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1938Best.-Nr. 98489NY:: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good in Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. A Vermont novel. The author's second book. First edition. Some unopened pages. Foxing to cloth covered boards old price sticker in rear paste-down else good in a good moderate edge wear with two small chips dust jacket. ; 278 pages . G. P. Putnam's Sons, hardcover books
1908Best.-Nr. 227626New York: The Century Co 1908. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover in Good condition front hinge very slightly cracked cloth covers show some fading with some light soiling spine ends rubbed. The Century Co hardcover books
1943Best.-Nr. 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
1948Best.-Nr. 503333Telegram on printed Western Union form Burbank CA 1948 to Ray Bolger at the St. James Theatre in New York City: "Had first sneak preview last night of Look for the Silver Lining." Oblong 8vo 1 page. books
1994Best.-Nr. 159111DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED; SIGNED BY AUTHOR CORK MILLNER FIRST EDITION 2ND PRINTING VERY GOOD. PRIMA PUBLISHING hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 19270New York: Sears Publishing Company Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1930. First Edition. Hardcover. modest shelfwear light age-toning to edges of text block vintage price sticker from San Francisco department store The White House on rear pastedown; jacket has a bit of paper loss at most corners a few other random tiny chips and small tears. Novel about a "little Irish beauty" who is "too innocent to know what all these men want from her" but manages to string a bunch of them along "through the bewildering whirl of modern high society in night clubs and cocktail parties threading her way amongst the pitfalls in the houses of the fastest sets." The jacket blurb with its reference to "these days of flaming youth" strongly suggests that the Twenties were still Roaring in the author's or at least publisher's mind even though the book was published about a year after the stock market crash. This was the fifth of seven novels written by Adams under his "Warner Fabian" pseudonym which he had originally adopted to segregate his work as an investigative journalist and respectable mainstream novelist from his more sensationalistic or trashier endeavors. Wouldn't you know it though: the first Fabian book "Flaming Youth" 1923 became a bestseller and he obligingly kept cranking out similar fare "Summer Bachelors" "Unforbidden Fruit" etc. until the mid-1930s. I'm not sure exactly when his cover was blown but by the time this book appeared it was already well known that Adams and Fabian were one and the same. Boni & Liveright rather cheekily printed quotes from both authors in an ad for a book they published in 1925. Several of the Fabian books were adapted for the movies including this one by Columbia Pictures in 1931 under the direction of William Beaudine. . Sears Publishing Company, Inc. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 08546New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Good. Octavo. Bound in original black cloth with red printed title labels spine and front cover and pictorial endpapers. A fine copy in a good dust jacket with small piece missing dust jacket spine tip chips short closed tears. 298 pp. Contributions by Frances Lester Warner Ellen Glasgow Rafael Sabatini Gertrude Atherton Havelock Ellis Mary Agnes Hamilton Jeanette Eaton Harold Nicolson Valentine Williams Phyllis Bottome George Fort Milton Edward J. O'Brien Francis Frost Archibald MacLeish Hebert Agar Margaret Ayer Barnes Esther Forbes E. Arnot Robertson James Norman Hall John Livingston Lowes Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 136365Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne n.d. original cloth. folio. original cloth. unpaginated with 150 facsimiles. 2 volumes. This set is one of the Autograph edition de luxe numbered "852" and signed by the Editorial Director Oliver H. Leigh. Heavy rubbing to the bindings of both volumes. Hinges and gutters are still sound. Corners rubbed. Special Introduction by S.M. Hamilton. Color printed limitation page in volume one and gilt illuminated title page in volume two. Each volume contains 75 large facsimiles of an autograph followed by a separate leaf with a transcription of the document and information concerning the author. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. M. Walter Dunne unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 136387New York: Greenwood Press 1968. cloth. 4to. cloth. 203 pages. Reprint of the 1950 edition. Gutters discolored else a fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. Greenwood Press unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. WALTER-FILM005289Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Burbank: Warner Brothers 1977. Vintage original press kit 12 x 9" printed folder ten photos approximately 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. laid in along with twelve loose inserts between 1 and 4 pp. each. One page of text tanned overall NEAR FINE or better. Richard Pryor starred along with Pam Grier in this film about African American race car driver Wendell Scott. The studio was promoting this as Pryor's first starring role. Warner Brothers books
1974Best.-Nr. WALTER-FILM005176Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Burbank: Warner Brothers 1974. Vintage original 12 x 9" 31 x 23 cm. press kit printed portfolio with 12 promotional inserts 1 and 2 pp. each thirteen 13 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. photos title written at extreme left of front cover NEAR FINE. Martin Scorsese's fourth film about a recently widowed woman who sets out on the road with her precocious young son determined to create a new life for herself and create a career as a singer. Warner Brothers books
