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1933Best.-Nr. 164391N.p.: Fox Film Corporation 1933. Two vintage publicity photographs of Warner Baxter one double weight photograph and one keybook photograph circa early 1930s each with two Fox Films stamps on the verso one crediting photographer Ray Jones and one for actor Baxter and a mimeo snipe on the verso of the keybook photograph announcing Baxter's next film "I Loved You Wednesday" released in 1933. 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. Warner Baxter was a popular film actor who starred in over 100 films between 1914 and 1950. A matinée idol during the silent era Baxter rose to prominence as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film "In Old Arizona" for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor at the second Academy Awards. In 1936 he starred in John Ford's "The Prisoner of Shark Island" largely considered his finest role. By the late 1930s he openly talked of retiring from the industry and by the mid-1940s suffered a nervous breakdown after which he began to largely focus on film series work in order to reduce his stress most notably in the "Crime Doctor" mysteries a series of low-budget mysteries produced by Columbia Pictures from 1943-1949. Double-weight photograph 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Keybook photograph 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus with a small chip to the top left corner and some modest tearing at the top hole punches. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 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
1934Best.-Nr. 836491934. Warner Sam Bass. Crime and Criminal Statistics in Boston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. x 150 pp. illustrations. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Light wear to spine ends top half of spine sunned. A very good copy. $15. Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice in Boston / Conducted by the Harvard Law School; Vol 2. unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 163780Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1924. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director James Cruze with cast and crew members on the set of the 1924 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1925 play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. A showgirl decides to accept the overtures of a lecherous theatre promoter only to fall in love with another man. Currently considered a lost film. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly creased at the corners else about Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 161604Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film. Release stamp on the verso. Based on Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1928 operetta about a French nobleman disguised as an indentured servant who leads his fellow bondsmen in revolt against their ship's captain. Set in 18th century New Orleans and shot on location in Santa Catalina Island. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 163385Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1990. Revised Second Draft script for the 1991 film comedy. Based on Neil B. Shulman's 1979 book "What Dead. Again" After crashing his car in a small town a doctor who dreams of a wealthy life in Beverly Hills is forced to spend several days working at the town hospital. Set in Grady South Carolina and in Beverly Hills and shot on location in Santa Clarita and Beverly Hills California and in Gainesville McIntosh Mechanicsville Micanopy Florida and in Richmond Virginia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 10 1990 noted as "Rewrite: Second Draft" with credit for screenwriter Daniel Pyne. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/6/90 and 1/11/91. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
Best.-Nr. 146805N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced television film. Incomplete as issued. With a small handwritten label to the first leaf noting the name and address of screenwriter Martin Warner. A lonely widower finds new love with a vibrant retired school teacher aided by his well-intentioned but meddling apartment building neighbors. Set in Santa Monica California. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Martin Warner. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with light rust to the first and last leaves likely from a paper clip bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 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
2002Best.-Nr. 192243London: Artmedia 2002. First edition and first printing. Softcover. 128 pages. Monograph on British sculptor David Nash. Features an essay by Marina Warner. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A clean very near fine copy in French style wrappers. Artmedia unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 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
1994Best.-Nr. 185207Omaha NE: Joslyn Art Museum 1994. First edition. Softcover. 83 pages. Features text contributions by Graham W.J. Beal and Marina Warner. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations checklist chronology list of previous exhibitions list of public collections list of publications by the artist list of films and documentaries and a selected bibliography. A fine copy in French style wrappers. Signed by Nash on the title page. Joslyn Art Museum unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 185487Nashville TN: Frist Center for the Visual Arts Vanderbilt University Press 2012. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 24 through May 28 2012 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts Vanderbilt University Press and then traveled to two other locations for additional dates. Features a foreword by Susan H. Edwards and essays by Suzanne Anker Mark W. Scala Marina Warner and Jack Zipes. A collection of numerous color illustrations by a wide range of artists a checklist and an index. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very light wear. Internally a clean copy. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Vanderbilt University Press unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 141557Berlin: Silent Night GbR 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Silent Night." The true story of how Father Joseph Mohr an Austrian priest falls in love with a prostitute hopes to reform her does not and ends up composing the popular Christmas hymn "Silent Night" with schoolteacher Franz Gruber in 1818. Set in Austria. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for screenwriter Monica Teuber. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Silent Night GbR unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 154947London: Playhouse Theatre 1991. Vintage program for the 1991 Playhouse Theatre production of the 1891 play by Henrik Ibsen which premiered on September 3 and ran through October 5 1991. The production originally premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on June 17 1991 and ran through August 3 1991. The acclaimed production was filmed for Season 3 Episode 3 of the BBC series "Performance" which aired on May 27 1993. 6.25 x 11.75 inches. 10 pages side stapled. Near Fine with a light crease at the top right of the front wrapper. Playhouse Theatre unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 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
