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1942réf. 154146N.p.: N.p. 1942. Three vintage double weight photographs from the 1942 Broadway musical. With the insignia of New York photography studio Lucas-Monroe to the bottom corners and the studio stamp to the verso. The show opened on June 24 1942 running for a successful 609 performances before closing on December 4 1943. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1925réf. 151451N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the 1925 film showing actors George K. Arthur Bruce Guerin Otto Matiesen and Georgia Hale. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An impoverished group of dockside dwellers decide to move to the city to make their fortunes. Josef von Sternberg's directorial debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light foxing to the verso. N.p. unknown books
1967réf. 129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Xerogaphic duplication dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968réf. 144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968réf. 141612Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Snipe printed to the verso. A semi-biographical film based on Bernard Malamud's novel of the same name. The story of a Russian-Jew unjustly prisoned on accusations of blood libel. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Light wear to the top margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
2004réf. 217478Princeton NJ and Santa Fe NM: Princeton University Press and Georgia O'Keefe Museum 2004. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Features texts by Barbara Buhler Lynes Lesley Poling-Kempes and Frederick W. Turner. Includes numerous color illustrations. A very good copy with some minor wear and in a near fine dust jacket. From the library of actress and photographer Diane Keaton with a small Bonhams sale bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A nice copy with an interesting provenance. Princeton University Press and Georgia O'Keefe Museum unknown books
1950réf. 233431950. Steel construction photo archive documenting the labor system of midcentury building expansion in Macon Georgia depicting how fabrication delivery crane work and frame erection operated within the commercial and industrial growth of the postwar South. An unidentified commercial photographer working for local firms recorded construction as an active process through graded sites exposed structural skeletons transport vehicles stacked steel rail access and crews handling heavy members before enclosure. The presence of a truck marked "Georgia Steel Erectors and Fabricators" places the archive within the working world of regional steel contractors whose labor connected shop fabrication road transport and on-site assembly during the decades when Georgia cities expanded through new industrial plants warehouses and commercial structures. Photo archive of 10 silver gelatin photographs each 8" x 10" Macon Georgia circa 1950s to early 1960s. The photographs center on different stages of steel-frame construction including long rows of newly set columns broad skeletal buildings rising from cleared ground and partially enclosed structures with cranes positioned beside masonry walls and open bays. One image shows a crane truck with the side panel lettering "Georgia Steel Erectors and Fabricators" while another records large steel beams loaded on a trailer. Several views widen to include rail lines running directly into or beside the worksite stacked pipe or cylindrical materials graded roadbeds and an aerial overview that places the project within a larger industrial landscape of streets lots and service buildings. Laborers are shown throughout the archive on construction sites hauling and directing material. The sequence repeatedly favors unfinished structural stages over completed architecture making the archive a record of process material handling and coordinated building labor rather than a promotional set of finished-property views. Studio stamps en verso identify Drinnon Inc. by Ralph Jones Macon Georgia and one bearing the stamp Bryson's Photography Pensacola Florida. These photographs preserve the mechanics of midcentury construction at the point where steel fabrication transport and erection crews shaped Georgia's built environment. Macon's role as a commercial and industrial center made projects of this kind central to regional development and this archive shows that growth through the practical use of cranes beam delivery frame sequencing and the integration of road and rail infrastructure into the construction site itself. Light surface wear and minor edge wear; studio stamps clear on versos. Overall very good condition. The archive shows how labor materials and structural steel systems produced new industrial and commercial space in midcentury Georgia. unknown books
1994réf. 209107Washington DC and London: Brassey's 1994. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 237 pages. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Geyer to Michael Sneed in the year of publication. A very nice association copy as the recipient was a long time journalist at the Chicago Sun Times. Brassey's unknown books
2008réf. 68879Mountain View Calif: Artichoke Press 2008. Edition limited to 60 copies this no. 5; 3 volumes each approx. 5¾" x 4¼" pp. 20; 24; 28; 22 mounted paper cuttings; each in blue pictorial wrappers and mounted into a trifold binding of green cloth; printed wrap-around sleeve; fine. "A collaboration of ten authors and one bookmaker" title page II. "I asked authors to submit phrases which were cut from a written work words to which they were still emotionally attached words which led them to their finished poem or story."--Georgia Greeley Cuttings I p. 1. Three in OCLC: Hennepin County Library Ingram Library Service and LC. Artichoke Press unknown books
