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1958Best.-Nr. 163718Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage reference photograph taken on location for the 1958 film showing Stanley Kramer directing actor Sidney Poitier. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Two prisoners-one white one Black-are shackled together on a chain gang. Deciding to escape they are forced to cooperate in order to survive in the countryside eventually finding empathy for each other in the process. The film was shot on a closed set due to the then-provocative subject matter with special screenings orchestrated in the southern United States for integrated audiences a fairly uncommon occurrence at the time. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine lightly toned and worn at the corners. United Artists unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 163718Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage reference photograph taken on location for the 1958 film showing Stanley Kramer directing actor Sidney Poitier. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Two prisoners-one white one Black-are shackled together on a chain gang. Deciding to escape they are forced to cooperate in order to survive in the countryside eventually finding empathy for each other in the process. The film was shot on a closed set due to the then-provocative subject matter with special screenings orchestrated in the southern United States for integrated audiences a fairly uncommon occurrence at the time. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine lightly toned and worn at the corners. United Artists unknown
1958Best.-Nr. 139877N.p.: Curtleigh Productions 1958. Vintage US three-sheet poster for the 1958 US film. The film won two Academy Awards for best writing and cinematography and was nominated for another seven. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier were lauded for their performances in this Academy Award winning drama in which two prisoners from a chain-gang escape. One white one African American the men originally cooperate out of necessity as they are chained to one another. However as they grow familiar with one another a deep bond and mutual respect develops between the men. "The Defiant Ones" was shot on a closed set due to the then-provocative subject matter. Special screenings were orchestrated in the southern United States for integrated audiences a relatively uncommon occurrence at the time. Montgomery Alabama however chose to cancel an integrated screening when the White Citizen's Committee Council protested the film claiming it gave rise to "moral support and financial gain to subversive propagandists" AFI catalogue. Set in the American South shot on location in California. 41 x 81 inches folded. Very Good with numerous pin holes moderate edgewear and extensive tape reinforcements to the verso. Manuscript annotations to the verso and a stamp indicating three-sheet poster. Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. Curtleigh Productions unknown
Best.-Nr. 116139723X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 940176901X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1974Best.-Nr. x-940176901XSpringer Verlag 1974. Paperback. New. 1974 edition. 56 pages. 10.99x8.27x0.12 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
Best.-Nr. ria9789401769013_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
Best.-Nr. B9789401769013Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1969Best.-Nr. 363113Nova Broadcast 1969. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. The Dead Star Nova Broadcast 5 "Dutch Schultz Machine Gunned in Newark Bar. 3 Aides Die October 23 1935." The edition is not stated precisely; it could be a First U.S. Edition but this item could also have been the first such of Nova Broadcast that was published in the U.S. making this a true First Edition. The publisher Jan Jacob Herman b. Jan. 2 1942 notes that is was published previously in a "slightly different format" in "my own mag" in English giving credit to Jess Nuttall the publisher. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy but complete and sturdy mounted in sleeved card-stock. Staple-bound purple pink and rose heavy card-stock wraps a bit rubbed and with lightly rusted staples encasing a folded 11-page spurting of his usual wild literary forays public readings Puerto Rican boy-punks drug-using kimosabes crime-syndicate big-wigs and according shoot-outs but rendered a bit in the manner of Hunter S. Thompson and with grainy black-and-white photographs a la maybe a Weegee. The text is dialogue-heavy and rendered Celine-like in ellipsis and not much more punctuation. No place of publication listed but the editor publisher author and journalist Herman founded NOVA Broadcast Press as well as the journal San Francisco Earthquake 1967-1971. Herman "published Beat post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists such as William Burroughs Allen Ginsberg Dick Higgins Wolf Vostell Norman Mustill Claude Pelieu Mary Beach Liam O'Gallagher and Nanos Valaoritis. He worked with Higgins at Something Else Press becoming the editor 1972-1974. He co-wrote Cut Up or Shut Up with Carl Weissner and Jurgen Ploog and published other experimental fiction. He is also the author of A Talent for Trouble the biography of the director William Wyler" see the Northwestern University library "finding aids" page devoted to "people" and the Jan Herman Archive. Herman became a reporter and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Times and then even a Senior Editor at MSNBC!Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Nova Broadcast paperback
1928Best.-Nr. 140943459Nashville: The Sunday School Publishing Board 1928. First edition. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lettering a little rubbed wear at tips former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents Jacob Tileston Brown 1863-1947 was one of the first African Americans to write Sunday School literature. He served as editor-in-chief of the National Baptist Convention's Sunday School Publishing Board for 23 years. This volume describes itself as "An experimental study observation and suggestion on the deaconship by himself and many of the very best ministers and scholars of the denomination both colored and white. The Sunday School Publishing Board unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 140943459Nashville: The Sunday School Publishing Board 1928. First edition. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lettering a little rubbed wear at tips former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents Jacob Tileston Brown 1863-1947 was one of the first African Americans to write Sunday School literature. He served as editor-in-chief of the National Baptist Convention's Sunday School Publishing Board for 23 years. This volume describes itself as "An experimental study observation and suggestion on the deaconship by himself and many of the very best ministers and scholars of the denomination both colored and white. The Sunday School Publishing Board unknown
1854Best.-Nr. 54332illustrated title page explanatory pages 2 43 pages illustrated with black and white engravings publisher's adverts at rear 2 comes in custom-made green cloth case with coloured paper to front and rear that matches covers of book No.2 in the 'Flowers from the gardens of knowledge' series Published by Nathaniel Cooke hardcover
1853Best.-Nr. C214472London: Nathaniel Cooke 1853. Paperback . Very Good. Original illustrated covers with some edge wear and fading backstrip mostly perished otherwise very good. Nathaniel Cooke, paperback
2000Best.-Nr. 419305New York: The Sprit That Moves Us Press 2000. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in glossy boards. Inscribed to a noted American poet. The Sprit That Moves Us Press hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 419305New York: The Sprit That Moves Us Press 2000. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in glossy boards. Inscribed to a noted American poet. The Sprit That Moves Us Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0874513685New. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
1986Best.-Nr. Q-0874513685Brandeis University Press 1986-05-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Brandeis University Press hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. Q-1584652403Brandeis University Press 1986-06-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Brandeis University Press paperback
Best.-Nr. 12-0710Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur 1972. Salzburg Studies in English Literature under the Direction of Professor Erwin Stürzl. Romantic Reassessment Editor: Dr. James Hogg. 8vo. 231 pp. Very good in wraps. Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1972. paperback
Best.-Nr. 41936728like new. unknown
2020Best.-Nr. x-1532653891Cascade Books 2020. Hardcover. New. 192 pages. 6.00x0.56x9.00 inches. Cascade Books hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1532653891.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. SDR123FBADP1026201832Liveright 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good condition with wear and markings ex-library. Liveright hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. 205503New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1933. First American edition. Fine in a very slightly rubbed dust jacket. 8vo 317pp; green cloth. An early novel orig. 1897 by Wassermann updating the story of the false prophet Sabbatai Zvi in a modern context. Liveright Publishing Corporation unknown
2017Best.-Nr. 4451San Antonio TX: The Swordfish Islands 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to 8.5"x11". Black faux leather-covered boards with giltstamped titles and blind embossed decoration to upper board. No dj. as issued. B&W illus. throughout. Signed by Hurst Hernandez Peterson and Garcia to first page. The Swordfish Islands hardcover
