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2007réf. 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
1929réf. 1937BOSTON LITTLE BROWN 1929 1929. SIGNED BY DE LA ROCHE; #174/365. FIRST EDITION. BLACK CLOTH OVER BLACK AND WHITE ART DECO PATTERNED BOARDS SPINE WITH PRINTED PAPER LABEL. VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. BOSTON, LITTLE, BROWN, 1929 hardcover books
1956réf. 140927Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder itself 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. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoirs du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1992réf. 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
1881réf. 265597Providence: Providence Press Company Printers 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A relatively attractive copy of this regimental history. Bud Robertson in the Military Aspects--Soldier's Life section of Nevin's bibliography considers is "short on military matters but long on personal incidents" and "one of the better sources fro 1862-1863 campaigning around Washington and Norfolk Va." Nevins I 168. With some foxing to the preliminary only pages. And old fashioned homemade private library pocket to the rear endpapers. .This copy is pretty bright and tight. It is from the library of Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson and has his bookplate on the front pastedown on top of an earlier bookplate presumably from the private library. Nevins I 168. Very Good binding. Providence Press Company, Printers unknown books
1952réf. 87579Rome Italy: Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente 1952. First Edition. Two Volumes. Octavo. 25.5cm. Publisher's original printed pale green card wraps titled in black to spines and front covers. Glassine Dustjackets. xi; 383pp.; 90; 423pp.; 85. Volumes are paginated contiguously with extensive unpaginated sections of plates expanatory matter and errata. Clean and strong lightly sunned to spines; internally clean fresh illustrated throughout; in original glassine covers with some wear and chipping to the corners and extremities and some chipping and creasing to edges most notably the bottom edge of the rear panel of Vol.I. A very good cean set indeed. An extensive ethnological analysis of the history and rites of the Na-Khi Naga cult practised by the people of the autonomous Lijiang Region of Yunnan in China. Essentially the primary academic text on the mythology and belief system underpinning the practice. Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
1995réf. 213875England: Pinewood Studios 1995. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by Kevin Cann Jeremy Reed and Marco Livingstone. A terrific collection of color and black and white photographs of David Bowie Queen Lou Reed and others. A near fine copy with some slight bumping to the bottom of the spine and in near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Rock on the front free endpaper. Pinewood Studios unknown books
2004réf. 2599First Thus. 77 pp. offset on commercial stock in stiff printed wrappers. Text predominantly in Greek with some Spanish and English. Color illustrations throughout. Square 4to. Very good. 2599 Fully illustrated Greek-language edition of the catalogue for an exhibition of the three Afro-Cuban artists which began in 2000 in Havana Cuba before traveling to France and then Greece. Introductory texts for each artist are in Greek with artwork titles in Spanish and medium notes for artworks and an exhibition chronology for each artist in English. n.p. books
1957réf. 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
1957réf. 136403Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. In Selznick Studio wrappers with the insignia on the front wrapper. An original production script with a perforated distribution leaf preceding the title page. The second film version of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick. Frederick Henry Hudson is an American serving in the Italian Army during WWI where he meets Catherine Barkley Jones a Red cross nurse. They have a torrid affair which results in pregnancy. The two gradually lose contact with one another. But Henry makes it to Switzerland where Barkley is hospitalized. The baby is stillborn and Barkley dies shortly afterward. Set in Europe shot on location in Italy. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Hecht original director Vidor and producer Selznick. Title page present dated 1957 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 173. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Davenport p. 122. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965réf. 167758N.p.: N.p. 1965. Two vintage color transparencies from the 1965 film showing actor Gina Lollobrigida preparing for a turn as a blonde Lady Godiva. A well-to-do American businessman and a free-spirited Italian woman meet in London and impulsively marry but soon realize they have little in common and truly dislike each other. 3.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1992réf. 219601992. Underground Music Indie Rock Zines Edited and largely written by Scott Rutherford the zine reflects a unique moment in American subcultural publishing when punk indie rock and vintage car culture collided in the DIY scene. Three issues of Speed Kills! a hybrid indie rock and automotive zine published in Chicago in the early 1990s. Each issue is a vivid chronicle of underground musical and visual culture with strong regional ties to Chicago and national relevance through its coverage of touring bands and scenes. The archive includes issues #2 Spring 1992 #5 and #7 all printed in black-and-white with screen-printed or offset color covers each approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. 