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1762rif. 26181Boston: Fowle and Draper 1762. Very Good-. Boston: Fowle and Draper 1762. First Edition. Slim octavo; 19th century glazed boards gilt calf spine label later endpapers; 1236pp. A4 B-F4 collated and presumed complete; decorative head- and tail-pieces. Boards scuffed at extremities with exposure at corners spine partly perished some soil to rear board and textblock else a Good or better internally sound copy. Two sermons issued together with separate title pages and pagination but continuous collation attributed to Edmund March ca. 1704-1791. Quite uncommon none in the trade as of April 2023; last seen in the auction record in 1917. ESTC W14481; EVANS 9168 & 9169; SABIN 28443. Fowle and Draper unknown books
1977rif. 349585Sacramento CA: Creative Editions 1977. Paperback. xvi 129p. wraps light handling wear else very good condition. Creative Editions paperback books
1929rif. 013024NY: Covici Friede 1929. 2nd Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The second edition that Covici published with Friede following Covici's 1928 first edition limited illustrated by Reginald March. Colophon states second trade edition 2000 copies this copy hand-numbered 653. This edition not illustrated dropped provocative 8-lines in two stanza at the end of page 22. Inserted loosely here at page 22 is a publisher's note that prints what was dropped which concludes "And he almost came." 8vo tan rough cloth titles stamped in gold on spine lacking dustjacket leaves gently toned about edges. Solid unsophisticated copy and rarely found with inserted addendum page. Covici Friede hardcover books
2020rif. 1405098New York: Minotaur Books 2020. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 389 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Pink spine with orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$26.99/ $36.50 CAN." has mild shelving wear. Boards have bumping to spine ends. Textblock has mild age toning to edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1405098. Special Collections - Downstairs. Minotaur Books hardcover books
1899rif. 2348653Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company 1899. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled edges exposed a few internal holes to cloth spine pages toned binding a bit shaken but holding publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece color pictorial boards engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke; Phillip de Valogne; The Sea-Serpent; The American Coracle; The Ah-Goo Tongue; Arithmetic Among the Greeks; How the News Came; The Squeaking Fern; A Boy's Ideal; The Diver; An Iconoclast; The Doll-Lady; Chin Chin Huang Ta-Ta!; Kevin the Fisher; Australian Tree-Climbing; An Old Stager; Boston's Girl-Sculptor; An Evening at Home; How Easter Came to the Little Nuremberg Maids; Egg-Rolling at the White House A Bit of Washington Folk-Lore; A Primitive Form of Vise; Upper Nine A Sleeping-Car Story; High Tea at Low Tide; A Pet Seal; How Jack Sailed with Leif Ericsson; The Pessimist; Almost a Deserter; Frog Music; A Masquerade; On the Shores of the Dead Sea; A Boy Editor and How He Runs the Sunny Hour; A Woodland Custom; The Child's Treasure; Raglan's Substitute; The Elf's Thanksgiving; The Legend of the Rhode Island Greening; Dandelion's Time; The Babies of the Zoo; The Narration of Irish Will of Galway; Somebody. Lothrop Publishing Company hardcover books
1867rif. 2343748Albany: Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House 1867. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Top half of last few pages and bottom corner of first two pages stained endpapers foxed corners rubbed. 1867 Hard Cover. iv 562 4 pp. 8vo. A collection of medical papers by various authors with discussions of: urinary calculi; capillary blood vessels; empyema; spotted or congestive fever; cerebro-spinal meningitis; chlorosis; vomiting of fat; hernia; medical use of electricity; chronic metritis; still-births; ligation of the primitive carotid artery; cholera at quarantine at the Port of New York; physiology of the retina; tenant houses; spontaneous evolution of the foetus; continued fever of New York City; cystitis and rupture of the bladder treated by cystotomy; consanguineous marriages; fatal hemorrhage succeeding pneumonia; diploteratology. Illustrated with black-and-white plates lists of members following articles. Garrison-Morton 534.64 referencing three separate articles published 1865-1867: "Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House hardcover books
