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1947réf. 2352924New York: Rinehart & Company Inc 1947. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. Fink Robert. 4th printing. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners jacket price clipped. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1947 Hard Cover. 406 pp. Black-and-white woodcut vignettes by Robert Fink. One of the scarcest titles in the Rivers of America series. "The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years.The Everglades: River of Grass is a non-fiction book written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1947. Published the same year as the formal opening of Everglades National Park the book was a call to attention about the degrading quality of life in the Everglades and continues to remain an influential book on nature conservation as well as a reference for information on South Florida used as recently as 2007 by the New York Times. Rinehart & Company, Inc hardcover books
1896réf. 2353008Springfield Mass: King-Richardson Publishing Co 1896. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Pettee Walter C.; Myrick Frank; Payne George S. Front hinge loosening front free endpaper absent flyleaves toned front matter lightly foxed discoloration on rear board some of which is in a lattice pattern we suspect this was stored on shelf with that pattern part of which became wet at some point. 1896 Hard Cover. a-z 49-701 pp. Burgundy cloth gilt titles black rules borders and decorations floral endpapers. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates from illustrations by Walter C. Pettee Frank Myrick and George S. Payne photographic plates featuring the various authors precede the text. A compendium of the history of human achievement in a variety of disciplines notable for its equitable treatment of accomplishments by women. King-Richardson Publishing Co hardcover books
1933réf. 2348204New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 5x3x0. McNab Allan. First edition first state p. 352 line 6: Xaxier; p. 397 line 22: found found; p. 1086 line 18: blacksmith ship. Near fine book with original jacket in good condition unclipped $3.00 list price on front flap. Jacket toned minimal loss from jacket spine head a few closed 1/2 inch tears along edges. 1933 Hard Cover. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. "From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916 when he was in the National Guard serving on the Mexican Border Hervey Allen has been a colorful figure among American writers. His war diary Toward the Flame was recognized as one of the most vivid of the American accounts of active service in France. His Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Poe was generally recognized as the definitive work on the subject. His several volumes of poetry have been widely praised. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1923réf. 2343522New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1923. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reissue. No jacket. Spine leans slightly to the right front board slightly bowed ink name on front endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. 337 pp. A travelogue of the author's voyages in Southeast Asia. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
réf. 2323677New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1944. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners fore edge faintly foxed front hinge just beginning to weaken pages lightly toned. 1944 Hard Cover. 305 pp. Color frontispiece mirrors jacket art. Number 2 in series by author of Anthony Adverse. "On the only road leading west over the mountains at Bedford there is a tavern Pendergasses'. Here centers the local life of the frontier and here we find Salathiel Albine again who was captured as a child by the Shawnees but escaped to Fort Pitt."--jacket Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1761réf. 82048London: Printed for E. Dilly . G. Keith . and T. Smith 1761. Pamphlet. Very Good. 50p. i.e. 59 20cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Pages 6-14 numbered in duplicate in all copies. Printed for E. Dilly ... G. Keith ... and T. Smith unknown books
1746réf. 20822London: Printed for W. Webb 1746. This work is attributed to the eccentric 18th-century British pamphleteer Thomas Hervey. Hervey studied for a time at Christ Church Oxford eventually took a place in Parliament for one of the seats for his family's borough of Bury St. Edmunds and gained a reputation for drinking scribbling and becoming "unhinged" before his time. In the work at hand he rails against newly voted-in regiments. Modern green cloth. Unobtrusive cancelled library stamp else near fine. DNB IX pp.741-42. hardcover books
1924réf. M6217London:: Leonard Parsons; Boston: Small Maynard 1924. 1924. Roadmaker Series. FIRST EDITION. 187 x 132 mm. Small 8vo. 214 pp. Frontis. port. figs. bibliog. index. Red cloth gilt spine; spine faded lightly rubbed. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good. Leonard Parsons; Boston: Small, Maynard, (1924). hardcover books
1934réf. 625707New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Single volume edition. Thick octavo. xix 748pp. Illustrated. Gutter cracked before title page spine lightly age-toned corners lightly bumped else very good. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1934réf. 625757New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Single volume edition. Thick octavo. xix 748pp. Illustrated. Light foxing on illustrated pages cloth soiled with spine title a bit worn else very good being Philadelphia educator Hadassah M. Leeds' copy with her name penned on front fly in the year of publication. Hadassah Leeds was the co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1934réf. 625759New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Thick octavo. xix 748pp. Illustrated. Light foxing on spine near fine. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1934réf. 625754New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1934. Hardcover. Good. Single volume edition. Thick octavo. xix 748pp. Illustrated. Hinges taped owner bookplate and stamp on front endpapers cloth moderately soiled a good only copy. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1941réf. 140945954St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company 1941. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by Hervey Cleckley on the front free endpaper inscribed "For Vincent Roberts With kind regards and all good wishes for success in his explorations of personality function along the rubro-spinal tract in the Id and the Super-ego." vi 298 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with light shelf wear a few small stains to the covers; former owner pasted the original dust jacket on the front and rear pastedowns and rear endpaper. Contents toned with scattered foxing. Perhaps the definitive work on psychopathy often generally referred to today as "sociopathy" from an American psychiatrist whose work influenced everything from the films Psycho and The Three Faces of Eve co-writing the book the latter was based on to Hare's Psychopathy Checklist. Documentary filmmaker Erroll Morris has hailed him as "one of the unsung 20th century figures. The C.V. Mosby Company unknown books
