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1982réf. 338412Cork: Ossian Publications 1982. hardcover. fine/very good. Three volumes in one as issued. 75; 66; vi 82 pages. 4to green boards d.w. areas of rubbing to edges and spot of rubbing to spine with tiny hole. Cork: Ossian Publications 1982. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Ossian Publications unknown books
réf. 64411Ephemera. Very Good. Leaflet on an 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper. With 2 light fold lines vertical and horizontal through the center. The flyer states: "The Berkeley City Council just voted 5 to 3 to let people have Telegraph Avenue tomorrow from noon to 10 P.M.! Plans will be made at tonight's meeting for rallies bands etc. Grateful Dead Mother Earth Mad River The Phoenix have agreed. "This victory is an important step for all the people of Berkeley. But this is only a step. We must continue the fight for: - amnesty for weekend arrestees - permanent free speech and assembly - regular closing of Telegraph to cars - investigation of police brutality and a referendum for community control of police unknown books
1870réf. 22000873Boston Massachusetts: Rand Avery & Co Printers 1870. Some light toning and spotting else fine. Illustrated Spanish-language advertising bifolium for Burleigh Rock Drill Co. a highly successful manufacturer of industrial mining equipment based in Fitchburg Massachusetts. Includes large illustration of gentleman operating the Burleigh rock drill on the upper cover and another illustration of the drill on the lower cover. Inside the efficiency and efficacy of the equipment is discussed alongside a list of successful mines and contractors currently using the product. Measures 5.75" by 3.5" Charles Burleigh's machine drill was first introduced and patented in 1866 and soon became one of the most successful rock drills in an industry that had not long before been dependent on hand drilling. Rand, Avery & Co, Printers unknown books
1823réf. 1409100Philadelphia: Robert Desilver 1823. First English Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 4 119; 108 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in paper with a paper label to the front board. Spine has ink hand-written titling. Boards have cracking to spine a loss of paper to spine edges cracking to joints chipping to edges age toning discoloration and scuff marks throughout. Textblock is uncut along the head edges of some pages throughout has age toning to edges and foxing to some pages throughout. Ink ownership inscription to the front free end page. Shelved in Room A. 1409100. Special Collections. Robert Desilver hardcover books
1948réf. 539665London: The Falcon Press Ltd 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 136pp. Plates. Decorated paper over boards. Small bookstore label and endpapers a bit toned near fine in modestly rubbed very good or better dust jacket. The Falcon Press, Ltd hardcover books
1977réf. 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
1971réf. 94764n.p. 1971. Very Good. 33 sections. pages unnumbered. Several folding pland and elevations at end. Three ring notebook. 38 cm. Contents about 3 cm. thick. This report begins with a two page submission letter from Kevin Roche and addressed to August Herkscher New York Parks Commissioner. The letter refers to this as the final condensed report and states that they are submitting 50 copies of this Master Plan Report. Perhaps this is one of those copies. unknown books
2006réf. 88083Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2006. First Limited Edition. First impression. Number 117 of 150 copies signed by both poet and illustrator. Octavo 22cm. Printed sewn card wrappers; 24pp. Fine apparently unread copy. Gallery Books unknown books
1925réf. 278997New York: Greenberg 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends and a few tears. Villainous gentleman found dead on a yacht off Palm Beach. Greenberg hardcover books
1981réf. 535805London: Marion Boyars 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint of the English edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Basis for the Truffaut film. Marion Boyars hardcover books
2001réf. 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
réf. 3747n.p. n.d. 4to trimmed and measuring 21 x 21.5mm. approx. 100 words stains from previous mount on verso else a very good example; in French. Offering apologies on behalf of a Dr. Walker for not having sent Vol. 6 of an unnamed work and saying that he has been preoccupied with scientific questions. Roche 1820-1883 was a French mathematician specialist in celestial mechanics geophysics and meteorology; corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences who proposed the first "earth model" with a solid nucleus. unknown books
1958réf. 143074Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage double weight photograph on the set of the 1958 film showing Cyd Charisse getting her hair styled after a swim while Rock Hudson films with moment in the background. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. With a screenplay by Ernest K. Gann based on his 1958 novel about the captain and passengers of a rundown boat caught in a storm and struggling to survive. Filmed on location in Hawaii. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1971réf. 303341New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. 1971. First edition so stated. 8vo. Author's introduction. Dust jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin price clipped; light offsetting on the front endpapers Very good. 233 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Boldly signed and inscribed by Bailey to actor Rock Hudson on the title page: "To Rock - with much love and continued friendship - God bless - Pearl." Bailey in her later years devoted much time to AIDS causes. Provenance: The estate of Rock Hudson through the late Tom Clark noted Hollywood publicist who was Hudson's associate and intimate friend for more that twenty years. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1971]. hardcover books
