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1938ref. 144257New York: W.W. Norton and Company 1938. Hardcover. A. Parker's Books Offering antique books vintage books and rare books for over 43 years View our other listings: A.Parker's Books FIRST PRINTING FIRST EDITION Whale Ships and Whaling Albert Cook Church New York: W.W. Norton and Company 1938 8vo. 179 pp. Limited edition106/112 cc. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and embellishment lacking blue paper slipcase. Sepia 8x10 photograph of the ship "Charles H. Morgan" encased in glassine. Signed by Church on the limitation page. Numerous black and white photographs throughout. Light wear to covers; glue residue and bleed from former bookplate to endpapers; gift inscription and previous owner's name in ink to half-title page; light toning to edges; photograph is waved and somewhat toned. PH C2 V. W.W. Norton and Company hardcover books
1967ref. 164551N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless satin finish oversize reference photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A comic retelling of the Faust legend set in Swinging London in which an unhappy man working as a short order cook makes a deal with the devil in exchange for seven wishes and is given advice along the way by the Seven Deadly Sins. Basis for the 2000 American remake starring Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley. Shot on location in England. 12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1942ref. 166000New York: Coward McCann 1942. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of short stories by "the third Hitchcock" Whitfield Cook originally published in "Redbook" magazine. Rare with or without dust jacket. "Violet" was adapted for Broadway two years later after this book's publication starring Hitchcock's 16-year-old daughter Patricia who strongly resembles the girl on the front panel of the jacket with Alfred in the audience on opening night. Hitchcock's wife Alma also helped with the play's final edits and the experience helped bolster a working relationship between the Hitchcocks and Cook who would go on to work together on the screenplays for "Stage Fright" 1950 and "Strangers on a Train" 1951. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Contemporary owner stamp on the front pastedown. Jacket has a two-inch closed tear on the heel. Coward McCann unknown books
1986ref. 147040N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Cuban Alejo Carpentier's 1953 novel wherein a composer and his mistress leave New York City in pursuit of a land untouched by civilization. Set in New York City and South America. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1986 with credits for screenwriters Carlos Diegues and Warren Cook and novelist Alejo Carpentier. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 160345London: Associated British-Pathe / PRC Pictures 1948. Vintage handbill or possibly a loose leaf insert for the 1948 film noir. With Associated British Pathe logo on the recto. Based on the 1948 novel by Don Martin. A man and his wife decide to commit insurance fraud so they can live a life of luxury. He fakes his death and waits for his wife until he realizes she is running away with her lover. Set in Washington DC. 8.25 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing along the left edge and the bottom of the right edge and at the corners. Also one very small tear at the top middle left edge. Grant US. Lyons US. Selby US. Spicer US. Associated British-Pathe / PRC Pictures unknown books
1860ref. 1701081860. COOK G.D. & Co. Illustrated Catalog of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser New Haven Ct. iv 226 pp. Oblong 8vo 170 x 245 mm. bound in original embossed brown cloth rebacked in tan calf spine gilt. New York: Baker & Godwin 1860. This illustrated catalog is a wonderful study of mid-nineteenth century American commerce. G. & D. Cook established in 1794 produced this catalog not only to showcase their extensive line of carriages but also to introduce the numerous commercial enterprises in and around New Haven Connecticut. Ninety-seven of the 145 carriages found in the descriptive price list are illustrated. Those in search of the "Alabama Six Seat" "World's Fair Buggy" "Eureka Jump Seat" "The Gem" or "Pride of the South" would have to look no further than this catalog. In addition to carriages the catalog also features a wide range of products from Connecticut and New York so numerous that an alphabetical index by product has been included. Among the wide variety of goods offered one can find advertisements for artificial heat guano mowing machines time indicators area hotels and firearms. Each advertisement is wonderfully illustrated in the greatest detail. All advertisements are black and white engravings with the exception of the tinted plate advertisement for architect Henry Austin. To further advertise the city and its commerce an essay has been included entitled: "New Haven in 1860. A Few Notes by a Business Man Who Loves the Town." The essay is essentially a commercial guide for the city expounding on the growing industry and population and includes a map of New Haven and its surrounding areas. A very bright fresh copy binding restored and inscribed by Cook. ROMAINE p. 80. hardcover books
