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1962réf. 162945N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage oversize borderless satin finish photograph of actor Rock Hudson in a music store trying out a piano while smoking a cigarette 1962. Stamp of photographer Sanford Roth on the verso. Hudson taught himself to play the piano by ear as a child. Brooklyn-born photojournalist Sanford Roth was best known for his portrait photography capturing iconic intimate images of artists and actors throughout his decades-long career including Marc Chagall Joan Crawford Albert Einstein Henri Matisse and Elizabeth Taylor among many others. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 9 x 13.5 inches archivally matted in a 20 x 16 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1883réf. 190138Milan: Treves 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. Cover has general wear discoloration. Bookblock and interior pages have age toning. Italian language text. Blue boards gilt lettering in spine. xi 371 pages illustrations plates portraits. Treves hardcover books
1956réf. 159137Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Three reference photographs from the 1956 film. Two with Universal-International stamps and printed mimeo snipes on the verso and one with a National Film Archive stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1858réf. 9321Chicago: Chas. Scott & Co 1858. Original printed wrappers 14pp. Spotted lightly worn old institutional and duplicate stamps one of which reads: "Presented by Judge and Mrs. Isaac R. Hitt Washington D.C." Isaac R. Hitt is listed on page 3 as a stockholder. Good. A very scarce ante-fire imprint. "This company was chartered in January 1856 capitalized at $300000. It owned some 475 acres of coal lands in La Salle County on the Illinois Central Railroad and along the Illinois River. Chicago men who held stock in the company: James V.Z. Blaney B.S. Morris L.P. Hillard J.M. Wilson W.W. Mitchell and Charles M. Dupuy" Byrd. This Statement analyzes "the importance of cheap fuel to the City of Chicago" and the ability of the Company to provide it. FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 338 2. Byrd 2962 1. OCLC 62978823 2- Chicago Hist. Mus. Newberry 62190408 2- U IL Lehigh. Chas. Scott & Co unknown books
1890réf. 010392Topeka Kansas: C. B. Hamilton & Son 1890. Book. Very Good -. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii 5-277 1 pages 101 leaves of plates : illustrations portraits. Bound in original string-tied pictorial printed wrappers Very Good MInus front wrapper detached missing top 2" and bottom 3/8" of paper at spine otherwise clean and unmarked and a rare survivor both in the paper wrappers and -according to Howes "Most of the edition burned." Howes R390. . C. B. Hamilton & Son Paperback books
1967réf. 000012029San Francisco: Family Dog Productions 1967 1967. First edition. Poster. Very near Fine. 50.5 cm x 36 cm. Poster printed in white black pink and orange. Designed by Mouse Studios Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. Lights at the concert done by Diogenes Lantern Works. Van Morrison's singles "Gloria" and "Brown Eyed Girl" advertised on the poster. Places to purchase tickets are advertised at the bottom of the poster and include several bookstores on Colfax Avenue in Denver. Grushkin FD-D6. King FD-D6. The central photograph is taken from an 1898 image of Chief Josh a San Carlos Apache. Many hippies believed in the importance of living in harmony with nature and used Native American imagery to promote that message. The poster's design is a brilliant example of the psychedelic aesthetic of the Counterculture Movement. Only one impression of this poster was done when it was printed. Difficult to find in commerce this is an exceptional example. Family Dog Productions [1967] unknown books
1968réf. 171972Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1969 Western film. After the Civil War a Union officer and a Confederate officer are forced to band together in order to defend their respective traveling parties against bandits and revolutionaries. Shot on location in Sonora and Zacatecas Mexico and in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Cream titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper and production No. 175 dated December 3 1968. Title page present dated December 3 1968 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL with a credit for screenwriter James Lee Barrett and story credits for Stanley Hough. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/4/68 and 1/17/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped to the fore-edges bound internally with three gold brads. Pitts 4638. