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1972réf. 6445San Francisco: Matson Navigation Lines 1972. Bifolium 30.5 cm x 45.5 cm printed in color. Nice condition. Near fine. Dinner menu from the S.S. Mariposa while it was enroute from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro on May 16 1972 that features nice cover art. The S.S. Mariposa was one of the four luxury liners in Matson's 'White Fleet' which were designed by William Francis Gibbs and also included SS Malolo SS Matsonia and SS Lurline. Mariposa was identical to Matsonia and very similar to Lurline. Matson Navigation Lines unknown books
1927réf. 572271New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Photoplay edition. Frontispiece and three stills from the film. Owner name spine with a ¾" abrasion affecting the title boards lightly worn about very good lacking the dust jacket. The second Philo Vance mystery a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Book features stills from the memorable film featuring William Powell as Vance and Louise Brooks as "The Canary. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1970réf. 61310NY: AMS Press 1970. First printing of this second revised edition originally published in 1900. xi 411 pp. Light toning to endpapers else near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket. NY: AMS Press hardcover books
1963réf. 17107New York: Frederick Ungar 1963. 8vo pp. xxii 2 266; very good copy in jacket. Frederick Ungar unknown books
1932réf. 367851Park Place New York: Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Softcover. Good. Magazine. Cover puzzle and interior illustrations by Frank R. Paul. Quarto. Illustrated perfectbound wrappers. About very good with toned pages moderate wear along the spine and at the extremities and bookstore stamp on front wrap. Contributors to this issue include Stanton A. Coblentz Paul Bolton S.S. Held Arthur G. Stangland Henrik Dahl Juve Francis Flagg George Henry Weiss P. Schuyler Miller and Otfrid von Hanstein. Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books
1977réf. 139788Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1977. Seven studio still photographs from the 1977 film. A young orphan raised by his dysfunctional hillbilly family befriends a goofy dragon in this live-action animated musical. It was the first animated Disney film in which none of the legendary "nine old men" were involved in the animation process. Ken Anderson created the beloved dragon loosely modeling him after historical Asian imagery. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Poor with a synopsis typed on the verso of three a stamp to the verso of three and light warping overall. Soiling red manuscript annotations and dampstaining throughout. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1970réf. 160267Beverly Hills CA: Produzioni Associate Delphos / United Artists 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. During World War II a group of American soldiers are dropped behind German lines to blow up a dam but all but one of them are caught and killed. The sole survivor is picked up by a group of kids who want in on sabotaging the Nazis. Set in Northern Italy shot on location in Gazzola Italy. 8.25 x 6.75 inches trimmed. Very Good plus with creasing along the top and right edges and some slight wear to the finish. Produzioni Associate Delphos / United Artists unknown books
1961réf. NF0772JESUS SAYS TO YOU McGraw Hill 1961 first edition fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. From the library of S.S. Kresge with his anno-tations throughout in pencil. McGraw Hill unknown books
1876réf. 45411New York: D. Appleton 1876. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Owner name some foxing else good plus. D. Appleton hardcover books
réf. 21294New York: Beadle & Adams Publishers Nd. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 28 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Dime New York Library. Vol. I. No.3. Illustrated. Clean fresh copy. 20th century facsimile. Beadle & Adams, Publishers unknown books
1945réf. 582640New York: Pocket Books Inc 1945. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Slightly cocked wrappers moderately worn spine lightly sunned very good. Pocket Books #305. Pocket Books, Inc unknown books
1970réf. 205802Ann Arbor: University of Missouri Columbia 1970. paperback. near fine. 220pp. 12mo paper wrappers spine slightly faded and creased a few small white specks on back cover top corner on front cover very slightly bumped. Ann Arbor MI: University of Missouri 1970. A near fine copy. A facsimile copy of a doctoral thesis. University of Missouri, Columbia unknown books
1968réf. 581731New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Spine ends lightly bumped with spine mildly cocked near fine without dust jacket as issued. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1959réf. 6435San Francisco: Matson Navigation Lines 1959. Bifolium 30.5 cm x 45.5 cm printed in full-color. Nice condition. Near fine. Dinner menu from the S.S. Matsonia while it was enroute from San Francisco to Honolulu on July 7 1959 that features nice cover art by Louis Macouillard. The S.S. Matsonia was one of the four luxury liners in Matson's 'White Fleet' which were designed by William Francis Gibbs and also included SS Malolo SS Mariposa and SS Lurline. Matsonia was identical to Mariposa and very similar to Lurline. Louis Macouillard 1913-1987 was an acclaimed watercolorist known for his marine and travel themed work. He was a graduate of the Art Students League of New York and the California Guild of Arts and Crafts. "You hear a kindly fuzzy haired Fijian roar with laughter as he plays a sharp game of cricket. And you find it hard to believe that his grandfather was a fierce barbarian. You see in Suva a modern capitol of British Oceania. Matson Navigation Lines unknown books