1972rif. 56634New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1972. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. Hardcover. 0814907237 . A Fine Advance Review Copy first Edition/First Printing Fine except some mild edge rubbing in a like dust-jacket. There are some inserts and a photograph of author March Cost laid in; The Key to Laurels by March Cost is the story of a young girl Addie who is determined to find her place in the world. Addie is a bright and determined young girl but she feels like she doesn't fit in with the other kids in her neighborhood. She starts to feel like she's missing out on something important and decides she needs to find her place in the world. Addie starts to look for clues to her place in the world in her neighborhood and eventually finds her way to the library. There she meets a librarian Mrs. McIntyre who helps Addie find her place in the world. Mrs. McIntyre teaches Addie about the importance of learning and she helps Addie find her place in the world by giving her a key to the laurels. Addie is happy to find her place in the world and is now able to enjoy her neighborhood and all the opportunities it offers her.; 8vo; 194 pages; Price . The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
1943rif. 92659Washington D.C.: Army Air Forces 1943. Paperback. Very Good. 37p. printed on one sideplus 19 folding black & white maps charts illustrations etc. Softcover in original cloth-backed wrapper. 26 cm. Minor cover soil. Pages browned. Name stamp on front cover -- a Captain in 939th Eng. Cam. Bn. Avn. Army Air Forces paperback books
1963rif. 153714New York: Plautus Productions 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1963 television episode originally aired on October 17 1963 on CBS. Manuscript ink annotations by screenwriter Larry Cohen to the first 19 pages noting substantive revisions and Cohen's playful annotation to the title page crossing through "The Nurses" and writing "Florence Nightmare" possibly a working title over the printed title. The series title was changed from "The Nurses" to "The Doctors and the Nurses" for the second season. The series ran from 1962 to 1965 and followed the interpersonal dramas of a group of doctors and nurses at the fictitious Alden General Hospital in New York. In this episode a man attempts suicide and is left partially paralyzed and is tended by Nurse Kelly. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in New York. Self wrappers housed in a manila envelope. Title page present dated April 5 1963 noted as Revised Mimeo and production No. 34 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 84 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-77. Mimeograph duplication on pink stock rectos only. Title page Very Good plus with light wear and dampstaining to the edges else Pages Near Fine unbound. Envelope Very Good plus overall. Plautus Productions unknown books
1896rif. 29020London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd 1896. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. VIII 372pp. Original burgundy cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Frontispiece map. Printer's device on title page. Captivating history of the world's first socialist working class uprising. The workers of Paris joined by mutinous National Guardsmen seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own interests based on workers' councils. They could not hold out however when more troops retook the city and massacred 30000 workers in bloody revenge. The Paris Commune is often said to be the first example of working people taking power. For this reason it is a highly significant event. This study is complete with its folding map of Paris in 1871. Spine slightly sunned. Minor rubbing along edges. Upper front corner slightly bumped not affecting pages. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Some foxing on very first and very last pages. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd hardcover books
rif. 11288N/A n/d. N/A. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 488 pp. total. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. Some age wearing to edges. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Reinforced back hinge with binders tape."With the bookplate and signature of Bruce Bryan the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians in Pasadena California". 14 booklets on different subjects regarding Great Britain including Archaeology Natural History Architecture Surveys Anglo-Saxon Jewelry Abbeys and Castles in South Wales Ancient Cemetry at Saffron Walden Roman-Britain and many more all bound in one volume. Illustrated throughout with b/w lithographic plates fold out maps plans and drawings. A tight copy in good condition. N/A hardcover books
1970rif. M14989Amsterdam & New York:: Excerpta Medica 1970. 1970. Second printing. 8vo. xvi 450 pp. Figs. index. Cloth dust-jacket. Frederick A. Frye bookplate. Good. A testament to the national public health policy the support for medical research and benefitting the health of new born infants. Includes contributions from numerous geneticists. / The editors: Frank Clarke Fraser OC FRSC was a Canadian medical geneticist. Spanning the fields of science and medicine he was Canada's first medical geneticist one of the creators of the discipline of medical genetics in North America and laid the foundations in the field of Genetic Counselling which has enhanced the lives of patients worldwide. Among his many accomplishments Fraser pioneered work in the genetics of cleft palate and popularized the concept of multifactorial disease. / Victor Almon McKusick was an American internist and medical geneticist and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish. He was the original author and until his death remained chief editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man MIM and its online counterpart Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man OMIM. He is widely known as the "father of medical genetics." Excerpta Medica, 1970. hardcover books
