Yesterday's Nashville
by ZIBART, Carl F.
Miami: E.A. Seemann Publishing, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little foxing. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. Inscribed by the author to Peter Taylor: "for Peter who I humbly think is the best short story writer in the country today & best wishes, Carl. Nov 1, 1976.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Mona Lisa (Original photograph from the set of the 1986 film)
by Neil Jordan (director, screenwriter); David Leland (screenwriter); Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Clarke Peters (starring)
London: HandMade Films, 1986. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1986 film, showing director Jordan and star Hoskins together on location. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Hoskins stars as a recently released ex-con hired to drive a high class escort from job to job, slowly falling in love with her as he does, which leads trouble for them both. Hoskins won Best Actor at Cannes, where the film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or, and was... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Spartacus
by FAST, Howard
New York: Crown Publishers, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Eighth edition. Stated "Special Movie Edition" on front flap of the jacket. Small owner name front fly, modest tear and crase at the edge of one leaf (p. 263-264), very good in very good or better dust jacket with a few short tears near the crown. Because of growing concern over his Communist sympathies, Fast was unable to find a commercial publisher for this book and finally published the first... Read More
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Black Christian Studies. Volume I.
by FLOURNOY, Reverend Ray
Denver, Colorado: Black Crusade, the Education Division of The Church of the Black Cross, 1971. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Volume I (all published?). Wrappers illustrated from two black and white photographic portraits by Bill Peters of the *The Denver Post*. Octavo. vi, 70pp. Edges lightly toned, a bit of light soil on the lower wrap, about fine. The lower wrap shows a portrait of the author, who is the Consultant-in-Chief of the Church of the Black Cross. The... Read More
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[Sheet music]: We Were Very Poor Together Mary
by FOSDICK, W.W., words by, and Alfred Hopper, music by
Cincinnati: A.C. Peters & Brother, 1862. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Lithograph by Thomas Sinclair. Folio. 5pp. Wrappers. Notched and worn along the spine from once being bound within an album, scattered foxing, toning, and offsetting throughout, still a very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "We were very poor - 3394 - 4." The front cover states, "To the members of the Cincinnati Sketch Club," which was actually a periodical called *The Sketch Club*, which... Read More
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Inmitten aller Sterne
by COHN, Ruth C.
New York: Peter Thomas Fisher, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Thin octavo. Off-white cloth gilt. Text in German. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) and his wife, psychologist Vivian on the front fly, boards bowed, soiling on the boards, a good copy. Inscribed by the author:... Read More
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The Films of Frank Capra
by Scherle, Victor and William Turner Levy
First edition (so stated). 4to. Introduction by the Hon. William O. Douglas, comments by Tay Garnett, Walter Lantz, Francois Truffaut, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Peter Bogdanovich and others. Original blue and yellow cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. 278 pages. Signed and inscribed by authors on front free endpaper: "For George Houle – with the very best wishes of the authors! Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy."
Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now
by MILLER, Richard
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, clothbound issue. Octavo. 376pp. Illustrated. Foxing on the topedge, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Richard Miller on the front flyleaf: "Hey Peter, look! Here it is at last. When Bohemia arrives, can Snail be far behind. Best regards, Dick." According to the jacket text: "Mr. Miller has included a comprehensive discussion of Paris in the twenties, pre-war Germany, and the American Beats of the... Read More
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Mr. Dooley In Peace and in War
by DUNNE, Finley Peter
Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1898., 1898. First edition. 8vo. 7 page preface by Finley Peter Dunne. Original green cloth stamped in gilt (light browning to endpapers). Very good. 260 pages. Signed and inscribed by Finley Peter Dunne on the front free endpaper: "For Mrs. Martin with the best wishes of F.P. Dunne, Dec. 1898." Printed by George H. Ellis.. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs
The Pronouns: A Collection of Forty Dances for the Dancers 3 February - 22 March 1964.
by MAC LOW, Jackson.
Barrytown: Station Hill,, 1979.. First edition.. 77 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. A suite of photographs by Peter Moore concludes the book. Dated (Rome 7/6/80) and INSCRIBED by Mac Low, “For Michael McClure / with best wishes / Jackson Mac Low / Rome.”
