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1930rif. 013566New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 328pp.plus 6 pages of ads in rear. Beautiful First Edition with Scribners "A" and seal on the copyright page. This is the true first issue with a single date 1930 on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth with titles and borders in yellow on front board and spine. Square tight and clean throughout with no foxing or page toning. Some fairly minor wear to bottom edges. Spine ends a bit soft. A tiny blemish or two to cloth but still uncommonly well-preserved. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $2.00 has the very scarce wrap-around band which is split in two places but otherwise fine and very difficult to find in any condition. Light wear to top edge and rubbing to spine panel. Fresh and bright with no chipping creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy. Hubin p. 405. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1970rif. 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
1938rif. 004382New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1938. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Scribner's "A" on copyright page price of $2.00 front flap. Near Fine top edge dusty pastedowns age-toned nice period prior owner bookplate front pastedown completely hidden by front flap. In a Very Good dustjacket front and rear panels rubbed and with small chips at spine tips and flap folds. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1969rif. 104662Moscow: Progress Publishers 1969. Paperback. 239p. first printing trade paperback 7.5x5 inches spine sunned otherwise in very good condition. Progress Publishers paperback books
1974rif. 2281Toronto: Coach House 1974. First edition. . 93 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 500 copies. Toronto: Coach House unknown books
1864rif. 42241Boston 1864. Three printed broadside certifications completed in manuscript each about 8" x 13" and signed by Prize Commissioner John Lovell each attesting to his examination of three witnesses in the case of the CSS Georgia "a vessel taken as prize and brought into the port of Boston." Each witness is examined "upon the Standing Interrogatories established by this Court." Attached to each certification is a "true copy" of each witness's answers to those interrogatories signed and attested. Each document attached with a green ribbon at top margin. Very Good. The depositions include those of Frith B. Atkinson a crew member aboard the USS Niagara 6 pp.; E. McElmell who claims a share in the prize 3 pp.; and William Richardson from Liverpool who was aboard the prize "Georgia" when it was taken 10 pp. with folio manuscript document folded to 4pp each page 8-1/2" x 13-1/4" comprising testimony of a Liverpool Broker for the sale of ships. He discusses his examination of the Georgia "then lying in the Birkenhead docks." The CSS Georgia was originally built as a fast merchantman named 'Japan'. The Confederate States purchased it in 1863 at Dumbarton Scotland. The ship was outfitted with guns and commissioned as the CSS Georgia under the command of William Lewis Maury. She captured nine prizes but was sold in June 1864 to a Liverpool merchant in spite of protests from the United States Minister to Great Britain. The ship returned to sea in August 1864 and was captured by the US Navy frigate Niagara off Portugal. She was then sent to Boston and sold as a lawful prize. unknown books
1878rif. 29389New York 1878. One sheet folded to 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". 4pp. Printed on pages 1 and 3 only. One small archival repair to outer margin of first leaf. Very Good. Freight rates to several destinations are listed "payable in gold." The Circular is dates from New York May 29 1878. unknown books
1935rif. 17479New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. The first edition first printing of The Garden Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story signed by S.S. Van Dine. Octavo 2 332pp 10pp ads. Publisher's black cloth title stamped in gilt. The first printing with the "Scribner's A" on the copyright page. Faint wear to black cloth light scuff mark on front cover along fore-edge. Solid text block internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.00 on the front flap two closed tears with archival tissue reinforcement to verso notable wear along bottom edge of front panel wear at tips a very good example. This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by S.S. Dine. The Garden Murder Case was first published in 1935 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. The novel was serialized in American Magazine beginning in February 1935 just before its book release. A British edition was issued the same year by Cassell and Company in London. The book was the ninth in the Philo Vance series and was one of the later entries before the character's popularity declined. A film adaptation by MGM starring Edmund Lowe as Vance was released in 1936. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1905rif. 14919London: J.D. Potter 1905. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Inscribed to the captain of the S.S. Leviathan the first edition of Percy Davis' Requisite Tables for Seamen published in London in 1905. Octavo vi 178pp. Blue cloth rigid hardcover title stamped in white on front cover. Includes hundreds of logarithmic tables. Inscribed by the author: "Capt. Moore / SS Leviathan / with the author's compliments / 1931 / Percy L. Davis / Please compare Haversines within with Table 45 - Where did they get it" The SS Leviathan originally built as the SS Vaterland was a prominent ocean liner in the early 20th century. Launched in 1913 by the Hamburg America Line the Vaterland was the largest passenger ship in the world at the time of her completion. She began her maiden voyage in 1914 but her career as a German liner was short-lived due to the outbreak of World War I. Seized by the United States in 1917 she was renamed the SS Leviathan and served as a troopship during the war. After the war the Leviathan was refitted for passenger service and became a flagship for the United States Lines symbolizing American maritime prowess. She served the transatlantic route offering luxurious accommodations and epitomizing the grandeur of ocean travel in the Roaring Twenties. The SS Leviathan remained in service until 1934 marking an era of significant transitions in maritime history and technological advancements in shipbuilding. The recipient of this copy Captain Alfred M. Moore 1887-1967 served in both World Wars as a captain on several U.S. ships. He died in 1967 in Ellsworth Maine. J.D. Potter unknown books
1948rif. 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
1947rif. 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