1963Best.-Nr. 94698London:: MacGibbon & Kee. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Second edition thus. Smells musty else very good or better in like dust jacket. . MacGibbon & Kee, hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 307501817 Leading Philadelphia bookseller-publisher and cartographer lauds "Western Emigration" quarto one page plus stamp-less address leaf in very good legible condition. Happily responding to Guilford's offer of honorary membership in the Society: "… Being convinced that a very imperfect knowledge is generally possessed by persons on the Seaboard Section of our country in relation to their trans-mountain brethren and of their country I rejoiced to find an association instituted for the purpose of defusing information of the fairest portion of our favored land and I cannot hesitate to believe but that great facilities will be derived by the enterprising emigrant to our shores who is seeking a peaceful asylum for himself and a secure and happy establishment for his posterity … it will give me pleasure to add any feeble assistance I can give in promoting the objects of its institution…" Warner was a young Quaker bookseller and publisher of Philadelphia – he also had bookshops in Charleston and Richmond Virginia the latter managed by John Grigg later founder of the Lippincott firm. As publisher Warner's notable imprints included an 1818 edition of the Federalist Papers and in 1820 possibly the earliest separately issued folding map of the United States to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast based upon cartographer John Melish's classic 1819 wall map as well as the "western detail" maps of Lewis and Clark Humboldt and Pike. As such it "galvanized geographic ideas" about "tenuously explored lands beyond the Rocky Mountains." The letter makes clear Warner's abiding interest in American lands to the west – and sympathy for the courageous Emigrants who were then flowing westward. Perhaps Warner shared this interest with Melish in a friendship unrecorded by history. Two years later Melish published 'Information and Advice to Emigrants to the United States and from the Eastern to the Western States." Their sympathies were controversial at the time especially in Connecticut whose retained "Western Reserve" lands extending across the northern part of present day Ohio were the center of emigration. In 1817 residents of Connecticut "highly wrought up over the emigration problem" exerted "every influence … to stem the ever growing outward tide of fortune seekers" lured by "glowing descriptions of land speculators" who glossed over the dangers of floods and storms and the fraudsters preying upon the innocence of the newcomers. The Western Emigration Society led by Nathan Guilford later to be hailed as "father" of the Ohio public school system was in fact formed to provide both information and philanthropic support to emigrants though Connecticut newspapers "exposed" the organization for promoting a "deplorable species of madness" in "unhealthy regions where men worked themselves into untimely graves" unaware of the "burdensome privations of a land without churches schools and roads." Guilford was indeed a very effective lobbyist for emigration to the West. The same month that he wrote Warner he must have offered "honorary membership" to dozens of other Eastern notables including then General Andrew Jackson. Those letters and their congenial replies appear in the Ohio Historical Society and other archival collections. Benjamin Warner's response may have been one of the most interesting. Warner died prematurely three years later at the age of 35. books
1932Best.-Nr. 53425New York: Burt 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with some chipping. Burt hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 65191Privately Printed. Very Good. Hardcover. 181 pages. 7x4.5 inches. Tan paper covered boards with paper labels to the front cover and the spine. Covers are scuffed and soiled. Contents are bright and clean. Near Very Good. . Privately Printed hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 86169NY:: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. B000RHLDAW . A novel. First printing. Very good in a very good short closed edge tear and attendant crease on rear panel lower corner of front flap is clipped dust jacket. . W. W. Norton & Company, hardcover books
1957Best.-Nr. 85457London:: Thames and Hudson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. 90 black and white photogravures by Martin Hurlimann. Fourth impression. Previous owner's name on front paste-down else very good in a very good edge worn with several closed edge tears age toning price clipped dust jacket. . Thames and Hudson, hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 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
1853Best.-Nr. 8087London: James Nisbet and Co. 1853 Second English edition published the year after the first. Original red blindstamped cloth with gilt spine. . Two volumes small octavo. Six engraved plates. Binding extremities lightly worn spines a bit cocked 1 1/2 inch tear along front joint of Volume I. A good tight set. Susan Warner 1819-1885 grew up in New York City. When her family was in difficult financial straits she took up writing. Her first novel The Wide Wide World appeared in 1849 followed by Queechy which appeared at the end of 1850. Both were extremely popular in both England and America. "The source of her popularity…seems to have been her sensibility which equaled that of any of the more extravagant English novelists of the later eighteenth century. It was her descriptions of the emotions of her characters—emotions that found expression in tears on almost every page—that compensated in the minds of her readers for the absence of action" Granville Hicks writing in the D.A.B. James Nisbet and Co., hardcover books
1953Best.-Nr. 448396London: Thames and Hudson 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Endpapers foxed sunning on the boards very good in remnants of the original dustwrapper. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
2001Best.-Nr. 004590Warner Brothers Television 2001 2001. F. Hardcover. Promotional copy of "The West Wing" distributed by Warner Brothers for Emmy Consideration. VHS video contains two episodes "Noel" and "The War At Home." Video is still sealed and in new condition. Warner Brothers Television, 2001 hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 2430New York London and Montreal: The Abbey 1900. . 8vo red cloth stamped in white on spine and in white and black on front cover bottom front cover bumped. FIRST & ORIGINAL EDITION--Not a reprint. Eleven holdings in OCL. Warner P. Sutton 1849-1913. As a young man Sutton taught school in Watervliet and Ludington Michigan. In 1875 he went to Saugatuck as superintendent of schools where he taught three years and that year through his friend Senator Thomas White Ferry he was appointment as Consular Agent at Matamoros Mexico; he later became Consul and then Consul General at Nuevo Laredo. Mexico serving in these offices for fifteen years 1878 to 1893. during the terms of Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland and Harrison. In 1889 he was called to Washington by Secretary of State Elaine to act as secretary of the American delegation to the first Pan-American Conference. His greatest effort was given to improving commercial and friendly relations between the United States and the Latin republics. After leaving the Consular service Sutton e practiced International law the most notable of which was the Cheek case against the King of Siam which he won. During the Spanish-American War he served under General Miles in Puerto Rico after which he retired to his home in Saugatuck "The Beeches". New York, London and Montreal: The Abbey, [1900]. hardcover books
