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1999Best.-Nr. 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
1950Best.-Nr. 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
1989Best.-Nr. 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
1972Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 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
1650Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 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
1975Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 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
1824Best.-Nr. 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
1806Best.-Nr. 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
1896Best.-Nr. 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
1642Best.-Nr. 254936Amsterdam: Jioh & Corneium Blaeu 1642. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum with ms. spine title covers slightly soiled upper joint cracked. Institutional shelfmark in ink on title-page ; bookplae of HENRY FERGUSON of Stamford Connecticut "Henry Ferguson from the Library of Rev. FREDERIC GARDINER" and signed by Gardiner on the front pastedown "Leipzig 1854. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Scarce second edition of Maimonides' tract on idolatry with an important new foreword "to the Reader" by Isaac Vossius brother of the recently deceased translator Dionysius Vossius 1612-1642 as well as a new dedicatory poem by Caspar Barlaeus. Maimonides' text is usually accompanied as it is here by the massive commentary by Gerardus Vossius father of Isaac and Dionysius DE THEOLOGIA GENTILI . a book said to have been an iinfluence on Isaac Newton; his library contained an "extensively dog-eared" copy of the book John Harrison THE LIBRARY OF ISAAC NEWTON Cambridge University Press p. 258. This particular copy has a very distinguished provenance. Dr. Frederic Gardiner was an Episcopal clergyman Biblican scholar founder of the American Exegetical Society and author of several books including a Harmony of the Gospels. Henry Ferguson of Stamford Ct. "studied theology in the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1872 he was made rector of Christ Church in Exeter N. H. and in 1878 rector of Trinity Church Claremont in the same state. In 1883 he became professor of history and political economy in Trinity College a position he filled with distinguished credit until commencement in 1906 when he resigned to become rector of St. Paul's School Concord N. H. In 1873 he married Emma J. Gardiner daughter of Professor Gardiner of the Berkeley Divinity School . His original specialty was Hebrew." Norris Galpin Osborn ed. MEN OF MARK IN CONNECTICUT Vol I p. 132. OCLC: 37317703 one copy in US; Vossius: Brunet V col. 1373 for editions of 1641 and 1668 Jioh, & Corneium Blaeu unknown books
1823Best.-Nr. 236441London: Printed by and for James Appleton Queen's Row Walworth 1823. First edition Appleton imprint. 28 of 29 engraved plates. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Original quarter morocco and boards with title label on upper cover " . Thirty Plates sic. Price Two Guineas". Piece removed from flyleaf; title page mounted. Plates clean; very good. First edition Appleton imprint. 28 of 29 engraved plates. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Delicate Flaxonesque engravings displaying Empire-style costumes and furnishings and scenes from literature Pope's Belinda and antiquity Pericles by Henry Moses 1782-1870. He enjoyed "a great reputation for his outline plates which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. His art was peculiarly suited to the representation of sculpture and antiquities and he published many sets of plates of that class " DNB. This work was published under various titles DESIGN OF MODERN COSTUME by several different London printers. Lipperheide 994; Colas 2143; Hiler p. 633 Printed by and for James Appleton, Queen's Row, Walworth unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 90432Los Gatos: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes 1972. First edition. 106 pp. Near fine in wrappers with lightly soiled spine and small inked price on the first leaf. Review material laid in. Los Gatos: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 61631NY: Columbia University Press 1950. Later printing. vi 327 pp w/index. Near fine in full black cloth with gold stamping. No dust jacket. NY: Columbia University Press hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. 61632NY: Columbia University Press 1952. Later printing. viii 474 pp w/index. Near fine in full black cloth with gold stamping. No dust jacket. NY: Columbia University Press hardcover books