1946rif. 2015Washington: GPO 1946. two toned cloth. 8vo. two toned cloth. xix pages followed by the facsimile. Second printing. Illustrated. GPO unknown books
1936rif. 140941960New York: Random House 1936. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Clifford Odets in the year of publication inscribed to actor Fredric March and his wife "For Mr. Mrs F. March with the appreciation of the Group Theater. Sincerely signed Clifford Odets 1/18/36." xiii i 204 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good edges foxed in Very Good dust jacket dulled spine panel light wear and stain at foot. A great association between playwright Odets with one of his more difficult plays and Hollywood actor Fredric March a major star of his day. Odets' thanking March for his patronage of the experimental Group Theater collective who put on this play is a nice bit of Great Depression-era theater context too. The Group Theater would last ten years total; their biggest success would be the following year with Odets' play Golden Boy. Random House unknown books
1950rif. 305394London: Editions Poetry 1950. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 32pp. Stapled wrappers. Scattered light wear near fine. Includes the poems "Rural Idyll" "European Revels" and the reprint of "New Year in the Midlands" from issue #19 with corrections which are the second published appearance by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter credited here as Harold Pinta and preceded only by his juvenilia. Additional contributions from Keith Douglas Henry Moore Martin Turnell Iain Fletcher D.G. Bridson and many others. Tipped in the rear is the publisher's subscription form as issued. Editions Poetry) unknown books
1877rif. 720201877. One Copy Located in North America None in Great Britain Broadside. Execution. March Henry 1827-1877. Execution of H. March The Wymondham Murderer. Henry March was Executed for the Murder of Thomas Mayes And Henry Bidewell At Wymondham By Beating Them to Death with a Bar of Iron. Wymondham Norfolk England: S.n. 1877. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" thick-paper sheet seven-stanza verse text in two columns below headline columns and headline separated by rules typographical ornaments at end of verses. Light browning light edgewear to broadside a minor tear and a small chip near its upper-right corner. $950. Marsh and Bidwell worked at a forge owned by Mays. When Mays announced he was retiring and selling the forge both men learned they were going to lose their jobs. Marsh an employee for 37 years was particularly upset. While out on an errand Mays went to a pub. He returned to work drunk and got into an argument with Bidwell. Enraged he beat him to death with a heavy iron bar. A servant saw the attack and notified Mays. When he entered the forge Marsh killed him with the same bar. First line of the verses: "The bell has ceased tolling Henry March is now dead. His body's now lying in its cold narrow bed." This is a rare item. OCLC locates 1 copy Washington State University. No copies listed on Library Hub. unknown books
1991rif. 34556Beverly Hills: Louis Newman Galleries 1991. Softcover. VG may have some penning on cover. White ill. wraps. 10 pp. Several bw plates. Louis Newman Galleries paperback books
rif. 010735Envelope or Cover. Very good. This two-page stampless folded letter measuring 15.5" x 9.5" unfolded and datelined "Steubenville Ohio July 5 1844 was sent by Rosswell March to Benjamin Cromwell Franklin in Galveston. It bears a circular Steubenville postmark and "Ship" handstamp in red and a manuscript "25" rate mark. It was sent by "care of Wm Bryan / New Orleans." In nice shape. The letter reads in part: "Mr. Collins the Post Master at this place has just handed me your letter . . . with the request that I would reply. . . My profession is that you inquire for viz an Attorney I shall attend to your business. . . You speak of a commission. If that shall be the mode and opted; I would suggest the names of Joseph M. Mason; Daniel L. Collier or Joseph Orth Esqrs as Commissioners. If taken on notice ' Sheldon McDowell Esqr is Master Commissioner in Chancery of our Court Common Pleas & has an Office in Town. "An officer's fees here are ten cents for every 100 words for writing govt depositions & other fees to about 12½ cents for each witness. Witnesses are allowed 50 cents per day each & Sheriff five cents per mile traveled & other fees to about 25 cents each. I mention these matters so that you may estimate the amount of funds necessary to cover