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Maximilian: A Play in Five Acts
First Edition
Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press, 1902. 154 pages. The author's first published play and his second book. ISBN: 281AIB1050202.
First edition (first printing). Original gray wrappers with paper label on upper cover. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Wear to the spine edges and with corner creases to covers and first few pages. Scarce in wrappers; usually found in boards.
Book ID: 266583More details Price: $360.00 -
Family Photo Album from Nazi Germany [1934-1935]
1935. 13 by 9 inches. 48 leaves, with tissue interleaving. More than 200 small photographs depicting family visits around Germany in 1934-1935. All the the images are captioned in a neat hand. The album opens with four views of a Nazi rally. Other images show the Graf Zeppelin. The author of the album (unknown to this cataloguer) apparently was a doll collector, as a number of pages are devoted to photographs of doll stores. Most of the photographs show members of the family visiting sites, swimming, boating, and standing around in fine clothes. An interesting look at typical German life early in the Nazi regime. ISBN: 281AIB1037960.
One small image missing; covers lightly stained, else very good. [JSP02; JSP04]
Book ID: 188885More details Price: $350.00 -
Wilderness at the Edge: A Citizen Proposal to Protect Utah's Canyons and Deserts
First Edition
Salt Lake City: Utah Wilderness Coalition, 1990. 400 pages. About 9-1/2 by 12-1/4 inches. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white maps and photo reproductions, and a fold-out color map at the rear. Introduction by Wayne Owens. One of 500 numbered and signed copies. ISBN: 9780879053673.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with lightly sunned spine and a bit of wear to the edges, thus near fine. In a near fine slipcase Signed by the both Stegner and Ownes on the front free endpaper. Copy 392. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 178607More details Price: $312.50 -
Bustin' Loose. Here provisionally titled 'Family Dream'. Second draft screenplay.
First Edition Thus
Universal City Studios, Inc, 1979. 109 pages. "Bustin' Loose" was released in 1981 starring Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson. This copy is identified as Family Dream, No. 00545, Second Draft, August 10, 1979 on front cover. Based on an original story by Richard Pryor. One of not too many all Afro-American films with national circulation at the time. Owner's name on cover in holograph: "J. Elkins." An Aaron J. Elkins is credited with writing/creating some characters in the TV series "Gideon Oliver" (1989) starring Louis Gossett Jr. Bound with 3 brads. ISBN: 281AIB1048761.
First edition thus. A near fine copy in printed gray wrappers (paperback). Pages are light green. Covers are mildly soiled.
Book ID: 264015More details Price: $300.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Box opened and bellyband peeled up from box edges (the only way to open the package). The Bookman pamphlet signed by McMurty and Bonner.
In addition to the regular contents of this collection, this copy includes a hand-corrected proof of "The Bookman" (the changes are in an unknown hand, but almost certainly not McMurtry's); a trade copy of The Bookman inscribed by Bonner; an extra bumpersticker; and a white-on-white Booked Up logo sticker, perhaps a trial item. A unique assemblage.
Book ID: 230113More details Price: $300.00 -
Photographic Works of Chin-San Long
Taipei, Tawain: The Photographic Society of China, 1972. About 90 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. A collection of works spanning sixty years of the pioneering Chinese photographer's career. Photographs reproduced in sepia, color and black-and-white. With text in English, French and Chinese. ISBN: 281AIB1047197.
Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 260848More details Price: $300.00 -
Spoor: volume one, number one
First Edition
Aberdeen, Washington: Ten Crow Press, 1980. Contains 12 poems, 4 signed monotypes by Cain, 14 woodcut or lino-cut illustrations. In addition to Cain's work there is a poem by William Brown from 'The Way to the Uncle Sam Hotel.' The work is letterpress printed on domestic etching paper and hand-sewn into lenox covers. Oblong 13 x 10 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1048716.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white decorated sewn wrappers (paperback). Slight scuffing on rear from sliding in and out of envelope. In original cardboard mailing envelope from the Ten Crow Press.
Book ID: 263945More details Price: $300.00 -
Good Country People and The Enduring Chill
First Edition
Tokyo: The Eihosha Ltd, 1977. 96 pages. Selections from A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that rises must converge. Text in English, with introduction and notes in Japanese. ISBN: 281AIB1050451.
