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1960réf. 23169Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1960. First Edition. Author's First book. Endpapers little foxed little wear at the extremities of the dj spine water stain at the the bottom of the spine of the dj. The book is near fine. Scarce novel of Kentucky. Freedman A-1a. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1964réf. 14580NY: George Braziller 1964. First edn. Limited edition one of 3013 copies printed on hand made laid paper by Fabriano. With a tipped in colored illustration by Shahn. Signed by both Berry and Shahn. Housed in the publisher's slip case little faded as usual A very nice copy. Freedman A2a. Berry's second book. A poem about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. George Braziller unknown books
1964réf. 13734NY: George Braziller 1964. First edn. Limited edition one of 3013 copies printed on hand made laid paper by Fabriano. With a tipped in colored illustration by Shahn. Signed by both Berry and Shahn. Housed in the publisher's slip case little faded as usual A very nice copy. Freedman A2a. Berry's second book. A poem about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. George Braziller unknown books
1972réf. 87875Lexington: King Library Press 1972. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. No dust jacket as issued. One of 100 numbered copies. Frontis a map by Joseph Bernard Hoeing printed in two colors. Allen’s text followed by Berry’s. Lexington: King Library Press hardcover books
1936réf. 370212San Francisco: Gelber Lilienthal Inc 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. One of three hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press May 1936. Octavo. 174pp. Gilt-stamped leather spine papercovered boards. Illustrated with black and white plates. Loss of spine ends not affecting title owner's gift inscription on front fly thus very good minus in a good only unprinted dustwrapper with title penciled on spine extremities worn and chipped. Gelber, Lilienthal Inc hardcover books
2005réf. 466360New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Black journalist and author Justine Rector. Biography of a formerly enslaved washerwoman from Nashville who spearheaded a call for reparations for slaves 70 years before the Civil Rights Movement. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1979réf. 8242First edition limited to 300 unnumbered copies signed by Berry on the limitation page. Full cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped lettering on spine. Printed dustjacket. Published simultaneously by The Deerfield Press and The Gallery Press. No priority. Illustrated by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath and bound by Museum Bookbindings. Contents are the title poem and "Grief." Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. The Deerfield Press & The gallery Press hardcover books
1997réf. 72221Frankfort KY: Gnomon Press 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. SIGNED. 62pp. Octavo 22 cm Green cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with barely perceptible creasing to the top edge. A collection of short fiction. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page. Gnomon Press hardcover books
1985réf. 144097Philadelphia: N.p. 1985. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. A drama about the members of the fictional Omega Que Rho fraternity likely based on Omega Psi Phi an historically Black fraternity of which screenwriter S. Torriano Berry was a member. Berry would go on to find success in the horror film genre creating an anthology series "The Black Beyond" writing and directing one of the first urban horror films "Embalmer" 1996 and working as the cinematographer on Troma's entry into urban horror "Bugged" 1997. Title page present dated 7/16/85 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter S. Torriano Berry. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine overall rear wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948réf. 149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada. 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1974réf. 61652Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College 1974. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by Berry this no. 48; oblong 4to pp. 34; fine in original printed brown wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Designed printed and bound by Jim Trissel with assistants. The Press at Colorado College unknown books
1980réf. 548374Hertfordshire: The Starwheel Press 1980. Unbound. Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are Helen Hawley Mary Norman Clarissa Upchurch Corridan Graddon and George Szirtes. Accompanied by two slightly smaller sheets a title page and contributor list and laid into a portfolio with printed paper label. The broadsides are fine; the portfolio is very good or better with some creasing at the corners. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. With an Autograph Letter Signed from contributor and press cofounder George Szirtes on Star Wheel Press stationery thanking someone for their order laid in. A handsome production issued in 52 copies only printed on handmade paper. The poems are "Air and Clod" by James Berry; "Among Friends" by John Ormond; "Dream" by Emma Rose; "In St. Philip's Churchyard" by Fred Sedgwick; and "Ah Babel" by Anne Stevenson. OCLC locates five sets three in the U.S. Delaware Emory UC San Diego. The Starwheel Press unknown books
