very variable impact; age-toning occasional staining and off-setting from plates in only the usual degrees. Lower margins display some notable chips and purposeful paper tear-aways and a good many closed tears; only the latter reach sometimes into text without loss. Several plates have had closed tears neatly repaired from the rear; the plate of Mary Magdalen and the final leaf of the last Table show OLD replacement of paper where original paper was torn away from blank areas; the copy retains the old dog-earings and page-creasings of long use and bears pencillings on its final leaf. => A copy that has seen much happen to it over its more than 200 years of existence; still a sturdy interesting and imposing copy of this impressive early American New Testament. Pr. at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Isaiah Thomas hardcover books
1507ref. 41458Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 177576. 4to in 8s 28.8 cm 11.33". Frontis. 639 ff. with accompanying volume The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1781. 8vo 20.7 cm 8.15". 376 ff. bound with Vickers William. A companion to the altar: Shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation in order to our worthy receiving the holy communion. London: Pr. for Thomas Beecroft 1783. Frontis. 2 v55 1 adv. pp. lacking half-title or initial blank and with Bible. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. The whole book of psalms collected into English metre. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1785. 8vo. 64 ff. This striking 18th-century set owned by a wealthy Englishwoman who spent much of her life in Switzerland for more on which see below pairs a handsome Cambridge Bible and BCP in => masterfully designed and executed deluxe matched bindings. The Bible opens with a frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; the Apocrypha are present in this copy and the New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1776. The BCP is bound with Companion to the Altar "Note This Book is bound up with the Common-Prayers of several sorts printed by the University of Cambridge" as per the title-page; Sternhold & Hopkins bring up the rear. Bindings: Contemporary mottled green morocco covers framed in Greek key roll and dentelles composed of urn and flower motifs surrounding central JHS medallions with red morocco inlays and gilt-tooled flames; spines with gilt-tooled compartment decorations Bible spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label. While the covers of the two volumes are strongly similar overall and "read" as => identical on first glance the details of the design vary slightly between the Bible and the BCP as the size disparity and possibly the time gap between the publication dates necessitated the use of different tools. The spine designs differ more notably but still most companionably with the Bible's spine decorations being built up with foliate and floral motifs and the BCP's with suns and stars. => To engage in minute comparison of these bindings' detail is an entrancing exercise. Provenance: Front free endpaper of Bible used for family record: Francis James Barwell de Sandol Roy born in 1793 and died in 1813 "Quel angoisse!"; Henri Guillaume de Sandol Roy born in 1797; and a list of grandchildren: François Sophie Anna and Alfred. The title-page inscription confirms that this set was owned by Sophie Bridget Barwell de Sandol Roy 17691850 daughter of William Barwell a director of the East India Company; her brother Richard became a famously wealthy and scandalous nabob. Dubbed "la belle Anglaise" following her arrival in Neuchâtel Sophie made a great splash in Swiss society and received a proposal from Colonel François Isaac de Sandol Roy sometimes given as Sandol-Roy a proposal which she at first rejected until he subsequently saved her from the guillotine in revolutionary Paris! For more on their story please see Musée Neuchatelois 1923 ed. pp. 24 which includes a reproduction of a portrait of Sophie de Sandol-Roy done by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Bible: Darlow & Moule 1247; ESTC T88808. BCP: Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1781:1; ESTC T212010. Companion: ESTC T76554. Psalms: ESTC T221010. Bindings as above moderate rubbing to extremities and sides with limited scuffing only; all edges gilt marbled endpapers and original matching dark blue bookmarks present still attached. Bible with small area of waterstaining to lower inner margins of first few leaves including frontispiece; varying faint to moderate foxing; one leaf with small repair to upper outer margin. BCP with a few instances of light foxing pages mostly clean; laid in is a stitched pamphlet which seems to be a record of additional family information involving Albert Victor and Mary although written in a challenging hand. => A gorgeous lavish production altogether with a remarkable arresting provenance. Pr. by John Archdeacon hardcover books
