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1997réf. 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
1781réf. 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
1861réf. 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
réf. 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
1896réf. 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
1856réf. 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
1939réf. 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
1722réf. 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
1940réf. 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
1963réf. 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
2017réf. 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
1984réf. 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
2003réf. 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
1986réf. 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
1951réf. 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
1850réf. 3448Great Britain 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic. Caroline's elegant practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal sic rules for this purpose viz. Numeration Subtraction Addition Multiplication and Division." Using this definition she divides her notebook into a section for each providing a definition for that principle plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration Subtraction and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights cloth measurements and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division before adding sections on Decimal Fractions more Practical Questions and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest. The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion monetary exchange and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts. An exceptional and rich document Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education middle class education women's domestic use of mathematics women in business paleography genealogy gender studies. unknown books
1946réf. 3609New York: Rinehart & Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Nicolai Fechin and Maps by George Annand. Very Good in a Very Good jacket clipped generally rubbed faded at the spine a small tape repair to the head of the spine. Red buckram with a black ink panel and gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound former owner's sticker on the front endpaper clean otherwise. Part of the "Rivers of America" series. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1975réf. 66538Ithaca: Ithaca House 1975. First edition. 55 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Waters' first full-length collection of poetry. Ithaca: Ithaca House unknown books
réf. 159mdFlagstaff AZ: Northland Press MCMLXIV. First Edition. Folio black cloth hardcover gilt letters 114 pp. Near-Fine with neat former-owner stamp; in a Near-Fine mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Leon Gaspard is not just the story of Leon Gaspard the painter. This story colorfully recaptures all the adventures and delightful highlights of the man who was known and loved in his native Russia the capitals of Europe and throughout the American Southwest which was his home for forty years. Leon Gaspard was born in Russia in 1882 and died in Taos New Mexico early in 1964. During his life he spanned incredible times and spaces -- from the turn-of-the-century Paris of the Bohemians to the ageless Tibet of the Grand Lama -- from the ancient Forbidden City of Peking to the almost-today Taos of Mabel Dodge Luhan and D. H. Lawrence. Surely only a man as vital and as sentient as Gaspard could have encompassed them all. Northland Press, MCMLXIV. First Edition. hardcover books
1989réf. 18303Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press 1989. First trade paperback edition. Fine in wrappers. Poet Walter Pavlich’s ownership signature. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, paperback books
1987réf. 29488Lewiston: Confluence Press 1987. First edition. 62 pp. Near fine in glossy wrappers. Illustrated by Floyd Tennison DeWitt. Waters' first volume of poetry. Lewiston: Confluence Press, unknown books
réf. 28660Brockport NY:BOA Editions N. d. First edition. Fine single large postcards with a poem and illustration on the front and a single line of type on the back as publicity for new books from BOA. 4 cards for Michael Waters 10 cards for Edward Byrne in white buff and deep orange; 4 cards for Piccione; 1 card for Isabella Gardner; 1 card for Homero Aridjis; 1 card for Ralph J. Mills Jr.; 4 cards for Barton Sutter in tan and deep orange; 2 cards for W. D. Snodgrass; 2 cards for Barry Wallenstein; 4 cards for Ingrid Wendt. In addition there are cards for Wallenstein Snodgrass Sutter Piccione Byrne Rosenthal with the same front material but different back material with details of their books prices and blurbs. Brockport, NY:BOA Editions, unknown books
1980réf. 29489Tempe: Porch Publications 1980. First edition. Unpaginated. Fading to extremes else very good plus in stapled wrappers. A volume in the 1980 Inland Boat Pamphlet Series. A chapbook published following the release of Waters' second full-length collection NOT JUST ANY DEATH. Tempe: Porch Publications unknown books
2014réf. RWATCAR00drpFarrar Straus and Giroux 2014. Very Good. Waters John. Carsick. NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2014. 1st edition. 322pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping on spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. In DJ protector. Signed by the auteur himself John Waters on the title page. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
2013réf. UWATARC00hcDutton 2013. Fine. Waters M. D. Archetype. New York: Dutton 2013. 1st edition. 372pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Signed by author. Book condition: Near fine with light bumping on spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Dutton hardcover books