expenses. . ." . Benjamin Cromwell Franklin was a lawyer legislator and the first judge in the Republic of Texas. Leaving his practice in Georgia Franklin moved to Texas to fight in its Texas Revolution. While serving as a private at the Battle of San Jacinto he was sent as a messenger afterward to inform President Burnet of the victory. He received a 320-acre land grant in compensation for his military serves and was one of the first settlers in what would become Houston. President Sam Houton appointed him to be a district judge and a member of the Republic's Supreme Court. He resigned in 1839 and moved to Galveston to once more practice law. He also served several terms as a state legislator before his death in 1873. It was as a private attorney that he made this request for assistance with an Ohio deposition. For more information see McDermott's "Were They Really Rogues: Desertion in the Nineteenth-Century U. S. Army" at the Nebraska State Historical Society website. At the time of listing nothing written by this important Texan is for sale in the trade. No items written by Franklin during the time of the Republic have appeared at auctions per the Rare Book Hub and ABSA. OCLC shows that Benjamin C. Franklin's papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin. . unknown books
1963rif. 170360N.p.: Joel Productions 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1964 film showing a camera crew on a truck bed capturing a location shot near the Preakness race track in northwestern Baltimore City. A Cold War political thriller about an attempted coup in the US government based on the 1962 novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II. Although the Pentagon expressed a dislike for the film President John F. Kennedy was encouraging even assisting in its production by arranging a visit to his home in Hyannis Port when the crew needed to shoot outside the White House. Shot on location in Arizona California Virginia Washington DC and Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Joel Productions unknown books
1950rif. 168155Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 German documentary film. A re-edited version of a German-Swiss film originally released in 1938 directed by Curt Oertel. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown books
1933rif. 148364Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1933. Two vintage black-and-white French lobby cards from the 1933 film one with "Collection Andre Bernard" stamp on verso. Based on the 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser. The story of the trials of a wealthy man and the impoverished woman he falls in love with. An unwed mother she is ostracized by his family who threatens to disinherit him if the pair marries. They choose to separate so that he may lead a full life and we follow them as they age apart. Set in Chicago. 8 x 10 inches. One with four pin holes else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1931rif. 162334N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film showing director Rouben Mamoulian on the set. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1886 novella and considered by many to be the definitive adaptation. A pre-Code film the adaptation is often remembered for its strong sexual content heavily edited after the film's 1936 re-release. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Actor for Fredric March. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with only light edgewear at the top and bottom edges to note. N.p. unknown books
1935rif. 160641Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing a ballroom interior with crew members visible to the far left. MGM stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the classic 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy about a young woman whose loveless marriage leads her to begin an affair with a dashing Czarist officer. Set in St. Petersburg. 10 x 8 inches. Pinholes at the corners else about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1934rif. 158854Beverly Hills CA: 20th Century Pictures / United Artists 1934. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film here advertised under working title "The Firebrand." Based on the 1945 play by Edwin Justus Mayer. A duke and duchess both have their eyes on other people but do not want the other to know. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with one small tear to the top left corner and a small chip missing from the top right corner. 20th Century Pictures / United Artists unknown books
1975rif. 139699N.p.: American International Pictures AIP 1975. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1975 film. An aging movie star pining for his lost days of fame throws a lavish Hollywood party in an attempt to pique the interest of some big shot producers. However the party flops resulting in an orgiastic and murderous free-for-all. Set in Hollywood shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Fine with a stamp to the verso of each. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