2010réf. 68905Place of publication not identified: Artichoke Press / Ephemeral Press January 2010. Edition limited to 35 copies this no. 31; 6" x 5" 10 interleaved bifolia; Layered Indigo Day a handmade flax sheet by Cave Paper forms the cover of a non-adhesive tab and fold binding. The book block is hand sewn comprised of textured Domestic Etching and interleaved Thai Kozo sheets. The text is set in 12 pt. Optima" colophon. Stitching becoming a little loose else fine. "Poems & illustrations: Georgia A. Greeley; book design: Sue Bjerke." Denver and Hennepin County in OCLC. Artichoke Press / Ephemeral Press, January unknown books
1886réf. 954441886. Very Good. Small single sheet. 17 x 11 cm. Handwritten in ink. Single horizontal fold in center with 2 cm. tear on right end. Several individual letters are smeared tears perhaps toward the bottom of the letter. Envelope not present. Text of the letter: "Dearest Sister I have been having quite the time caring for Jake Braswell's effects after the Lynching in the 15th. The Sheriff will not allow me to enter his room to collect his effects. I do believe that he has nothing of value. If I have to then I will contact an attorney to handle the whole affair. If Cate has no objections I will give his trappings to the undertaker who is the only leader in this town who is not KKK. Your loving brother Marcus" Above the word "Lynching" murdering is penciled in. Handwritten in pencil on back and signed in pencil. "Letter to the Hon. Gov. Henry D. McDaniel about Jake Braswell's murder in Bullock Georgia 1886 was Returned un-answered. Marcus." A contemporary newspaper account in an Indiana newspaper reported that Braswell had "horribly mistreated" Dolly Woods a 6 year old white girl who identified Braswell as her assailant after his capture. Braswell reportedly was given the choice of being burned or hanging himself. When he did not follow through on hanging himself Braswell was involuntarily hung and his body riddled with bullets. It is unclear how Marcus and his sister were related or otherwise connected to Braswell. unknown books
1998réf. 197012Milan Italy: Galleria Lawrence Rubin 1998. First edition. Softcover. 49 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 24 through October 20 1998. Features text in Italian with an essay by Georgia Cadenazzi. Includes 15 color plates along with a black and white photograph of Sultan a checklist list of previous exhibitions and bibliographic information. A near fine copy in French style wrappers. Galleria Lawrence Rubin unknown books
1978réf. 197715Rochster NY: Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochster 1978. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 14 through November 18 1978. Features an introduction and essay by Georgia Coopersmith. Includes 7 black and white illustrations and a checklist. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochster unknown books
1934réf. 189891934. Photograph album 1934-1940 documenting the service of a U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Benning Georgia; Fort Williams Maine; and additional locations across the northeastern United States Many photos captioned with names of fellow soldiers friends and placenames. This Album has relevance to the study of interwar military life mechanization and training practices prior to American entry into the Second World War. The images include multiple views of tanks such as the Mark VIII Renault Ford 3-ton and Christie models reflecting the transitional development of armored warfare during the interwar period. Scenes at Doughboy Stadium at Fort Benning evoke the continued presence of World War I memory within military culture while the broader sequence of photographs captures routine service camaraderie and movement across training posts. Captioned images identify fellow soldiers and locations and autograph pages at the beginning of the album preserve personal inscriptions humor and social connections within the unit. Additional photographs include landscapes from New York Vermont and Maine as well as personal images of acquaintances situating the soldier's experience within both military and civilian contexts. Photograph album containing 149 black and white silver gelatin photographs most measuring approx 2.5 x 3.5 inches with a few larger prints including examples measuring approximately 7 x 5 inches. The photographs are mounted in a suede-bound "Service Album" measuring approximately 11 x 7 inches with many images captioned in manuscript identifying individuals and locations. The content includes military equipment soldiers group portraits training environments and personal snapshots reflecting both formal and informal aspects of Army life during the late 1930s. The 149 photographs are mounted in the album with minimal losses; pages generally well preserved. Light wear consistent with handling; overall very good condition. A cohesive visual record of U.S. Army service and evolving military technology in the years immediately preceding World War II. unknown books
1966réf. 194481Fort Worth TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art 1966. First edition. Softcover. 30 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 17 through May 8 1966. Includes several black and white illustrations two black and white photographs of the artist biographical information and a checklist. A very good copy in wrappers with a small sticker shadow to the front cover and some other very minor wear. Internally a clean copy. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art unknown books
