Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, and Their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings From the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
by Meij, A. W. F. M.
Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. VG/Good+, Exlibrary copy with mylar covering over dust jacket. Small ownership stamps inside covers, small label at the base of the spine on the dust jacket, and small stamps at the top and bottom of the text block. Teal hardcover with silver embossed text on the spine and cover. A dust jacket featuring a sepia sketch and a mylar covering. (6), 7-381 pp. Contains hundreds of true-color and black-and-white illustrations. Among the Boijmans... Read More
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Full-length role portrait photograph of the soprano as the Marschallin with a young blackamoor in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. With an autograph inscription signed to verso: "Frau Friedl Ullmann, in memory of May 1, 1970 with many thanks and all good wishes!
by JURINAC, Sena 1921-2011
From the Fayer studio in Vienna. Ca. 140 x 90 mm. In German (with translation). Slightly worn. "Although best known early in her career for Mozart, [Jurinac] built up an extensive repertory covering a wide range of parts. She appeared at most of the world's leading opera houses, maturing from roles such as Cherubino, Octavian, Marzelline and Ilia (Idomeneo) to the Countess, the Marschallin, Leonore and Electra. Among her other notable roles were the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos),... Read More
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By Firelight
by PARGETER, Edith [a.k.a. Ellis Peters]
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1948]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],324pp. Jacket rather chipped and worn with bottom half of upper spine fold split, additional some closed tears and tiny chips to extremities, spine a bit dampstained, cloth corners bumped else Very Good in About Very Good only jacket. Historical novel by the author best known for her mystery series the Cadfael Chronicles, published under the pseudonym Ellis Peters.
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The Dresser (Original photograph from the 1983 film)
by Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Edward Fox, Michael Gough, Sheila Reid (starring); Peter Yates (director); Ronald Harwood (screenwriter)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Vintage reference photograph from the 1983 film, showing actor Albert Finney preparing for a turn as King Lear, with help from his dresser Tom Courtenay. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1980 play by Ronald Harwood, loosely based on his own experiences as a personal dresser to Shakespearean actor and manager Donald Wolfit. The dresser and confidante of a faded veteran actor struggles to keep his employer's life... Read More
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THE PIANO TEACHER: THE TRUE STORY OF A PSYCHOTIC KILLER
by GREENBERG, Peter S. [With Robert K. TANENBAUM]
NY: New American Library, 1987. First Edition, first printing. Lengthy, heartfelt presentation from Greenberg on the front endpaper: "To Arnold & Anna, who not only live in the midst of adversity, but turn it into an asset. With all best wishes to two friends who have managed the almost impossible in this town- you have survived, and you have succeeded... and, most importantly, you have maintained your values. With admiration and regards & friendship. Peter. 12/17/87." The story of... Read More
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Chiaroscuro
by CLOTHIER, Peter
New York, St. Martin's Press [1985].. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Jacket illustration by Sarah Paul. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks). Very good. 259 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Clothier on front free endpaper: "To Ronnie and Marcia - With all best wishes & thanks for joining up! Enjoy! Peter Clothier. ". Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Sophie's Choice
by STYRON, William
New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Bowed boards with toning on the edges else very good, lacking the glassine dustwrapper. One of an unspecified number of presentation copies specially prepared for friends of the author and publisher. Basis for the 1982 film starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol; Academy Award winner for Best Actress.
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Felices Pascuas, Mr. Chips! [To You, Mr. Chips!]
