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1953réf. 168613New York: Galerie St. Etienne 1953. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition which ran from April through May of 1953 at Galerie St. Etienne. With black-and-white reproductions of Moses' work. Outsider artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as "Grandma Moses" began painting in earnest at the age of 78 drawing on her memories of rural life in New England. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. Galerie St. Etienne unknown books
1988réf. 169970Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1988. First Draft script for Season 1 Episode 4 of the 1989 television series. A spinoff of the 1985-1988 television series "Spenser: For Hire" which was based in turn on Robert B. Parker's long-running detective novel series. In this episode Hawk helps an old friend a defense attorney who has taken on a seemingly hopeless murder case. Originally aired on February 18 1989 on ABC. Shot on location in Washington DC. Red titled wrappers dated December 23 1988 and noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 23 1988 noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
2019réf. 164199Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 2019. Production Design script for the 2022 film. Copy likely belonging to props handler Brennon Foster with their manuscript annotations throughout. A child believes his reclusive neighbor is a vigilante super hero presumed dead twenty-five years ago. Set in the fictional Granite City shot on location in Atlanta Georgia. Spiral bound clear mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present dated 12/17/19 noted as Revised White Draft on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Bragi F. Schut. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1999réf. 163943Santa Barbara CA: McGee Street Productions 1999. Shooting script for the 2000 television film here under the working title "Atticus." From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the 1996 novel "Atticus" by Ron Hansen. A man goes to Mexico to try and understand the circumstances surrounding his son's suicide. Set in Mexico shot on location in Santa Barbara California. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Cherry titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 03/08/99 with credits for screenwriters Richard Kletter D.W. Owen and Sally Robinson and for novelist Ron Hansen. Title page integral with front wrapper. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 02/11/99 and 03/08/99 with internally duplicated with copied annotations. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. McGee Street Productions unknown books
1952réf. 9031720New York: Harper & Brothers 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by Grandma Moses on half-title page. Edited by Kallir. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth with brown paper-covered boards spine stamped in gilt and cover stamped in black. Illustrated with sixteen color plate reproductions of paintings eight pages of facsimiles of letters and twelve black and white photographs. Book is fine except for very minimal wear to extremities through paper on bottom two corners. Dust jacket looks great in mylar but has a 3/4 x 1/2 inch chip to top edge of front cover 3 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom of front cover and general wear to extremities. Dust jacket therefore is in good condition but looks much better than it sounds. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 140 pages plus letters and plates. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1950réf. 162911N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless oversize matte finish portrait photograph of noted outsider artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as Grandma Moses sitting in her wicker rocking chair circa 1950s. Moses began painting in earnest at the age of 78 drawing on her memories of rural life in New England. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 11 x 14 inches archivally matted in a 16 x 20 inch 8-ply white mat. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1989réf. 160897N.p.: N.p. 1989. Vintage script for an unproduced musical play. An overworked Hollywood actress attempts to negotiate a new contract and befriends an aged star of the silver screen. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1989 with credits for playwrights Richard Moses and Deborah Phelan. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-6-44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1972réf. 141420New York: Theatre Guild Productions 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. A washed-up musician and music publisher travels around Europe meeting and unsuccessfully pursuing women. Set in Europe. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Jonothan Moses. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Theatre Guild Productions unknown books
1938réf. 775691938. Aronson Moses J. Cardozo's Doctrine of Sociological Jurisprudence. New York: "Reprinted from Journal of Social Philosophy Vol. 4 no. 1 October 1938." 5-44 pp. Stapled pamphlet light shelfwear light wear and fading to spine author's presentation inscription to head of front cover: "To Professor D.R. Scott/ with cordial regards Moses J Aronson." $25. unknown books
1908réf. 63654New Haven: Yale Publishing Company 1908. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; blue cloth gilt; xii192pp. Titling just a shade dulled on spine else a tight clean Near Fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. First book publication of Sinclair Lewis as "H.S. Lewis" following numerous magazine appearances. Edited and with a contribution by Robert Moses who graduated Yale in 1909 and went on to become a hugely influential figure in New York City urban planning. Yale Publishing Company unknown books