1907réf. 32022London / New York: Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton 1907. Fine in very good box. Charming puzzle adaptation of Greenland's illustrations for Georgia Roberts's THE TOY VILLAGE containing one more puzzle than recorded in the standard Nister reference. 10.25'' x 8''. Five wooden puzzles with color illustrations by Greenland in original publisher's cardboard box with pictorial paste-on. Four puzzles listed in Hunt 108. Illustrated instruction sheet mounted to inside of box lid. Minor wear to puzzles. Moderate wear and scuffing to boxes with tears at corners and repairs to lid. (Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton) unknown books
2003réf. 48205New York: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003. First printing. Fine in fine jacket. Signed first US edition of Byng's first novel a lighthearted runaway orphan hypnotist bildungsroman. 8'' x 5.5''. Original silver-stamped blue boards. In original metallic 3-D pictorial dust jacket by David Roberts designed by Amy Ryan. 371 3 pages. Signed by Byng on title page. Minimal edgewear. HarperCollinsPublishers unknown books
1733réf. 319970London: Thomas Baskett 1733. pp. 2 443-455 1 blank. Woodcut seal on the title. Folio. Disbound. Foxing trimmed. pp. 2 443-455 1 blank. Woodcut seal on the title. Folio. This Parliamentary Act authorized a grant of £10000 "for establishing the colony of Georgia in America to be applied toward defraying the charges of carrying over and settling foreign and other Protestants in the said colony" p. 448. The act further authorizes the application of £500000 from the sinking fund to pay off one million South Sea annuities. Not in Sabin Howes Rich Church Streeter or De Renne. Thomas Baskett unknown books
1888réf. 177281888. Jones Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast 1888 presenting a late nineteenth-century compilation of African American folklore recorded in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia and South Carolina coastal region with direct relevance to the study of Black oral traditions linguistic history and post-emancipation cultural expression. The volume gathers fable-like narratives often centered on anthropomorphic animals that reflect storytelling traditions rooted in African diasporic heritage and adapted within enslaved and freed communities of the coastal South. Its use of Gullah a Creole language shaped by West African linguistic structures and English situates the work within ongoing efforts of the period to document vernacular speech and preserve forms of cultural expression that had developed under slavery and persisted into Reconstruction and beyond. Jones Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1888. First edition. The text is rendered in Gullah dialect reflecting the linguistic patterns of African American communities along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts including areas around Savannah and Charleston. Jones raised in a plantation environment and familiar with the regional speech patterns compiled these narratives as part of a broader nineteenth-century interest in folklore and dialect studies contributing to early written records of Gullah language and storytelling traditions. Single volume. Ex libris. Minor foxing to the front pastedown and bumped corners; overall very good condition. A late nineteenth-century printed record of African American folklore and language from the coastal South documenting narrative forms and speech patterns that remain central to the study of Gullah culture and linguistic history. unknown books
1972réf. 166864Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1972. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A clean and tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the front free endpaper to Lois and Wayne Wille in the year of publication. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
2003réf. 166874London: Stacey International 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A later book from Geyer who was an accomplished foreign correspondent who was originally based in Chicago and went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the front free endpaper to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. Stacey International unknown books
1970réf. 166869Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Geyer's first book who was an accomplished foreign correspondent originally based in Chicago and then went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A clean and tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the half title page to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1975réf. 166870Homewood IL: ETC Publications 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Geyer's third book. She was an accomplished Chicago based foreign correspondent who went on to work for the Universal Press Syndicate. A clean and tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the front free endpaper to Lois and Wayne Wille. A nice association copy as the recipient Lois Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Uncommon signed. ETC Publications unknown books
2012réf. 163522New York: Bruce Silverstein Gallery 2012. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 6 through October 20 2012. Essay by Carol Troyen. Includes illustrations of works by Charles Demuth Arthur Dove Marsden Hartley John Marin Georgia O'Keeffe Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. A near fine copy in French style wrappers. A nicely printed catalog. Bruce Silverstein Gallery unknown books
1937réf. 136075New York: Henry Harrison 1937. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of poems. A tight very good copy in an about good dust jacket that has a number of small chips and edge tears. Henry Harrison unknown books
