1956rif. 171353N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage press photograph of Marilyn Monroe being interviewed by journalist Kendis Rochlen at the Los Angeles Airport on February 25 1956. The press conference was held at the airport to promote Monroe's return to Hollywood after 14 months in New York. Monroe would appear in the 1956 film "Bus Stop" directed by Josh Logan whom Monroe had chosen after securing director approval from Twentieth Century-Fox. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1929rif. 500350New York: The Viking Press 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. Quarter cloth and lavender paper-covered boards. Spine lettering is slightly rubbed near fine in a very good dust jacket with very slight wear. An elusive title in dust jacket. The Viking Press hardcover books
1929rif. 526809London: Chatto & Windus 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. A very good or better copy with light wear at the spine tips and the hinges are a little over-opened causing some light cracks in soiled good or better dust jacket with few early clear internal tape mends. Scarce in jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1939rif. 387426New York: Hearst Magazines Inc. 1939. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Half canvas and papercovered boards. Good with cracked hinges end papers missing and moderate wear at the edges but the interior pages fresh. As the title suggest a collection of 16 Cosmopolitan magazine novelettes bound into boards. Highlights include "The Four of Hearts" by Ellery Queen "The Secret of Dr. Kildare" by Max Brand "Prelude for War" by Leslie Charteris "A Sea Tower" by Hugh Walpole "The Man Who Murdered Goliath" by Geoffrey Homes "You Marry Once!" by James Warner Bellah and "Bugle in the Night" by Steve Fisher. A nice collection of stories with handsome accompanying illustrations A full list below. The stories include: 1. "Career Girl" by Isabel Moore Illustrated by Warren Baumgartner. 2. "Crazy Kid" by Grace Perkins Illustrated by John Falter. 3. "Night Club Lady" by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodgers Illustrated by Andrew Loomis. 4. "You Marry Once!" by James Warner Bellah Illustrations by Richard Lyon and William Timmons. 5. "Yesterday's Children by Adela Rogers St. Johns Illustrated by Jon Whitcomb. 6. "All Concerned Notified" by Helen Reilly Illustrated by Mario Cooper. 7. "The Unusual 3" by Dorothy Cameron Disney Illustrated by Lyons. 8. "The Secret of Dr. Kildare" by Max Brand Illustrated by E.M. Jackson. 9. "A Sea Tower" by Hugh Walpole. 10. "The Man Who Murdered Goliath" by Geoffrey Homes Illustrated by Mario Cooper. 11. "I Lost My Girlish Laughter by Jane Allen Illustrated by Carl Mueller. 12. "Sit-Down Strike" by Paul Gallico Illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt. 13. "Prelude for War" by Leslie Charteris Illustrated by O.F. Schmidt. 14. "You Can't Hang Me!" by James Ronald Illustrated by John Clymer. 15. "The Four of Hearts" by Ellery Queen. 16. "Bugle in the Night" by Steve Fisher Illustrated by Michael Dolas. Hearst Magazines Inc.] hardcover books
1880rif. 616447New Haven: Henry Howe 1880. Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 511 3pp Illustrated. Decorative green cloth beveled boards stamped in gilt and black. A fine and especially bright example of this American decorated publisher's binding. Henry Howe unknown books
2002rif. 89521San Francisco:: Privately Printed. Near Fine. 2002. Hardcover. B004D99IFC . Limited edition: this copy is number 228 of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Previous owner's gift inscription on half-title page else near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 527 pages; Signed by Author . Privately Printed, hardcover books
2002rif. 16295San Francisco: Privately Printed 2002 One of an edition of 1000 copies. Designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Blake Riley at the Arion Press in San Francisco. Signed and numbered in green ink on the colophon by the author. Green black and yellow plaid cloth. . Large octavo. Frontispiece by Andrew Berry; eighteen golf hole drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry; Front end papers illustrated with MacKenzie Map by Christopher Monti; Rear endpaper illustrated with Golf Course Map by Darryl T. Roberson and Christopher Monti. Initial letters. A fine copy in a lightly rubbed green cloth slipcase with a printed paper spine label. Berry's Scotsman's Dream is a work of fiction set initially in 1933. A general synopsis is as follows: three men A.W. Tillinghast Alister MacKenzie and Donald Ross considered to be the three greatest golf course architects in history agree to design a golf course for the future which will be revealed and made public in the year 2000; the golf course they jointly created will then be built and opened for play. They proceed to spend a week on the land which Tillinghast claims is "the most perfect place I have ever seen for a golf course." It is in actuality a farm overlooking Cayuga Lake near Ithaca New York in the fabled Finger Lakes region. Privately Printed, hardcover books