First edition (first printing). Light bumps to spine ends else a fine copy in stiff salmon-colored flexible cloth wrappers with a bi-colored printed dust jacket. A rare O'Connor item. OCLC locates 4 copies.
Book ID: 267017More details Price: $300.00 -
Doctor Dolittle Final Screenplay
A fine copy, bound with two brad brads, in studio covers printed with an image of the doctor and a Pushmi-pullyu. [JSP01]
Book ID: 207220More details Price: $300.00 -
The Origin of the Brunists: A Novel [Advance reading copy]
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. 441 pages. Advance reading copy of Coover's first novel. ISBN: 281AIB1039106.
Very good in wrappers (paperback) printed with a letter in typescript on the publisher's letterhead. Inscribed by the author on the cover to the noted bookseller and collector:" For Burt Britton / who shared / Robert Coover."
Book ID: 197742More details Price: $300.00 -
Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen
First Edition
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to Stephen Jay Gould, who wrote the introduction to the first book from Skotnes's Axeage Private Press.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 215851More details Price: $250.00 -
Ohabolana, or Malagasy Proverbs, Illustrating the Wit and Wisdom of the Hova of Madagascar. Parts I and II
First Edition
Faravohitra, Antananarivo, Madagascar: Friends' Foreign Missionary Association, 1915-1916. 146, iii; 141, v , iv pages. Part I: 1236 proverbs; Part II: 1080 proverbs, and 100 Betsimisaraka proverbs with equivalents in Hova Malagasy. The Hova were the middle caste in the Kingdom of Merina in Madagascar, situated between the slaves and the nobles. This collection of proverbs is presented in the Malagasay language, along with English equivalents and in French translations by Henri Noyer. OCLC locates a handful of copies under a few different item numbers. A scarce book of African proverbs; Madagascar imprints are uncommon. ISBN: B0008AQA1K.
First edition (first printing). Two volumes bound in one. Red cloth over paper-covered boards. Printed paper label. Spine slightly faded, corners worn, else very good or better. Bookplate on inside front cover. Possibly a publisher's binding.
Book ID: 200918More details Price: $250.00 -
Cannery Row (Film Script)
141 pages. Film script sent from Burbank Studios in 1978. This is the film adaptation of Steinbeck's novels, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, released in 1982 starring Nick Nolte and Debra Wenger, produced by Michael Phillips. Reproduced from typed copy. Punched sheets with prong fasteners. ISBN: 281AIB1047911.
Near fine copy. Rare early film script of this movie from Burbank Studios.
Book ID: 262795More details Price: $250.00 -
Wooden Nickel Art Project
First Edition
Iowa City: Happy Press, 1988. [20] leaves plus covers. Morice sent wooden nickels to hundreds of celebrities and asked them to adorn one side and sign the other. Several hundred people responded and this is the catalog of the exhibition Morice held of the returned pieces. One of 350 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1028354.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in stapled wrappers. With a letter to Rod McKuen, the poet and songwriter and one of the participants, signed by Morice laid in.
Book ID: 130285More details Price: $250.00 -
Brill's Magazine [Run of 46 issues]
Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1970. Volume I, nos. 1-12; vol. II, nos. 1-12; vol. III, nos. 1-12; vol. IV, nos. 2, 4-12. Brill was one of the leading street car manufacturers at the beginning of the 20th century. These magazines, profusely illustrated with photographs of Brill streetcars, were originally published between 1907 to 1910. ISBN: 281AIB1021219.
Issues fine but for a "registered" stamp on the front cover of each issue.
Book ID: 94298More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry.
Book ID: 208095More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry.
Book ID: 208096More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry.
Book ID: 208097More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry. [JSP02]
Book ID: 208098More details Price: $250.00 -
The Disenchanted [Original Play Script]
New York: William Darrid and Eleanore Saidenberg, (n.d. but ca. 1958). 23, 35, 22 pages. An original script for the three-act play based on Schulberg's thinly disguised novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald. The play opened at the Coronet Theater on Broadway in December 1958 and closed in May 1959 after 189 performances. Jason Robards, Jr. played the Fitzgerald-like down-and-out writer, and the English actor Rosemary Harris played his wife. Robards won the Tony for his performance. ISBN: 281AIB1041667.
Very good in stiff paper covers from the Studio Duplicating Service. Piece missing from top of spine at the back cover. This is likely a pre-production script. [JSP02]
Book ID: 209569More details Price: $250.00