1988Best.-Nr. 84078NY:: Garland Publishing. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. 0824051408 . Complete in two volumes. First edition thus. Both volumes are fine in tan cloth. No dust jackets as issued. ; 1152 pages . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. 429614New York: Franklin Watts 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Preliminary pages stuck together at top edge near the gutter from a binding error else fine in a near fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Author's first novel set in Rome. Franklin Watts hardcover books
2014Best.-Nr. RMOOWHI00fpSky Books 2014. Very Good. Moon Peter. The White Bat: The Alchemy of Writing. New York: Sky Books 2014. 222pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Sky Books paperback books
1977Best.-Nr. 317854Berkeley: Garlic Press 1977. Newspaper. 8p. illustrations wraps. 17.5 x 11.5 in. One vertical and one horizontal fold. Evenly toned commensurate with age. Faint foxing at the extremities. Very Good. First number of the underground newspaper. With faux news announcements Freud lectures at UC Berkeley satirical articles a self-help style guide to giving up self-improvement and fictitious blurbs. Includes two illustrations and one short story by children. The stories listed in the cover are indeed not included in the issue. Garlic Press unknown books
2008Best.-Nr. 212253Chicago IL: Bad Press Books 2008. First edition and first printing. Features texts by Maia M. Rigas Perra Loca and Hernandez de Luna. A fascinating monograph that examines at American politics and culture through the prism of the postal system. Hernandez de Luna offers a biting look by creating stamps and likely envelopes and mailing them. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in illustrated boards with a gatefold opening and in a fine black cloth slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Hernandez de Luna on the verso of the front board. Also includes a signed note by Hernandez de Luna to art collector Cleve Carney thanking him for his support that has been inserted via photo corners to the rear of the book. Carney is the first person thanked in the printed acknowledgements of the book. An attractive production with a terrific provenance. Bad Press Books unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 69104Boston: Shambhala 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 510pp. Quarto 31.5cm. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. In an illustrated dust jacket and an illustrated slipcase. There are a few small scratches to the slipcase. With 120 full-page color photographs of ancient and modern art and artifacts of the sacred traditions of the world. All images are sourced at the ARAS which housed more than 13000 pictures and scholarly materials at the time of this publication. Shambhala hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 208173Tucson AZ: Nazraeli Press 1998. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Features text by Taro Amano and Shino Kuraishi. Includes 60 color images. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Boo Moon on the half title page. Nazraeli Press unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 294210New York: St. Marks Poetry Project 1970. Magazine. 110p. 8.5x14 inch mimeographed sheets side-stapled into covers with illustration and title on front limited to 500 copies with offset-printed cover. Heavy toning and wear to covers rusty staples else good. This was St. Marks Poetry Project's magazine part of the Mimeo Revolution. Anne Waldman became director of the project in 1968 and edited most of the issues thereafter. St. Marks Poetry Project unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 618002New York: The Crisis Publishing Co. Inc 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. Vol. 76 No. 2 Whole Number 660. Cover portrait of Frederick Douglass by Charles Alston. Slim octavo. 3 58-97 5 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Address label of Anna Butler see below on the lower wrap causing just a bit of rippling front cover with a bit of faint staining a near fine copy. Prints "The Negro as Fighting Man" by Michael S. Davidson "Negro History or Mythology" by Roy Wilkins "That Other Man" by playwright Loften Mitchell "Teach Me Harlem a Poem" by Lee Bennett Hopkins "Alston: American Artist" by Warren Marr II" and a six-page history of the NAACP that month being its sixtieth anniversary among other material. The final five pages print photographs of NAACP members honored with Life Memberships. The recipient of this copy is undoubtedly Atlantic City schoolteacher Anna Land Butler an African-American woman who published at least two books of poetry one of which we handled the magazine's response letter she submitted to The Crisis. An interesting issue with a nice association. The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc unknown books
Best.-Nr. 736Paris/Toyko. Paperback. Very Good. 1st Japanese ed. Stiff wraps with tipped-on ssepia illus. on cover. 81 sepia photo illus. paperback books
2006Best.-Nr. 153261Seoul Korea: The Amore Museum 2006. Softcover. VG Ouitermost edges of pages are tanning lightly otherwise clean. 2 vols. Black wraps with sage or lilac spine; French flaps 391 total pp. many color illus. Text is in English. A two-volume set outlining the collections of this Korean Museum. The first volume consists of 183 pieces that are traditionally considered accoutrements for Korean women. The second presents 151 pieces associated with the culture of brewing serving and drinking tea. Many full-color close-ups of the articles make this set a lot of fun for browsing. The Amore Museum paperback books