1864rif. 2348953New York: D. Appleton and Company 1864. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1864 printing. Boards toned and lightly rubbed ink named and town on front endpaper dated Jan 1st 1865 small newspaper clipping mounted on opposite endpaper endpapers lightly foxed cube sketched in pencil on rear endpaper. 36 8 pp. A collection of hand-colored maps some of which are different from modern maps in interesting ways: e.g. a map of Canada labeling portions as Hudson Bay Company's Territory; a United States map labeling what is now Idaho Montana and Wyoming as Idaho only Oklahoma as 'Indian Territory' and showing no division between North and South Dakota. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1929rif. 2342168New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1929. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Photoplay edition. No jacket. Rear board soiled pencil underlining and marginalia pencil names on front endpapers. 1929 Hard Cover. viii 349 pp. After solving the Greene murders Philo Vance has taken a well-earned holiday in Switzerland. Returning to New York City he finds his old chum District Attorney Anthony Markham up against a bizarre series of murders inspired by children’s nursery rhymes. The first murder involving a beautiful young woman and a private archery range was apparently based on “Who Killed Cock Robin'”; it is followed by more hideous deaths referencing “Mother Goose.” But Philo Vance is not a man to be fobbed off with points to juvenilia. Markham and his colleagues may be worried that a certain Mr. H. Dumpty is riding for a great fall but Philo Vance suspects a connection to a rather more sophisticated writer. In this “classic detective novel . . . a splendid example of the form . . . the game is played full out and to splendid effect” Mystery File. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1957rif. 152104Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1957. Draft script for the Season 2 Episode 182 of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on June 21 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name to the title page in manuscript ink and his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. A New York executive vacationing in the country with his family undergoes a mid-life crisis deciding to stay at the vacation home and live a carefree life as a painter. Brown titled card wrappers dated June 1957. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Charles Allen. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered III-17. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1933rif. 143325New York: Random House 1933. marbled paper-covered boards over black gilt-stamped morocco slipcase. Jeffers Robinson. small 4to. marbled paper-covered boards over black gilt-stamped morocco slipcase. 262 pages. First edition limited to 487 numbered copies of which this is the large paper presentation issue one of only five such designated copies #15 signed by both Jeffers at the end of his introductory essay "Remembered Verses" on page xvi and Alberts on the front free endpaper See Broomfield Bi1c2. Marginally rubbed at the head and toe of the spine else a fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Alberts bibliography was long considered the standard work on Jeffers until Broomfields His Place for Story: Robinson Jeffers: A Descriptive Bibliography was published by Oak Knoll Press in 2015. This copy carries holograph ink and pencil notes and emendations to the various entries. Broomfields bibliography would ultimately correct many of the errors made by Alberts in this earlier work. Random House unknown books
1922rif. 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
1933rif. 140948928New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by S.S. Van Dine on the title page inscribed to the former owner. xii ii 311 1 6; ads pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in crimson with map endpapers. Near Fine. Quite sharp with light edge wear and a bit of faint soiling to cloth In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with minor creasing at spine ends light chipping at corners and perforated letters spelling out "UNCo. at front flap; possible review copy. A Philo Vance whodunit with a plot revolving around mythological dragons. The basis for the 1934 film starring Warren William and Margaret Lindsay; uncommon signed. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1886rif. 140948210New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1886. First Thus. Very Good. Second edition in the English language by a matter of days of the novel What is to Be Done First edition of this translation. ix 462 pp. Bound in publisher's olive cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with moderate rubbing and soiling to covers toning and dust-soiling to textblock edges and light foxing to edges endpapers and prelims. Previous owner label to front free endpaper overopened with stitches showing at p. 203. Line Ettlinger & Gladstone p. 16 Chernyshevskii 1. The Russian novel written by Chernyshevsky in prison and published in 1863 that changed the course of human history. The author's rejection of moderate reform and vision of a socialist utopia inspired generations of revolutionaries including Lenin Kropotkin Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman. Thomas Y. Crowell unknown books
1933rif. 140945797New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. First edition. First edition. xii ii 311 1 6 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red lettering map endpapers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket chipped at extremities slight crease along bottom of front panel unclipped $2.00. A Philo Vance mystery with a plot revolving around mythological dragons. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1928rif. 140946155New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first state with MCMXXVIII on title page and matching date on copyright page. xii 388pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Very Good with worming to front joint and right edge of board. Light staining to top edge; contents are slightly toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning and moderate wear to crown with fairly small chips; rear panel with one closed tear. A great copy of this whodunit murder mystery the third in the Philo Vance detective series. Adapted a year later into the 1929 film starring William Powell as the dandy detective. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1930rif. 180811003New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from signed S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii 328 5 versos only ads pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with slight crease to prelims edge rubbing in Good unclipped dust jacket with some chips tiny edge tears and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White rather than the popular William Powell as Philo Vance. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1970rif. 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
1977rif. 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
1970rif. 134169Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Set in Italy in 1944 where the entire population of a village has been massacred by the SS except for a group of young boys. Rock Hudson the only US paratrooper left alive after a failed mission to blow up a nearby dam decides to lead the boys on the mission instead. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. 143 leaves mimeograph duplication. Scrip bent at the foredge else pages about Fine in Very Good plus wrappers bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown books
1967rif. 132098Los Angeles: Max E. Youngstein 1967. Draft script for an unproduced film. The story of two of brothers a prospector and an oceanographer who drill for oil on a offshore drilling rig in the Caribbean. Screenwriter Schweitzer would go on to work predominantly in television including writing for "The Bold Ones" "The Senator" "Mod Squad" and "Baretta" among others. Lavender titled wrappers dated July 10 1967 with credits for screenwriter Schweitzer and producer Youngstein. Title page not present. 130 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Max E. Youngstein unknown books
