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1988ref. 9024316New York: Villard Books 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Villard Books hardcover books
1947ref. 140806N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage borderless press photograph of American actress Linda Darnell with French actress Simone Simon during a visit to France by former in 1947. With the AGIP agency stamp of photographer Robert Cohen and a French-language mimeo snipe on the verso. 6 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 148621New York: Hyperion 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A baseball related memoir from the host of NPR's Weekend Edition. A tight very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Simon on the title page. Hyperion unknown books
1969ref. 139465Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Two vintage color British front-of-house cards from the 1969 film. This goofy comedy of errors follows the story of an Ohio businessman played by Jack Lemmon who travels with his mousy wife Sandy Dennis to New York City for a game-changing job opportunity. However the couple is met by nothing but trouble on their journey and begin to regret ever leaving Ohio. Set in Manhattan shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a small crease to the bottom left corner. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1981ref. 139716Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film. Based on Neil Simon's 1971 play "The Gingerbread Lady." Playwright Neil Simon departed from his typical light hearted comedic style when he wrote "The Gingerbread Lady." This drama which netted three Academy Award nominations follows the struggles of a alcoholic Broadway actress whose attempt at sobriety is complicated by the realities of her daily life. Set in New York shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1978ref. 139722Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1978. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. Peter Falk parodies every detective role he has ever played in this goofy spoof about a private eye who is accused of murdering his partner and who is also simultaneously searching for a dozen diamond eggs. The film trots out an all-star set of cameos including appearances by Stockard Channing Dom DeLuise Madeline Kahn James Cromwell James Coco and many others. Set in 1940s San Francisco. Set in San Francisco shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with blue manuscript annotations to the verso. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1835ref. 148711835. WILMER SIMON. Correspondence between the Right Rev. George Washington Doane . and the Rev. S. Wilmer . on the Subject of Associations . with a Protest and an Appeal. Philadelphia 1835. 62 p. Wrappers. Light foxing and soiling a bit dog-eared. Doctrinal controversy resulting from Wilmer's suspension by Bishop Doane chiefly while serving congregations at Chew's Landing and Berkeley. unknown books
1968ref. 139010Paris: Champs-Elysees Productions 1968. Original French grande poster for the 1968 film. Based on Catherine Paysan's 1964 novel "Je M'appelle Jericho." Jericho Simon is an old man in the midst of a split with his partner and whose kids are along for the ride as he rekindles his love with a past girlfriend. 47 x 63 inches folded as issued. A few central tears faint toning else about Near Fine. Champs-Elysees Productions unknown books
1999ref. 126812New YorK: HarperPerennial 1999. stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi iii 242 pages. Reprint of the 1998 edition A near fine copy. The story of the two men Professor James Murray and Dr. William Chester Minor who were at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary. After twenty years of correspondence Murray decided to travel to meet Minor only to find that he was actually criminally insane. Illustrated. HarperPerennial unknown books
1928ref. 9022185London: Peter Davies 1928. Hardcover. Includes an introduction by Aldous Huxley. Illustrated with 122 plates of examples of typography several of which are in color. Bound in publisher's original quarter white cloth and decorated paper boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Minor wear at corners and head and heel of spine light soiling to boards otherwise very good. Lacks dust jacket. Peter Davies hardcover books
2008ref. 9022211New York: Harper Collins 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards. Decorated endpapers Frontispiece illustrations throughout and an index. Harper Collins hardcover books
1990ref. 139171Toronto: HarperCollinsPublishers 1990. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 75pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light foxing on endpapers and page edges wrappers curled remainder mark else very good. "An irreverent look at the legal profession. HarperCollinsPublishers unknown books
1964ref. 21557New York: Random House 1964. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm.; original cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 8143pp.; photo-illustrated double title page 2 leaves of photographic plates. Jacket extremities rubbed especially at spine ends some light dust-soiling else Very Good or better in About Very Good jacket. Play illustrated with photographic still of the original production starring Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford who also starred with Jane Fonda in Gene Saks's 1967 film adaptation. Random House unknown books
1967ref. 128050New York: St. Martin's Press 1967. cloth. Macmillan. 8vo. cloth. 384 pages. First U.S. edition. Correspondence with Tennyson Gladstone Hardy Trollope James Kipling etc. Lacks dust jacket. St. Martin's Press unknown books
1986ref. 143841London: Institute of Contemporary Art 1986. First edition. Small softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 28 through June 29 1986 and then traveled for additional dates. Text by Simon Cutts and Stephen Bann. Includes some color and numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Culbert on the title page in 1991. Uncommon signed. Institute of Contemporary Art unknown books