1981Best.-Nr. 147193N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for the 1981 Spanish-American film here under the working title "Bloody Mary." Laid in with the script is a typed letter from casting agent Paul Kohner to producer John R. Pepper returning the script. Text in English. A disquieting satire of Catholicism in the late 20th century from noted Spanish director Bigas Luna wherein a Texan televangelist in need of a new miracle guest for his show travels to Italy to bring back a woman who suffers from stigmata-a rare medical condition which causes the hands and feet to bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. Set in Italy and Austin Texas shot on location in Barcelona Texas and Los Angeles. White non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 19 with credits for director Bigas Luna. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rust on the front wrapper and first leaf likely from a staple with a white Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 158415New York: American International Pictures AIP 1974. Collection of 10 vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film housed in their original envelope stamped "Savage Sisters / Story in Ten / 10 Stills" with the original two-page press release of descriptions for all ten photographs. A "women in prison" exploitation film which eschews sex for revolutionary politics and violence. A corrupt despot of a banana republic plans to flee with a million dollars until a cop and her boyfriend break two female revolutionaries out of prison to get the cash. Shot on location in the Philippines. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 35642Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Very Good . Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Stated First Edition; published in a run of 5000. Folio 31cm; 152pp. Without dust jacket as issued. Publisher's illustrated boards; cream endsheets with publisher's blindstamp. Color illustrations throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners. Binding sound. Textblock endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by both authors at ffep. Collection of comical postage stamps designed by the same-named artist-publisher pair. Many stamps were used to successfully transmit mail to the delight of their designers and dismay of the US Postal Service. Bad Press Books unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 54966Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1932. Near fine in very good jacket. First edition in the rare original dust jacket chronicling the adventures of a Native girl in the southwest. Grace and Carl Moon both white wrote and illustrated a number of picture books about Native Americans particularly about the Pueblo and Navajo peoples. Carl Moon was also a noted photographer of Native Americans and was commissioned by the Fred Harvey Company in 1907 to photographically document the Native communities of the southwest. Original cloth-backed color pictorial paper boards. In original unclipped $2.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrated endpapers. Illustrated in color by Carl Moon. 59 1 pages. Page numbers added in pencil to top corners. Jacket with short closed tear to front panel rubbing to front joint and a few other spots. Leaves a bit toned at margins. Firm and bright. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 30431Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good. c.1929. First Edition. Hardcover. lacking the original dust jacket but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing modest shelfwear age-toning to edges of text block one-time owner's name printed neatly on front endpaper; contemporary newspaper clipping about the author's death laid in at the rear of the book SIGNED on the tipped-in limitation page by the author this being copy no. 271 of the limited/numbered edition. The author's first and only novel a tale set in Scotland Moon's birthplace about the travails of a girl born under the cloud of uncertain patrimony was the source for the hit 1930 film MIN AND BILL although the focus of the movie was shifted to the protagonist's grandmother played by Marie Dressler. The adaptation was co-written by one of M-G-M's top screenwriters Frances Marion who was a close friend of Moon's and to whom the novel is dedicated. Moon herself did some screenwriting in the 1920s at Famous Players-Lasky and M-G-M although the description of her on her Wikipedia page as "one of the earliest and most successful female screenwriters" seems a bit of an embellishment. The book was a critical sucess and a best-seller but Moon unfortunately didn't live to also experience the success of the movie: she died of tuberculosis in May 1930 about six months before its release. Many years later it was revealed to Richard de Mille the son of William C. de Mille director Cecil's older brother that Moon was his birth mother the product of her affair with his father; he subsequently wrote a book about it entitled "My Secret Mother Lorna Moon." NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. Signed by Author . The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 188141949. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother 1949 brought Moon's 1943 novel of a Black Florida family's migration to Harlem into the postwar mass-market paperback trade centering the racial discrimination Ben encounters after moving North. The novel follows Ben from Florida to Harlem where expectations of greater freedom confront housing employment and interpersonal racism; his later military service returns him to the segregated South. Published originally during World War II the narrative placed these experiences within the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities and the persistence of racial discrimination beyond the Jim Crow South. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother. New York City: Bantam Books November 1949. Bantam edition. First paperback printing. 246 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. 