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1958réf. 141785Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage bound set of storyboards for the 1958 film. Laid in are a map of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands and a diagram of a large sailing vessel. Based on the 1956 novel by screenwriter Ernest K. Gann about a disgraced former Navy captain tasked with piloting a disparate group of passengers through a storm on a rundown schooner. Set and shot on location in Oahu. White illustrated titled wrappers with credits for producer Gordon Kay director Joseph Pevney and art director Eric Orbom. 158 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1989réf. 167694Chicago: The Riviera Theatre 1989. Vintage handbill for several age-restricted hip hop and rap performances held at Chicago's Riviera Theatre on Sunday nights in February of 1989 hosted by promoter Tony Bitoy. The Riviera was originally built in 1917 as a movie theatre for the Balaban and Katz chain constructed by Carbondale-born architects Rapp and Rapp. The building was purchased by Jam Productions and transformed into a nightclub in 1986 and continues to operate as a music venue today. 5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once horizontally. Printed on recto and verso. Near Fine. The Riviera Theatre unknown books
1854réf. 1357024Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1854. Hardcover. Octavo xx 33-502 pp. Good; bound in contemporary black embossed cloth with gilt titling some chipping and wear to spine edges and corners; binding tight; text block age-toned but clean; pages clean; ex-library copy with usual markings including institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil; MF consignment. 1357024. Special Collections. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
réf. 148410First Edition. hardcover. color folding map of county portraits. 474pp. 8vo orig. cloth; spine expertly repaired inner hinge strenghthened. Chicago: H.F. Kett 1877. Text-block of book has been bound in upside down but is complete. unknown books
2006réf. 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
1938réf. 69545Austin: The University of Texas 1938. First edition. Paperback. Very Good Minus. Volume II only. 490pp. Small quarto 25.5 cm Tan printed wraps. With soiling to the wraps a forward slanting spine and a small abraded area to the front wrap. Internally clean. The University of Texas Publication No. 3809. Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences Study No. 27. A systematic study of Texas rock art. The University of Texas paperback books
1956réf. 87668Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1956. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo 25cm. Printed paper-covered boards hardcover; 194pp text; 82 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones each with a printed caption on facing tissue-guard; five large folding maps in color housed in rear pocket. Some mild toning and hand-soil to binding; minor bump to base of front board; overall a well-preserved Very Good or better copy with the text complete clean and unmarked. Issued as the twelfth volume in the Institute's "Serie Orientale Roma." A scholarly study of the lands flora fauna and peoples of the Amnye Ma-Chhen Range in eastern Tibet based on explorations made in 1924 and 1926. A notable work mapping for the first time the course of the headwaters of the Yellow River. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
1858réf. 575531858. A Scarce French Law Dictionary for Farmers Barots F-H. Roche Lubin. Manuel des Familles Contenant Dictionnaire de Droit Francais Commente et Analyse d'Apres Merlin Toullier Rogron Etc. Etc. Renfermant par Ordre Methodique Une Explication Claire et Succincte de la Legislation la Plus Recente en Matiere Civile Commerciale Criminelle Municipale Administrative Rurale Etc. Etc. Les Droits de Timbre et d'Enregistrement Ainsi Qu'Un Tarif General des Honoraires dus aux Notaires Avoues Greffiers Huissiers Suivi des Formules de Tous les Actes Sous Seing Prive le Plus Usuels Tels que Baux Ventes Nantissements Quittances Prets Cessions Echanges Etc. Etc. De la Loi Nouvelle sur les Patentes La Loi sur les Batiments en ce Qui Concerne les Entrepreneurs Des Lois sur les Brevets d'Invention Les Irrigations Les Trottoirs Publics Les Defrichements Etc. Etc. Augmente d'un Dictionnaire d'Agriculture et de la Medecine Veterinaire Precis sur L'Hygiene de la Medecine Pratique des Animaux Domestiques par Roche Lubin. Paris: A l'Administration de la Jurisprudence de France 1858. viii 664 pp. Main text in double columns. Octavo 9" x 6"; 23 x 15 cm. Contemporary quarter calf over textured cloth blind frames and decorative stamping to boards marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities a few small scuffs gilt title and ornaments on spine rubbed away joints and hinges just starting at ends. Light toning to text foxing in a few places edgewear to a few leaves. A very good copy. $150. First published in 1850 this useful household dictionary aimed at the rural consumer went through at least six subsequent editions. The latest imprint we located is from 1868; Some issues identical in contents have a slightly different title beginning Manuel des Familles Contenant Dictionnaire. All editions are scarce. OCLC locates no copies of any edition in North America but we found copies at George Washington University Law Library 1863 and the Library of Congress 1866. No copies located at the law libraries of Harvard Law School or UC-Berkeley Law. British Museum Catalogue Compact Edition 2:415. unknown books