1960réf. 53897Boston: Little Brown & Co 1960. First American Edition. First Printing. White Oak Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; light green cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket by Charles Lofgren; 298pp. Spine ends are gently pushed; minor offsetting on free front endpaper; Near Fine. The dustjacket is price-clipped with a small hole in DJ flap from price sticker removal; tiny tear upper front panel; minor soil lower rear panel; Very Good. First book in the "Whiteoak Saga"- "During the Civil War there was excitiment everyehere in America even at Jalna the estate of the Whiteoaks in Canada.The visitors with their negro servants their clandestine callers and Lucy sinclair's flirtatious ways create confusion in Jalna's smoothly running household.Among the new characters are the children's kind and cynical tutor Lucius Madigan; the shrewed half-breed Titus Sharrow- "Tite"- who has acquired half an education; and Tites master Willmott." from the dustjacket. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1929réf. 199757Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1929. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 423 pages. Number 189 from an edition of 365 of which 350 were for sale. A fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a fair slipcase that has wear and splitting. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by De La Roche on the limitation page. An attractive editoin. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1956réf. 145758Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Douglas Sirk and Lauren Bacall on the set of the 1956 film standing in the middle of stairway that endures much use in the course of the narrative. Mimeo snipe on verso. 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 Robert Stack impulsively marries a secretary Bacall at his father's office unaware that his best friend Rock Hudson is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for 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
1957réf. 164813Universal City: Universal-International 1957. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1957 film showing actor Robert Stack. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1935 novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner. A disillusioned war hero now works as a barnstorming pilot at rural air shows accompanied by his parachuting wife young son and plane mechanic. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 64. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal-International unknown books
1959réf. 201712Grove Press / Trianon Press 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Duchamp Marcel. First Grove Press edition. Reddish-orange cloth boards under pictorial dust jacket priced at $15 4to 192 pp. Large pencil ownership inscription to first blank page some foxing to edges. Front panel of DJ detached chipping to top of rear cover. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping. Grove Press / Trianon Press hardcover books
1952réf. 582923New York: Bond Wheelwright Company 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Corners a little bumped else near fine in about very good dust jacket wit some moderate chipping. Inscribed by co-author Joan M. Rock. Bond Wheelwright Company hardcover books
1962réf. 144236Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film showing the film's principal characters Catherine Jim and Jules playing dominoes around a table as seen through the window of their cottage. Based on Henri-Pierre Roche's 1953 novel of the same name a story of a love triangle set in France throughout the First World War. Shot on location in France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 281. Ebert II. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1971réf. 144465Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Jean-Pierre Léaud and Stacey Tendeter on the set of the 1971 film. Agency rubber stamps and manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roche. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1960réf. 150186Universal City: Universal Pictures 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Rock Hudson signing autographs on the set of the 1961 Western film here under the working title "The Day of the Gun." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of still photographer Shirley Clarke not to be confused with the filmmaker of the same name. Based on the 1957 novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard. While on the run from the law a cowboy travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Set in Texas and Mexico and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the edges. Pitts 2237. Universal Pictures unknown books
1961réf. 144217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard about a cowboy who on the run from the law travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1850réf. 574383Philadelphia: W.A. Leary & Co. no. 138 N Second Street 1850. Hardcover. Good. Three volumes in one. Thick 16mo. Each volume is separately paginated and has a half-title leaf full page wood engraved frontispiece plate and separate title page. With several pages of publisher’s advertisements at the back. Bound in contemporary straight-grain tan morocco with a decorative design stamped in blind on both covers and in gold on the spine. Contemporary small owner’s name: “Capt. Charles Hardie” in light pencil on front free endpaper. The binding is rubbed and worn at the edges shallow tear at head of spine else very good with light scattered foxing. A scarce attractively bound edition of Maria Roche’s best-selling Gothic novel. The firm of W.A. Leary & Co. is listed at 138 N. Second St. in Philadelphia directories from 1850-52 and one of the ads at the back is dated up through 1850 thus our attribution of the date circa 1850. W.A. Leary & Co., no. 138, N Second Street hardcover books