1980réf. 515575Hertfordshire: The Starwheel Press 1980. Unbound. Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are Helen Hawley Mary Norman Clarissa Upchurch Corridan Graddon and George Szirtes. Accompanied by two slightly smaller sheets a title page and contributor list as well as two adjacent advertisements laid into a portfolio with printed paper label. The broadsides are fine; the portfolio is slightly creased at one corner else fine. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. A handsome production issued in 52 copies only printed on handmade paper presumably by The St. Albans Paper Company with their advertising card laid in. The poems are "Air and Clod" by James Berry; "Among Friends" by John Ormond; "Dream" by Emma Rose; "In St. Philip's Churchyard" by Fred Sedgwick; and "Ah Babel" by Anne Stevenson. OCLC locates five sets three in the U.S. Delaware Emory UC San Diego. The Starwheel Press unknown books
1848réf. List3729Corning New York 1848. Two autograph letters signed from C. H. Berry. Each 3 pp measuring 8 x 10 inches. Very good plus. A pair of letters from C. H. Berry of Corning New York who was apparently both a schoolteacher and active in Free Soil circles in the area. The earlier letter written in 1847 provides an unexpected look at corporal punishment in the classroom. Berry writes: "I am in my school yet. I have four weeks or nearly that to keep yet. I storm round like an old sailor have my hands full but enjoy the pleasure of seeing the little 'varmints' learn. I had a speck of variety today. Several boys stayed out this forenoon after recess. This afternoon I called them up & after talking a spell told them I should punish them for staying out. One fellow squared himself & said he should not be punished! He was a huge fellow with a boxer's ring on his fingers weighing one or two ounces. He swore flat in my face when I began to talk with him. I told him in consideration of his being saucy he must take off his coat. I took the young man by the collar with one hand and applied a strap of harness leather to his legs with the other. He flourished his tongue his arms & legs in a furious way till finding my own was too long for him to reach me he dove for the poker. I just laid him out a couple of times & then plied my straps till his coat came off with a rush & numerous apologies followed it. He said he swore because he was mad he always did so & thought it very unfortunate that he had such a habit. I then punished him for staying out and told him to take his seat which he did very quietly." The second letter written during the immediate aftermath of the election of 1848 shifts dramatically toward national politics. Berry offers a frank assessment of the political future of anti-slavery organization: "In 'Free Soil' matters we have done up all we expected to here and are perfectly satisfied. Our party is firmly organized. Our cause has the sympathy of honest men of all parties and as Taylor is elected let me tell you just what I think of it: Cass has showed his hand and that party can not claim to be free soil men in 1852 or at any time hereafter. Taylor is in a position where he will be obliged to declare himself also. Now if Taylor disappoints the South and comes out a freedom man it will be in consequence of this Northern movement and we have attained all we wanted. But if which is more likely he goes for the South his supporters in the free states will be without the least color of excuse in 1852 and they must join our party & there will not be a grease spot of their organization left. The case then is this: Nothing but 'liberty' will satisfy the people of the north. The Hunkers can not stand on this platform for they have repudiated it; the honest ones will be with us. The Whigs must come on to our ground and join us as a party by the acts of their Executive or declare against liberty which will destroy their party here and bring them to us in a disorganized mass. Then with 'repeal' as our motto we will teach them the error of their ways. We can not fail to succeed in my view of the case. Free soil forever." Written before the formation of the Republican Party and more than a decade before secession the letter captures anti-slavery political sentiment at a transitional moment when Free Soil activists believed sectional political realignment increasingly inevitable. An unusually readable pair balancing ordinary rural life with emerging sectional politics in antebellum New York. books
1904réf. 554270Chicago: Berry Kelly & Chadwick 1904. Unbound. Fine. Stereograph card. Gelatin silver photographs. Image size 6" x 3.25" mounted on slightly larger thick card. Captioned in print below image photographers mark on front of card. A fine bright image. Mother fusses with her sons clothing on her front porch while six young miscreants all concealing baseball gear behind their backs inveigh for his release into their custody for "Sunday School". A lovely example and a pleasing image. Berry, Kelly & Chadwick unknown books
1969réf. 58528NY: Harcourt 1969. First Edition. 8vo pp. 213. A fine copy in near fine dj without the discoloration of the ed paper that we usually find. Scarce. Freedman A14b. The author of Nathan Coulter's first book of essays. Only 2890 copies were sold by September 1971. Harcourt unknown books