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971réf. 43806Hull: Hull University 1971. First Edition. Very good. Original poster for an Afro Rock event at Hull University featuring one of the most important bands of the movement Assagai. Afro Rock which had its strongest incarnation in the UK in the late sixties and early seventies combined Western rock instrumentation with African and Afro-Cuban rhythms and percussion. Assagai featured emegrees from both South Africa and Nigeria as well a Ghana; the lineup included drummer Louis Moholo trumpeter/flautist Mongezi Feza alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana tenor saxophonist Bizo Mngqikana guitarist/bassist Fred Coker their chief songwriter and Terri Quaye - the first professional female congaist in the UK. Assagai issued just two highly-reguarded albums both in 1971 on Vertigo Records one of the few if not the only all-black band signed to that legendary rock label and this poster dates from that peak. While they broke up shortly after this gig the members went on to long careers in various other jazz and prog groups. A striking poster from this significant but poorly documented group. Poster silk-screened in blue gold and red. Mild wear creasing. Some rubbing. Else bright and sound. Very good. Hull University unknown books
1974réf. 300919May 16 1974. Typescript. 4to. Gilt stamped dark blue leatherette upper cover with "Rock Hudson" stamped in gilt in lower right corner marbled endpapers. Very good. Approximately 131 pages. Hudson's specially bound personal copy with numerous holograph notations and corrections in both pencil and ink throughout. This play which marked Hudson's stage debut was produced by Joe Hamilton with musical direction by Al Mello costumes by Bob Mackie and co-starred Carol Burnett who was instrumental in persuading Hudson to join the production. Hudson had never performed on the stage before and had to sing the opening lyrics of the show. After previews in San Bernadino CA this typescript lists the telephone number of the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera the show went east. The American run was a success and included performances at the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Los Angeles. Hudson later starred in a London version with Juliet Prowse in 1976 where the critics were not so kind. Provenance: The estate of Rock Hudson through the late Tom Clark noted Hollywood publicist who was Hudson's associate and intimate friend for more than twenty years. hardcover books
1968réf. 156781Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and title page. After the Civil War a Union officer and a Confederate officer are forced to band together in order to defend their respective traveling parties against bandits and revolutionaries. Shot on location in Sonora and Zacatecas Mexico and in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Cream titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper and production No. 175 dated December 3 1968. Title page present dated December 3 1968 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL with a credit for screenwriter James Lee Barrett and story credits for Stanley Hough. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped at the fore-edges bound internally with three gold brads. Housed in a custom brown quarter-leather clamshell box. Pitts 4638. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1996réf. List3140New York City: self-published 1996. Two stapled packets each with about twenty 8 ½ x 11 photocopied pages. Near Fine. The first two issues of Dee Dee Ramone’s fanzine “Taking Dope” from the collection of Ramones collaborator Daniel Rey. The zine was authored by Ramone his partner Barbara Zampini and cartoonist John Holmstrom who illustrated the covers for the Ramones’ Rocket to Russia 1977 and Road to Ruin 1978. The zines contain letters from Dee Dee lyrics descriptions of concerts and new bands that Dee Dee and Barbara were excited about and notes about Dee Dee’s intense dislike for Marky Ramone who—unlike the other Ramones—is always called by his real name Marc Bell; alongside doodles and photos of various figures in the scene. self-published unknown books
1989réf. 161172Burbank CA: Jacmac Film 1989. Draft script for the 1991 film. Mario Van Peebles' directorial debut about a rising drug lord in Harlem during the crack epidemic of the late 1980s. Loosely based on a 1987 article "Kids Killing Kids: New Jack City Eats Its Young" written by former "Village Voice" investigative reporter Barry Michael Cooper. Set and shot on location in New York. White untitled wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1989 with credits for screenwriters Barry Michael Cooper and Thomas Lee Wright. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Jacmac Film unknown books