1 Rutherford Scott ed. Speed Kills! No. 2. Chicago: Self-published 1992. This early issue includes coverage of the Richmond band Breadwinner East Coast drag racing the Australian noise-punk group Cosmic Psychos and a profile of Detroit drag legend Ed "Big Boss Man" Milhizer. As noted on the cover the zine delivers "Breadwinner! Unrest! Cosmic Psychos! Drag Racing! Lotsa Reviews!" The editorial notes refer to coverage from the "'92 Bedroom Nats" combining punk show reportage with drag strip atmosphere. The design incorporates full-bleed photo reproductions hand-lettering and found collage. 2 Rutherford Scott ed. Speed Kills! No. 5. Chicago: Self-published 1993. This issue includes a contributor list of more than two dozen names from the underground music and zine world including members of Gaunt Cherubs Pitchblende Don Caballero and Steadkaddy Six. The zine comes with a bonus 7" record featuring Gaunt and includes a faux-survey titled "Favorite Car Survey Yes." Interviewees include Merge Records co-founder Laura Ballance and record engineer Steve Albini who describes his favorite ride as "any van with over 250000 miles." One page advertises a music zine marketplace with the slogan "your needle is distorting sound by as much as 85%" blending fidelity humor with hardline DIY ethics. 3 Rutherford Scott ed. Speed Kills! No. 7. Chicago: Self-published 1994. Labeled the "Art & Science Special" this issue includes a piece titled "Futurism: Proto Punk" by Karen Pinkus linking early 20th-century Italian Futurism with the energy and aesthetic of punk rock. Includes contributions by indie rock standouts like Mac McCaughan Superchunk and Rachel Brook Flying Saucer Attack . A profile of the band Unwound is presented under the title "smashing the work ethic OR everyday is yesterday" while reviews cover artists including Don Caballero Cherubs and Labradford. The layout remains resolutely cut-and-paste incorporating xerox collage screen print textures and handwritten text. Speed Kills was a Chicago-based fanzine launched in 1991 by editor Scott Rutherford uniquely blending the worlds of underground indie rock and vintage drag racing culture. Emerging during a time when fanzines served as vital connectors within DIY music communities Speed Kills stood out by juxtaposing interviews and reviews of bands like Nirvana Pavement and Superchunk with in-depth features on 1960s drag racing legends and hot rod culture. Its pages often featured hand-screened covers vintage auto parts advertisements and detailed discussions on car mechanics reflecting a deep enthusiasm for both music and automotive subcultures. This fusion offered readers a tactile and immersive experience highlighting the shared spirit of creativity and rebellion in both scenes. Light toning to page edges. Minor staple rust and occasional handling creases. Covers bright and intact. Overall very good condition. Speed Kills! stands as a rare and distinctive zine that merged the grease-stained Americana of hot rod nostalgia with the avant-garde ethos of noise rock and punk embodying the collision of speed sound and subculture in the 1990s musical underground. unknown books
1885réf. 140841885. Dome of the Rock interior nineteenth century records the exposed Foundation Stone at the center of one of Jerusalem's principal sacred monuments. Completed in 691-692 CE under the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik the Dome of the Rock stands on the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount a site central to Islamic and Jewish sacred traditions and also closely connected with Christian biblical history. The photograph preserves the relationship between the Rock itself and the architectural enclosure constructed around it more than a millennium earlier. Albumen print measuring 11" x 8.5" unmounted. The Foundation Stone occupies the foreground while columns arches and the decorated interior rise behind it. The surrounding colonnades are faced with marble in their lower sections with mosaic ornament above allowing the photograph to record both the irregular natural surface of the Rock and the elaborate architectural treatment of its enclosure. Jewish tradition associates the Temple Mount with the First and Second Temples and identifies the Rock with the site of the Holy of Holies; the Second Temple was destroyed by Roman forces under Titus in 70 CE. Islamic tradition connects the Rock with Muhammad's Night Journey and ascent to heaven while traditions associated with Abraham's attempted sacrifice also attach sacred meaning to the site. The Dome of the Rock occupies the Haram al-Sharif alongside the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other religious and educational buildings. Nineteenth century photographs of its interior recorded spaces that were considerably less accessible to many Western travelers than Jerusalem's exterior monuments while the albumen process circulated such views through the expanding photographic market for images of the Holy Land. Very good condition. A detailed nineteenth century interior view centered on the Foundation Stone and the marble and mosaic architectural decoration surrounding it. unknown books
1990réf. 64930Bogotá: Ediciones Arte Dos Grafico 1990. First edition limited to 600 copies 300 numbered in arabic numerals and 300 in roman numerals this no. xcv/ccc signed by both Roca and Rendón; small tabular-bound folio pp. 42; line blocks and linoleum cuts throughout some showing through die-cut pages 6 in color; laid in is a hand-printed "Ex libris" bookplate as issued; generally a fine copy in original tan cloth with pictorial linocut pastedown on upper cover publisher's slipcase. Wikipedia notes that Juan Manuel Roca is a Colombian poet essayist prose writer and journalist occasionally included among the "disillusioned generation" of Colombian writers who made their debut in the 1970s. Rendón from Medellín is a draftsman printmaker and a dedicated illustrator of texts a line of work that he pursued along with his widely known work in the linocut medium. NY Public Stanford Vanderbilt in OCLC plus one in Columbia. Ediciones Arte Dos Grafico unknown books
1858réf. 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
1875réf. 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
