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1928réf. 365000New York: D. Appleton and Company 1928. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. A few pages roughly opened resulting in chips to the margins of a couple of pages rear board dampstained with mildew a good only copy in a good only age-toned dustwrapper with corresponding dampstain and mildew. A novel set in London about the lost chapters in the lives of men and women. Bellah is best known for the western movies that were based on his stories including She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Fort Apache and Rio Grande as well as several screenplays he wrote including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1937réf. 44935New York: D. Appleton 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a slight printing flaw to the silvered dustwrapper and some wear at the extremities. Happy Shannon the daughter of an old-fashioned country doctor comes to New York City and dazzles and is bedazzled by the glittering night life. Bellah an aviator and war hero in both World Wars is inextricably linked to John Ford who filmed his stories and novels as Fort Apache She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande and for whom he wrote the screenplays The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Sergeant Rutledge. Very scarce. D. Appleton hardcover books
1910réf. 45726London: British Museum; Longmans and Co.; Bernard Quaritch; Asher and Co.; Henry Frowde 1910. Second edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto 10 x 8". 15 1pp Text 50 leaves Plates Vol. 1; 16pp Text 50 leaves Plates Vol. 2; 16pp Text 50 leaves Plates Vol. 3. Modern full burgundy calf with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Binding signed by Sotheran and Co. 37 Piccadilly. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges gilt. Three volumes bound in one a fourth part was also published - not here present. each part containing 50 loose plates of reproductions from the British Museum. The illustrations were originally selected by Sir George Warner in 1906 from the collection held by the Grenville Library. The 150 splendid plates reproduced in photogravure depict mostly religious illuminated manuscripts from the Byzantine English French Flemish German and Italian schools. The manuscripts are from the 8th to the 15th centuries. Binding rubbed along edges with ex-library sticker at tail of spine and upper front joint. Bookplate on inside of front cover and reference sticker on inside of back cover. Stamp at top and bottom edges. Binding in overall good- to good interior in very good condition. British Museum; Longmans and Co.,; Bernard Quaritch; Asher and Co.,; Henry Frowde hardcover books
1916réf. 177838Racine WI and Chicago IL: Whitman Publishing Co 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Children's book written and illustrated by Warner Carr. Includes several color plates. A near fine copy with some minor wear and a former owner signature to the front free endpaper in an about very good dust jacket that has a large chip to the base of the front panel some small chips to the spine ends and some other minor wear. Still a pleasing copy of this book which is fairly uncommon in any dust jacket. Whitman Publishing Co unknown books
1957réf. 159390Holyoke MA: Columbia Publications 1957. First Edition. First Edition a paperback original. A collection of mystery stories. One of Harlan Ellison's earliest crime detective pulp novels and the first appearance of the second novel in the Jerry Killian trilogy-the other two being "The Golden Virgin" and "They Killed My Kid!" Very Good in wrappers lightly faded and edgeworn with chips at the corners. Columbia Publications unknown books
1949réf. WALTER-FILM007580Warner Brothers. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1949. Vintage original 11 x 14" 28 x 36 cm lobby card. Fine. A dramatic and erotically charged scene from The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper and Patriica Neal in director King Vidor's expressionist adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel. This card is in pristine entirely unrestored condition. We have provided images of both the front and back of the card. Warner Brothers books
1935réf. WALTER-FILM006525Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1935. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Near fine. Widely believed to be the first female Latina star she was surely one of few during the classic era of Hollywood. She made a large mark in later silent films and was one of the few to make the transition to early talkies. When the roles became less interesting she returned to her native Mexico to work on films with more substance. In Caliente was a vibrant lightweight film with music and grand production numbers under the direction of Busby Berkeley. Del Río an adept dancer participated in the musical numbers. Warner Brothers books
réf. WALTER-FILM007424Warner Brothers. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1933. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Information written on verso fine. Henry Clive 1883-1960 was an Australian-born magician actor graphic artist and illustrator who created illustrations for The American Weekly and cover series which were posed for by screen celebrities. Wikipedia Clive paints a pin-up vision of popular early talkie star Alice White. Warner Brothers unknown books
réf. WALTER-FILM005294Warner Brothers. No binding. Very Good. Hollywood: Warner Brothers 1941. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo wear to bottom left blank margin small stain in lower right margin VERY GOOD. Libby Taylor 1902-61 was an African American film actress. IMDb lists 67 different movies in which she appeared between 1932 and 1953. She often played the role of a maid as she did in this film. Portraits of her never appear. Warner Brothers unknown books
réf. WALTER-FILM006033Warner Española. No binding. Fine. 'Madrid: Warner Española 1997. Set of twelve vintage original 9.5 x 13.375" 24 x 34 cm. Spanish color photos. Pedro Almodovar''s erotic romantic drama which starred Javier Bardem and Francesca Neri.' Warner Española unknown books
réf. 550624Hardcover. Fine. Circa 1900. Half-tone portrait reproduced from a photograph measuring 2” x 3” on unprinted cardstock mount. Fine. The image depicts a seated Warner in a white dress holding a book. Inscribed. Signed by Warner on the mount beneath the image: "With the best wishes of Anne Warner." Warner novelist short-story writer and humorist was born in St. Paul Minnesota. She settled in Europe where she had been traveling with her children and wrote a number of popular satiric novels see Blain Feminist Companion to Literature in English p. 1133. hardcover books
1899réf. 254261Cambridge: Riverside Press 1899. Limited. hardcover. fine/good. Garrett. With Illlustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Large 8vo cloth backed boards paper spine label. Cambridge: Riverside Press 1899. Limited Edition. Special large-paper edition. One of 250 signed copies. As new in a plain brown wrapper lettered on the spine. The wrapper is dust soiled and chipped at the edges. Riverside Press unknown books