1832réf. 265137London: De La Rue Cornish & Rock 1832. 22 original drawings numerous plates some hand-colored pasted-in on variously colored leaves some with embossed frames by De La Rue & Co London manuscript verses throughout. 57 ll. Square 8vo. Contemporary dark purple morocco covers embossed in blind with large die of a rococo frame design surrounding a central diamond gilt-ruled border spine embossed in blind by a die with a cathedral design titled in gilt and signed by the binder "De La Rue Cornish & Rock" on the spine a.e.g. pink moire pastedowns. Very slight rubbing to binding edges light dampstaining to a few leaves endpapers evidently removed. 22 original drawings numerous plates some hand-colored pasted-in on variously colored leaves some with embossed frames by De La Rue & Co London manuscript verses throughout. 57 ll. Square 8vo. A commonplace book of particular interest for its embossed binding manufactured by De La Rue Cornish and Rock. From 1829 through 1832 Thomas de la Rue 1793-1866 partnered with Samuel Cornish and William Rock to manufacture cards embossed papers and playing cards. "De La Rue produced a number of fine albums annuals etc stamped on the back and sides with very finely executed blind imprints ." Ramsden. The De La Rue company still in operation is now one of the world's largest printers of commercial notes and paper. For binding cf. Maggs 1212 II no 241; Ramsden London Bookbinders p. 59 De La Rue, Cornish & Rock] unknown books
1970réf. 151354N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 32 vintage photographs documenting the October 20 1970 collision of two trains along the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line in Raytown Missouri. Also included in the archive is a single broadside reward poster offering $5000 for information pertaining to the accident. According to a contemporary newspaper article which appeared in nearby Jackson County's Independence Examiner the accident was believed to have been caused by juvenile vandalism to a nearby track switch. The collision and subsequent derailment resulted in the death of one engineer whose partial body is visible in several photographs. The photographs in the archive range from close-up shots of the mangled train cars and tracks to distance views of the surrounding woods. Frequently displayed in the images is a small handwritten police chalkboard noting the date location and case numbers. A vivid and interesting look at investigative photography and railway disasters in the late twentieth century. Photographs 10 x 8 inches housed in a manila envelope with the logo of Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co. on the top left corner. Reward poster 9 x 12 inches. Poster and photographs Near Fine overall envelope Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1975réf. 156856New York: N.p. 1975. Vintage press booklet for Lou Reed's 1975 album "Coney Island Baby" designed by Andrew Wylie with photographs by Mick Rock. Containing edited lyrics from the album's title track and featuring quotes by Lester Bangs David Bowie Ralph J. Gleason John Rockwell and Andy Warhol. Rare. An unusual press booklet befitting Reed's output of the 1970s designed and produced in a decidedly 1970s DIY New York underground style by Andrew Wylie who in the 1980s would become Reed's long term literary agent. 8.5 x 10.75 side-stapled in card wrappers. Four pages. Faint rubbing to the wrappers with light toning overall else Near Fine. Crisp and clean. N.p. unknown books
1759réf. 262724Amsterdam: Arkstee & Merkus 1759. hardcover. very good. 2 parts bound in 1 volume 2 paginations xii 244 iv 294pp. Copperplate frontispiece with astrological globe.Part I Visions of Ibraim Arab Philposopher; Part II Travel to Limbo. 12mo full contemporary calf gilt spine chipped at the top front hinge dry. Amsterdam & Aleipssick: Arkstee & Merkus 1759. First Edition. Very good . The text highlights the interest in the occultist and naturalist in the second half of the 18th century and the authors interest in the Kabbalah and hermeticism. Bookplate and small neat handwriting on fly-leaf. Arkstee & Merkus unknown books