1952réf. 167549Universal City: Universal-International 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 Western film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso referring to the movie using its alternate release title "The Texas Man." Two brothers return to Texas after the Civil War one becoming a sheriff and the other embarking on a life of crime. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the verso corners. Pitts 1936. Universal-International unknown books
1954réf. 446063London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Marked proof. 12mo. 314pp. Plain wrappers with paper cover label. Spine cocked light general soiling and wear very good. "Kindly Return This Marked Proof" and a date October 6 1954 stamped on the half-title. Over 40 corrections have been recommended in the text in several colors of ink: pink the table of contents and prior blue fountain pen mostly typographical errors and justification issues and several in black ink. In at least four cases the annotations in black request alterations to the text. Admittedly none of the changes are major rewrites-usually a rearrangement of words-but it raises the likelihood that these were done in the author's hand. Variable Winds at Jalma was published in the United States in 1954 by Little Brown and in London the following year. De la Roche 1879-1961 would have been 75 at the time. Variable Winds at Jalna is book 15 of de la Roche's popular 16-volume The Whiteoak Chronicles. Macmillan & Co. Ltd unknown books
1813réf. S14157Paris :: H. Perroneau 1813. 1813. Title : Extrait des Annales de Chimie fevrier 1813. 8vo. 4 115 1 pp. Half-title 2 folding engraved plates. Modern navy-blue cloth no embellishments!. Fine. Rare. 121 "The same year 1811 Berard's experiments with Francois-Etienne de La Roche won the prize 1812 of the First Class of the University Paris Academy of Science for determining the specific heat of gases using a copper calorimeter." / Francois-Etienne de La Roche or Delaroche was a Genevan physician naturalist chemist botanist and ichthyologist. "De La Roche became infected with typhus bacteria and died in 1813 only just aged 32 during the same epidemic that his father also succumbed to." / Jacques Etienne Berard was a French naturalist chemist and physicist. He was the first professor of toxicology at Montpellier. He was a pioneer in chemical engineering including pharmaceuticals and was managing director of La Paille the manufacturing site that had been founded by Chaptal in 1782. H. Perroneau, 1813. hardcover books
1963réf. 151796Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph of Paula Prentiss Howard Hawks and Maria Perschy on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the short story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away" by Pat Frank published in the July 1950 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Roger Willoughby Rock Hudson esteemed author and expert on fishing has never fished and when outspoken and unshakable PR agent Abigail Page Prentiss enters him into a fishing tournament mayhem and possibly romance ensues. Howard Hawks' homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s particularly his' own 1938 classic "Bringing Up Baby" starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant who he tried unsuccessfully to get to reprise their roles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968réf. 551712Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores 1968. Unbound. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by E. Castells Capurro. Folio measuring 10¼" x 14". 64pp. of gathered but unbound signatures and a 31-plate unbound "Suite de Láminas" in printed chemise all laid into a larger printed chemise. The interior material is fine and the outer chemise is near fine with light soil and wear including a tiny tear. One of 500 numbered copies printed on on Witcel blanco of 1531 total. Emecé Editores unknown books
réf. 85309hardcover. 2 vols. 16mo modern cloth leather labels; wood-pulp paper. Madrid 1891. Author was the personal representative of the King of Spain in Peru. Facsimile of the 1681 edition. Palau XVII 271818. unknown books