1695Best.-Nr. 871351695. JUDAICA ALSHEKH Moses. Romemot El. Amsterdam: Printed in the house of David de Castro Tartas published by Eliezer ben Haninah 1695. Small quarto period-style full red morocco gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers raised bands black morocco spine label; ff. 94. $3500.Second edition the first Amsterdam edition of AlshekhÕs esteemed commentary on the Psalms beautifully bound.Alshekh d. after 1593 rabbi and Bible commentator was born in Adrianople studied in Salonika and then emigrated to Erez Israel settling in Safed where he gained prominence as an halakhic authority a teacher in two talmudic academies and a preacher. He was active in communal affairs and was a member of the rabbinical court of Joseph Caro who ordained him. This is the text that Hayyim Alshekh published in Venice in 1605 claiming that it was his fatherÕs authoritative text and not merely a preliminary draft which had been published a decade earlier in Constantinople under the title Tappuhei Zahav. AlshekhÕs Biblical commentaries which are permeated with religious-ethical and religious-philosophical ideas supported by ample quotations from talmudic and midrashic sources became quite popular and have often been reprinted.With an introduction by the publisher citing Ephraim Luntschitz on the importance of the work and quoting the authorÕs intentions in originally presenting this book to the public. Approbation on last leaf by Moses Judah ben Kalonymus Kohen known as Leib Harif the Ashkenazic Rabbi of Amsterdam. In addition the publisher adds after the first approbation: ÒAlso by the authority and with the permission of the great sage the head of the rabbinical court of the Sephardim our master and teacher Jacob Sasportas who has not however added his signature to the approbation due to a lack of time.Ó The importance of receiving even without an actual signed approbation the blessing or perceived blessing of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic authorities suggests the sharp divide between the two Amsterdam Jewish communities. With three leaves of text ff. 10-12 replaced in neat facsimile. Vinograd Amsterdam 637. Steinschneider 6431:13. A few early ink marginalia.Tiny repair to corner of title page not affecting border and first two leaves. A splendidly bound volume. hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 4324glsSan Juan P.R.: Plus Ultra Educational 1970. First Edition. Octavo cloth hardcover 103 pp. Very Good. Plus Ultra Educational, 1970. First Edition. hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 51091np: np 1973. First edition. 4to. 20 pp. Uneven toning to front cover else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Ten poems. (np): (np) unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 46011Boulder Creek: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes 1973. First edition. 115 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with faint sunning to spine. Cover art and title page by William T. Williams. Review slip laid in. Boulder Creek: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 25141Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1965. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in a near fine price clipped jacket. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, hardcover books
1842Best.-Nr. 69781Buffalo NY 1842. Four manuscript documents 4 pp. each approx. 31 cm. each docketed on verso. All in very good condition legible one document more toned. A record of moneys collected by Joy and Bristol as Commissioners for the State of New York for distribution to the Niagara Sufferers. The documents include: 1 "Amts collected including what is due & collectable." caption title. This document signed by Joseph Clary and Moses Bristol Dec. 31 1830 records amounts collected by the commissioners plus the costs for the state less assignments sent to the comptroller dividends due Joy and Bristol etc. a "statement of the affairs of the Niagara Sufferers in a/c with the Comms. J & B." 2 "Statement of the affairs of the Niagara Suffers with Joy & Bristol." caption title. Calculations on the second document signed by Clary and Bristol on Dec. 16 1833 record the total amount collected by Joy and Bristol to be $69205.30 with cash paid out to the sufferers amounting to $62913.69 plus expenses of $350. Left in the hands of Joy was $2511.30; Bristol $1649.72; Clary $1396.36; plus smaller amounts to three other people. 3 "Statement of the affairs of the Niagara Suffers with Joy & Bristol." caption title. Document dated Buffalo Feb. 1 1836 and signed by Clary and Joy. The total amount collected by Bristol and Joy amounted to $69281.39 including $42464.60 assigned to the comptroller Nov. 30 1825; plus $16955.40 on Dec. 27 1833; and $2900.50 on March 28 1835. Additional amounts were left to be distributed or recorded as expenses or paid in commissions to Joy & Bristol. A detailed breakdown of how the "Niagara suffer business stands between T. Joy M. Bristol & J. Clary" is also given. 