1937réf. 69051Leipzig: Verlag der Offizin Richard Hadl 1937. Rare offprint "separatum" from Artibus Asiae volume VII; 4to pp. 85 1; 16 mounted plates at the back a few illustrations in the text; first 2 leaves a bit toned else a very good sound copy in contemporary black wrappers printed paper label on upper cover. Rock 1884-1962 was "captivated by the ritual books he found in the possession of the Naxi religious specialists the 'dongba' while plant hunting in China's borderlands. Rock went on to devote the remaining years of his life to the translation of these books that contained such a treasure house of knowledge a corpus of literature that for Rock offered tantalising glimpses at the indigenous religion of pre-Buddhist Tibet. Rock a voracious autodidact appreciated an intellectual challenge: this was a script that by the time he first encountered it in the 1920s nobody had previously deciphered aside from some exploratory incomplete translations conducted via Chinese by French scholars and explorers. This vast corpus of ritual literature was essentially unexplored territory and this was where Rock liked to tread. Through his assiduous collecting and cataloguing and not without controversy he preserved thousands of these texts in collections now spread throughout the western world . While Rock's first published translations were no more than concise summaries of the stories he discovered within the Naxi manuscripts he later developed a more extensive anthropological style of translation. This meant recording in exacting detail the phonetic reading given by a dongba and then embarking upon a full written commentary. The first translation to use this method was published in 1937 as 'The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shilo the founder of Mo-so shamanism according to Mo-so manuscripts' a seminal work on Dobbaq-sheel'lo the mythical founding father of the dongba religion" see Poupard D.J. Introduction to: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China Leiden University Press. Only University of Hawaii in OCLC. Verlag der Offizin Richard Hadl unknown books
1956réf. 142863Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess was a technical advisor for the film and the gold flying helmet Rock Hudson wears was his personal possession. A poster for "Battle Hymn" appears outside the movie theater in the 1959 pilot episode of The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody" Set in 1950s Westhampton Ohio and Seoul shot on location in Seoul South Korea and Nogales AZ. Navy full calf binding without paper wrappers as issued. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Charles Grayson. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 123-A. Multilith duplication with pink blue white revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/29/56 and 4/23/56. Pages Near Fine presentation binding Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1969réf. 55917New York: Vantage Press 1969. First edition. Very good plus in a very good jacket. Garrulously inscribed first edition of this scarce self-published first-person account of life on the road with the Chicago Outlaws. Unassuming factory worker George "Rock Conte" Mitchell falls in with the notorious Chicago Outlaws seemingly out of nothing but curiosity: "I had never met or encountered anything which split my imagination as this group did." He published this account with Vantage Press at his own expense reporting credulously and forgivingly on the gang "many of the stunts they pulled off just didn't seem to make any sense . I had seen only one member smoke marijuana" some of whom were also seen and heard from in Danny Lyon's THE BIKERIDERS. Inscribing the book six years after publication Conte echoes the also presumably self-penned jacket copy in comparing his mission to that of John Howard Griffin in BLACK LIKE ME but OUTLAWS FOREVER brought no publicity to the divide between the straight world and that of the riders. Perhaps because HELL'S ANGELS had already claimed it all for Hunter S. Thompson several years before. OCLC locates just six scattered holdings. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth boards silver stamped spine. In original unclipped $4.50 pictorial jacket. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. 216 pages. Inscribed to front free endpaper: "To / Rob & Sue: / I feel like 'John / Howard Griffin' author of / 'Black Like Me'. There is / always another side to a story. / Sometimes one may pay a / dear price & suffer but one / should never give up. / I wish the two of you the best of everything and hope / your dearest dreams come true. / Sincerely Your friend / Always / Rock Conte / 5-24th-75." Jacket lightly toned with minor soil and few small chips. Faint toning to text block. Bit of pushing to spine tail. Overall sound and clean. Vantage Press unknown books