1974réf. 158170N.p.: Gordon Park Jr. Robert Anderson Production 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film here under the working title "Aaron and Angela." A coming-of-age story set in Harlem about the love between a Black basketball player and a Puerto Rican girl sparking disapproval from their families and neighbors. Featuring excellent location footage of a violent decaying half-abandoned 1970s New York. Irene Cara's screen debut. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1 1974 with credits for screenwriter Gerald Sanford. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema. Parish & Hill 1. Gordon Park Jr. Robert Anderson Production unknown books
1971réf. 158031Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1971. Vintage studio still photograph of director Gordon Parks smoking a pipe on the set of the 1971 film. Stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1970 novel by Ernest Tidyman. One of the best and most enduring films of the early 1970s and no surprise with director/photographer/cinematographer extraordinaire Gordon Parks at the helm an Oscar-winning soundtrack by Isaac Hayes and a magnetic performance by Richard Roundtree. This film and Melvin Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" 1971 set the standard for what would become "Blaxploitation" a highly stylized violent and most importantly funky genre. Followed by "Shaft's Big Score!" 1972 and "Shaft in Africa" 1973. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners. National Film Registry. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 7 10-11 13 23 28 38 46 48 72 188. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1650réf. 68492London: Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock 1650. First and only edition. Small quarto 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 180 x 139 mm. 8 100 2 pp. Bound without final blank. With engraved initials head and tail pieces. Newer half calf over contemporary speckled paper boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some minor toning and foxing throughout. Top margin trimmed close occasionally affecting running headline. Previous owner's morocco bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. "In early modern marriage conduct books wives are advised to submit to their husbands and husbands are advised as the 'lords of the house' to keep order by rebuking and controlling their wives. Most marriage books however do not condone wife beating. Moses a Vauts was one of the few who supported wife beating. In The Husband's Authority Unvail'd. wherein it is moderately discussed whether it be fit or lawfull for a good Man to beat his bad Wife he states 'If Wives will invent strange new Fashions and frisking strains of Disobedience. why should not their Husbands suit them with new Forms of Discipline" Vauts also declares 'It were well and better the wife could not deserve Blows; but if they be due or needful or best for her why should they be denied her'" Custome is an Idiot: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women. Edited by Susan Gushee O'Malley ESTC R205920. HBS 68492. $3500. Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock unknown books
1971réf. 154512Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1971. Vintage reference photograph of director Gordon Parks on the set of the 1971 film. Stamp and mimeo snipe of Sun Magazine and The Salt Lake Tribune on the verso along with a printed label noting use by "Celebrity Cookbook" dated June 20 1971. Based on the 1970 novel by Ernest Tidyman. One of the best and most enduring films of the early 1970s and no surprise with director/photographer/cinematographer extraordinaire Gordon Parks at the helm an Oscar-winning soundtrack by Isaac Hayes and a magnetic performance by Richard Roundtree. This film and Melvin Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" 1971 set the standard for what would become "Blaxploitation" a genre highly stylized violent and most importantly funky. Followed by "Shaft's Big Score!" 1972 and "Shaft in Africa" 1973. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 7 10-11 13 23 28 38 46 48 72 188. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1832réf. 55574Boston: Perkins and Marvin 1832. First Edition. First printing. Octavo in fours 24cm. In original tan paper-covered boards backed in blue ribbon-embossed cloth with small remnants of original paper spine label; plain endpapers; i-viii 9-180pp. With occasional contemporary annotations. A straight copy with general moderate wear and rubbing to boards inch-long tears to cloth over lower spine foxing throughout largely in margins: Good or better. Chaldean and Chaldee were common misnomers for Aramaic. ROSENBACH 350. Perkins and Marvin unknown books
1975réf. 150615Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1975. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1975 film. With the stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services on the verso. Loosely based on Ronald Fair's 1966 novel "Hog Butcher." Two African American children are the key witnesses against the corrupt police officers who mistakenly murdered their best friend and local hero Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton in a manhunt. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1838réf. 664731838. Dedham Mass.: 1838. Dedham Mass.: 1838. 1838 Libel Case in Dedham Massachusetts Due to an Accusation of Adultery Trial. Pond Preston 1792-1868 Defendant. Report of the Case of Rev. Moses Thatcher Vs. Gen Preston Pond For Slander In Charging Him with Committing the Crime of Adultery. Reported for the Dedham Patriot. Dedham MA: Dedham Patriot and Boston Times 1838. 