1956ref. 15567London: Neville Spearman 1956. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . INSCRIBED BY EZRA POUND IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION TO HIS WIFE DOROTHY POUND "D.P." on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1956 true 1st edition of Pound's translation. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp price-intact VG to Near Fine dustjacket with just a touch of light chipping at the front upper tip and along the lower-edges. 12mo this volume also contains "an account by Denis Goacher of Mr. Pound's predicament and his strange life in St. Elizabeth's Hospital Washington D.C." Neville Spearman hardcover books
1947ref. 36857New York: Printed by the Aldus Printers for the Limited Editions Club 1947. Small folio 31 cm 12.2". 42 6 double-fold pp.; col. illus. Szyk's eight full-page full-color "Oriental Realism" illustrations in the style and tradition of Oriental miniatures are dramatically eye-filling in this Limited Editions Club production. The edition is limited to 1950 copies this is no. 230 with the appropriate LEC newsletter laid in each signed by the illustrator. The volume is set in intertype Weiss with six large initials in gold; "Ruth" on the half-title and title-page are also printed in gold; and the paper is Worthy special. Binding: Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half white leather with slightly raised bands a gilt-background title label; smooth vellum-paper sides gold-stamped with a large image of Ruth holding a sheaf of grain and a scythe. Top edge gilt. Limited Editions Club Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club 184. Binding as above in the original gold foil-covered slipcase; volume with spine and corners moderately darkened and rubbed slipcase foil with expectable rubbing and spine chipped. LEC newsletter creased with small stains. In spite of these flaws still a sturdy case and a pleasing book internally bright and lovely. [Printed by the Aldus Printers for the] Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1633ref. 24066London: Pr. by Augustine Mathewes one of the assignes of Hester Ogden 1633. Folio 33.3 cm 13.25". Frontis. engr. t.-p. 58 912 18 25 1 206 2 17 1 blank pp. When the Jesuit scholars at Rheims succeeded in printing their Catholic translation of the New Testament into English first edition 1582 the event affected various English Protestant scholars in different ways: Some were offended or outraged others intrigued and yet others spurred to action. William Fulke of Pembroke College Cambridge was among those offended outraged and spurred: In 1589 he produced the first edition of his work attempting to refute the Rheims New Testament. His approach however which was to print the Rheims NT in parallel columns with the Bishops' NT the then accepted version of the Church of England supplying accompanying notes and explanations had unforeseen consequences. As Darlow and Moule comment "by printing the Rheims Testament in full side by side with the Bishops' version Fulke secured for the former a publicity which it would not otherwise have obtained and was indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611." Alan Thomas elaborates by observing that "many a dignified or felicitous phrase was silently lifted by the editors of King James's Version and thus passed into the language" Great Books and Book Collectors p. 108. This is the fourth edition "wherein are many grosse absurdities corrected." A portrait of William Fulke precedes the engraved title-page both done by William Marshall. The Biblical text is followed as issued by Fulke's Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue against the Manifold Cavils Frivolous Quarrels and Impudent Slanders of Gregorie Martin. STC 2nd ed. 2947; Darlow & Moule 371; ESTC S121246; Herbert 480. Contemporary mottled calf covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label all edges gilt; binding rubbed leather moderately acid-pitted joints cracked rectangle of leather lost at upper inner corner of front cover. Lower edges of closed book rubber-stamped; free endpapers excised; lower outer corners lightly waterstained at rear; pages otherwise slightly age-toned but notably clean. A sound good copy. Pr. by Augustine Mathewes on[e] of the assignes of Hester Ogden hardcover books
1812ref. 35967Philadelphia: Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia by T. Rutt Shacklewell London and pr. by William Fry 1812. 12mo 17.9 cm 7". 456 45978 481633 1 pp. 1 f. 191 1 pp. The first Stereotyped Bible Printed in America. The Bible Society of Philadelphia founded in 1808 with Bp. William White as its first president was the first Bible society organized in the United States. It published this the first stereotype Bible printed in the U.S. from plates imported from London; the B.F.B.S. contributed £500 towards the purchase of the plates and they were admitted to the U.S. free of import duties. The initial run produced 1050 copies of the complete Bible and 750 copies of the New Testament in double columns in very small type. Provenance: Signature of Edward H. Mills dated 27 May 1843 on front pastedown. From the collection of Michael Zinman. Shaw & Shoemaker 24835; Hills 213; Herbert 1560; O'Callaghan 110; Wright Early Bibles of America 19293; Rumball-Petre 189. Contemporary sheep rubbed with joints opening and leather lost at spine head; wormwork to spine and some margins of text. Volume "soft" with sewing pulling away from spine and a few gatherings separated; text foxed and browned as often; several leaves perhaps two dozen damaged with some loss of text perhaps a dozen more with small tears. Lacking two leaves of the Old Testament all others present. A distressed copy of this important edition and priced accordingly. Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia, by T. Rutt, Shacklewell, London, [and pr. by William Fry] hardcover books