1957réf. 140946028New York: The authors & McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1957. Near Fine/Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. Signed by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley on the front pastedown. Thigpen has warmly inscribed and signed the front free endpaper dated June 1 1995 "For Irving Victor a close classmate in medical school. With feelings that do not readily lend themselves to words--I shall never forget your straight level look and the warmth of our last handclasp." Bound in cloth-affect blue and green binding lettered in silver. Near Fine with edge wear light foxing to all edges. In a supplied Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. The authors' reprint of a famous case study of Eve White a virtuous housewife with multiple personality disorder. This case study would go on to bring awareness to the psychological condition. Later adapted into the Academy Award winning film of the same name featuring Oscar-winner Joanne Woodward David Wayne and Lee J. Cobb. Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity originally published in 1941 remains a cornerstone of clinical psychopathy. [The authors &] McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc unknown books
1922réf. 1414061New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 131 pages. In Good minus condition. Quarter bound brown spine with blue boards bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have moderate wear including slight plus age toning and rubbing to the edges/corners. Text block has slight plus wear including foxing to the fore edges and slight offsetting/foxing to the end papers. Illustrated. First edition. Signed by both authors. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Column CC. 1414061. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1941réf. 165319Universal City: Universal Pictures 1941. Four vintage publicity photographs including two portrait photographs of Irene Hervey by photographer Ray Jones 1940-1941. All four photographs with studio stamps on the versos crediting photographer Jones two with studio stamps noting Hervey in Universal Pictures and two with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. 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. Stage screen and television actress Irene Hervey had a career spanning five decades and appeared in 59 films and numerous television series. Some of her more notable roles include "The Stranger's Return" 1933 "The Count of Monte Cristo" 1934 "Destry Rides Again" 1939 "The Boys from Syracuse" 1940 "Night Monster" 1942 "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid" 1948 and "A Cry in the Night" 1956 as well as appearing as a guest star on the 1960s and 1970s television shows "Perry Mason" "Honey West" and "My Three Sons." Her final role was in the Clint Eastwood thriller "Play Misty for Me" 1971. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1939réf. 164684Universal City: Universal Pictures 1939. Three vintage publicity photographs one of which is a keybook photograph of Irene Hervey 1939. Two photographs with mimeo snipes on the versos one with two stamps on the verso including a studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones. 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. Film stage and television actress Irene Hervey appeared in over fifty films and numerous television series over her five-decade career. Among some of the more notable films in which she appeared includes "The Count of Monte Cristo" 1934 "The Girl Said No" 1937 "Destry Rides Again" 1939 "Night Monster" 1942 and "Play Misty for Me" 1971. Beginning in the 1950s Hervey concentrated on television work with appearances in such shows as "Peter Gunn" "Perry Mason" "Ironside" "The Twilight Zone" and "Charlie's Angels" as well as a recurring role in "Honey West" 1965-66. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with an adhesive shadow to the top of the keybook photograph. Universal Pictures unknown books
1937réf. 164656Universal City: Universal Pictures 1937. Vintage publicity photograph of Kent Taylor and Irene Hervey from the 1937 film. 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. Irene Hervey stars as Heather McHale who runs the Salmon Club in the Pacific Northwest who discovers a guest Kent Taylor as engineer Owen Merrill plans to build a dam on the local river and is determined to stop him. Shot on location in San Bernardino National Forest California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light bruising to the upper left. Universal Pictures unknown books
1957réf. 164297N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage reference photographs of actress Joanne Woodward on the set of the 1957 film-one showing Woodward with Lee J. Cobb the other showing Woodward with David Wayne. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the case of Chris Costner Sizemore a woman believed to have dissociative identity disorder then called multiple personality disorder. Woodward received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1941réf. 146099Universal City: Universal Pictures 1941. Post-production script for the 1942 film. An aviation drama celebrating Pan-American oceanic flyers wherein a young foreign correspondent agrees to take on one last mission to investigate a missing jewels case in Bombay India before retiring his wings and settling down with his fiancee. An early appearance by noted Dominican actress and so-called "Queen of Technicolor" Maria Montez better known throughout the 1940s for playing hot-blooded bejeweled seductresses in adventure epic films. Set in India and the Philippines. White titled self wrappers with title page integral with the front wrapper dated AUGUST 26 1941 with credits for actors William Gargan Irene Hervey Charles Lang Maria Montez Lloyd Corrigan and Mary Gordon. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered REEL SIX PAGE 20. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with creasing to the right edges bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1938réf. 147687Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Harebrained comedy wherein international golf champion Richard "Ricky" Carrington Jr. Ray Milland returns home to New York with his new Parisian wife Julie Olympe Bradna only to find his parents arranged a financially motivated marriage for him to his childhood friend the wealthy heiress Auriol Marsden Irene Hervey. Self wrappers front wrapper dated August 16 1938 rubber-stamped production No. 1569. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered J-10. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine saddle-stapled with two staples. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1938réf. 139219Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph of Ray Milland from the 1938 film. Milland is shown pointing at an unseen woman in a chair. Based on a play by Deval. A financially strapped couple attempt to wed their son a golf pro to a wealthy heiress. What they do not know is that their son is already married. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957réf. 218598New York: McGraw-Hill 1957. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. ix 308 pages. 8vo two-toned cloth lightly rubbed d.w. New York: McGraw Hill 1957. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. McGraw-Hill unknown books
1933réf. 12107ANTHONY ADVERSE Farrar & Rinehart 1933 first edition 3 volumes some very slight wear to the spines as must always be the case else fine in suede binding and vg glassine dust wrappers as issued. 1/105 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. The authors most well known title and the source book for the film of the same name. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1922réf. 11782CAROLINA CHANSONS -LEGENDS OF THE LOW COUNTRY Macmillan 1922 first edition slight wear to rear corner tips else near fine in attractive dust-wrapper with some shallow chipping to the upper margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel and with the bottom 1/3 of the dust-wrapper spine absent. Heyward's first book albeit a collaboration. Macmillan unknown books