31 pp. Quarto 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in contemporary thick patterned-paper wrappers hand-lettered title panel to front cover. Some rubbing to extremities with a bit of wear to spine ends and corners a few minor tears to wrappers. Light browning to text occasional light foxing dampstains to a few leaves two leaves have clean tears light soiling to title page. Early annotations and signatures to title page interior otherwise clean. $650. Only edition. "Moses Thacher sometimes spelled Thatcher charged Pond with slander. Pond pleaded not guilty and alleged truth as a defense. The jury found for the plaintiff and awarded $5.00 in damages and $1.25 in costs" Cohen. After the trial Thacher left New England and served as pastor in Wysox Pennsylvania and in Courtland and Cayuga Counties in New York. The trials attracted a fair amount of attention; according to Cohen it was discussed in three pamphlets. All are scarce. OCLC locates 7 copies of the Report in North American law libraries Columbia Harvard Library of Congress Social Law University of Minnesota University of Missouri William and Mary. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 12063. unknown books
1974réf. 132530London: Marron Films 1974. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1974 UK release of the 1973 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos and 1 still with layout annotations. A horror-comedy about a reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the US President. He is sent to Hungary where he is bitten by a werewolf and then gets transferred back to Washington. Suddenly the murder rate in Washington DC escalates. 8 x 10 inches. A few ink annotations on the versos and faint discoloration to 2 stills else Near Fine. Marron Films unknown books
2000réf. 9015664New York: Knopf 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. Knopf hardcover books
1973réf. 116741New York: Harry N. Abrams 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Massive monograph with text by Kallir. Includes 253 large illustrations with 135 in color along with an additional 1203 documentary illustrations. A fine and tight copy in a bright very near fine dust jacket with a tiny almost invisible stain to the top front corner. Still one of the best books on Grandma Moses. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
1824réf. 136871824. GUEST MOSES. Poems on Several Occasions. To which are Added Extracts from a Journal Kept by the Author while he Followed the Sea and During a Journey from New-Brunswick in New-Jersey to Montreal and Quebec. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds 1824. 160 p. Contemporary sheep heavily worn and scuffed hinges broken. Foxed. Modern bookplates. Good only. Second edition with some alterations from the first edition printed in Cincinnati the previous year. Guest was a New Brunswick native. During the Revolutionary War he commanded the party of Middlesex militia that captured John Graves Simcoe shortly after Simcoe's notorious raid into Somerset County in 1779. After the war Guest became a mariner and remained in New Brunswick until removing to Cincinnati in 1817. Many of Guest's poems concern individuals and events in New Brunswick and New Jersey. See Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 814 for considerably more detail. American Imprints 16357. unknown books
1806réf. 129991806. HODGDON MOSES. The Complete Justice of the Peace Containing Extracts from Burn's Justice and other Justiciary Productions . By a Gentleman of the Profession. Dover N.H.: For Charles Peirce and Samuel Bragg Jr. Nov. 1806. 8 431 p. Modern cloth neat but undistinguished. Very good. Popular New Hampshire legal vade mecum patterned on Burn. S&S 10069 10569; BEAL 8395. unknown books
2004réf. 9004692New York: Knopf 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter white cloth and cream boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Knopf hardcover books
1896réf. 20000823Boston and New York: Forbes Co 1896. Good. Dust soiling nicks/chipping to extremities modern paper repairs a few short tears within. A souvenir-style photo book featuring "130 Views" of New York City published by Moses King and promoting a Boston company by the name of John H. Pray Sons & Co. purveyors of carpets rugs and upholstery fabrics. Content includes a brief introduction to the significance of New York followed by dozens of photo illustrations of the city. Some images include: Washington Square Arch; Columbia College Library; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; St. Patrick's Cathedral; Madison Square Garden; and the Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion. Paints a vivid picture of what these famous streets and buildings actually looked like in the 1890s. Single vol. 14.5" by 10" pp. 32 photo-illus. in original yellow and black illus. wraps with aerial view of Manhattan on upper wrapper. No copies located in WorldCat as of Sept. 2026. Forbes Co unknown books
1906réf. 52779New York: The Century Co 1906. Good plus. Scarce first edition of this turn of the century reading primer featuring the mischievous little sprites from Cox's popular BROWNIE books. Thoughtfully arranged snippets from Cox's BROWNIES books are paired with lessons and vocabulary words in this primer intended to serve as classroom text for young children learning to read. 7.5'' 5.5''. Original pictorial cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout in brown with green printed text. Additional text by Mary C. Judd grading and editing by Montrose J. Moses. 108 pages. Previous owner's name inked to "this book belongs to" page; a few stray pencil notes. Bookseller sticker to rear pastedown. Book with notable soil and wear. The Century Co unknown books