rif. 340130Unbound. Near Fine. Manuscript copy with note. Single sheet folded once to form four pages. Folded for mailing with spot on rear near fine. A hand written copy of the poem "Jesus the Pearl of Great Price" by William H. Warner. A note at the bottom of the last page explains it has been copied from the original by Eugene P. Greider to "his beloved friend George A. Weiss June 18th 1850." Both men were Moravian missionaries who worked in the Caribbean. While little is known about Weiss Greider was born in Lancaster Pennsylvania was an apprentice shoemaker before getting the call and serving as a missionary then traveling deacon in Indiana Maryland and New Jersey before being located in the Southern Province of the Moravian Church in North Carolina. unknown books
1933rif. 164390N.p.: Fox Film Corporation 1933. Two vintage publicity photographs of actress Heather Angel circa 1933 each with a Fox Films stamp on the verso crediting photographer Ray Jones and one with a mimeo snipe on the verso describing Angel's outfit for the 1933 film "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case." Film based on the 1925 Charlie Chan novel "The House Without a Key" by Earl Derr Biggers. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Angel was a British actress who starred in over 50 films between 1931 and 1979. She is perhaps best known for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" 1935 "The Three Musketeers" 1935 "The Informer" 1935 and "The Last of the Mohicans" 1936 as well as providing the voices of Wendy's mother in Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" 1953 and Alice's sister in Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" 1951. In 1933 Angel starred in three films for Fox Films "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" "Berkeley Square" and "Pilgrimage." 7.75 x 9.5 inches and 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1977rif. WALTER-FILM007069Various. No binding. Fine. Two vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm black-and-white photos fine. Portrait of frontman Johnny Rotten printed in the UK in 1977 for Virgin Records for the Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols album whose release preceded by a month the US release by Warner Brothers Records. Portrait of entire band including Sid Vicious. US photo for Warner/Reprise release of the same album. Virgin; Warner/Reprise books
1932rif. 151809Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film. Annotation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper noting the name of an unknown crew member. Based on the 1932 novel by Denison Clift. Government agent Stephen Morrow's boss and best friend is engaged to Morrow's former lover a Hungarian woman under investigation for the murder of an ambassador. Set in Washington DC. Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 3-12-32 with credits for novelist Denison Clift and screenwriter Leon Gordon. Title page present. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1945rif. WALTER-FILM007833Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Hollywood: Warner Brothers 1945. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photo near fine. The great African American pianist and vocalist Hazel Scott is seen here singing in front of a band for this bio film of George Gershwin. Warner Brothers books
rif. WALTER-FILM007834Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Hollywood: Warner Brothers 1945. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photo near fine. Portrait of Hazel Scott at the piano for this bio film of George Gershwin. As haughty a diva as there has ever been jazz pianist Hazel Scott. did much to alter the image of black women in American film in the early 1940s… There would be no dopey maid roles for this young woman. Instead she always came on as herself in movies immaculately dressed and coiffed a blazing symbol of black pride and assertiveness. No doubt Scott's most elegant appearance is in a nightclub sequence of Rhapsody in Blue in which she performs part in English part in French Gershwin's "The Man I Love". Bogle Blacks in American Films p. 463. Warner Brothers unknown books
1932rif. WALTER-FILM006335Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Hollywood: Warner Brothers 1932. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo a couple of small chips in right blank margin near fine. An unusually sexy and very pre-Code image of Joan Blondell in Lawyer Man. Warner Brothers books
1904rif. 237763Hartford CT: The American Publishing Co 1904. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. Green cloth paper title labels on backstrips t.e.g. Bookplates of Franklin Murphy. Spine ends lightly rubbed else very good. 15. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. The "Preface to Joseph H. Twichell" appeared for the first time in this edition Vol. I pp. 335-7. BAL 21224 The American Publishing Co unknown books
1904rif. 239080Hartford CT: The American Publishing Co 1904. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. Green cloth paper titlel labels on backstrips t.e.g. Spine ends lighty rubbed. Bookplates of Franklin Murphy. Very good. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. The American Publishing Co unknown books
1899rif. 37783London: British Museum Press 1899. hardcover. very good. Series I. - V. 150 photo lithograph plates with printed transcriptions. Thick large folio 3/4 leather rubbed; hinges reinforced. London: British Museum 1899. Very good. Includes 85 historical documents of English royalty and statesmen with similar autographs of 6 continental monarchs. The second half of the volume is devoted to the autographs of 53 artists and men of letters with 6 continental autographs. British Museum Press unknown books
