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1951Best.-Nr. 41875Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1951. Second edition second printing 2 volumes 8vo plates some folding and illustrations in text; a fine bright set in original red cloth gilt-lettered spines. Standard reference. Harvard University Press unknown books
2008Best.-Nr. 14623London: Vintage Books. Fine. 2008. Limited/Numbered Edition. Softcover. 0099526999 . Only 1000 copies of this Limited/Numbered edition libretto were published. This copy is in Very Fine condition and is SIGNED by author Ian McEwan and composer Michael Berkeley directly on the title page; Charles Frieth is a composer conductor and prodigious womanizer. As he is preparing for a performance of one of his early works and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade he is awakened to the chaos and turmoil in his life. As he struggles to regain control a terrible trajedy begins to unfold. This libretto for Michael Berkeley's opera was commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and received its first performance on May 31st 2008 at Theatr Brycheiniog; Small 8vo ; Signed by All Authors . Vintage Books paperback books
1966Best.-Nr. 73058Cambridge:: Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. B00AH5CY4I . Complete in two volumes. With illustrations. Second printing of the third edition. Both volumes are very good in a very good price clipped dust jackets. . Harvard University Press, hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 56982West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A handsome first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in an equally unblemished dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a compilation of essays and lectures written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Updike and the editor William W. Peterson. The book is divided into four sections: "The Writer" "The Reader" "The Work of Making a Book" and "The Business of Books." In "The Writer" Updike discusses the importance of being a good writer and the techniques that he has used to achieve success. In "The Reader" he discusses the importance of reading and how it can transform a person. In "The Work of Making a Book" he discusses the process of book making and the importance of having a good editor. In "The Business of Books" he discusses the different aspects of the book business and the importance of bookselling.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 34444BERKELEY Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley. THE REVEREND JOHN CLAYTON A PARSON WITH A SCIENTIFIC MIND HIS WRITINGS AND OTHER RELATED PAPERS. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia 1965. 8vo. Cloth. xv xlviii 170 pages. First edition. Definitive collection of the writings and letters of the noted seventeenth century Virginia clergyman and local botanist and scientist. Very good. unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 146617Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1956. Three vintage hand-tinted studio still photographs from the 1956 film featuring Rory Calhoun Dean Jagger Martha Hyer and Lita Baron. Based upon the 1956 novel "Back Trail" by Lewis B. Patten gunman Alec Longmire Calhoun nearly loses his life in gunfight and decides to walk the straight and narrow by becoming deputy to honest sheriff Jade Murphy Dean Jagger currently dealing with disputes between small farmers and the local cattle baron. Longmire also finds he has feelings for the sheriff's daughter Caroline Martha Hyer. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some minor creasing predominately in the margins one with a small closed tear on right margin one with closed tear and bruise along top right. Pitts 3337. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 337876New York: Crete Int. & Mavety Media Group 1987. Magazine. 84p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches personal ads explicit color and b&w photos of nude men exposing uncircumcised genitals good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Crete Int. & Mavety Media Group unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 55510New York: Scribner's 1916. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Lacks the front free endpaper else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with a tear along the spine and a few short tears. Rare in dustjacket. Scribner's hardcover books
1924Best.-Nr. 25679Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/260. 8vo. Original marbled boards with printed title-label on spine as issued. Signed by D. B. Updike on limitation page. Pages unopened. Contents: On the planning of printing. Style in the use of type. The seven champions of typography. Illustrated with 11 reproductions of title-pages bookplates programs invitations and tickets. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped with closed tears. Severely torn glassine jacket separated in 3 pieces laid-in. Binding in good- interior in near fine condition. Harvard University Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 34725Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd ed Cambridge 1951. 2 vols clothbound very good condition in dust jackets. Fly-leaves have stamp of previous owner Editor Inland Printer. . Other hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 7114London: Vintage Books 2008. First edition limited issue of 1000 numbered copies signed by McEwan and Berkeley on the title page. Copy #330. Perfect-bound illustrated card wraps with French-fold flaps. Fine condition. McEwan's libretto for Berkeley's opera which was first performed on May 31 2008. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Vintage Books paperback books
