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1998ref. 9033474Woodbridge Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Beautifully illustrated throughout with crisp reproductions in black and white. Color frontispiece. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. 367 pages. Antique Collectors' Club hardcover books
1975ref. 88706Santa Cruz California: Kayak Books Inc 1975-1977. First Edition. Seven Issues including two issues of no.37 all stapled softcovers. Seven Octavo issues 22cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 67pp; 67pp; 68pp; 67pp; 68pp; 68pp; 68pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. One of the two no.37 issues has been inscribed by John Digby at his contribution. All issues lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear and -soil; overall Very Good. Collection of verse published 'more or less' quarterly with contributions by Albert Goldbarth Richard Grossman Stephen Dobyns and Robert Bly. 88706. Kayak Books Inc unknown books
2009ref. 213663North Adams MA: MASS MOCA 2009. First edition. Oblong softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran December 13 2008 through October 31 2009. Features texts by Anthony W. Lee Susan Cross and an afterword by Joseph C. Thompson. Includes numerous illustrations list of previous exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in die-cut wrappers. MASS MOCA unknown books
2016ref. 9033557New York: Oxford University 2016. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. lllustrated throughout in color. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 602 pages. Oxford University hardcover books
1972ref. 85257New York: Atheneum 1972. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 67-3191pp. Signed by author with 2009 date on title page. Lightly faded topstain with trace shelf-wear else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Stanley Chapman unclipped priced $6.95 tanned with peeling to upper rear corner light folds to flaps and creases and tiny tears to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. First published in France as Le Livre des Fuites 1969 Clēzio's novel focuses on Young Man Hogan and his adventures through danger. 85257. Atheneum unknown books
2011ref. 207173London: Dewi Lewis Publishing 2011. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 168 pages. Features texts by David Campbell and a conversation betwen Paul Lowe and Simon Norfolk. This book features images taken by Norfolk in 2010 as he followed in the "footsteps of the 19th century Irish photographer John Burke." A collection of 100 color and duotone images. A fine copy in boards. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Norfolk on the half title page. Dewi Lewis Publishing unknown books
1980ref. 9032640Manchester UK: Manchester University Press 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in publisher's original purple cloth with spine stamped in gilt. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 312 pages. Manchester University Press hardcover books
1973ref. 86024New York: Atheneum 1973. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; 67-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $6.95 showing light wear to spine ends and corners; Near Fine without the usual fading to the spine. The French Nobel Prize-winner's fifth novel originally published as La Guerre in 1970. "In War he has a young female heroine Bea B. wander through a maze of peace war and the mess of modern cities. As we read Bea B.'s wonderful wide-eyed internal babble and her scraps of poetry jottings and letters in a diary she carries in her air-travel tote bag Bea B. becomes the perfect foil for the modern apocalypse she stumbles through.as Bea B. wanders through a territory that is presumably Vietnam - and permanent legacy of ten thousand years of war - at the same time she is emotionally walking through France and Europe" Solomon Barbara. "Only the words intact." The New York Times July 15 1973. 86024. Atheneum unknown books
1958ref. 167075Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film noir showing a decidedly sultry Susan Hayward. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A dramatization of the trial and execution of Barbara Graham a petty criminal and prostitute who was convicted of murdering an elderly woman. Nominated for six Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Susan Hayward. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned on the left margin of the recto. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Twilight Time. United Artists unknown books
1969ref. 165065Paris: Le Spectacle du Monde 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Sammy Davis Jr. and Shirley MacLaine dancing joyfully. French agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1966 musical which was loosely based in turn on Federico Fellini's 1957 film "Nights of Calabria." A happy-go-lucky taxi dancer dreams of romance but only meets jerks as a result of her sleazy job. Set and shot on location in New York. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Le Spectacle du Monde unknown books
2022ref. 9032782New York: Pegasus 2022. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in publisher's original quarter cream with tan boards and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated with photographs and illustrations in color and black and white. 6 x 9 inches. 876 pages. Pegasus hardcover books
2008ref. 208906Madison WI: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 2008. First edition. Small softcover. 8 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 17 through August 17 2008. Features acknowledgements by Stephen Fleischman and an essay by Jane Simon. Includes 10 color illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
1949ref. 86820New York: Community Relations Service 1949. First Separate Edition. Slim quarto 21.5cm; original photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 23-67-8pp; illus. Toning and dust-soil to wrappers oxiation to staples a few small abraded spots along lower edge of front cover and an old faint dampstain along the right margin; Very Good. First separate printing of this important article by New York lawyer and politician Caroline Klein Simon 1900-1993 which first appeared in the May 29 1949 issue of The New York Times Magazine. After the conclusion of World War II she helped draft the nation's first state law on job bias based on race nationality or religion and was appointed the first woman member of the first State Commission Against Discrimination in the nation's history. Her article begins with the questions "What can be done to eliminate prejudice in the United States What are our chances of removing the cancer of discrimination that is so alien - and so threatening - to the American ideal" and discusses and some length the psychology of fear behind race discrimination. Through her work with the Commission she was able to remove references to race color and religion from employment applications for over 4000 businesses as well as applications requesting photographs of applicants. Uncommon in commerce with OCLC shows just 5 holdings U.Alabama Michigan State UC Davis Hagley Museum and IISH. Community Relations Service unknown books
