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1947réf. 5652New York: Rinehart & Co 1947. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1947 1st edition with a SIGNED TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE. Solid and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with very light soiling to the rear panel. Octavo 277 pgs. Signed by Author. Rinehart & Co unknown books
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
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
1856réf. 23900London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 309pp. Engraved frontispiece. Previous ownership name on title page dated 1858. Contemporary half-leather spine in four compartments tooled in blind with raised bands tooled in gilt black leather lettering label gilt. Marbled paper sides. Bookseller label on the front pastedown. Light wear to the edges large ownership name on the title else a near fine copy. Thirteen popular detective short stories which were previously published in 'Chambers' Edinburgh Journal' including 'One Night in a Gaming-House' 'Guilty or Not Guilty' 'Legal Metamorphoses' 'Mary Kingsford' and more. This is their first collected edition. Important early example of detective fiction. Queen's Quorum 2. . J. & C. Brown & Co hardcover 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
1972réf. 221831972. African AmericanFilm and Entertainment Waters Ethel. To Me It's Wonderful. New York: Harper & Row 1972. First edition. Original wrappers. Inscribed on the title page by the author: "In His Precious Love / Ethel Waters." A compelling first-person memoir by trailblazing African American actress and singer Ethel Waters. Waters rose to fame on the Harlem Renaissance stage and in Hollywood before undergoing a profound religious conversion later in life. This work her second autobiography following His Eye is on the Sparrow 1951 departs from a conventional career retrospective in favor of a testimonial narrative documenting her embrace of evangelical Christianity and her close association with Rev. Billy Graham to whom the book is dedicated "To my precious child Billy Graham and my entire Team family". Waters an emblematic figure of 20th-century Black performance history broke barriers as the first African American woman nominated for a Primetime Emmy and among the earliest to star in her own television program. Her legacy includes her profound impact on jazz blues and gospel music as well as her courageous navigation of a white-dominated entertainment and religious sphere. Wrapper with modest edgewear and vertical creasing along spine minor surface rubbing to rear. Overall very good condition. An uncommon signed copy of Waters' second autobiography. unknown books
1927réf. 206461927. Waters Ethel career archive 1927-1968 documents African American performance history across stage film and music supporting research into Black entertainment racial integration in American media and queer cultural history. Waters emerged from the Harlem jazz and blues scene of the 1920s and became one of the highest-paid Black recording artists of her era later breaking barriers in Broadway film and television. The archive traces her transition from early musical theater into mid-century film and stage productions including roles that engaged directly with race relations in the United States. Her career also holds significance within LGBTQ cultural history as her bisexual identity and audience following positioned her within overlapping communities of performance and identity. Archive of eight items including five black-and-white silver gelatin photographs one sheet music booklet and two printed theatrical programs/handbills dating from 1927 to 1968. 1 Kahn Gus and Moret Neil. Chlo-e Song of the Swamp. San Francisco: Villa Moret Inc. 1927. Six-page sheet music booklet featuring a photographic image of Waters from Africana the production marking her Broadway debut; interior leaf loose. 2 Press photograph for Pinky. 1949. Waters appears with co-star Jeanne Crain during filming; verso caption describes production context. 3 Press photograph for Pinky. 1949. Scene depicting Crain leaning on Waters in a domestic interior; caption identifies film. 4 Handbill for The Member of the Wedding. Milwaukee: Davidson Theatre February 18 1952. Single sheet with photographic portrait of Waters who originated the role of Berenice Sadie Brown. 5 Lobby card for The Member of the Wedding. 1952. Waters pictured with Julie Harris and Brandon deWilde in a domestic scene. 6 Program booklet for At Home with Ethel Waters. New York: 48th Street Theatre 1953. Sixteen-page program listing 26 songs performed with accompanist Reginald Beane including "Am I Blue" and "Stormy Weather" alongside biographical text and photographs. 