1964ref. 154557N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize design illustration for an embroidered uniform patch worn by Burger Chef employees circa 1964. Sample patch affixed to the top left corner. The first Burger Chef restaurant was opened by Frank and Donald Thomas in Indianapolis in 1957. The chain quickly spread across the United States with 335 locations across the country in 1964. The restaurant gained popularity in the early 1970s for the Funburger and the Funmeal which included packaging decorated with stories about the company mascot Burger Chef his sidekick Jeff and their illustrated friends-predating the McDonald's Happy Meal by a number of years. Patch measuring 4 x 5 inches affixed to poster measuring 27.5 x 31 inches. About Near Fine with light age-toning and pinholes to the corners. Tennyson pp. 68-69 80. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 151847Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1968. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer. A wealthy playboy tries to break up his best friend's extramarital relationship but mistakenly believes his friend's young employee is the other woman. Set in New York. 8 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1935ref. 155213Portland OR: N.p. 1935. Vintage leatherbound photograph album containing 30 photographs of Franz Bakery of Portland Oregon circa 1935. Photographs stamped by two local photography studios Columbia Commercial Studio and Angelus Commercial Studio on the versos. A comprehensive document of the daily operations of Franz Bakery with many shots of both the bakery's exterior with the company's then-slogan "The Home of Butter-Nut-'The Bread Supreme'" proudly displayed and interior. The archive captures nearly every possible view of the industrial operation including employee offices and canteen storerooms the company's fleet of Chevrolet delivery trucks and garage and of course the bakery itself. Franz Bakery is still in operation today and is currently one of the largest bread and pastry manufacturers in the northwest United States. Photographs approximately 10 x 8 inches housed in an album measuring 11.5 x 8 inches. Album and contents generally Near Fine with the occasional hint of fading. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 148946New York: The Producers Theatre 1954. Archive of 14 vintage photographs from the 1954 play. Eleven photographs with stamps identifying the play two photographs with the stamp of photographer Gene Cook and two photographs with the stamp of photographer Louis Melacon on the verso. Included is an announcement of the premiere and an invitation to the play both on Broadway producer and publicist Barry Hyams letterhead the latter signed by Hyams in manuscript ink as well as a production synopsis of the play listing cast and crew theatre and opening and closing dates. Featured in the photographs are Barbara Baxley and Janice Rule both notable actresses of the 20th century American theatre. A modern take on the biblical story of Noah "The Flowering Peach" premiered at the Belasco Theatre on December 28 1954 for a run of 135 performances closing on April 23 1955 and featured stars of Yiddish theater Menasha Skulnik and Berta Gersten. Remade as the Broadway musical "Two by Two" in 1970 by Richard Rodgers Martin Carnin and Peter Stone starring Danny Kaye. An unusual play for social realist Clifford Odets a humorous modern take on the Biblical story of Noah. The last original play produced by the playwright. 8.25 x 10 inches. Some light rippling one with layout annotations in manuscript wax pencil else Near Fine. Announcement and invitation on Barry Hyams letterhead 8.5 x 11 inches. Horizontal creases to both else Near Fine. Synopsis 8.5 x 11 inches. Good to Very Good. The Producers Theatre unknown books
1979ref. 131644Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Collection of 10 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1979 film. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay Best Actor and Best Actress. While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 131669Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Collection of 6 vintage color double weight color still photographs from the 1979 film. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay Best Actor and Best Actress. While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 131877London: Souvenir Press 1963. First UK Edition. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly faded nicking to the edges and light soil. Souvenir Press unknown books
2005ref. 124728New York: HarperCollins Harper Collins 2005. First HarperCollins Edition. Fine and unread in illustrated boards and a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of this book about a boy who goes fishing. HarperCollins [Harper Collins] unknown books
1994ref. 46570New York: Dia Center for the Arts 1994. First edition. Fine. First printing of this attractive book that chronicles Beuys's massive autobiographical work ARENA composed of 100 panels of mounted black-and-white photos. Book from an exhibition twice mounted; once in Rome in 1973 and another at The Dia Foundation in 1992. 12'' x 8.75''. Original color pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 294 pages. A hint of edgewear. Else tight and bright. Dia Center for the Arts unknown books
1917ref. 73216Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. 8vo pp. 95 1; folding frontispiece map and 12 plates from photographs; original gray printed wrappers; short streak on upper wrapper else very good sound and clean. Contains among chapters on geography & topography ethnology climate discovery rebellions towns & villages arts & crafts government etc. an article on the "Capture of Guam by the Naval Forces of the United States: June 21 1898; and "Pronunciation of letters in Chamorro. Government Printing Office unknown books