8vo. No dust jacket as issued. The front wrapper depicts Ben and his fiancée Birdie on a Harlem street confronted by a white man clutching papers with buildings and street activity visible behind them. Red blue and gold dominate the illustration. Across the upper margin appears the publisher's line "He came up North for freedom and got---Harlem!" The rear wrapper announces "Born the Wrong Color" in red lettering and summarizes Ben's experiences of racial prejudice. The cover's language and confrontation scene recast Moon's novel for the postwar paperback market by emphasizing racial conflict as its principal selling point. First published by Doubleday Doran in 1943 The Darker Brother follows Ben his mother and sister from Florida to Harlem and traces the consequences of racial violence and discrimination as Ben searches for work plans a future with Birdie and enters military service. Contemporary reviews recognized race relations as the novel's central subject while Moon continued addressing racial discrimination in A Primer for White Folks 1945 and The High Cost of Prejudice 1947. The 1949 Bantam edition is particularly revealing for the history of African American representation in popular publishing: its wrapper converts a novel about Black migration and racism into the visual and promotional vocabulary of the mid-century paperback juxtaposing the promise of northern freedom with the publisher's stark Harlem street scene. Minor creasing to the lower right corner of the front wrapper and minor chipping to the spine neither affecting text or illustration; internally clean and overall very good condition. unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 167739Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 "surrealist documentary" rock film showing Frank Zappa. In 1970 Zappa completely re-formed the Mothers of Invention to include drummer Aynsley Dunber jazz keyboardist George Duke and three members of The Turtles. Zappa began to write a film for the new lineup and recorded "Chunga's Revenge" 1970 with them as a "preview." Subsequently Zappa met conductor Zubin Mehta and worked with him to produce a concert in May 1970 wherein the Los Angeles Philharmonic was augmented by the Mothers or vice versa as you like and referred to this as "the second preview." The film itself shot in a week at Pinewood Studios outside London was a tripped-out documentary about life as a musician on the road and Zappa characteristically chose an eclectic group of celebrities to join the proceedings including Theodore Bikel Ringo Starr and Keith Moon. The resulting soundtrack is a matter of debate among Zappa enthusiasts but is notable for its orchestral finale "Strictly Genteel" a touchstone for the variety of classical music experimentations Zappa would subsequently pursue. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 30892London: Hatchard & Co 1863. First edition 8vo pp. 27 1; bound with: Moon A Second Defence of the Queen's English. London: Hatchard & Co. 1863; pp. 38; bound with: Opinions of the Press for both of the foregoing 1 leaf each; bound with: Just published . Poems: by G Washington Moon pp. 4 ostensibly an advertisement but including two poems one entitled "Deeds not Words." Later wrappers; very good. Apt criticism of the Dean's infamous essay which Moon found to be riddled with structural and grammatical inaccuracies. This pamphlet had no small influence was later expanded with A Second Defense. Hatchard & Co unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 151434Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1930. Two vintage oversize reference photographs from the 1930 film one showing actors Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler and one showing Dressler alone. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Lorna Moon's 1929 novel. A beleaguered dockside innkeeper Dressler tries to protect and raise her young adopted daughter while loving and frequently fighting with an alcoholic fisherman Beery who resides at the inn. A wildly successful sharp drama co-written by two successful female screenwriters at the height of their careers Frances Marion and Marion Jackson. 10 x 13 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned and slightly wavy. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1992Best.-Nr. 169579Neuilly-sur-Seine: Take Five 1992. Vintage press kit for the 1992 French film. Text in French. After his release from a mental hospital a man kidnaps his young daughter who barely knows him and goes on the run. Noted photographer Sarah Moon's directorial debut. Shot on location in Paris and Brussels. 8.5 x 12 inches. 20 pages printed on rectos and versos. Near Fine with a black report folder binding. Take Five unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 12488Matrix Robert Delpire 1981. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY SARAH MOON on the half-title. A pristine copy to boot of the 1981 stated 1st American edition. Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Oblong quarto Moon's evocative sensual photographs thruout. Matrix (Robert Delpire) unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 9030952Minneapolis: Weinstein Gallery 2000. 1st. Softcover. Fine. Signed in ink by author. One of 200 hundred numbered copies from a total edition of 250. Photographs by Moon text by Suschitzky. Bound in publisher's original gray paper boards with spine and cover stamped in black blind stamped with ribbing. Comes in gray board slipcase with one side stamped in black. Illustrated with gorgeous black and white photographic prints. 9 1/2 x 7 inches. 32 pages. Weinstein Gallery paperback books
1968Best.-Nr. 161710N.p.: Cambist Films 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 US English language release of the 1962 Argentinian film. One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. Mexican prostitute Cora reminisces on her life and how she got to where she is. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Argentina. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cambist Films unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 626571Cobleskill NY: Anna Kaufman Moon 2002. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Oblong quarto. 120pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Foxing on front cover and spine very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Graham Hodges see pg. 89 - Abbie Hoffman Anna Kaufman Moon". Recipient Hodges is the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects particularly the African-American experience. A self-published photography book of candid shots of people and places around New York City. Moon's photographs have appeared in Abbie Hoffman's book Steal This Book along with The New York Times Life Magazine Newsweek posters and many other publications. Hoffman is included in this collection as well as a photo of James Earl Jones from 1965. Scarce. OCLC lists 6 copies. Anna Kaufman Moon unknown books