2003réf. 350748New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Watson. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
réf. 3792SF GELBR LNTHALl 1936. GRABHORN PRESS; HALF GREEN MOROCCO FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. SF, GELBR LNTHALl, 1936 unknown books
1952réf. 104833Dallas:: Story Book Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. A collection of poems. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner in 1952. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 76 pages; Signed by Author . Story Book Press, hardcover books
1994réf. 523198New York: Pantheon Books 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Wendell Berry to David Ignatow: "To David Ignatow with much respect & with love from his old friend Wendell Berry Pantheon Books hardcover books
1982réf. 151015N.p.: N.p. 1982. Three vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1982 film one of Jacques Demy and Dominique Sanda and two of Demy and crew with camera. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. Although similar to Demy's 1964 "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" in that it is an operettta-musical in which all the dialogue is sung here Demy is much more explicitly political and possibly even more tragic. Set during the Nantes worker's strike in 1955 shipyard worker Francois Guilbaud a strikers falls in love with his upper-class landlady's married daughter Edith. Set in and shot on location in Nantes France. 1 9.5 x 6 inches 2 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 719. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 72835Tulsa: White Dove Press 1960. Summer. 22 pp. Light bend to one upper corner else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Brainard who also contributes three drawings and the design of an advertisement. Work also by Berrigan Jack Anderson David Omer Bearden Richard Dokey Richard Gallup Carl Larsen C. Cleburne Culin LeRoi Jones Dan Teis Gilbert Sorrentino Martin Edward Cochran Robert Creeley and Padgett. Tulsa: White Dove Press, unknown books
1959réf. 170456N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing rock-and-roll icons Ritchie Valens and Jimmy Clanton chatting over a record player. Provenance label on the verso. Valens' only film appearance released months after his death in a plane crash alongside Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper and the final film of American disc jockey Alan Freed. Freed would later become embroiled in a "payola" controversy that would end his career. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1679réf. 720741679. Victims of the Popish Plot of 1678 Trials. Popish Plot. Green Robert d.1679 Defendant. Henry Berry Henry d.1679 Defendant. Hill Lawrence d.1679 Defendant. The Tryals of Robert Green Henry Berry and Lawrence Hill For the Murder of Sr. Edmond-bury Godfrey Knt. One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex; At the Kings-Bench Bar at Westminster Before the Right Honourable Sir William Scroggs Knt. Lord Chief Justice of the Court And the Rest of His Majesties Judges There; On Monday the 10th of February 1678/9. Where Upon Full Evidence They Were Convicted And Received Sentence Accordingly On Tuesday the Next Day Following. London: Printed for Robert Pawlet 1679. iii 92 pp. With an imprimatur leaf. Folio 11" x 7". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards negligible light fading to spine. Moderate toning to text minor stains and spark burns to a few leaves light soiling to title page "4" in tiny hand to its upper margin. $450. DESCRIPTION TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION. Only edition. One of the cruelest hoaxes in British history and the inspiration for a wave of anti-Catholic violence the Popish Plot was the invention of Titus Oates an Anglican clergyman and his friend Dr. Israel Tonge a cleric and passionate anti-Catholic. They pretended to have discovered a Jesuit plot to assassinate the King massacre Protestants and set James Duke of York the King's Catholic brother on the throne. The trial of Green Berry and Hill was one of its most shameful episodes. In October 1678 Godfrey a justice of the peace to whom Oates first described the plot was found dead in a ditch apparently the victim of murder. The Catholic community was blamed and Green Berry and Hill were eventually hanged for his murder. Many questions about this case remain however including the exact circumstances of Godfrey's death. One theory holds that Godfrey was killed by Oates and his supporters to underpin their own invented plot another that he was murdered for reasons unconnected with any Catholic plot. It is also possible that Godfrey committed suicide; when his body was found it was manipulated to fit the plot scenario. In any event Godfrey was buried in an elaborate funeral as a martyr to the Protes. unknown books
1987réf. 014339Harmony Books 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation By Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket First Edition/First Printing Rare Presentation Copy."Best Of Life Mary Ervin Chuck Berry." Very Scarce Signed Beautiful Copy.Comes with Ticket For a Signing at Circus Circus Las Vegas. Harmony Books Hardcover books