1943rif. 503331"Jack" on Warner Bros. Pictures letterhead Burbank February 8 1943 to columnist Jimmy Starr regarding his wire concerning "Air Force." 4to 1 page. books
1959rif. 1363287Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1959. First Edition. Loose folio. Folio 217 loose plates plus Quarto 165-page softcover text volume housed within plate case. In Very Good condition with Very Good box. Publisher's original pink silk brocade box with light discoloration and wear to corners; lining lightly age toned. Text volume minimally bumped at tail of spine with light age toning to text block. Plates all photographic black and white lightly age toned with a few scattered instances of foxing. Pencil annotations give a number for each image. SH Consignment. Shelved in Room A. 1363287. Special Collections. Harvard University Press unknown books
2006rif. 49945London: The Arcadian Library 2006. Three volumes. First edition in Fine condition. Volumes I & II bound in red publisher's cloth boards w/ dustjackets. Volume III . London: The Arcadian Library 2006. Three volumes. First edition in Fine condition. Volumes I & II bound in red publisher's cloth boards w/ dustjackets. Volume III is a slipcase containing a large foldout illustration. "In 1549 a Venetian print maker named Matteo Pagano published a large wood engraving in twenty-one sections of the city of Cairo. This view continued the Renaissance tradition of depicting cities from an oblique aerial perspective." Volume I: An account of the creation of Pagano's view of Cairo. Volume II: facsimile translation and commentary on details of Pagano's view. Volume III contains a large 49" x 84" foldout facsimile of Pagano's view. 31.5 cm. 216 pp; 225 pp. b/w illustrations. . The Arcadian Library hardcover books
1928rif. 500345London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 88pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with publisher's printed paper label on spine. Endpapers and few pages of text lightly foxed else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light tanning and spotting on the spine and two nicks at crown. 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
2014rif. RWOLDOC00tpmDynamite 2014. Very Good. Wolfman Marv. Doc Savage the Man of Bronze: Archives Volume 1. The Curtis Magazine Era. Goodwin Archie; Warner John; Macchio Ralph; Kelleher Mike; Baar Ken. NP: Dynamite 2014. 510pp. Illustrated. 4to. Black leatherette with gilt embossing. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped edges. In dust jacket protector. Dynamite hardcover books
1934rif. NF3846POP" WARNER'S BOOK FOR BOYS Robert M. McBride & Company 1934 first edition fine in near fine color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Profusely illustrated by Richard Stephens. In this his first book for boys this famous coach reveals the necessities and skills one needs to excel in BASEBALL TRACK BASKETBALL & FOOTBALL. Warner among the winningest college coaches in history taught such greats as Ernie Nevers and Jim Thorpe. Robert M. McBride unknown books
1809rif. 31205Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner / Brown & Merritt 1809. Very Good-. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner No. 147 Market-Street. Brown & Merritt Printers 24 Church-alley 1809 but 1821. Small quarto 13cm.; slightly later straight-grained gilt-tooled brown morocco marbled endpapers; 16pp.; engraved frontispiece and seven leaves of plates collated complete. Dark tide mark affecting textblock as well as plates stock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality else a Good to Very Good sound copy in attractive American binding. Date of publication based on the frontispiece imprint: Benjamin Warner 1821. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5091; ROSENBACH 603; see also WELCH 241 for the first American edition. Johnson & Warner / Brown & Merritt unknown books
1874rif. 369661Hartford: The American Pubishing Company 1874. First edition mixed state. Fully Illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin Stephens Williams White Etc. Etc. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Publisher's deluxe 3/4 morocco binding; gilt edging along leather; blind stamped decoratively and in gilt on spine; edge and shelf wear to corners and spine; small stains and rubbing to front; marbled fore edges; marbled endpapers; one fold-out bound in at page 246. First edition mixed state. Fully Illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin Stephens Williams White Etc. Etc. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Although this handsome 3/4 morocco copy bears a title page with the later publication date of 1874 it contains many of the first edition first issue A points including: the presence of ads at the rear; Everybody's Friend described in its advertisment as a "true inde"; the artist "White" is present on the title page; the name "Eschol" appears under Chapter V in the table of contents; page 246 has "Hallelujah" with no comma; and on page 280 line 18 this is a period after "Dr. Jackson." In other issue points however it differs: the final illustration is numbered 212 on page xvi; the lines on pages 351 and 353 are absent; and there is an illustration on page 403. BAL 3357 The American Pubishing Company unknown books