7 Lobby card for The Sound and the Fury. 1959. Waters appears with Jack Warden and Stephen Perry in her final film role. 8 Press photograph of Waters with Jim Brown. 1968. Image shows Brown greeting Waters at MGM studios; caption printed on verso. Materials include a mix of promotional imagery performance documentation and printed ephemera tied to specific productions. Spanning four decades the archive situates Waters within major developments in American entertainment including the expansion of Black performers into mainstream film and television and the negotiation of racial representation in works such as Pinky. Her stage and musical performances document continuity between early jazz-era entertainment and mid-century theatrical production while her later appearances reflect sustained visibility across changing media landscapes. Minor edge wear occasional creasing and one chipped corner to a photograph not affecting the image; materials remain well preserved. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1934réf. 206451934. Waters Ethel group of six items dating from 1934 to 1959 documents the stage and screen career of Ethel Waters a central figure in twentieth century African American performance history whose work in theater music and film intersected with the integration of American entertainment industries. Rising to prominence in Harlem during the 1920s as a jazz and blues vocalist Waters became one of the highest paid Black recording artists of her era and later broke racial barriers on Broadway and in television. Her starring role in As Thousands Cheer established one of the earliest instances of integrated billing between Black and white performers on the Broadway stage while later productions and film roles expanded her presence across national audiences. Her repertoire including "Stormy Weather" and "Am I Blue" achieved lasting recognition in American music history and her public persona and personal life contributed to her reception within queer audiences including lesbian and gay communities. Archive of six items comprising two original black and white silver gelatin press photographs and four playbills spanning theater and film productions from 1934 to 1959. Materials include: 1 Playbill for As Thousands Cheer. Chicago: Shubert Grand Opera House November 5 1934. Four pages. Documents Waters' featured performance in Irving Berlin's production noted for integrated billing and for introducing the song "Heat Wave." 2 Playbill for Cabin in the Sky. Chicago: Selwyn Theatre May 4 1941. Sixteen pages with cover image of Waters alongside Todd Duncan and Dooley Wilson. Early all Black musical production with a sustained theatrical run. 3 Press photograph for Cabin in the Sky film. 1943. Approximately 7 x 9.5 inches. Image of Waters with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Petunia and Little Joe; verso retains original press caption. Film adaptation directed by Vincente Minnelli featuring an ensemble cast including Lena Horne Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. 4 Playbill for The Member of the Wedding. Ivoryton Connecticut: Ivoryton Playhouse July 13 1953. Sixteen pages. Includes feature noting Waters as "Star of the Week" documenting her role as Berenice Sadie Brown. 5 Playbill for At Home with Ethel Waters. New York: 48th Street Theatre September 22 1953. Thirty two pages. Musical revue featuring twenty six songs performed with accompanist Reginald Beane including "Am I Blue" "Suppertime" "St. Louis Blues" and "Stormy Weather." 6 Press photograph for The Sound and the Fury. April 9 1959. Approximately 7.5 x 9 inches. Depicts Waters with Joanne Woodward and Yul Brynner; verso retains press caption. Final film role of Waters. These materials trace Waters' movement from early integrated Broadway performance through mid century theatrical revivals and into late career film work providing a continuous record of African American participation in mainstream entertainment across multiple media. Productions such as Cabin in the Sky and The Member of the Wedding situate Waters within a cohort of Black performers who expanded narrative and representational possibilities on stage and screen during a period of segregation and limited roles. The inclusion of both playbills and press photography documents the promotional and institutional frameworks through which Black performers were presented to audiences while the chronological range captures shifts from Harlem Renaissance performance circuits to postwar film adaptation. Light handling wear with minor edge wear to playbills; photographs retain strong contrast and clear detail with intact press captions. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1973réf. 309765New York: Putnam 1973. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Burne-Jones. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w. 209 pages. Tall 4to brown cloth dust wrapper. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1973. First edition. Light foxing and toning to page edges; front cover scuffed still a very good solid copy. Putnam unknown books
