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1979Best.-Nr. 138035Brockport NY: Boa Editions 1979. First edition. Softcover. 63 pages. A collection of poems by Waters. A clean near fine copy in wrappers with some fading to the spine and edges. A tight unread copy. Boa Editions unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 115360Pittsburgh PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press 1985. First edition. Softcover. 46 pages. First printing of the simultaneous paperback issue. A slim collection of poetry. A near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Waters to author Lucien Stryk on the half title. A nice association copy. Carnegie Mellon University Press unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 9010536New Haven: Yale University Press 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped and has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Yale University Press hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 319503Cliffdale Alpine N.J.: Privately printed 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First separate edition. Quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards with printed paper labels. A bit of rubbing very good or better. Privately printed for the friends of George A. Zabriskie. Privately printed hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 110611Studio City CA: Major Pictures Corporation 1969. Final Shooting script for the 1970 neo-noir film. Boldly SIGNED by lead actor Rod Taylor on the front wrapper. Based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald featuring his series character Travis McGee. Notable as the only feature film adaptation of MacDonald's wildly popular Travis McGee series long unavailable on any kind of viewing format. Red titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper dated 28 January 1969 with credits for screenwriter Ed Waters and novelist John D. MacDonald. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. Grant US. Larson Warped and Faded. Major Pictures Corporation unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 9003611New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Black-and-white pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink on the title page. Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover books
1971Best.-Nr. 9003610Pittsburgh: Boone and Crockett Club 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Black-and-white photograph illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. Boone and Crockett Club hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 25860Chicago: Sage 1971. First Edition. Signed by Author. Bound in publisher's full scarlet cloth with the title stamped in black on the spine. Wear at corners and head and heel of dust jacket with small closed tears and chips otherwise book is fine in a good unclipped dust jacket. Chicago: Sage, [1971] hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 52064New York / London: High Risk Books 1997. First edition. Very good plus. First printing of this scarce posthumously issued collection of Mueller's writings from the '60s '70s' and '80s - fondly introduced by John Waters as "the ultimate daughter Divine would have loved to have had." 8'' x 5''. Original pictorial wrappers designed by Rex Ray. 294 pages. Minor edgewear. Light toning to margins. High Risk Books unknown books
1781Best.-Nr. 378383Paris: Chez P.F. Didot le jeune Librairie de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris 1781. Nouvelle édition revue corrigée. xii 562 i.e.763 4 pp. 8vo. Modern full brown morocco. Fine. Nouvelle édition revue corrigée. xii 562 i.e.763 4 pp. 8vo. An interpretaion of Hippocrates' writings intended for the general reader young doctor or surgeon. Hippocrates was born on the island of Cos Kos. Chez P.F. Didot, le jeune, Librairie de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris unknown books
1861Best.-Nr. 54625London: Charles H. Clarke 1861. Very good plus. First edition of this classic Victorian detective novel ostensibly written in the form of a memoir by an expat detective who fled his home country to avoid political persecution. After his RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE-OFFICER 1856 the first novel of its kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard Russell followed-up with this first-person series of eight short stories featuring Detective Duhamel "who escaped his native France to avoid imprisonment for political reasons" Dever 234. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. To this end Russell / Duhamel begin the book with an "essay" "The Difference Between English and French Detectives" writing: "It is true they are alike agents of the public force and that their common mission is to frustrate or detect offenses against the person and against property. But there the resemblance ends . Yes multifarious all-embracing are the duties of the French Secret Police." Rare; OCLC locates just eight copies. 6.25'' x 4''. Original full purple textured cloth with gilt spine titles. 2 13-317 1 publisher's ad pages complete. Spine sunned with faint perished label shadow. Minor shelfwear. Overall clean and sound. Charles H. Clarke unknown books
