Original typed letter signed from Carl Gottlieb to Fred Roos, May 12 , 1976

by [Francis Ford Coppola] [Steven Spielberg] [New Hollywood] Carl Gottlieb, Fred Roos

Los Angeles: Carl Gottlieb, 1976. Original two-page typed letter signed to producer Fred Roos, from screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, on Gottlieb's letterhead, dated May 12, 1976. Gottlieb, best known as the co-screenwriter (along with author Peter Benchley) for Steven Speilberg's "Jaws" (1975) writes cordially to Francis Ford Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos, on location in the Philippines working on "Apocalypse Now," regarding the "Coppola Company's" [Zoetrope Studios] sponsorship on Gottlieb's unproduced project "My Country," which Gottlieb notes has been... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

The Leaning Tower and Other Stories

by PORTER, Katherine Anne

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1944. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo, 246 pp.; 21 cm. Signed in pencil on the front free endpaper by Eleanor Taylor, poet and wife of Peter Taylor, whose bookplate is pasted upside down on the back free endpaper. A good copy with soiling and some scattered stains to the boards, without dustwrapper. The text pages are clean and tight. Peter Taylor was one of America's best short story writers, and winner of... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

What's Your Favorite Animal?

by Carle, Eric; Cousins, Lucy; Willems, Mo; Bruel, Nick; Wells, Rosemary

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014 Illustrated by fourteen children's book illustrators including Eric Carle, Mo Willems, Lucy Cousins, Erin Stead, Rosemary Wells, and others. First edition, second printing. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Eric Carle to his Florida neighbors and close friends, Ed and Irene Staffin, in black ink on p. [1]: "For Irene & Ed, with best wishes Eric Carle". Publisher's white pictorial boards, with illustrations by the fourteen featured illustrators of their favorite animals to... Read More

Offered by B & B Rare Books, Ltd.

The Blood of the Martyr

by Crane, Stephen; Angelo, Valenti (Illustrations)

Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Angelo, Valenti. One of 200 copies, sixteenmo size, 23 unnumbered pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900), best known for his Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage", wrote in the Realist and Naturalist styles; "The Blood of the Martyr" is a political satire, in the form of a play, critical of German imperialism taking place in China through the work of... Read More

Offered by Swan's Fine Books

PETER PARLEY TO PENROD / *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***

by Blanck, Jacob

*** ASSOCIATION COPY ***PETER PARLEY TO PENROD, R. R. Bowker, 1938, first edition, light wear to the front fore edge corner tips and the spine extremities, small nick to the upper front inner gutter, else a tight vg copy. 1/500 copies of this Bibliographical Description Of The Best Loved American Juvenile Books, this copy INSCRIBED humorously by the author at time of publication to editor, publisher and anthologist Leo Margulies thusly, "To Leo Margulies from Jacob Blanck -who... Read More

Offered by The Fine Books Company

The story of the war of 1898 told by W. Nephew King, lieutenant U.S.N. Illustrated from drawings in black and white, photographs taken at the front and paintings by the best artists. For the Army, O. O. Howard, for the Navy, Robley D. Evans

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1898. Oblong folio, pp. 321, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout with 18 color plates (many double-page) after various artists, folding map, and many other black and white illustrations; original brown morocco-backed maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover; front free endpaper miscreased, spine extremities a bit rubbed and scuffed, but the binding is sound.

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

A Peter Moran Signed Cabinet Card

by PETER MORAN

PETER MORAN (1814-1914). Moran was a British-born American artist best known for his paintings of animals, particularly horses.PS. No date. No place. A cabinet card signed Very Truly Yours P Moran on the lower verso. The image was taken by Philadelphias Scheiber & Sons. There is staining on the verso and marks to the borders on the front. RareBookHub.com shows no other Peter Moran signed photographs ever selling.

Offered by Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Doctor Cobb's Game

by CASSILL, R.V. (Peter Taylor)

(New York): Bernard Geis Associates, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto: 532 pp.; 22 cm. Presented to Peter Taylor, with a typed letter Signed by the author in ink tipped in: "Dear Peter, Herewith is my new novel. I trust it will confirm, as our friend Jim D. says, what we have always known about me. With that overwhelming ambiguity I offer it to your hands. It was awfully good seeing you in June. Let's make... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working the Five Orders of Architecture. Fully Explaining the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked Mouldings; for Diminishing and Gluing of Columns and Capitals; ...

by Nicholson, Peter (1765-1844)

London: For J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1804. Octavo. 2nd edition. (First edition was published in 1795) 29 pages interspersed with 33 engraved plates (some folding). The author was a Scottish architect, mathematician, and engineer. His first book was titled The Carpenter's New Guide in 1792, in which he also did the engravings himself. He later published several other books and taught practical geometry at an evening school for mechanical engineers. Nicholson is variously described in his own... Read More

Offered by Alcuin Books and Autographs, LLC

Inscribed Photograph

by HURD, Peter (1904 - 1984)

1975. unbound. 8 x 10 inches, no place, no date, circa 1975. This photograph of the American artist at work in his studio is inscribed at the bottom: "For Jacob Kisner with my best regards, Peter Hurd." Very good condition.