1946Best.-Nr. 162304London: Pathe Pictures / Associated British 1946. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Helen Shingler circa 1946. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to verso notes Shingler's forthcoming appearance in the 1946 film "Quiet Weekend" reprising her performance in Esther McCracken's long-running play. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on the 1941 play. A British family arrives at their country cottage but their plans to enjoy a peaceful weekend with a few family friends are spoiled when their son arrives with a glamorous socialite girlfriend. 6.25 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at one corner. Pathe Pictures / Associated British unknown books
1803Best.-Nr. 2353260New-Haven Connecticut: For Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. First American edition from the fourth London edition. Lacks front board spine and rear board rubbed and drying two light spots on fore edge ink name and date on front endpaper brief pencil notes on rear endpaper. 1803 Full-Leather. xiii 2 16-388 2 pp. Complete in one volume. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day who sought to minimize the the dignity of man. Berkeley is known as an advocate of subjective idealism which he called immaterialism which states that objects do not exist unless they are perceived. "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 1710 is the classic exposition of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity prefaced with an influential essay in the philosophy of language; part two was later lost in manuscript with other papers in Italy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Perhaps his most well-known work is Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in which two characters representing himself and John Locke discuss various philosophical questions. Berkeley was a fellow at Trinity College and in the 1720s turned his attention to the project of opening St. Paul's College in Bermuda though skepticism about the chances of success in this endeavor caused the funding to come into question. "To prevent a threatening decline in private support Berkeley sailed for Newport Rhode Island with a small advance party on 6 September 1728; this included Smibert who painted several well-known portraits of Berkeley and of his party before settling for life in Boston. The journey was hazardous and protracted. They made an unscheduled landfall on the Virginia coast about the turn of the year and were officially received at Williamsburg before reaching Rhode Island on 23 January 1729. By the spring Berkeley had bought a farm of 96 acres at Middletown 'with two fine groves and winding rivulet upon it' Works 8.194 whose produce would support the college. He employed slaves and was apparently indifferent to the institution of slavery provided that it was humane seeing the moral need rather as one of conversion and baptism. He built a new house Whitehall which is now maintained as a historic site although the adjoining farmland has given way to urban development. Berkeley often preached at Newport Rhode Island in the winter and in remoter outposts in the summer. The strongest and longest friendship he established among New England churchmen was with Samuel Johnson 1696 - 1772 of Stratford Connecticut a refugee from Calvinism who later became first president of King's College New York later Columbia University and lent support to Berkeley's philosophy through his Elementa philosophica 1752 and other writings. Throughout his career Berkeley had little time for dissenters although he abhorred the use of violence against them. The religious tolerance characteristic of Rhode Island induced a degree of ecumenicism in his social practice that was not always maintained in the pulpit. Reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fuelled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his. This was a factor in his writing Alciphron a set of dialogues located notionally in England but drawing much of the landscape description from Rhode Island which was to sell well and stimulate controversy after his return. In this theist and immaterialist combine their defences against a medley of intellectual trends derived primarily but not exclusively from Locke Bernard Mandeville and the third earl of Shaftesbury that Berkeley regarded as obstructive to religion. The work includes Berkeley's second foray into moral philosophy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography For Increase Cooke & Co hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 52602Alameda CA: Ankh Press 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26cm.; Purple illustrated wraps; 50pp.; small faint corner bend light rubbing. Near Fine. Sphinx takes its characters and the reader on a whirlwind tour of history as it was and as it might be if a ruthless and brilliant man went back in time and shaped reality to suit himself. The players in this fantasy include Darrel the successful young Black lawyer Shanae his African-American supermodel fiancee Bill the good old boy who goes from wino to politico to human sacrifice on the wheel of time Heather the icy blonde prosecuting attorney whose penchant for domination finds a vent in the New Reality of Los Angeles 2000 where slavery has made a comeback in a big way and Antoine the fierce Creole aristocrat who steals an alien artifact of great power and uses it to fulfill his lust for control for wealth and most of all for Shanae. from the publisher. Ankh Press unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional manuscript annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 167568Universal City: Universal-International 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing a humanoid monster in the Arizona desert. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A tarantula escapes from a remote desert laboratory growing in size as it travels wreaking havoc on the townspeople. Featuring an early uncredited appearance by actor Clint Eastwood. Set in the fictional town of Desert Rock Arizona shot on location in Apple Valley and Lucerne Valley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal-International unknown books