1778ref. 378407London: J. Johnson 1778. First edition. 2 folding maps 2 engraved plates. xviii 408pp. 8vo. Contemporary smooth tan calf red morocco lettering piece front joint starting spine a bit abraded worn at extremities. First edition. 2 folding maps 2 engraved plates. xviii 408pp. 8vo. New Discoveries is an early compendium of largely Pacific exploration drawn from Cook Parkinson Forster as well as Byron Wallis Carteret Phipps Bougainville and others. "Containing separated accounts of the various islands including Juan Fernandez Easter Island the Marquesas the Tuamoto Archipelago Tahiti the Tonga Islands the New Hebrides New Caledonia New Zealand Australia and New Guinea" Hill. Beddie 9; Hill 1219; Sabin 52591 J. Johnson unknown books
1993ref. 217035New York: Matthew Marks Gallery 1993. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran December 11 1993 through January 29 1994. Featuers an essay by Angus Cook and the text of Leigh Bowery's interview of Freud. Includes numerous illustrations. A near fine copy in French style wrappers with a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper and with laid in folded gallery invitation. Matthew Marks Gallery unknown books
1796ref. 373756Philadelphia: W. Woodward for B. Johnson Market Street 1796. vii 8-252 pp. 18mo. Contemporary tree calf joints cracked covers bowed loss to top of spine worn. vii 8-252 pp. 18mo. An uncommon early American abridgment of Cook's third and final voyage. ESTC records five holdings of this Philadelphia edition. Two issues of another abridgement of the same title but different entirely collation from the present were published the same year in New York see Evans 30275 and Bristol B9517; while the New York work included an engraved frontispiece no plates were issued for the present Philadelphia imprint. ESTC W37314; Evans 30276; Forbes 257. Not in Beddie W. Woodward for B. Johnson, Market Street unknown books
1952ref. 217204New York: Spiral Press 1952. First edition. Small softcover. A poem done for Frost's Christmas greeting for 1952. One of only 175 Marguerite & Fred Melcher issue. Includes the title poem by Frost along with illustrations by Howard Cook. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Crane B24. Spiral Press unknown books
1900ref. 217208Philadelphia PA: Henry T. Coates & Co 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Three volume set with a total of 1616 pages. Features Cook's description of his long travels throughout America. Includes 72 photogravures. All three books are near fine copies in decorated cloth boards with top edge gilt and with some slight foxing and minor wear and in near fine printed cloth dust jackets that have some light wear. A lovely set and somewhat uncommon in the dust jackets. Henry T. Coates & Co unknown books
1977ref. 214048New York & Philadelphia PA: Ruth Cook / Falcon Press 1977. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A collection of twenty black and white images by Cook paired with quotations by Henry David Thoreau. A very good copy in cloth boards with some slight to the front hinge and some faint evidence of moisture to the front free endpaper and in a very good dust jacket with some faint staining to the rear panel. Signed and warmly inscribed by Cook to fellow photographer Barbara Crane on the front free endpaper. An interesting association copy. Ruth Cook / Falcon Press unknown books
1953ref. 232991953. Postwar manufacturing expansion and Clearwater Florida's food industry photo archive by George Fulmer documenting the manufacturing shipment retail display and commercial service of American food in 1953. Featured in this photo archive is Snow Crop's industrial frozen food operation and a mid-century supermarket and cafeteria economy that reshaped the American diet after World War II. Snow Crop's founders sold the brand to Clinton Foods after the 1946 frozen food market collapse and Clinton used the division to expand into groves packing plants and frozen food contracts as frozen foods moved from a luxury category toward mass market circulation in the late 1940s. The added Kwik Chek and Morrison's Cafeteria assignments place that industrial story inside Clearwater's consumer facing food landscape: retail histories identify Clearwater as the location of the first Kwik Chek store in 1952 while Morrison Cafeterias entered the 1950s as a Southern cafeteria company with 17 dining rooms and began expanding into institutional food service by 1951 to 1953. This archive shows how the food economy expanded to support rapid population growth in the post war Sun Belt expansion era. This photographer's work is featured in Clearwater Historical Society's holding of tens of thousands of his negatives cataloged and preserved as a record of the city's civic and commercial life. Photo archive of 70 items contained in 7 original studio envelopes including 30 silver gelatin photographs and 40 large format negatives comprised of some original and duplicate images between the negatives and photographs. Ranging from 3" x 4" to 4" x 5". Clearwater Florida 1953. George Fulmer's inscribed envelope notations include "Clinton Foods" "Evaporator Load" "Evaporator Part" and "Freight Loading" and dates including September 16 1953 and October 1 1953. "Kwik Chek" a notation appearing to read "P. & J. Dept." "Morrison's Cafeteria" and "324 Park St." with dates including September 16 1953 and October 1 1953. Industrial scenes move from plant exteriors with broad rooflines and service yards to shop floors holding polished metal ducting cylindrical components and a massive honeycomb ended evaporator vessel large enough to dwarf nearby workers. Road transport scenes carry the finished