réf. 5510Chicago: Cameron Amberg & Co. Printers ca. 1880. Illustrated chromolithographic broadside with map 21.25” x 13.125” plus margins inset map measuring 4.5” x 5.875” illus. measuring 3.25” x 12.5”. CONDITION: Very good margin chipped at upper right corner a few minor stains. A rare and striking broadside issued by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway advertising the Rock Island through-express route and promoting the railroad’s numerous destinations connections and amenities. Featuring the eye-catching mix of typefaces and colors that characterized railroad advertising in this era this attractive broadside promotes the numerous midwestern stops and destinations accessible via the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R’y. At this time two through-express trains for Kansas and Nebraska ran daily in connection with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroads. As noted here meals were served in palace dining cars for seventy-five cents each and 150 pounds of baggage were allowed on each full ticket and seventy-five pounds on each half ticket free. The line’s various destinations included Iowa City Council Bluffs Denver Salt Lake City and San Francisco as well as “all points in Kansas Nebraska Colorado Arizona New Mexico Utah Montana and California.” Showing the Rock Island R.R. in bold the inset map spans from Chicago and Lake Michigan in the east to Omaha and Council Bluffs in the west and reaches from St. Paul in the north to St. Louis and Kansas City in the south—with Lake Michigan lying in the upper-right corner. One axis of the line extends from Milwaukee and Racine Wisconsin to Leavenworth Kansas and another stretches from Chicago to Omaha. Various spurs connect to both. The lower section of the broadside features a marvelously detailed illustration of the interior of a palace dining car showing numerous fashionably dressed passengers seated and dining among African American waiters who are shown in the small kitchen and serving food. In the far-right end of the train men are depicted in drawing rooms—reading newspapers and smoking—and various railway operators and ticket-men appear at the ends of the car. Also included is a table of connections with various railroads that could be made in “Union depots.” Through-tickets via this route could be found on sale at all coupon offices in the U.S. and Canada. Those seeking additional information folders maps and times-tables are encouraged to contact any of the ten agents and managers of the Rock Island R.R. listed at the bottom who were based in New York Toronto Philadelphia Chicago etc. Established in 1847 as the Rock Island & LaSalle R.R. the company was reincorporated in 1851 as the Chicago & Rock Island R.R. Co.—its rails during this period reaching to Morris Illinois and later Ottawa. After acquiring the Mississippi & Missouri R.R. in 1866 the company was renamed Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Co. Expanding between 1873 and 1882 the company built more branch lines that reached into Iowa as well as Kansas City. In 1880 the firm was reorganized under the name Chicago Rock Island and Pacific R’y Co. and by 1883 extended nearly to the southern boundary of Kansas. After Congress granted passage across Indian Territory in 1887 the Rock Island R.R. began developing through Texas to Galveston as well as New Mexico Territory. During the 1920s the railroad enjoyed considerable success. In 1926 the company began constructing a freight line between Amarillo Texas and Liberal Kansas which was finished in 1929 and served to make accessible a country of rich grain. While the railroad industry continued fairly steadily through 1930 between 1931 and 1935 the Depression took a toll on the Rock Island R.R. and went into decline. The company ceased operation in 1980. OCLC records just one copy held at Yale. REFERENCES: “Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Records” at Kansas Historical Society online. Chicago: Cameron, Amberg & Co., Printers, [ca. 1880] unknown books
réf. 140949360Guildford UK: Genesis Publications 2013. First edition. First edition trade issue. Signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on title page; copy #453 of 2000 total. One of the few early copies in the non-deluxe issue comprising copies numbered 351-2000 and not having a laid-in print to get Reed's signature before he passed away. Unpaginated. Folio. Bound in publisher's black leather with gilt white green and red stamping; vinyl picture disc laid in pocket at rear. Fine with just a hint of rubbing to gilt Near Mint album in a Fine slipcase housed in publisher's cardboard mailing box. Complete as issued. The heyday of the former Velvet Underground frontman's solo period in photographs. Showcases several of Lou's album covers beginning with Transformer one of the most iconic images of modern music. The book also features unseen outtakes studio sessions spontaneous shots and friends including Andy Warhol Mick Jagger Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Genesis Publications unknown books