2008Best.-Nr. 41936London: Vintage Books 2008. First edition limited issue of 1000 numbered copies signed by McEwan and Berkeley on the title page. Copy #329. Printed label affixed to half-title page as issued. Perfect-bound illustrated card wraps with French-fold flaps. Fine condition. McEwan's libretto for Berkeley's opera which was first performed on May 31 2008. Signed by Author & Composer. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Vintage Books paperback books
1957Best.-Nr. 167577Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing scientists in hazmat suits preparing to confront the insect. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A volcanic eruption in the South Seas frees a long-dormant 200-foot-tall mantis which proceeds to make its way to the US. Filmmakers constructed a 200-foot-tall mantis for the film from papier-mâché with a hydraulic system in addition to two smaller models for different flying or walking effects. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 008649Berkeley CA: Doug Minkler 1981. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 24" h x 18" W. "Celebration & Rally - Music by Orquestra Sabrosita - Attend the Rent Board Public Hearing -City Hall Stop the General Rent Hike for 1982. For more information call the Berkeley Tenants Union - 843-6601". "c D. Minkler" in an inverted triangle printed in black at the bottom right. BTU house logo printed in black at the bottom left. Screenprint peach and black color image on stiff beige paper. Near Fine small corner creases. Forty years later and due to a global pandemic a strikingly current protest poster. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. Doug Minkler unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 162093N.p.: Kirt Films International 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Documentary on the history of pornography in Holllywood including interviews with the owner of a topless/bottomless bar a gay church adult filmmakers adult bookstore owners and patrons and adult film stars. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Kirt Films International unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 62750London: Oxford University Press 1937. Second printing of the second edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xl 292; xix 1 326; 367 plates some folding showing examples of the use of type from Gutenberg through the early 20th century; very good in original blue cloth gilt-stamped spines in dust jackets with short chips splits and tears. From the library of Kim Merker. Oxford University Press unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 52316Mt. Vernon NY: A. Colish Inc 1980. broadside 18 x 24 in. / 46 x 61 cm. Limited to 50 copies. A text excerpt from the 1962 Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press reprint of D. B. Updike's 1860-1941 founder of the Merrymount Press 1922 work "Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use." A "keepsake printed for The Second National Conference on Metal Typecasting & Design on the occasion of their visit to A. Colish Inc. Mount Vernon New York 1 July 1980." Printed in black with lavender rules at head and foot of text and inside a lavender border formed by a kind of ribbon design. A. Colish Inc unknown books
Best.-Nr. 64411Ephemera. Very Good. Leaflet on an 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper. With 2 light fold lines vertical and horizontal through the center. The flyer states: "The Berkeley City Council just voted 5 to 3 to let people have Telegraph Avenue tomorrow from noon to 10 P.M.! Plans will be made at tonight's meeting for rallies bands etc. Grateful Dead Mother Earth Mad River The Phoenix have agreed. "This victory is an important step for all the people of Berkeley. But this is only a step. We must continue the fight for: - amnesty for weekend arrestees - permanent free speech and assembly - regular closing of Telegraph to cars - investigation of police brutality and a referendum for community control of police unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 012335Bridgewater CT: Daniel Berkeley Bianchi/ Stinehour Press 1993. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. As new copy #41 of 200 copies in fitted clear acetate wrapper and in shrinkwrap before we opened it to confirm all four tipped-in items including the sample pigskin were present and they are. Signed by author Bianchi on the colophon. Daniel Berkeley Bianchi/ Stinehour Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 9052Cambridge Harvard University Press 1934. Together "WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS 1893-1933" by Julian Pearce Smith. First edition. One of 500 copies. Very good condition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1934 unknown books
