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1997ref. 311902New York: Anchor Books 1997. Softcover. Fine. Bound galley. Fine in illustrated wraps. Signed by author. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Anchor Books unknown books
1832ref. 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
1957ref. 173039Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Five vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1957 film. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel about an American soldier stationed in Italy whose romance with a Red Cross nurse becomes his only joy amidst the horrors of war. The second film adaptation of Hemingway's novel and the final film produced by David O. Selznick. Set in Italy and Switzerland shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2023ref. 13879New York: Grand Central Publishing 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Leslie Jones in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xvii 268pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in yellow. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A very presentable signed first edition of this hilarious memoir by comic icon Leslie Jones. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hey you guys it's Leslie. I'm excited to share my story with you. Now I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a btch is fifty-five and she's smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I'm talking about my childhood growing up in the South my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn't get murdered what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL and yeah I'll tell you all about Ghostbusters and the nudes and Supermarket Sweep and The Daily Show . . . I'm sharing it all in these pages. It's not easy being a woman in comedy especially when you're a tall-ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. Cue the Law & Order theme.Publisher. Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1956ref. 71352Roma: Instituto Italiano oer Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1956. First edition small 4to pp. ix 3 194 plus 82 plates 2 folding each with a descriptive leaf of text; 5 folding maps printed in color in rear cover pocket; one corner bumped else fine in original gray printed boards. The Amne Machin range runs in the general northwest-to-southeast direction in eastern Qinghai Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the adjacent areas of the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the southwestern corner of Gansu's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Rock Honorary Research Associate Far Eastern and Russian Institute University of Washington is one of the great explorers of the last half of the 20th century. He "was first sent to China in the early 1920s by the United States Department of Agriculture U.S.D.A. to collect seeds of a tree that later were used in the treatment of leprosy. His explorations resulted in the introduction of conifers rhododendrons 493 species potentilla and primula to the U.S. Nonetheless biographer Hubert Rhodes wrote in 1956 that Rock's collection process - collecting all plants not just searching for exotics - had important implications and opened possibilities for reforestation in North America's severest northern climates. Rock also introduced blight-resistant chestnuts. He deposited a sizable collection of birds and mammals at the U.S. National Museum the Arnold Arboretum and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. During his later years botanizing back in Hawaii in the 1950s Rock noted ominously that many native species he had collected earlier in his career had vanished completely . His efforts in linguistics are widely recognized; he spent years collecting and translating 8000 volumes of original Naxi literature including their religious tracts" Hunt Botanical Institute website. Instituto Italiano oer Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
1937ref. 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
1977ref. 12010New York 1977. Wraps. Very Good. Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present evidence of light water damage else tight bright and unmarred. Glossy color paper wrappers. illus. b/w color. unknown books
2006ref. 75911Santa Ana & San Francisco: Grand Central Press/Last Gasp 2006. First trade paperback printing. Folio. 198 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Colver captured many of the defining images of the Los Angeles punk rock scene. Santa Ana & San Francisco: Grand Central Press/Last Gasp paperback books
2007ref. 75912Corte Madera & Los Angeles: Gingko Press/R77 2007. First edition. Folio. 324 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. A fully illustrated documentation of this notorious LA venue ground zero for the nascent punk scene. Corte Madera & Los Angeles: Gingko Press/R77 hardcover books
1994ref. 628941Williamsburg Virginia: The William and Mary Quarterly 1994. Unbound. Near Fine. Offprint. Corner-stapled octavo sheets. 1 508-538pp. Final leaf with with a tiny creased tear else fine. Signed by Paul A. Gilie on the first page and with a Typed Letter Signed to noted scholar Graham Hodges sending the offprint along. Hodges is one of several historians thanked on the first page for their critical comments and help. First published in The William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series Vol. LI No. 3 July 1994. The William and Mary Quarterly unknown books
1890ref. 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