1921Best.-Nr. 47638Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1921. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 47pp. Offsetting to endpapers else a very good hardback in a darkened and lightly chipped jacket. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 152342N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage matte-finish photograph of Canadian-American film mogul Jack Warner and Warner Brothers sales manager J. Walton Brown in conversation with an unknown third man circa 1938. With the stamp of photographer Schuyler Crail on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus evenly toned overall with tape reinforcements to the top corners of the verso. N.p. unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 152280Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1926. Vintage program for the 1926 silent film. Based on the 1821 epic poem by Lord Byron about legendary womanizer Don Juan. The first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system to provide a musical soundtrack and sound effects but not spoken dialogue. 12 x 9 inches. Six leaves saddle stapled. Near Fine with light fading to the edges of the wrappers. Warner Brothers unknown books
1837Best.-Nr. TB31667New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1837. Second Edition. Very good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with a black leather label with gilt text and extensive gilt decorations on the spine. The front and rear boards are decorated with gilt borders. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with heavy rubbing to the leather over the joints and to the edges of the boards. The front free end page is torn at its lower two inches and there is an early prior owner's name Lynda Brownell Sherman Conn. written in pencil on the third free end page. The hand-colored fold-out map of Connecticut is completely intact and has suffered no damage. The preliminaries show moderate foxing and the last 50 pages of the text also show moderate foxing. The joints and hinges remain tight and strong. 560 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with 190 wood block engravings. Contrary to the information contained in Wright Howes bibliography U.S. Iana the first edition of this title was published in 1836. Barber an illustrator and historian 1798-1885 was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index in the front of the book is a hand colored fold-out map of the State of Connecticut noting all of its towns at the time see note above regarding condition. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. Howes B-120 Originally published in 1836. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber hardcover books
1935Best.-Nr. 159381935. Film and Entertainment Traven B. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." New York. 1935. This is the copy used by Warner Brothers Story Department for making the 1948 film adaptation of the story about the corrupting influence of greed. with "WB 1122" Warner Bros written in white ink near the base of the spine. "IMPORTANT! RETURN Story Dept." stamped on the front free end page. Black boards and binding with book title engraved on cover and gilded stamp of title and author name on spine. The film starring Humphrey Bogart won three Academy Awards. First American Edition Second printing. An important piece of Hollywood history. "WB 1122" Warner Bros written in white ink near the base of the spine. "IMPORTANT! RETURN Story Dept." stamped on the front free end page. This book was used for John Huston's 1948 film adaptation which became one of Warner Bros' most enduring classic films. Penciled in the upper left hand corner of the front free end page are the names of two Hollywood executives Henry Blanke who produced the film and Vincent Sherman who directed the film. The names were written when they checked out the book from the vault and upon return the name and date was crossed out. Henry Blanke was one of the film's producers and Vincent Sherman directed the film. Near fine condition. No dustjacket. This book represents the starting point in the chain of events that turned this outstanding novel into one of the most important movies of Hollywood's Golden Age. Director John Huston first read the novel by B. Traven in 1935 and had always thought the material would make a great movie with his father in the main role. Based on a 19th-century ballad by a German poet Traven's book reminded Huston of his own adventures in the Mexican cavalry. B. Traven was the pen name of a presumably novelist whose real name nationality date and place of birth and details of biography are all still subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico where the majority of his fiction is also set including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 146331Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final draft script for the 1940 film. Notation on front wrapper in manuscript purple ink adding ."9A" to the production number. Notations in manuscript pencil in script adding tics to dialogue and names on the verso of pages. Laid in are 3 blue "retake" pages dated after principal photography had been completed. A remake of T. Hayes Hunter's 1920 silent film of the same name. Irving Pichel's "Earthbound" finds Nick Desborough Warner Baxter called away from his honeymoon with Ellen Andrea Leeds for business in Paris only to find his ex-mistress Linda Reynolds Lynn Bari sent the telegram. Linda rejected by Nick shoots and kills him and her husband Jeff Henry Wilcoxon is arrested and tried for the crime. Nick's ghost helps guide Ellen to clear Jeff and convict Linda so he can rest in peace. Set in Paris and Switzerland. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 33 and production No. 1884 dated January 12 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated January 12 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Samuel G. Engel. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with Blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/15/40 and 2/21/40 with laid in Blue Retake pages dated 3/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2008Best.-Nr. 164759Brighton England Gottingen Germany and Belfast: Photoworks Steidl and Belfast Exposed Photography 2008. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 72 pages. Essays by Colin Graham and Mary Warner Marien. A collection of 24 color photographs of bonfires built in Protestant communities in Belfast Northern Ireland for the annual July 12 celebrations of the defeat of James Stuart at the Battle of the Boyne. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Photoworks, Steidl, and Belfast Exposed Photography unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 144248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Stella Stevens and Jason Robards taking direction from Sam Peckinpah on the set. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. A charming surreal revisionist Western comedy an unusual move for Peckinpah as it was released on the heels of "The Wild Bunch" 1969 and just prior to "Straw Dogs" 1971 both famed for being the high spots of the director's famed odes to violence and male madness. Certainly though Jason Robards-in what many consider to be his finest performance-is as lost as any of Peckinpah's characters but viewed from a different more relaxed perspective. Set in Arizona shot on location in Nevada Arizona and New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 131506London England: The Medici Society 1982. stiff paper wrappers. Tissot J.J. oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Includes a biographical chronology acknowledgments suggestions for further reading. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. The Medici Society unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 9024097Baton Rouge: LSU Press 2013. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Matching slipcase. LSU Press hardcover books