1953réf. 5248Honolulu: Matson Navigation Lines 1953. Bifolium 35 cm x 53 cm printed in full-color. Nice condition. Near fine. Dinner menu from the S.S. Lurline that features cover art by Eugene Savage. There were four ocean liners christened S.S. Lurline by Matson Lines these menus were for the fourth ship with that name. The S.S. Lurline was a luxury ocean liner that would take passengers from the American West Coast to Hawaii and Australia. The Hawaiian port was Honolulu where most passengers would disembark the ship and make a beeline for Matson's renowned Waikiki hotel and resort the Royal Hawaiian. Eugene Francis Savage 1883-1978 was a trained sculptor and artist who was primarily known for his large murals. Savage was commissioned by Matson Navigation Lines to paint nine large 4' x 8' Hawaiian themed murals that were intended to be displayed on Matson ocean liners. These murals were completed in 1940 but due to American involvement in World Ward II the ships were dedicated to the war effort and the murals were never installed. In 1948 the Murals were used as covers for the menus on the S.S. Lurline. "When Captain James Cook British Royal Navy on January 20 1778 first came upon the Sandwich Islands later named Hawaii he was at the height of his fame as a navigator and explorer. But to the islanders Captain Cook was far more than that. He was an incarnation of their god Lono come in a floating temple to visit them from the great beyond. At his first landing on the island of Kauai they fell prostrate along the path and worshipped him as a deity. Matson Navigation Lines unknown books
1929réf. 361380New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprinted March 1929. First edition printed February 1929. Owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown along with small bookstore label edges bumped light stains on scratches to the black cloth boards else very good lacking the dustwrapper. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1928réf. 538850New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition second issue. Two faint stains on front board else near fine lacking the dust jacket. The third Philo Vance novel filmed in 1929 by Frank Tuttle with William Powell as Vance Eugene Pallette as Inspector Heath and Jean Arthur as Ada Greene. Two sisters shot mysteriously in the night. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1930réf. 539922New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Heavy chipping along the joints of both boards owner label on front pastedown with owner blindstamp on title page tiny hole in one leaf not affecting text good only in a rubbed and soiled very good dust jacket with an interior dampstain on the spine and several interior tape repairs. Basis for the 1936 British film with Wilfred Hyde-White playing detective Philo Vance and with a script by Selwyn Jepson. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
réf. 9413Boston: 1868. 6th edn. 8vo Pp. 141. Bookplate. VG copy. Interesting drama of the new woman. 1868 unknown books
1968réf. 279183New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Hardcover. Fine. First of the reprint edition. Fine without dust jacket as issued. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1947réf. 2353759New York: Lear Publishers 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Lacks jacket. Spine head exposed owner bookplate on front endpaper. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1947 Hard Cover. 136 pp. Black cloth gilt titles. Suppressed chapters from Dostoevsky's classic novel The Possessed sometimes also translated as The Devils or Demons. This edition is translated into English by Virginia Woolf and S.S. Koteliansky. The publisher's note explains that these chapters were suppressed by mutual consent between the author and publisher and that two versions of the chapters exist in Russian the more recent of the two being the version translated here. Also includes a psychoanalytic study of the author by Sigmund Freud. The Possessed is a political novel of Imperial Russia in the late 19th century criticizing liberal idealists as well as the conservative establishment's reaction to them and portraying utopian and positivist ideas as unrealistic. Includes: Publisher's Note; New MSS. of F.M. Dostoevsky: Note by the Russian Government; Stavrogin's Confession; Dostoevsky and Parricide; Introduction to the Unpublished Chapter of The Possessed by V. Komarovich. Lear Publishers hardcover books
1922réf. 5361London: William Heinemann 1922. Edition limited to 750 copies of which this is #510. Cloth. Very Good. 23 cm; 118 pages. Title page with blue printer's ornaments. Extra title page in facsimile of Katherine Mansfield's handwriting. Bound in original black cloth somewhat discolored at edges. Lacks dust jacket. Deckled fore-edge a bit toned. Slight abrasion between pages 6 and 7 else without blemish. The authorized English translation. William Heinemann hardcover books
1857réf. 621341Boston: Oliver Ditson 1857. Softcover. Good. Sheet music. Folio. Lyrics in English and Italian. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains attached to the bifolium dampstaining along the bottom half of the front cover lightly affecting throughout light offsetting throughout bifolium separating along the fold and a gift inscription in pencil on the front cover complete but good only. For voice and piano. Plate number 18246. This arrangement and adaptation by S.S. Wesley is unrecorded by OCLC and appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Oliver Ditson unknown books
1872réf. 46032London: Trübner & Co 1872. 8vo pp. viii 69 1 ads; bookseller's ticket on front paste down early bkseller description affixed to upper corner of half title front hinge weak and front free endpaper is almost loose endpapers very brittle lightly toned otherwise very good in original blue cloth with rules stamped in blind and gilt-lettered spine. Trübner & Co unknown books
1948réf. 004549Liguori MO: The Liguorian Pamphlet Office 1948. Very good. First edition in book form initially published in the Liguorian Magazine; 6 1/4 x 3 1/4; pp. 1-10; stapled orange wraps printed in black; faint spot to lower margin of wraps else minor wear; in very good or better condition. Fr. Donald F. Miller C.Ss.R. 1903 - was a Redemptorist priest prolific Catholic writer philosopher editor of the Liguorian Magazine and founder of Liguori Publications. The current booklet addressed the Catholic understanding of the virtue of chastity purity offering step-by-step advice for overcoming sexual temptations - by prayer frequent reception of the Sacraments Confession and the Eucharist custody of the senses training in self-denial avoiding occasions sins offered through the eyes such as movies books and shows; sins offered through touch such as dancing etc. The Liguorian Pamphlet Office paperback books