1997réf. 532808Philadelphia: Banshee Press 1997. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 47pp. Fine. Poems by Jared Carter Michael Waters Denise Duhamel Alan Britt Karen Blomain Joyce Odam David Kirby Joseph Farley Art Beck Ann Menebroker Kent Taylor Tom Devaney and Robert Peters. Banshee Press unknown books
1990réf. 502547New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Quarto. Green wrappers. Foreword by Larry McMurtry. Edited and with introductions by Clarus Backes. Fine. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1945réf. 511672Washington D. C.: Agnes Waters 1945. Unbound. Fine. Promotional postcard and invitation to a speech by Agnes Waters. Measuring 5.5" x 3.5". Printed on recto. Verso is addressed to "Mr. M. B. Rorner Buffalo New York" and is postmarked "Washington D. C. June 25 1945." A single tiny closed tear else a fine copy. Agnes Waters was a political activist and write-in candidate for President in four elections starting in 1944. Agnes Waters unknown books
1936réf. 456958San Marino California: Huntington Library 1936. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 140pp. Printed brown wrappers. Ex-library copy with stamps on front wrap and titlepage some staining and wear on the front wrap and spine else about very good. Huntington Library unknown books
1936réf. 452528San Marino California: Huntington Library 1936. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 140pp. Printed brown wrappers. About fine. Huntington Library unknown books
1940réf. 440884New York: Carl Van Vechten 1940. Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver real photo postcard. Approximately 3½" x 5½". Fine. Photographer's embossed name. Captioned by Van Vechten on the verso: "Ethel Waters. 63." Bust portrait of Waters. Carl Van Vechten unknown 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
2002réf. 420603New York: Riverhead Books 2002. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Trade paperback. Spine creased and cocked very good being Nicholas Delbanco's copy with his name penned inside rear wrapper. Fiction. Riverhead Books unknown books
1987réf. 415025Annapolis Maryland: Naval Institute Press 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Revised edition. Tall octavo. 285pp. illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Naval Institute Press hardcover books
1933réf. 271132Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1933. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Spine and panel edges worn and faded rubbed at spine ends and corners. Harvard University Press) unknown books
1960réf. 192508New York: The Renaissance Society Of America 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Two parts of volume thirteen number 1 part one is 68pp. and part two is 68-121pp. Octavos. Stapled wrappers. Spines and edges lightly age-toned else very good. Part One: List of Officers of the Society Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Advisory Council and Directory of Members. Part Two: "Pedro de Mexia and Spanish Golden Age Historiography by Edward James Schuster; Blurt Master Constable: A Possible Authorship Clue by Samuel Schoenbaum; An Anonymous Neo-Latin Eclogue by W. Leonard Grant; Ransom in Samson Agonistes by Ann Gossman; Renaissance Books A List compiled by Robert E. Taylor and many reviews. The Renaissance Society Of America 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
1888réf. 394945Ottawa: J. Durie & Son 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 87pp. Dark green cloth gilt decorated in black. Modest rubbing and smudging on the boards still a bright and tight very good or better copy of this long poem. J. Durie & Son hardcover books
1989réf. 382186No place: A Silver Pictures Production 1989. Softcover. Fine. Shooting script. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets printed rectos only bradbound in illustrated wrappers. Revisions from director Renny Harlin and from each of the three producers inserted on different colored paper. One leaf wrinkled and torn but complete and present else very near fine. Released in 1990 as The Adventures of Ford Fairlane with Andrew Dice Clay. OCLC locates two copies of the script; this one and another earlier draft by another writer dated 1987. A Silver Pictures Production unknown books
1990réf. 367451Boston: David R. Godine 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 300pp. Gray cloth boards. Illustrated from color photographs. Very good with slightly bowed boards and bumped corners in a very good spine faded dust jacket with rubbing a few small chips and tears along the edges. David R. Godine hardcover books