unit on a flatbed trailer beside a semi tractor its side lettered "Another Clinton Evaporator Snow Crop." The new Kwik Chek views look down a high supermarket aisle filled with stacked boxed and canned goods shelf price tags aisle marker "13" cartons of All detergent sale placards and a produce wall labeled "GARDEN FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES." The Morrison's Cafeteria interiors show an empty dining room arranged with square and round tables bentwood chairs checkered flooring partitions curtained windows coat stands suspended light fixtures and mural panels across the upper walls of a large cafeteria hall. By the early 1950s frozen food could circulate at national scale because processors packagers household freezer makers and mechanically refrigerated carriers were beginning to meet the zero degree storage standards required for frozen products. Supermarket design was changing at the same time: refrigeration let shoppers buy more food per trip Sylvan Goldman's grocery carts helped stores increase carrying capacity in 1937 and Orla Watson's telescoping cart developed in 1946 and first used in 1947 conserved sales floor and storage space for self service retailers. Clearwater's own postwar growth gives the archive a local setting beyond the factory gate with local historical sources identifying 1957 as the year the city was known as the fastest growing city in America. Light handling wear to prints and negatives; manuscript envelopes toned and creased; photographs generally clean and strong. Overall in very good condition. The archive now carries Clearwater's postwar food economy from plant floor and flatbed shipment to grocery aisle and cafeteria dining room giving the Clinton Foods material a fuller commercial setting within Sun Belt industrial growth. unknown books
1984ref. 210145London: Anthony d'Offay 1984. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 11 through October 12 1984. Features a long essay by Richard Cook. Includes 37 illustration with 16 in color and a checklist. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear and laid in price list and addendum slip. Anthony d'Offay unknown books
1784ref. 367088London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1784. First editions. Collations as below. 10 vols. 4to text and folio atlases. First editions. Collations as below. 10 vols. 4to text and folio atlases. FIRST VOYAGE - HAWKESWORTH John. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron Captain Wallis Captain Carteret and Captain Cook in the Dolphin the Swallow and the Endeavour. 51 engraved maps and plates many folding. 3 volumes. 4to. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1773. First edition early issue without the Straits of Magellan map. Contemporary speckled calf sympathetically rebacked. Provenance: F. Norcliffe armorial bookplate. Beddie 648; Hill 782; Holmes 6; Sabin 30934. SECOND VOYAGE - COOK James. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure In the Years 1772 1773 1774 and 1775. 64 engraved maps and plates. 3 volumes. 4to text and oblong folio atlas. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777. First edition rare issue with the maps and plates bound in an atlas. Contemporary speckled calf text and contemporary marbled paper boards atlas the atlas rebacked and retipped. Provenance: F. Norcliffe armorial bookplate in the text vols; Richard Clarke bookplate in the atlas. Beddie 1216; Hill 358; Holmes 24; Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Rosove 77.A1; Sabin 16245. THIRD VOYAGE - COOK James; and James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the command of His Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. 24 engraved maps and plates in the text 63 engraved maps and plates in the atlas. 4 volumes. 4to text and folio atlas. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1784. First edition. Contemporary speckled calf text and contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards atlas. Provenance: F. Norcliffe armorial bookplate in the text vols; Richard Henry Tidswell circular armorial bookplate in the atlas. Beddie 1543; Forbes 85; Hill 361; Holmes 47; Howes C729a; Lada-Mocarski 37; Sabin 16250. A fine complete set of all three of Cook's great voyages of discovery: "the basis for any collection of Pacific books" Hill. Cook's first voyage included visits to Tahiti and New Zealand and the tracing of the east coast of Australia was one of the most perilous feats of navigation in the whole recorded history of exploration. The second voyage pushed further south than any previous navigators in search of a southern continent as well as visiting numerous Pacific islands. The third voyage returned to islands previously visited discovered Hawaii and explored the northwest coast of America from Alaska to Oregon. The text of these official reports form an invaluable record of the voyages but they are enhanced enormously by the Plates maps charts and views. "In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" Hill. Besides being first edition of each this set highly desirable as it includes the very rare separate atlas to the second voyage; almost all copies of the second voyage had the engraved plates trimmed and folded into the text volumes. We have seen only a couple of examples of this format which represented a distinct and special issue of the book. The text has demonstrably never had engravings bound within it and the superb impressions can be seen to their best advantage in this folio format where they are unfolded and untrimmed. Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell unknown books