2008ref. 35166Litchfield Park AZ: Bible Museum 2008. Folio. Unpaginated. A 400th anniversary edition of the King James Bible being an accurate complete full-size facsimile of the "Great He" Bible. This copy is one of 1000 designated "The Subscriber's" version with => two original leaves from the 1611 printing one from the Old Testament leaf Fff2 Psalms 88:6 through 90:5 and one from the New leaf K3 John 8:39 through 9:41. Both leaves are in excellent condition. This book is very large and extremely heavy and will require considerable extra shipping charges. Bound in full brown leather and in an open-back slipcase. As new. Bible Museum hardcover books
1796ref. 31848Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. 1796. Folio 42.2 cm 16.7". 748 pp. 2 final ff. of back matter lacking; 18 plts. Bible collector's treasure: the first edition of the Berriman Bible. Noted for its excellent illustrations by several contemporary American engravers including Alexander Anderson Cornelius Tiebout Francis Shallus and William Rollinson this large and handsomely produced lectern-sized folio Bible is printed in two columns with sidenotes including scriptural cross-references and a chronology. The plates include scenes of Adam and Eve in paradise frontispiece the Egyptian midwives drowning the Hebrews' infant sons Judas Maccabaeus slaying Apolloninus and Judas betraying Christ with a kiss; the maps show the presumed historical setting of the Garden of Eden and the Holy Land. One plate in this copy "The Parting of Lot and Abraham" is bound in upside-down. Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription in upper margin: "Benjamin Morris to Samuel White Sept. 17th 1826" and with tipped-in typed slip noting presentation to a seminary by the Rev. John Cyrus Madden class of 1893 who had received the book from Charles Reifschneider a descendant of White. Spine with gilt-stamped leather label reading "Deborah Morris to" only! Herbert 1402; Hills 53; O'Callaghan 51; Rumball-Petre 175; Wright Early Bibles of America 325; Evans 30065; ESTC W004506. Early 19th-century mottled sheep covers framed in blind roll spine with gilt-stamped title label and compartment decorations; scuffed and rubbed gilt now mostly lost front cover with inkstain front joint cracked but holding and back one holed back free endpaper lacking. Spine head chipped with one label partly cut yes cut away and foot with inked shelving number; other library markings including bookplate pressure- and rubber-stamps and a few typical annotations. Pages age-toned to browned with offsetting and foxing ranging from mild to moderate occasional spotting and smudging some dog-eared corners;some leaves with margins chipped or short edge tears a few with tears extending into text some with loss of a few letters. Two leaves in Jeremiah torn with upper portions lacking one leaf crudely repaired some time ago last leaf tattered; two final leaves last portion of tables section and the subscribers list lacking with scraps of the "Table of Kindred & Affinity" laid in. => Marked by time and use still an agreeable and interesting example of a noteworthy edition. Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. hardcover books
1819ref. 7970New York: American Bible Society stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw 1819. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.5". 705 1 215 lacking 1/2 1 blank pp. Early American Bible Society Bible following its first which appeared in 1816. This stereotyped New York Bible was done from the same plates as Fanshaw's 1818 Long Primer Octavo and this 1819 example is seen institutionally far more often in microform copies than in genuine holdings. Provenance: Front cover with blind-stamped logo of the American Bible Society; title-page with inked inscription reading "Mary Ann Lanings word obscured August 24 1823." . Shaw & Shoemaker 47213; Hills 375. Contemporary sheep double-panelled in blind spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title label; binding rubbed and unevenly faded leather cracking over spine. Foxing ranging from mild to severe; last few leaves waterstained; some dog-earing. One worm track to upper outer margin of a few leaves. New Testament lacking title. Well used but not abused; an evocative copy. American Bible Society (stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw) hardcover books
1842ref. 16088Philadelphia: Thomas Sutton 1842. 8vo. 240 pp. Hills 1153. Later 19th century quarter sheep over paper boards; worn paper over boards with water damage some bubbling chipping on board edges and chipping at head and foot of spine. A few dog-ears and tears without loss of text four pages shaved at outer edge with loss of last few letters of most lines. Moderate staining. Extensive pencil and ink notations and scribbles on endpapers some ink and pencil marks elsewhere. Front fly-leaf and rear fly-leaf and endpaper lacking. Thomas Sutton hardcover books