1969ref. 45148New York: Saint Subber / Studio Duplication Service 1969. Very Good. New York: Saint Subber / Studio Duplication Service 1969. First Edition. Quarto; original buff printed post-bound card wrappers; 352826ll. printed mimeograph from typescript. Moderate wear to wrapper edges with old indentation from removed paper clip at top edge of upper cover light soil else Very Good and sound. Original working stage play to the 1969 Broadway production inscribed and signed on title page by the playwright Neil Simon the director Robert Moore and the producer Saint Subber: "Without you Jessica it wouldn't have come out this way / Saint Subber"; "Dear Jessica / Thank you for your help / Bob Moore"; "To Jessica / Affectionately / Neil Simon." Most likely inscribed to Jessica Levy the production's casting director. Offered with eight glossy stills from the original production five of which sport the rubber-stamp of Friedman-Abeles to verso. Simon's sexy comic hit ran on Broadway for 706 performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre starring James Coco Linda Lavin and Doris Roberts. The play was later adapted into the 1972 film of the same title directed by Gene Saks and starring Alan Arkin. Saint Subber / Studio Duplication Service unknown books
2006ref. 209287New Haven CT: Yale University Press 2006. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 415 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that ran July 12 through October 15 2006 at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Design and Culture in New York. Foreword by Susan Weber Soros. Features an introduction by Nina Stritzler-Levine along with essays by Arthur C. Danto Joan Simon and Nina Stritzler-Levine. Includes numerous color illustrations chronology list of previous exhibitions selected bibliography and checklist. A clean very near fine copy in white boards. No dust jacket as issued. A lovely copy of this book that is surprisingly uncommon in the first printing. Yale University Press unknown books
1938ref. 167754N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage oversize portrait photograph from the 1938 French film showing actors Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan. In his essay for the Criterion Collection release of the film critic Lucy formerly Luc Sante calls the film the "definitive example of the style known as 'poetic realism.' The ragged outlines the lowdown settings the romantic fatalism of the protagonists the movement of the story first upward toward a single moment of happiness and then down to inexorable doom - the hallmarks of the style had germinated in some form or other through the decade but in Marcel Carne's third feature they came together as archetypes." Winner of the 1939 Prix Louis Delluc. 9 x 11.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 245. Grant France. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1938ref. 164549Universal City: Universal Pictures 1938. Vintage reference photograph of actor Larry J. Blake from the 1938 film with a mimeo snipe on the verso. 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. Based on the short story "If You Break My Heart" by Steve Fisher. Sally Eilers stars as a nurse whose brother shortly after being released from prison is shot and killed in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police. Larry J. Blake a police officer is accused of shooting him but knows he didn't do it and sets out to prove it both to clear his name and because of his feelings for Eilers. Set in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
2001ref. 204736Durham NC: Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University 2001. First edition. Softcover. 120 pages. Special issue published in the wake of the September 11 2000 attacks. Features poetry by Billy Collins Stuart Dybek James Hart and others. Includes images by Joel Sternfeld Taryn Simon Doug and Mike Starn Mary Ellen Mark and others. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. Internally a clean copy. Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University unknown books
1685ref. 816541685. An Influential English Treatise on Tithes Degge Sir Simon 1612-1704. The Parson's Counsellor With the Law of Tythes or Tything. In Two Books. The First Sheweth the Order Every Parson Vicar &c. Ought to Observe in Obtaining a Spiritual Preferment And What Duties are Incumbent upon Him After the Taking the Same And Many Other Things Necessary for Every Clergy-Man to Know and Observe. The Second Shews in What Manner all Sorts of Tythes Offerings Mortuaries And Other Church Duties are to be Paid As Well in London as Elsewhere And as Well by the Canon as Common and Statute-Laws And in What Courts and Manner they May be Recovered What Charges They are Subject to And Many Other Things Concerning the Same Necessary for Clergy-Men and All Others to Know. Corrected And Inlarged in Many Particulars Through the Whole Book With a Table: &c. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires For Henry Twyford 1685. xxxii 341 27 pp. Two parts each with title page. Pagination continuous. Octavo 7" x 4-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and lettering piece to spine upper outside hinge of rear board repaired gilt tooling to board edges hinges mended. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks scratches and fine cracks to boards moderate rubbing to board edges with some wear around corners and bottom edges hinges partially cracked. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places spark burns and light soiling to a few leaves. $200. Fourth edition one of two issues from 1685. This influential and oft-cited treatise was first published in 1676. Its final edition the seventh was published in 1820. It is divided into two books. The first addresses the procedures parson and vicars must follow to obtain a preferment the duties imposed by a preferment and various regulations clergymen must observe. The second outlines various tithes offerings mortuaries and other church duties relevant canon common and statute laws and courts and suits involving tithes. English Short-Title Catalogue R1607. unknown books