by HILTON, James
(Barcelona): José Janés Editor, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First Spanish edition. Some foxing to the boards and the endpapers, thus very good or better in near fine dustwrapper with a small stain at the crown, and with wraparound band that has a tear on the rear. Basis for two films: the 1939 Sam Wood-directed version with Robert Donat (who beat out Clark Gable, Henry Fonda and others for the Best Actor Oscar in what was probably Hollywood's... Read More
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KUNSTHISTORISCHE STUDIEN, HANS KAUFFMANN ZUM 70. GEBURTSTAG 1966
by Buddensieg, Tilmann and Matthias Winner
Berlin: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1968. cloth. Kauffmann, Hans. large 8vo. cloth. (vi), 420 pages followed by numerous illustrations. First edition. The art historian Hans Kaufmann's 70th brithday is celebrated with this festschrift. Kaufmann is best known for his publications on Albrecht Dürer, Donatello and Peter Paul Rubens. This volume brings together 27 essays from colleagues and former students, including studies by Konrad Oberhuber and Martin Warnke. At rear is a list of dissertations that Kaufmann supervised. In German. ... Read More
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Black Triumvirate - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Levin, Benjamin H.
Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. cloth. Very small water stain to lower edge of back cover which slightly touches the lower edge of the text block; When the United States is confronted with a new and deadly terrorist group, the president calls on an old friend for help. The CIA taps John Brennan, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, to lead the country's most... Read More
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AS GOOD AS OUR TOOLS: EQUIPMENT AND TOOL MAKERS FOR HAND PAPERMAKING
by Lee, Aimee
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2025. softcover. Papermaking. 10 x 7 inches. softcover. 304 pages. For over two millennia, humans have made paper by inventing, improving, and adapting a range of tools and equipment to effectively create the best product. In the 20th century, European-style hand papermaking experienced a revival made possible by specialized studios and tools. This field of creative hand papermaking is small but robust, enabled by a key group of people: the toolmakers. These skilled... Read More
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Tail Gunner Joe (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)
by Jud Taylor (director); Lane Slate (screenwriter); Peter Boyle, Burgess Meredith, John Forsythe (starring)
Universal City: Universal, 1975. Draft script for the television film that first aired on February 6, 1977, on NBC. A dramatization of the rise and fall of US Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose Red Scare fearmongering and persecution of suspected communists and homosexuals (and other so-called subversives) at the height of his political power proved to be his eventual downfall. Nominated for six Emmy awards and winning two, including one for Best Screenplay. Red untitled wrappers. Title page... Read More
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Weapon Tests and Evaluations: The Best of Soldier of Fortune
by Kokalis, Peter G.
Boulder: Paladin Press. Very Good+. c2001. Softcover. 1581601220 . Very Good+ condition with minor shelfwear; The best of Soldier of Fortune; 4to; 397 pages .
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Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work
by Hudson, Derek
New York: Charles Scribner, 1975. Reprint (of 1960). Hardcover. vg. Arthur Rackham. 4to. 180 (2) pp. Green buckram binding with embossed gilt decoration to cover and title plate to spine in original printed dust jacket. Some scuffing, rubbing and minor tearing to dj, mainly on top dj spine. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout (some color). With three appendices. Re-issue of 1960 edition. Dj in good, book in very good condition. On the illustrator: Arthur Rackham... Read More
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CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN NOVELISTS. The Best Interviews from the Missouri Review and the American Audio Prose Library
by (BUTLER, Robert Olen)
Columbia, MO & London: University of Missouri Press, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Slight bump to upper right corner. About Fine. Pictorial wraps. Edited by Kay Bonetti, Greg Michalson, Speer Morgan, Jo Sapp, and Sam Stowers. Subjects include Robert Stone, Jim Harrison, Peter Matthiessen, Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Olen Butler, a.o. This copy SIGNED by Butler at his interview.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF REAGAN: A PORTRAIT OF RONALD REAGAN
by HANNAFORD, Peter
William Morrow and Co, 1997. HANNAFORD, Peter. RECOLLECTIONS OF REAGAN: A PORTRAIT OF RONALD REAGAN. NY: William Morrow and Co., [1997]. 8vo., cloth and boards in dust jacket. First Edition, first printing. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed presentation from Hannaford on title page: "To Cynthia and Chan- with best regards, Peter Hannaford." Cynthia is the daughter of Hollywood agent and Ronald Reagan's pal Charles Z. Wick. Chan is her husband, Channing Gibson. Gibson is an Emmy Award-winning... Read More
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The Etiology and Pathology of Typhus. Being the Main Report of the Typhus Research commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland
by Wolbach, S. Burt, Todd, John L. and Palfrey, Francis W.