2012ref. 628610New York: New York University Press 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First editions. Three volumes in slipcase. Each volume with a foreword by Deborah Dash Moore and a visual essay by Diana L. Linden. Fine in fine dust jackets in fine glossy slipcase. Briefly Inscribed to author and noted scholar of New York City and African-American history Graham Hodges: Volume I by author Howard Rock and general editor Deborah Dash Moore; Volume II by "visual essayist" Diana L. Linden; and Volume III by author Jeffrey S. Gurock. The full titles of each volume are Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World 1654-865; Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration 1840-1920; and Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City 1920-2010. New York University Press hardcover books
1858ref. 30039New York: Benjamin Corlies 1858. Original printed glossy wrappers light fading to lettering. Stitched. 10 2 blanks pp. Near Fine. Founded in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company the Chicago and Rock Island reincorporated in 1851 and adopted these bylaws in 1858. In 1880 the Company was reorganized as the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway. 131 Eberstadt 354. Benjamin Corlies unknown books
1858ref. 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
1966ref. 131621Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1966. Three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 film. All are reference photographs featuring director John Frankenheimer on the set: the first from a scene at the beach with his shooting crew including James Wong Howe behind the camera the second in a social setting with the film's star Rock Hudson and the third showing Frankehimer working directly with Howe. Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1996ref. 2352704Canada: Little Brown & Companay 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1996 Hard Cover. 369 pp. The Grateful Dead's longtime manager provides an entertaining eyewitness account of the band's behind-the-scenes history from the writing of their greatest songs and their legendary encounters with other celebrities to their emergence as cultural icons Little Brown & Companay hardcover books
1989ref. 627111New York: State University of New York Press 1989. Softcover. Very Good. First edition wrappered issue. 273pp. Illlustrated in black and white. Light edgewear crease and sunning on rear cover very good. Inscribed by Rock on the interior front cover: "For Graham with best wishes much appreciation Howard 11/89". Recipient is Graham Hodges the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects particularly the African-American experience. Hodges additionally contributes a blurb on the rear cover. State University of New York Press unknown books
1979ref. 627050New York: New York University Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. 340pp. Foxing on page edges very good in a near fine dust jacket with light toning. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown: "For Graham A fellow historian a good fellow Howard 4/12/86". Recipient Hodges is the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects particularly the African-American experience. New York University Press hardcover books
1995ref. 626830Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 251pp. Some foxing on the top page edge thus near fine. Inscribed by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges. Additionally laid in is a note from Gilje gifting the book to Hodges. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
1992ref. 626835Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 288pp. Black and white illustrations. Faint spotting on the page edges else fine. Inscribed by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges. Cornell University Press hardcover books
2001ref. 626610New York: Columbia University Press 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. xiii 445pp. Profusely illustrated. Fine in about fine dust jacket with two tiny nicks. Nicely Inscribed by both authors to Graham Hodges a noted scholar of New York City and African-American history who is thanked in the Acknowledgments: "For Graham Always in your debt in great appreciation to a historian and wonderful friend. Howard." and "For Graham with admiration and esteem. Deborah." Issued as part of the Columbia History of Urban Life Series. Columbia University Press hardcover books
1875ref. 48055Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co 1875. Good. Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. 16.5x33cm printed in black. Stock worn toned and chipped with a few instances of soiling extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only. Promotional broadside for the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad that operated from roughly 1850-1970 largely in the Midwest. Features a paper-cut illustration that was created on the occasion of the first trip made by steam-powered passenger cars in New York in 1831 before the company's incorporation. This broadside however was not issued until several decades later. The extensive railway inspired the tune "Rock Island Line" covered by country crooners Johnny Cash and Lead Belly. No separately cataloged copies in OCLC as of May 2026. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co unknown books
1878ref. 1392St. Louis. 1878. A fine guide to Texas in this period listing resources by county. Without the folding map which is usually lacking. 282pp. Illus. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Some edge wear else good. Lacks the map. HOWES R389. MORRISON 3073. hardcover books
1968ref. 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
2012ref. 3910First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only slight foxing to the top exterior text block else as new and unread. A lovely copy of this biography of Jim Croce written by his widow and singing partner Ingrid Croce with a forward by Arlo Guthrie; a scarce title in the first printing. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. Da Capo Press hardcover books