1978ref. 820501978. New York: Praeger Publishers 1978. New York: Praeger Publishers 1978. Kennedy Tom. Simon Charles E. An Examination of Questionable Payments and Practices. New York: Praeger Publishers 1978. xiii 416 pp. Publisher's cloth hardcover with gilt lettered spine and front cover. Moderate shelfwear. Internally clean. $25. Based on investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC the book explores a time when more than 400 U.S. companies admitted to making hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal or "questionable" payments. This widespread problem tarnished corporate reputations and eroded public trust in American business. The questionable payments which ran the gamut from outright bribery to smaller "facilitating payments" were made primarily to foreign government officials politicians and political parties. Payments were often designed to secure favorable actions obtain business contracts or influence foreign government policies. The scandals revealed a significant breakdown in corporate accountability systems and led to a re-examination of accounting practices. Many companies were caught using slush funds often disguised in their accounting records to make these payments. The authors' examination provides historical context for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 which made it illegal for U.S. companies and individuals to bribe foreign government officials. The book explores the ethical and business implications of this behavior in the years leading up to the groundbreaking legislation. unknown books
1969ref. 206417New York: Random House 1969. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Another successful play from the author of "The Odd Couple." When it appeared on Broadway it was directed by Mike Nichols and starred Maureen Stapleton Georce C. Scott and Bob Balaban. The basis for Arthur Hiller directed movie with Maureen Stapleton Walter Matthau and Lee Grant. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some slight toning to the endpapers and in a very good dust jacket with some edge tears light rubbing and some other minor wear. Random House unknown books
1678ref. 824241678. Important Study of Roman and Old Dutch Law Van Leeuwen Simon 1626-1682. Censura Forensis Theoretico-Practica Id est Totius Juris Civilis Romani Usuque Recepti & Practici Methodica Collatio Qua non Tantum Ipsa Juris Romani Fundamenta Ad Rationis & Veritatis Censuram Methodice Reducuntur; Sed & ad Usum Practicum Transferuntur Interjectis Constitutionibus Decisionibus Moribus & Statutis Non Tantum Generalioribus Verum Etiam Particularibus Cujusque Fere Christianorum Gentis Regionis & Provinciae. Leiden: Apud Johannem a Gelder & Amsterdam: Apud Henricum & Theodorum Boom 1678. Two volumes bound as one each with title page. Two copperplate engravings in Vol. I. xxxvi 558 34; xii 218 22 pp. Folio 12-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 31 x 19 cm. Contemporary laced vellum hand-lettered title and small early paper shelf label to spine edges rouged. Light rubbing and soiling to boards which are slightly bowed spine ends and corners bumped vellum just beginning to crack through pastedowns. Attractive woodcut printer device to title pages head and tail-pieces. Light toning to interior more moderate toning and light foxing in a few places internally clean. $450. Third edition. Van Leeuwen was a Dutch attorney active in the Hague and Leiden who became the assistant registrar of the Supreme Court at the Hague in 1681. His reputation derives from his studies Paratitula Iuris Novissimi 1652 Het Rooms-Hollands-Regt 1664 and the present work. First published in 1662 it is an important study of Roman law and old Dutch law with an emphasis on practical use. It was published soon after Holland achieved its independence from Spain. During this period Dutch law was a complicated mixture of local and Spanish sources which often conflicted. In this work van Leeuwen restated Dutch law by removing Spanish elements and grounding it on principles derived from Roman law. It also has interesting comparisons between Dutch law Roman law and the laws of other nations. Though never highly regarded in Holland this work was translated into the principal European languages and issued in numerous editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was especially influential in South Africa where it was cited extensively and given a statutory place as a subsidiary authority in the South African Republic. unknown books
2011ref. 206723New York: Nan A. Talese Doubleday 2011. First edition. Softcover. 363 pages. Uncorrected proof. A biography of this important British artist. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some wear to the base of the spine. Internally a clean copy. Nan A. Talese, Doubleday unknown books
1985ref. 166435Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the third episode of the 1985 NBC series which aired on April 12 1985. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the uncredited role of the chauffeur with manuscript ink annotations relating to his character's dialog on two pages. "Half-Nelson" was an NBC detective comedy-drama series which aired for one season from March 24 to May 10 1985. Joe Pesci stars as Rocky Nelson a former New York cop trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood who works for a private security agency catering to Hollywood's elite until he gets his big break. In this episode Rocky attempts to break an auto theft ring after Kurt Bubba Smith and Beau Dick Butkus end up in jail. Shot on location in Los Angeles Beverly Hills and Southern California. Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 18 1985. Title page present dated March 18 1985 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Simon Muntner and Story by Janice Hendler. 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 59. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with green yellow and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated March 18 1985 and March 19 1985. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
2012ref. 206749New York: Aperture 2012. First edition. Softcover. 88 pages. Features a look at the images created by Alec Soth and Brad Zellar on a road trip through the U.S. images by Taryn Simon and an interview of her by Roxana Marocci images by Sylvia Plachy of two women from Maine Rick Moody writing on Bruce McBroom's iconic image of Farrah Fawcett. A near fine copy in wrappers. A terrific issue. Aperture unknown books
