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1926réf. 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
1940réf. 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
1970réf. 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
1936réf. 21927New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 324pp 2. Hint of darkening to spine boards slighlty dusty with foxing to endpapers and some vertical streaking to preliminary pages; Very Good. The Arthur Hawkins-designed dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 lightly shelfworn with small bruises at mid-spine and front panel with two stains along lower edge of same; Very Good or better. Bentley's follow-up to his 1913 novel Trent's Last Case co-written with his friend H. Warner Allen. HUBIN p.31. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1962réf. 132151Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1962. Two vintage black-and-white British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1962 US film. A relatively unknown low-budget jungle film the only film credit for director Jack Warner Jr. son of the then-head of Warner Brothers Studios. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with one with pinholes at the corners one with a short closed tear. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1927réf. 131640Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film. Based on the 1925 play by Samson Raphaelson. The first feature film with both a synchronized recorded score and lip-synchronized singing and dialogue effectively signaling the end of the silent era. At the first Oscars producer Daryl F. Zanuck received an Honorary Academy Award and the film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay though it was declared ineligible to compete for Best Picture in fairness to the nominated silent films. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small chip at one corner and a small bruise at another corner. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Warner Brothers unknown books
1874réf. 21493Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. First Edition second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin Stephens Williams White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's sheep black leather spine labels lettered in gilt front cover rehinged else fine. First Edition second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin Stephens Williams White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. With a page of octavo manuscript in Warner's hand about 130 words concerning the character Philip Sterling with reflections on the fairer sex "It is probably on account of the lack of enterprise in women that they are not as fond of stock speculations and mine ventures as men. It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling.". BAL 3357 American Publishing Company unknown books
1904réf. 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
1904réf. 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
2007réf. 516582007. ISBN 9781584778356; ISBN 1584778350. Sanders Francis Williams. An Essay on Uses and Trusts and on the Nature and Operation of Conveyances at Common Law and of Those Which Derive Their Effect from the Statute of Uses. Edited by John Warner. Philadelphia: R.H. Small 1855. 2 volumes in 1 book. xliv 507 xvii 337 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2007. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo. xliv 507; xvii 337 pp. Reprinted 2007. ISBN-13: 9781584778356. Publisher's Smythe-sewn navy cloth gilt-stamped spine and front cover. New. $75. Edition Note: Facsimile reprint of the second American edition which was originally expanded from the fifth and final London edition 1844 retaining the original star-paging. First published in London in 1791. Sanders' treatise stands as one of the definitive 19th-century legal works on property law equity and the evolution of the Statute of Uses 1535. It remains crucial for tracing the intersection of English common law conveyancing and equity law explaining how the 1535 statute reshaped land ownership and trusts for both British and American lawyers. Legal bibliographer John Gage Marvin highly praised this specific text calling it a "thorough comprehensive and learned discussion of the Law of Uses and Trusts" Legal Bibliography 628.Author Francis Williams Sanders 1769-1831 was an eminent English barrister and an influential member of the Royal Commission on Real Property Law. unknown books
1980réf. 17584West Kingston: Donald M. Grant 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by Jeff K. Potter. Fine in about Fine dust jackets unclipped $12.00 some scuffs and a short tear to Volume One. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spines. Square and firmly bound clean internally. The complete two-volume collection of Munn's werewolf tales featuring Wladislaw Brenryk. Donald M. Grant hardcover books
1984réf. 1267511984. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1984. 8vo xx 211 pp. 106 illustrations. Yellow cloth in yellow printed dust-jacket. Dust jacket somewhjat faded otherwise very good. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books Supplement page 672: "A useful book arguing that 'Blake undoubtedly perceived archetypes of gesture and stance in the work of painters and sculptors and used them in his own art as a kind of visual vocabulary'.". unknown books
1874réf. 7227London: George Routledge and Sons 1874. First UK edition. Fine. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco with double gilt rules on the boards and spine compartments. Top edges gilt marbled end papers. A Fine copy complete with all half-titles. Clean and fresh throughout. A few leaves in volume 3 a little bent at the lower margin. Otherwise an exceptional copy inside and out. "The Gilded Age a period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in US history during the 1870s gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington DC and is peopled with caricatures of many leading figures of the day including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians" Britannica. Among these notable "robber barons" were recognizably John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan. Fine. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1953réf. 86009London: Bodley Head 1953. First edition. 189 pp. Some light offsetting to the first leaf fine in very near fine dust jacket. London: Bodley Head, unknown books
1967réf. 84290London: Bodley Head 1967. First edition. 263 pp. Very near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to spine. London: Bodley Head unknown books
1927réf. 85127NY: Viking 1927. First edition. 241 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. Young 4000. NY: Viking, unknown books
1958réf. 83924London: Collins 1958. First edition. 317 pp. A few marks to bottom edge and light soiling to others. In all near fine in near fine dust jacket. London: Collins, unknown books
1985réf. 80514Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1985. First edition. 256 pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Small US distributor sticker on title page and front flap else fine in very near dust jacket. Features the sequence “Experimental Sonnets” out of print for twenty years. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, unknown books
2002réf. 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
1977réf. 79682London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1977. First edition. 250 pp. Some light soiling to page edges else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Previous owner has inked “CORRECTION: p4” on the front free endpaper and crossed out “London Review of Books” and added “The Albion Review” to the margin. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
2006réf. 79828London: Jonathan Cape 2006. First edition. 389 pp. Slight lean to spine else near fine in fine dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1988réf. 79681London: Chatto & Windus 1988. First edition. 277 pp. Pages toned cheap paper else near fine in near fine dust jacket. London: Chatto & Windus unknown books
1982réf. 80107NY: Viking 1982. First US edition. 177 pp. Hard erasure to first leaf else very near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. NY: Viking unknown books
1994réf. 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
2012réf. 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