Best.-Nr. 44708Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1987. Very good plus. Original revised second draft for the classic 1989 teen film starring Winona Ryder Christian Slater Shannen Doherty Lisanne Falk Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. One of the greatest high school movies ever made and one of the few really worthy Winona Ryder vehicles HEATHERS not only anticipated the more satirical edge of '90s teen movies to come it perhaps embodied better than even John Hughes the world-weary pose for which Gen X would become best known. From the great heights of his Edgar-winning first screenplay Waters later descended to the ignominy of HUDSON HAWK and "a little bit of friction" with Tim Burton - although as he later noted there is much to be said for a career in which one has "enough old Batman residual money I can live my own life and write original scripts." Subjected to several recent stage and screen adaptations the original HEATHERS still cuts like a knife and resists reduction to a period piece: like Shakespeare Waters wrote not for an age but for all time. Gracious to a fault the writer neither disdained nor disclaimed the musical or the ill-fated television show based on his iconic work; in fact he suggested a "Heathers On Ice" would be nice too "and I'm getting an opera vibe." Gen X canon. 11'' x 8.5''. Original brad-bound white printed production wrappers. Title page dated November 17 1987. 110 leaves printed rectos only. Light toning and touches of soil to wrappers. [New World Pictures] unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 306962New York: G.F. Diehl 1896. 20pp. 12mo. Stapled self wrappers. Slight finger soiling. In half blue morocco and cloth drop box with red leather label. 20pp. 12mo. Pro-capitalist pamphlet by someone claiming to "work in a machine shop in a little New England town. G.F. Diehl] unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. List2833Shasta County and Siskiyou County 1890. Fifteen photographs approximately 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Each mounted on heavy cardboard backing approximately 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches which is mounted on heavy cardboard of approximately 8 x 10 ½ inches. Unknown if photographs are stamped verso due to mounting. Some with recent captions on the largest mount; some captions likely incorrect see description. Fine contrast overall fine condition. Raper James Waters 1856–1937 was a professional photographer from Sacramento California. He was first active as a photographer in Gold Hill Nevada in the 1880s. Following this he returned to California and had studios in Berkeley and San Francisco between the late 1880s and mid-1920s. Offered here is a collection of fifteen of Waters’ photographs from around Mount Shasta likely from the late 1880s or 1890s. The photographs are mainly from places in Siskiyou County where Mount Shasta is located including shots of the towns of Sisson now Mount Shasta and Dunsmuir Sisson and Dunsmuir are on the Siskiyou Trail an ancient Native American footpath running from the San Francisco area to Portland Oregon. The Central Pacific Railroad Company completed a train line along the Siskiyou Trail in 1887; one shot from an unknown location shows railroad tracks rounding a curve among felled trees. Just outside of Dunsmuir is the Shasta Springs resort mislabeled here as Shasta Bottling Works famous for its springwater – the fountains of water in the photograph are from pressurized pipes coming from the springs. Other captioned photographs show Castle Crags hikers summiting Mount Shasta Mossbrae Falls and Castle Lake mislabeled as Crystal Lake. Photographs also show campers with their tent small houses a canoe on a lake and snowy winter scenes. Overall a striking set of photographs. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 53813London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Very good. First authorized edition in book form of these collected police detective stories the first ever of their kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard. Originally published in CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL the thirteen stories of the First Series plus an eight additional episodes gathered three years later in the Second Series mark the first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective. Russell in the persona of "Waters" presented his narratives as first-person recollections in line with the conventions of the mid-Victorian police memoir then enjoying great popularity while offering to the reading public a new kind of hero: a policeman with intelligence curiosity and integrity. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. Given the bedrock importance of this interplay between the real and the unreal at the dawn of detective fiction it is perhaps unsurprising that Sherlock Holmes the most famous fictional private detective of later Victorian decades would inspire a legion of devotees to insist on his factual reality perfectly well aware that this was not true and sublimely indifferent to it. A handsome copy of this scarce and vital Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen title - especially uncommon complete in one volume. Two octavo volumes bound in one 6.25'' x 4''. Contemporary half calf marbled boards. Gilt-ruled spine with spine label. Lacking frontispiece as sometimes seen. 8 310 pages. In custom cloth slipcase. Sympathetically rebacked with reinforcement to hinges. Some rubbing chipping rear joint. Overall clean and sound. J. & C. Brown & Co unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 61083London: John Murray 1907. Reprint. Octavo 23cm. Green cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine; plain endpapers; xii280pp; 9 folding maps and 2 halftone plates. A tight copy lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners browning to free endpapers but generally Very Good. German Official Account of the War in South Africa October 1899 to February 1900. See MENDELSSOHN II p.590. John Murray unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 3147771939. 8 x 10 inches. Small blemish at upper right colored-in two old mounts on verso otherwise fine. 8 x 10 inches. Inscribed photograph of African-American television theater and film pioneer Ethel Waters 1896-1977 depicting her in one of her most famous roles and inscribed: "To Alice with the same devotion Hagar has for Lissa and you have for Natalie I have for you Ethel Waters." The photograph shows Waters as Hagar in the Broadway production of Mamba's Daughters 1939 a role which was adapted specifically for her by Dorothy and Dubose Hayward from their novel of the same name; it has been cited as the first dramatic starring role for an African-American actress ANB. On June 14 1939 Waters became the first African-American to host a television program when NBC broadcast "The Ethel Waters Show" a one-hour variety program which included a scene from Mamba's Daughters. The Alice of the inscription is Alice D. Laughlin 1895-1952 muralist engraver and designer who co-founded with designer Natalie Hays Hammond 1904-1985 the Stage Alliance which produced "Six Miracle Plays" directed by and starring Martha Graham at the Guild Theater in 1933. Hammond and Laughlin together with Phyillis Connard constituted a small colony of women artists in Gloucester Massachusetts at the Hammond compound designed by architect Eleanor Raymond. Ethel Waters first made a name for herself as a blues singer on the club circuit; her stage career began when Irving Berlin cast her in As Thousands Cheer 1933 after hearing her perform "Stormy Weather" at the Cotton Club. In 1949 she became the second African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award Best Supporting Actress for her role in Pinky. WITH: Autograph letter unsigned 6 pp to Natalie Hammond unknown books
1722Best.-Nr. 228517Charlestown Middlesex Masachusetts 1722. 31 x 19.5 cm. 12 x 7.25 inches. Folio. Fine. 31 x 19.5 cm. 12 x 7.25 inches. Folio. Witnessed and signed by "Edwd. Larkin" and "Rebekah Chambers." Alos signed by Charles Chambers Justice of the Peace. unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 29379n.p. 1940. 1 vols. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Marginal chipping and tape-mended tears to first and last pages else very good. 1 vols. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 60187New York: The Viking Press 1963. First edition. Drawings and source material recorded by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to spine. Ashley Montagu's copy with his name in his hand on the front flyleaf. First edition. Drawings and source material recorded by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. 1 vols. 8vo. The Viking Press unknown books
2017Best.-Nr. 16621New York: Clarkson Potter 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket unclipped $27.00 rubbed at the top-right corner. Quarter black cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound clean internally. Waters's memoir that "reflects on the desultory road that brought her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue culminating in the opening of that iconic establishment in 1971. Clarkson Potter hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 90780Berkeley & San Francisco: Black Oak Books/A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books 1984. First edition. 15 x 7 3/4 inch broadside printed in three colors. Some light discoloration to the lower edge of the right side else fine. Designed by Peter Koch. Though not called for SIGNED by Waters Curtan and Koch. Berkeley & San Francisco: Black Oak Books/A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. 84289NY: Scribner 2003. First edition. 177 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated June 2003 and INSCRIBED by Waters. NY: Scribner unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 84276NY & London: Macmillan/Collier Macmillan 1986. Uncorrected proof. 129 pp. Foxing to top edge and endpapers else near fine in printed wrappers. NY & London: Macmillan/Collier Macmillan unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 7452Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1951. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Waters on the half-title page. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket faded at the edges generally chipped and with some small creases and closed tears. Grey buckram toned at the edges bumped with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A nice signed copy of the acclaimed jazz singer's memoir. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