Offered by Jeff Maser, Bookseller
The Golden Book of Peter Pan
by [BARRIE, J.M.] PILLER, Gordon, editor
London, Newnes [1965]., 1965. First edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout (many in color). Dust jacket. Very good. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by Piller to director George Cukor: "To George Cukor With best wishes always, Gordon Piller." With Cukor's Paul Landacre bookplate.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Rescue the Earth! Conversations with the Green Crusaders
by MOWAT, Farley
(Toronto): McClelland & Stewart. (1990). The Canadian author of Never Cry Wolf, among many others, here interviews environmental activists including Ron Burchell (The Sierra Club); Monte Hummel (World Wildlife Fund); Stephen Best (International Wildlife Coalition); and others, including David Suzuki, Peter Singer, and Elizabeth May. Inscribed by Mowat in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
Offered by Ken Lopez - Bookseller
Vintage Original Sepia Photograph Signed
by TORRENCE, Ernest
("Ernest Torrence") in black fountain pen ink on 1/2 length pose wearing plaid suit and looking into the camera. Photograph is by Melbourne Spurr, Hollywood, with his two line blindstamp in the lower left corner; with rubberstamp on back that reads: "Melbourne Spurr Portraiture" and is on heavy stock; 8" x 10"; very good; ca. 1932. Signed and inscribed: "To Joseph Huntley with best wishes, Ernest Torrence." Torrence (1878-1933), Born June 26, 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland; died May 15, 1933, New... Read More
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Vintage Original Photograph Signed
by LEIGH, Janet
("Janet Leigh") in blue ink on 1/2 length pose, with eyes closed, sitting on the lap of an unidentified man, embracing. Photograph is on heavy weight stock; matte finish; 7" x 5"; very good (minor signs of handling); ca. 1950. Signed and inscribed: "To Harry - Your ever-lovin' - Janet Leigh." Leigh (1927-2004), born Jeanette Helen Morrison, July 6, 1927, Merced, California; died October 3, 2004, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California; American screen leading lady of the 1950's and 60's;... Read More
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The Lovely Bones - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Sebold, Alice
Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316666343 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Alice Sebold directly on the title page; Alice Sebold's first novel, The Lovely Bones, starts in heaven, where Susie Salmon, announces "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." During the next ten years after her murder, she watches over... Read More
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Strong, My Love (Signed 2X Association copy)
by Fallon, Peter
Old Castle, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Slim 8vo., 95pp. Beautiful First Edition. Bound in black cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author in the year of publication to noted New Jersey Irish-Ameican author, collector and professor of Irish history and... Read More
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I Say, Look Here!: The Rather Random Reminiscences of a Round Actor in the Square
by Bull, Peter
London: Peter Davies. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1965. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [modest shelfwear to lower extremities (very slight exposure of board at lower tip of front cover), a few small spots on bottom edge of text block; the jacket is edgeworn and a bit soiled, with a few tiny nicks at the top of the spine and some wear and creasing along the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photo frontispiece)... Read More
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Peter and the Princess
by Carl H. Grabo; John R. Neill [illus.]
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co, 1920. Very Good. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1920. First Edition. Small quarto; 243pp. Eight color illustrations with tissue guards including frontis, all present. Publisher's green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and borders and mounted color illustration to front. Top edges gilt. Boards are clean, sturdy, and square, with light bumping at top back corner, nudging to spine ends, and a couple very faints scuffs. Opens easily between a couple gatherings, but binding... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Allen Ginsberg Speech for 1974 National Book Award, Printed and Signed
by GINSBERG, ALLEN
Allen Ginsberg's Acceptance Speech for 1974 National Book Award, Printed and Signed by Ginsberg. Also signed by Peter Orlovsky. Allen Ginsberg's Printed and Signed Speech is titled, "'The Fall of America' Wins a Prize." The printed speech is a folded broadside creating a booklet with each of four pages measuring 5 1/2 x 9 inches, copyright by Ginsberg, dated 1974 and produced with the Gotham Book Mart and Gallery in New York City. The fourth page explains the booklet.... Read More
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The Killing Room (First UK Edition, inscribed)
by Peter May
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "With best wishes / Peter May." The third book in the China Thrillers series. Jacket spine lightly faded, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Peter Parley to Penrod: A Bibliographical Description of the Best-Loved American Juvenile Books
by Blanck, Jacob
NY: R.R. Bowker, 1938. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 500cc. Very good in publisher's red cloth. A classic, indispensable reference.
Offered by Kenneth Mallory
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Life with Groucho [*SIGNED*]
by Marx, Arthur
New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Good dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy with minimal shelfwear; the jacket, however, is heavily edgeworn, with bits of paper loss at the supper extremities and the base of the spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Ruth and Sam -- / I hope this will be / a best seller so I can buy / contact lenses for my wife.... Read More
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Whites
by Rush, Norman
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Signed first edition of Whites by Norman Rush.. Octavo, 150pp. Yellow hardcover, title in silver on blue cloth spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint sunning along top edge, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $14.95 retail price on front flap, touch of sunning to spine, light rubbing to edges. Signed by Norman Rush on the title... Read More
Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
by Brashler, William
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Signed first edition of The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings by William Brashler.. Octavo, 244pp. Blue hardcover, green cloth spine, title in silver on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page, with full number line on rear flyleaf. Slight lean to text block, some rubbing to edges and front cover, previous ownership inscription and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, a bright... Read More
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The Weight of the World (Das Gewicht der Welt)
by HANDKE, Peter; Ralph Manheim, transl
London: Secker and Warburg, 1984. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Bound from American sheets. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 243pp. Mild evidence of use: a bit of dusting to edges of text block; private ownership name and ink shelf-number; corners slightly bumped; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £9.95 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and worn; VG+. The somewhat uncommon British edition of this odd mid-career work, considered by some to be one of... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books