1958ref. 9020837New York: The Twentieth Century Fund 1958. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine and cover stamped in blue. Dust jacket is rubbed at the extremities. The Twentieth Century Fund hardcover books
1973ref. 14483London: Ernest Benn Ltd 1973. cloth dust jacket. 4to. cloth dust jacket. xvi 400 pages. First edition. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in near fine jacket. Articles by Morison Jackson Smith Updike Dwiggins Warde and many others. Illustrated. A gathering of the most important articles from this scarce periodical. Ernest Benn Ltd unknown books
2002ref. 9019137New York: Hyperion 2002. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's orignial black cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Minor shelfwear to extremities of dust jacket. Hyperion hardcover books
1938ref. 19859Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society 1938. Broadside 18-1/2" x 9". Printed recto-only on newsprint. Text in single column beneath cartoon graphic signed "Doc Rankin". Single horizontal fold; paper slightly toned and eroded at margins not approaching text; complete and Good. Right-wing broadside attacking Simon Gerson who had recently been appointed Assistant to Manhattan Borough President Stanley Isaacs. Gerson 1909-2004 was the first openly Communist politician to hold an appointed office in New York; despite vicious attacks such as this from various right-wing groups he succeeded in holding on to his post for three years. Following WW2 in which he served honorably Gerson returned to politics once again becoming embroiled in controversy when the Tammany machine blocked his appointment to fill deceased communist City Councilman Pete Cacchione's seat. The graphic reproduced from the Brooklyn "Daily Eagle" shows Gerson conducting city business while a placid Josef Stalin oversees his work from the shadows. The drawing is signed by Doc Rankin a freelance editorial cartoonist who in addition to his long service on the Eagle is widely believed to have been the real-life figure behind the anonymous "Mr. Prolific" one of the most-published illustrators of pornographic "Tijuana Bibles" in the 30s and 40s. International Catholic Truth Society unknown books
1938ref. 131891Paris: Paris Film 1938. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1938 film a strong image of actor Jean Gabin in a train engineer's uniform lighting a cigarette. Shot by acclaimed portrait photographer Sam Levin who worked with director Jean Renoir on several other productions including "La Grande Illusion" 1937 and "The Rules of the Game" 1939 and whose early photographs of Brigitte Bardot helped craft her public image as a sex symbol. Based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel. Renoir's film remains true to the proletarian source material while grafting on elements of film noir and his own humanist philosophy. One of the director's biggest commercial successes with a powerful lead performance by Gabin. Remade in the US in 1954 by Fritz Lang as "Human Desire." 11.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 324. Paris Film unknown books
2000ref. 9018456New York: Hyperion 2000. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in publisher's original black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Hyperion hardcover books
1977ref. 133020Moore Park Australia: Embassy Pictures 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British sci-fi horror film here under the working title "Holocaust 2000." Laid in are additional 18 pages of production documents on legal size blue pink and goldenrod stock. About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist a fervent believer in the benefit of nuclear power to all mankind. On the verge of retiring and handing down a massive global collection of nuclear power plants to his son Angel he begins to believe that Angel may be the Antichrist. A co-production between Italy and the UK set in the Middle East shot on location in Devon England and studios in Middlesex and Rome. Orange titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 14 April 1977 with credits for screenwriters Donati Robson and Herbert. 140 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue green pink and goldenrod revision pages and production notes laid in dated variously between April 18th 1977 and 11.5.7. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internnally with two silver brads. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 127061New Rochelle NY: Elizabeth Press 1979. First edition Hardcover. 49 pages. One of 100 copies printed on Magnani Rag Paper from an edition of 250 copies. A fine copy in a close to near fine cardstock slipcase that is lightly tanned. No dust jacket as issued. Signed and inscribed to poet Howard Moss: "For Howard Moss- the better poet Simon Perchik." A very nice association copy of this attractive collection of poems. Elizabeth Press unknown books
1776ref. 609141776. Disbarred by the Parlement of Paris Linguet Simon Nicolas Henri 1736-1794. Requete au Conseil de Roi Pour M. Linguet Avocat. Contre les Arrets du Parlement de Paris Des 29 Mars & 4 Fevrier 1775. Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1776. 12mo. ii 260 pp. 12mo 6-1/2" x 4". Contemporary mottled sheep gilt spine marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities. Some toning to text internally clean. A nice copy. $200. First edition. Also issued the same year in Geneva. This book concerns the sanctioning of Linguet's disbarment by the Order of Barristers by the Parlement. The complicated circumstances had to do with competition within the Order of Barristers and tensions between the Order and the Parlement. Linguet admitted to the bar in 1764 was a formidable advocate. The immediate cause of his disbarment was "a tirade in which the author seems to have lost his temper and denounced the Order. This convoluted affair is described in Michael P. Fitzsimmons The Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution 24ff. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America 1 in a law library UC-Berkeley. Another copy located at George Washington University Law School. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
2001ref. 9014732New York: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion hardcover books