4 "Statement of the affairs of the Niagara Sufferers with Joy & Bristol." caption title. This fourth document is a neater copy of the Feb. 1 1836 document docketed on verso: "copied from J. Clary's statement March 7 1842" and signed by M. Bristol. During the War of 1812 incursions by the British on American soil had resulted in the burning of towns the loss of property and the impoverishment of citizens. On the Niagara frontier this included the village of Buffalo which was nearly burned to the ground on Dec. 30 1813. In a letter written by members of the Committee of Safety and Relief at Canandaigua on Jan. 8 1814 it was reported that "Niagara county and that part of Genesee which lies west of Batavia are completely depopulated. All the settlements in a section of country forty miles square and which contained more than twelve thousand souls are effectually broken up. Our roads are filled with people many of whom have been reduced from a state of competence and good prospects to the last degree of want and sorrow." see: Louis Babcock's book "The War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier" Buffalo NY: 1927 pp.253-4 These "Niagara sufferers" were among the citizens of several states who petitioned the federal government for redress of losses suffered during the conflict. President Madison and Congress responded by establishing an Office of Claims in 1816 with Richard Bland Lee as its adminstrator "to solicit claims appraise lost property adjudicate cases and award restitution." According to a "Report of the Committee of Claims on the petition of the inhabitants of Niagara county New York sufferers by the enemy during the last war" dated Jan. 15 1821 and submitted to Congress these same "sufferers" in anticipation of federal relief began in 1816 to apply for loans from a newly established bank in the village of Buffalo. These citizens "being at that time in great want of means to rebuild their houses and repair their devastated estates were induced to apply to this bank for loans of money for that purpose and which loans they generally obtained by giving mortgages on their farms accompanied by honorary engagements that they should be repaid out of the moneys received by them under the law for their relief." New York also passed a law on April 15 1815 granting state loans to the sufferers. On Jan. 29 1822 the State of New York passed "An Act Granting relief to the sufferers on the Niagara frontier whose property was destroyed by the enemy during the late war." By this act the state trusting that the U.S. Congress would ultimately repay the sufferers in full for their losses as well as repay the state for their expenditures transferred to the commissioners 'the several debts due to the people of this state for monies loaned to the sufferers. also all monies due to this state on securities taken for the payment of the debt due from the Bank of Niagara. and all interest due on said several debts and on said bills." The commissioners were authorized to extend the term of five years for the debtors to repay their debts and to "take and receive the title to any lands or tenements mortgaged to the people of the state. and it shall be lawful for the commissioners to sell and in their own names convey any lands or tenements which under this act they may acquire." Once the federal monies were received by the state the residual due to the sufferers would be calculated. The commissioners were charged with accounting to the comptroller for the execution of the trust confided to them. Record is found in the New York newspapers of the day of several sales of mortgages taken out by "sufferers" in the years following the conclusion of the War of 1812 and transferred to Thaddeus Joy and Moses Bristol Acting Commissioners. Meanwhile the federal Office of Claims under Richard Lee was closed down for a time while investigations of its awards were carried on. Sectional rivalries also interfered with settlement claims by the federal government for the losses of private citizens. Citizens from the southern states whose slaves had been liberated by British forces had managed to get a proposal for their return or compensation included in the Treaty of Ghent which ended the war. Northern states appealed for some sort of equal calculations for their losses. According to Craig Hollander in his article "The Citizen Complains: Federal Compensation for Property Lost in the War of 1812" Law and History Review Vol. 38 No. 4 Nov. 2020 pp.659-698 the civilian sufferers "deftly created a sense of sectional aggrievement to garner additional support from their Northern colleagues." By as late as 1840 however many of the claims remained unresolved. In a letter to Thaddeus Joy written by Joseph Clary on Dec. 28 1840 Clary remarks that Dr. Moses Bristol "is very anxious to have the old Niagara Sufferers affairs brot to a close. It is now near seventeen years since the law authorizing a transfer of the debts to the sufferers was passed and it would seem very much like a neglect of duty for us to let the matter run this length of time without any effort to close it with the Comptroller." Clary continued to be concerned that Joy and Bristol would not be compensated for their work as commissioners. In Louis Babcock's book on the war he notes that "documents supplying further information on this aspect of the Niagara Sufferer's Claims are lacking so that for the present the matter is left untold." Babcock pp.318-19. unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 56644Raleigh NC: Edwards & Broughton 1902. First edition. Small 8vo. 230 pp. Illus. from photos portraits; errata slip tipped in. Howes A-221. Thornton 210. Orig. yellow limp cloth rubbed and soiled lower spine eroded. Still a good solid copy. 3053. Edwards & Broughton unknown books