1877réf. 160569Boston James R. Osgood and Company 1877. 1877. First edition first issue with leaf facing title page blank. 8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; dark brown endpapers. Very good a trifle rubbed. No signatures or bookplates. BAL 21134 - account of author’s visit to Jerusalem Damascus Lebanon Cyprus et.al. F. Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. hardcover books
1930réf. 58763Spanish Fork UT: The Press Publishing Company 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. 239pp. Duodecimo 20 cm Light brown cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the front board. The front board is a bit stained. The text block is cracked at the rear. The front free endpaper has a previous owner's bookplate with the owner's name in pen partially visible beneath it. A book covering early explorations the coming of the settlers growth and expansion manufacture and industry church organizations irrigation and Spanish Fork in the foreign wars. The Press Publishing Company hardcover books
1932réf. 444738Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Margaret Freeman. Octavo. 145pp. Fine in a nice very good or better dustwrapper with a few small chips. Scarce in jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
réf. B02998-4Cambridge Harvard University Press 1964. xix 3 165 3pp. 217 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Cambridge (Harvard University Press), 1964. hardcover books
1930réf. 398396London: Cresset Press 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Illustrations in drypoint by I.R. Hodgkins. Quarter Japanese vellum and marbled paper over boards. Paper rubbed along the foredge else very good or better in about very good slipcase. copy number 131 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. Cresset Press hardcover books
1928réf. 500347London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 88pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with publisher's printed paper label on spine. Top edge and spine slightly faded very thin chip at crown of spine else a near fine partially unopened copy in very good dust jacket with moderate wear and browning on spine a thin chip at top edge and both panels have begun to separate at spine joints and both flaps archivally mended on the verso. Publisher's extra printed spine label tipped-in at last page of text as issued. Author's second book of poetry. Uncommon in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1925réf. 07877London: Chatto & Windus 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. PRESENTATION TO VIVIAN DE SOLA PINTO AND SIGNED S.T.W. but the inscription may be secretarial with De Sola Pinto's bookplate front pastedown. Vivian de Sola Pinto was a British poet literary critic and historian and a leading D. H. Lawrence scholar who appeared in defence of Penguin Books in the 1960 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" trial. Author's first book 103 pp. Bound in blue and black marbled boards paper spine label. A very good copy with fading spine light scattered foxing. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1856réf. 10301NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing A no sequence established; Binding 2 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
1883réf. 13352EN PROVINCE in Atlantic Monthly for July through November 1883 first edition 5 volumes the August issue has a small chip at the spine center else all are vg in original wraps. Also contains original stories essays and poems by Sarah Orne Jewett Charles Dudley Warner Oliver Wendell Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson F. Marion Crawford et.al. These 5 different travel essays by James were all published in the book A LITTLE TOUR OF FRANCE later in the year. Atlantic Monthly paperback books
1976réf. 541716Oxford: Ziprint Parchment 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Cover by Jon Piper. Octavo. 43pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine with some rubbing to the rear wrap. A short-lived poetry anthology edited by James Lindesay and Bruno Tolentino with a name inspired by W.H. Auden's early 1920s magazine Oxford Poetry. Contributors to this issue Lindesay Tolentino Elizabeth Jennings Sally Purcell Ruth Padel Francis Warner John Wain and many others. Both runs of this magazine and individual issue appear scarce. OCLC locate 10 assorted copies over two records. Ziprint Parchment unknown books
1913réf. TK0052Edinburgh:: Hodder and Stoughton 1913. 1913. 4to. xvi 207 1 pp. Frontispiece 24 tipped-in color plates. Original full vellum with gilt-rules navy-blue painted border and within the heraldic arms of the school t.e.g.; covers spotted rare spotting within last leaf with short marginal tear. Bookplate of Myles Storr Nigel Kennedy. Very good. Limited edition of 125 numbered and signed copies; a trade edition was issued in cloth. The famous Harrow public school got its Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1571. This work celebrates Harrow. Supplemented with literary and poetic contributions including from Anthony Trollope Lord Byron and many others. / PROVENANCE: Myles Storr Nigel Kennedy 1889-1964 was a British barrister army officer and politician. He served a single term in Parliament as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament yet never contributed to any debate. He was a member of Lancashire County Council for nearly twenty years. His Military and political career came to a premature end when his colourful private life brought about a court judgment against him and resulted in his bankruptcy. Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. hardcover books
1848réf. TB33248Worcester Mass.: Warren Lazell 1848. Reprint of 1848. Very good in fine new binding of black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and new end sheets. The edges of the text block are marbled. A small quarto of 9 by 5 1/2 inches with no wear to the binding an early prior owner's name in pencil on the second free end page. The contents are surprisingly clean and bright this dealer suspects the pages were . washed before rebinding. Tthe fold-out hand-colored map is also clean and bright and without any damage 631 pages of text illustrated from 200 woodcut engravings and the hand-colored fold-out map. The first edition of this title was published by Dorr Howland of Worcester in 1839. Armstrong Bibliographies of New England History 103; Howes B-123 Warren Lazell hardcover books
1844réf. TB31669Worcester Mass.: Warren Lazell 1844. Reprint of 1844. Good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with gilt decorations and gilt text on the spine. The edges of the text block are marbled. A small quarto of 9 by 5 1/2 inches with the leather worn through over the front and rear joints the lower edges of the boards and the tips of the boards. There is an early prior owner's name written in ink at the upper edge of the title page. The contents are generally foxed on the margins and the fold-out hand-colored map is partially tanned it is in undamaged condition. 624 pages of text illustrated from 200 woodcut engravings and the hand-colored fold-out map. The first edition of this title was published by Dorr Howland of Worcester in 1839. Armstrong Bibliographies of New England History 103; Howes B-123 Warren Lazell hardcover books