Cambridge, MA: League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press, 1922. First edition. 1922 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF CLINICAL RESEARCH ON TYPHUS BY WOLBACH IN POLAND. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, x, 222 pp, black and white photographs depicting cutaneous lesions of typhus, 32 black & white and 2 color plates containing photomicrographs of organisms and histopathology. Corners worn, spine ends frayed, bookplate of University of Michigan Library to front paste-down, "withdrawn"... Read More
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BIBLIOMYSTERIES: VOLUME TWO; STORIES OF CRIME IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS AND BOOKSTORES [SIGNED]
by Penzler, Otto [Editor] Stein, R. L. [Author] Rankin, Ian [Author] Lovesey, Peter [Author] et. al
New York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, viii, 615 pages. In Near Fine condition with a Near Fine condition dust jacket. Black spine with white lettering outlines in red. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering. Inscription stating "Best bibliophilic wishes - " signed Otto Penzler on title page. Shelved []. 1382714. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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THE MASTER
by White, T. H.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Fine in like dust jacket.. First edition of this adventure story with a dose science fiction - twins Nicky and Judy and their dog Jokey find themselves marooned on an island with the psychic MASTER and his henchmen. In turns hyperbolic, absurd, suspenseful, T. H. White's THE MASTER is somewhat of a science fiction complement to his earlier ONCE AND FUTURE KING. John Clute and Peter Nicholls describe White's SF as "sharing the sentimentality,... Read More
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The Last Best Hope - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Tauber, Peter
New York And London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151483779 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing in a Fine dust-jacket; The Last Best Hope is a compelling and fast-paced novel that tells the story of two families wrestling with the aftermath of a devastating tornado. Told from alternating perspectives, the novel explores the ways that loss can change people and families forever.; 8vo ; 628 pages;... Read More
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The Best - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Passell, Peter and Leonard Ross
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first Printing of the First Edition that has some wear from age, else in Nearly Fine condition and housed in a barely scuffed alike dust-jacket; The Best is a non-fiction book about the history of the Boston Red Sox. It is written by Peter Passell and Leonard Ross.; 8vo; 169 pages .
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MODERN AMERICAN PLAYS
by BAKER, George P.
Harcourt, 1920. BELASCO, David. MODERN AMERICAN PLAYS. Edited, With An Introduction, by George P. Baker. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. 12mo., black cloth, stamped in blue. First Edition. Signed presentation from author David Belasco on front endpaper: "To E.S. Friendly Esq., with best wishes, Faithfully, David Belasco. Oct. 1st, 1921." Belasco was included in this anthology with his play "The Return Of Peter Grimm." Good (some wear spine tips). $50.00.
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Nitrogen Fixing Organisms; Pure and Applied Aspects
by Sprent, Janet; Peter Sprent
London; (1990): Chapman and Hall. First Edition. Octavo. 256 pages, index, references. This hardcover copy was issued in a very small print run. The best book on the subject with Janet Sprent, the acknowledge expert on the biochemical aspects of nitrogen. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards, no names or bookplates. A very good copy.
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Views on Europe
by Ulrich Bischoff
Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2007. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Hardcover in dark blue cloth with embossed white title. Color printed paper dustjacket. 413 pp, generously illustrated with color reproductions. Views on Europe -- a preface / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Martin Roth and Reinhold Baumstark -- Preface / Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens -- Acknowledgements -- Citizens of the world-the idea of Europe / Bernhard Maaz -- The Rome of the North-Athens on the Spree-Florence on the Elbe Munich, Berlin and... Read More
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At Play in The Fields Of The Lord
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 373 pages. Widley considered one of Matthiessen's best novels which was also made into a movie with Tom Berenger, John Lithgow and Kathy Bates. A clean and tight near fine copy in two tone cloth boards with bright orange topstain and in a very good dust jacket with a chunk missing from the top of the spine, a few small tears to the top of the front panel... Read More
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