1930rif. 27270Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. First Edition. Octavio; publisher's black cloth boards red-lettered spine and cover with logo in pictorial dust jacket. 321pp. Light wear to cover but in Very Good condition tear in the top right corner of upper flyleaf. Light spotting on title page. Internally clean and sound. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with some rubbing and chips along margins and mid-spine panel. From the prolific author of The Searchers 1954 and The Unforgiven 1957 comes a unique entry in his extensive body of work. A tale of murder and mystery set in a tropic locale. Trapped and isolated six men and two women wait for the next monthly transport outbound. Tensions and jealousies flare threatening to tear everyone apart until one of their own is found strangled the head of an Indian doll lodged in his throat. Now the survivors have to figure out which among them is the murderer before they strike again! Cover designed by the famed early 20th century Ukrainian illustrator Vladimir Bobri Volodymyr Bobritskiy best known for his illustrations for the Nero Wolfe mystery Too Many Cooks 1938. Alan Brown Le May 1899-1964 is known far and wide as a prolific author of Westerns and Hollywood screenplays and occasionally as a film director and producer. Screenplays include Reap the Wind 1942 The Walking Hills 1949 Blackbeard the Pirate 1952 The Sundowners 1954 and many others. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1979rif. 147940N.p.: N.p. 1979. Eight vintage black and white photographs of Elvis Costello and the Attractions in concert during 1979 three with bassist Bruce Thomas visible in the background in support of the release of "Armed Forces." With the stamp of photographer Duana LeMay on the verso and one with LeMay's printed and addressed label and manuscript ink annotations regarding layout. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1930rif. 169459Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1930. First Edition. First Edition. An early mystery by novelist and screenwriter Alan Le May best remembered today for his classic Western novels "The Searchers" 1954 and "The Unforgiven" 1957 both of which served as the basis for film adaptations. Boards lightly rubbed else Near Fine in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with light even toning to the spine and a hint of rubbing to the heel. Doubleday Doran unknown books
1977rif. 147945N.p.: N.p. 1977. Three vintage black and white photographs of musician Iggy Pop performing onstage backed by David Bowie on keyboard at the Plateau Auditorium in Montreal in 1977. With the stamp of photographer Duana LeMay to the verso. After ending his affiliation with The Stooges in 1976 Pop moved to West Berlin with Bowie where the pair attempted to wean themselves off of drugs while collaborating on Pop's first solo album "The Idiot." Pop's first world tour in 1977 featured Bowie on keyboards and backing vocals and ran for 29 performances throughout England the US and Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1937rif. 37182New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. A worn copy with a tape repair to the binding and dampstaining to the leading edges of both the front and back boards internally the book is about fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and tears at the extremities. The jacket was almost certainly “married” to the book at some point although not during our stewardship. Why do we have it you ask Because this copy is very nicely Inscribed by the author to his parents: “To my dear Mother and Father – Alan.” Prospectors Bug Eye and Hank embark on a series of adventures. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1964rif. TB29915Anchorage Alaska: Ken Wray's Print Shop 1964. First Edition. First Printings Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front boards. Both are small quartos of 10 1/2 by 7 inches with a sewn and rounded and backed binding with a hollow back spine. Both volumes are in very good unclipped dust jacket no price with a 1/8" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area on volume 1 slight tanning to the spine areas of both and with light soiling at the fore edges of the panels on both books. Signed warmly inscribed and dated in 1965 by the author on the title page. This set is numbered 74 on the title page of volume 1 out of a first edition print run of only 1000 copies. Volume 1 contains 466 pages of text and is extensively illustrated from black and white photographs throughout. Volume 2 contains pages 467 to 1092 and illustrated as above. The two volumes contain over 2100 photographs and line drawings. The first edition of this title was limited to 1000 and according to the colophon of volume 2 it was almost sold out as of May 1966. An exceptionally clean and handsome set with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Ken Wray's Print Shop hardcover books
1975rif. 147954N.p.: N.p. 1975. Archive of six vintage black and white photographs of musician Lou Reed performing onstage-during what might be described as his "SG phase"-in 1975. With the stamp of photographer Duana LeMay to the verso. In 1975 Reed released one of his most critically acclaimed albums "Coney Island Baby" as well as one of his most critically panned "Metal Machine Music" although both are now considered underrated and visionary works in his oeuvre. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1964rif. 10449Anchorage Alaska: Ken Wray's Print Shop 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. The two volumes contain approximately 2100 photographs and line drawings. A very scarce and sought after pictorial history of events surrounding the Alaska Railroad. Created funded and operated by the federal government the volumes document the story of the railroad from preliminary surveys to the period of construction through the period of neglect through two world wars reconstruction modernization etc.through 1964. A handsome set. Minimal shelf/edge wear two corners gentled bumped else tight bright and unmarred; light shelf/edge wear small chip at top of Vol. 2 DJ else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering frontispiece. Small 4to. 1092pp Vol 2 ends at 466. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 691 of 1000. Both volumes signed by the author. Ken Wray's Print Shop hardcover books
rif. 147939N.p.: N.p. 1974. Collection of twelve vintage double weight photographs two vintage black and white photographs and two vintage borderless color photographs of David Bowie performing onstage as part of the Diamond Dogs Tour in 1974. With the stamp of photographer Duana LeMay on the verso. A concert tour in support of Bowie's 1974 album of the same name considered by some to be the musician's farewell to glam rock heavily influenced by George Orwell's post-apocalyptic novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." The tour was purportedly difficult in part due to the enormous cost and technical issues associated with the intricate set and props required for each show executed by legendary set designer Mark Ravitz and in part due to Bowie's growing dependence on cocaine. In its original incarnation the tour lasted two months before the baroque set was abandoned and the name changed to "The Soul Tour." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some faint soil. N.p. unknown books