1956réf. 004251Barcelona: Gremio de Libreros de Barcelona 1956. First edition. NA. Fine. A most unusual promotion for an antiquarian book fair! 43.5 by 31.5 cm. 30 cells with cartoon drawings recounting the life of an 100 year old book -- the actual physical object -- from its first sale to its appearance at an antiquarian book fair! The story is in the tradition of "Black Beauty" "The Memoirs of an Umbrella" or "The Yellow Rolls Royce" all concerning the ups and downs incident to different owners and in the case of the latter two there is the commonality of the personification of an inanimate thing. Here the book starts in Barcelona and in its circuitous path that takes it all the way to Paris and the Eiffel Tower and a Seine "bouquinist" comes to rest finally again in Barcelona in a stall at the Feria Annual del Libro de Occasion Antiguo y Moderno still an annual event held by the local booksellers' guild and thus one of the oldest running antiquarian book fairs today. We note that this is a story arc that resembles that of "Black Beauty". The format of the broadside is called "auca" which is an uniquely Catalan graphic format. The captions by Eroles are all three line rhymed couplets in Spanish. In 1972 Eroles wrote and published in Catalan a book on bookselling in Barcelona called "Memoires d'un llibre vell". The broadside can not be found in OCLC. Gremio de Libreros de Barcelona unknown books
1966réf. 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
1963réf. 168502Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Vintage photograph of a one sheet poster maquette for the 1963 documentary film. An anthology documentary film compiling Marilyn Monroe's film work with Twentieth Century-Fox created a year after her death. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1930réf. 24040New York: Sears Publishing Company 1930. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6298pp. A number of small chips to jacket extremities short closed tear at top edge of upper panel with subsequent crease upper panel unevenly sunned short tear along gutter edge of last leaf of text else Very Good in a Near Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. A New York society type living beyond his means reckons with blackmail and a gang of crooks while simultaneously trying to marry the girl he loves. HUBIN p. 350. Sears Publishing Company unknown books
1956réf. 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
1964réf. 140685Cannes France: N.p. 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival the seventeenth one to be held that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film the name used until 1974 when it returned to its former title. French and English language. Films represented in the collection include George Roy Hill's "The World of Henry Orient" Gianfranco Mingozzi's "I mali mestieri" 1963 documentary of the city of Palermo Gyula Macskassy and Gyorgy Varnai's "1 2 3." Hungarian short film on mathematics Nobuko Shibuya's Grand Prix award winning "The Price of Victory" Japanese volleyball documentary Glauber Rocha's "Black God White Devil" a Brazilian Western. Also included is a credit sheet detailing a special showing of "Naissance du Cinema" a documentary about Louis Lumiere held in the Grand Hall at the festival presented on the centennial of Lumiere's birth. Programs and credit sheets housed in a "Henry Orient" promotional folder. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown books
1957réf. 138455Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Revised First Draft script for the 1958 film. Brief notation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper verso. Based on the novel and written for the screen by Ernest K. Gann about a disgraced former Navy captain Hudson piloting a disparate group of passengers through a storm on a rundown schooner. Green titled wrappers dated June 13 1957 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY. Title page present undated noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay with a credit for screenwriter-novelist Gann. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7/11/57. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1987réf. 501734New York: Pantheon Books 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Quarto. 300pp. Illustrated in the text. Spiral bound printed yellow wrappers. Some slight soiling on the wrappers else near fine. Rare in this format. Pantheon Books unknown books
1974réf. 137057N.p.: Sandy Howard Production 1974. Two Draft scripts for the 1976 film. One script a Final Draft belonging to an auditioning actor Jenny Sullivan with her name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper; the other script is bound in red faux leather with gilt tiles a color photograph of a human fetus bound in and both scripts bear letters from a professor at the University of California describing the possible methods and techniques detailed in the screenplay and their applicability to contemporary 1974 ethical and legal conditions. Brief annotations on laid-in slips in manuscript ink throughout the first script. Laid in is a signed letter from director Nelson to Jenny informing her that she is a finalist for the role of Victoria ultimatly the role went to Barbara Carrera. An exploitation film owing much to "Bride of Frankenstein" as well as the technological advances with DNA in the 1970s. Dr. Paul Holliston Hudson is a scientist who discovers a method to accelerate the birth cycle to just a few days. The maturation process has detrimental side effects and the mature adult a woman shows homicidal tendencies. Set in Los Angeles. First script: Light blue titled wrappers undated. Title page present undated noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Thomas and Doohan. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Second script: Red faux leather titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Thomas and Doohan. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mechanical duplication with a color photograph Near Fine overall bound internally with three gold brads. Muir 1970s. Sandy Howard Production unknown books