1887réf. 859121887. Rare Bookseller's Catalogue from 1887 Including Books of Distinguished Provenance from the Libraries of Judges and Lawyers Barons and Earls Roche James. A Catalogue of Miscellaneous New And Second-Hand Books In All Classes of Literature Comprising History Biography Travel And Fiction By the Best Standard Authors Offered at Exceedingly Low Prices For Cash By James Roche New and Second-Hand Bookseller 1 Southampton Row Holborn W.C. Libraries Purchased.-Book Societies Supplied on the Most Liberal Terms. Post Office Orders Made Payable at High Holborn. Receipts Not Sent for Amounts Under Five Shillings. At head of title: No. L. 1887. London: Bowden Hudson & Co. Printers 1887. 42 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2"; 21.5 x 13.8 cm. Stab-stitched pamphlet in colored self-wrappers. Light toning light edgewear to wrappers light soiling to exterior brief annotations and ink marks to front wrapper pencil marks to several pages of text. A very good copy. $150. A scarce survivor from the late-Victorian book trade this catalogue No. L represents the specialized stock of James Roche an established bookseller operating from 1 Southampton Row Holborn a premier location near the British Museum. Roche was a noted specialist in Standard Library Editions and the "Distinguished Provenance" cited-including the libraries of Judges Barons and Earls-reflects the significant liquidation of landed estate libraries during the Great Agricultural Depression of the 1880s. Printed by Bowden Hudson & Co. a firm known for high-quality bibliographic work the catalogue's emphasis on "Low Prices For Cash" highlights Roche's role in the 19th-century "Discount Bookseller" movement which disrupted traditional long-credit systems in favor of immediate liquidity. Roche's catalogues are historically significant for tracking the dispersal of aristocratic collections. OCLC locates no copies of this 1887 issue with related catalogues held only at the Grolier Club New York Public Library and the British Library. unknown books
réf. 171562First Edition. hardcover. 8vo cloth; ex-lib corners lightly bumped otherwise very good. Millwood N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press 1986. unknown books
1976réf. 012938NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . Gehn Charles C. jacket illustration. A novelization of the CBS Television Specia "The Easter Promise". Inscribed by Rock to the show's producer. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1976réf. 012937NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . McVicker Charles jacket illustration. A novelization of the CBS Television Special. Inscribed by Rock to the show's producer. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1878réf. 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
1973réf. 158654Hollywood: Prime 1973. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1973 film showing actress Florence Cayrol. Stamp of Prime Pictures on the verso. A sword-and-sandal film about an all-female society of Amazon warriors as they select their new queen who must mate with the Greek king Theseus to carry on the bloodline of the tribe. Shot on location in Italy and Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a light crease at the bottom right corner. Prime unknown books
1923réf. 167801Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage program for the 1923 silent film. A wildly popular two-part Christian epic beginning with a retelling of the Book of Exodus and closing with a modern story of two brothers in the 1920s and their relationship to the Ten Commandments. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture. 9 x 12 inches. 17 leaves printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good wrappers Good only with an owner name on the front wrapper and moderate wear along the spine. Side-stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1958réf. 149933Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage linen-backed reference photograph of director Joseph Pevney and a camera crew aboard the Albatross while on location for the 1958 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A ship's captain decides to make an emergency stop in Hawaii to repair a quickly flooding hull against the wishes of a woman passenger wanted for murder in Honolulu. Set and shot on location in Hawaii. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1827réf. 9033066Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward 1827. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in calf with red and black leather spine labels spine stamped in gilt. Ex-library apparent only by penciled call number on title pages and rear paste-down endpaper. Calf bindings look great have very minor wear. Foxing to pages. 2 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. J.J. Woodward hardcover books
2012réf. 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
1890réf. List3882Charlestown Massachusetts 1890. Double-sided printed cardstock measuring 5 ¾ x 3 ¼ inches. Some small stains and manuscript pencil markings. Excellent. A card advertising Martin J. Roche's Steamship Office and Catholic Book Store in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston likely from the early 1890s. Roche was a steamship agent in Boston from about 1885 on advertising steamship travel especially from Ireland in Catholic newspapers like the Sacred Heart Review in which he also authored a recurring column titled "Our Irish Letter."1 The card notes that Roche is also an "Agent for 'S.H. Review'." Newspaper advertisements indicate that he opened the Catholic bookstore aspect of his business in about 1891; the card advertises "Irish Song Books Histories and Story Books of all kinds; also Prayer Books Rosaries Scapulars Statues etc. at the lowest prices". At the time-subsequent to the wave of Irish immigration during the famine-most Irish immigrants were young unmarried women. Many settled in the Boston area. 1 The Sacred Heart Review 1 no. 14 April 6 1895 21. . unknown books