Offered by Argosy Book Store

Die schöne Galathe komisch-mythologische Oper in einen Akt von Poly Henrion ... No. 2014 ... Complet 3fl. 30 Nkr. 3 R. 26 Ngr. [Piano-vocal score]

by SUPPÉ, Franz von 1819-1895

Wien: C .A. Spina [PNs F.G. 2014; 2014 No.1-2014 No. 8; F.G. 2014.9], 1865. Folio. Half dark brown textured cloth with marbled boards, manuscript title label to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3-80 pp. Title lithographed, music engraved. With fine illustrated title of a scene from the opera with singers and Greco-Roman set incorporating columns, sculptural bust, and mascaron. Occasional small stains and minor soiling, mainly to lower blank margins; narrow strip of white... Read More

Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC

A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit

by PETERS, Ellis [pseud. Edith Pargeter]

London: Macmillan, [1977]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.25cm.); original simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 191pp. Very light wear to jacket extremities, minor soil to textblock edges, a few brief marks in black sharpie to title page and p. [192] (some bleeding through), else Near Very Good or better. The first of the author's Cadfael series, considered to be one of the best historical mystery novels of all time according to The Wall Street Journal (2010) and is featured... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

SIGNED NOBEL. The Art of the Soluble

by Medawar, Peter B.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1967. First edition. CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY IN SCIENCE BY NOBEL LAUREATE SIR PETER MEDAWAR, SIGNED. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on front free endpaper, "Mike and Maria Friedman/ with very best wishes from/ Peter Medawar/ April 1967", 160 pp, small inscription top of back paste-down, "41. complementarity" referring to a marginal mark on page 41 (no other marks or notations). Very good minus with closed tear in backstrip... Read More

Offered by BioMed Rare Books, LLC

Show Business Illustrated [aka SBI: Show Business Illustrated] -- a complete run (Sept. 5, 1961 - April 1962), in original custom-made binder

by Hefner, Hugh M., editor and publisher

Chicago: HMH Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good+. 1961-1962. (Vol. 1, Nos. 1-8; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-4). Magazine. [all issues in at least VG condition, many better than that; occasional bumping to upper or lower corners of a few issues, last issue in volume has some wear and slight creasing along right edge of front cover; the cream-colored binder (with "SHOW BUSINESS ILLUSTRATED" and "SBI" embossed in gold on the front cover and spine, respectively) is lightly... Read More

Offered by ReadInk

The Life of Lyof N. Tolstoi

by Dole, Nathan Haskell

New York; (1911): Thomas Y. Crowell Co. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Mostly unopened save for the first few 29 pages with page one having been opened carelessly leaving the outer margin a bit ragged. Considered the best translator of Tolstoi's work, Dole begins with Tolstoi's ancestry as far back as Peter the Great. He gives accounts of his family, his childhood and early vicissitudes, his university days, activities as a soldier and officer, and of his career as... Read More

Offered by Alcuin Books and Autographs, LLC

My Life In Letters And Other Writings (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION]

by Bush, George

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed on title page and inscribed "To Edgar Peters Bowron With appreciation and warm best wishes, George Bush Dec. 7, 2007" on dedication page. Quarto. 640pp., 16 pages with photographs on glossy paper. Original blue leather with decorative, gilt-stamped covers, gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spine; raised bands. All gilt edges. Textured silk salmon endpapers. Signed First Edition printed in gilt to spine; without limitation page. "The letters... Read More

Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Advise and Consent

by DRURY, Allen

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Later printing. Small quarto. 616pp. Bookplate of R. Leonard Miall and gift inscription ("For: Leonard and Lorna from Sally") on front endleaves. Light wear, near fine in a price-clipped and heavily toned, good only dust jacket with short chips and tears, and a diagonal crease and a couple of splash marks on the spine. Nicely Inscribed by Drury on the front fly, beneath the gift inscription: "To Leonard - with friendship... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Tennessee: A Guide to the State

by Federal Writers' Project

New York: Hastings House, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. A bit soiled, very good or better without dustwrapper. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with Peter Taylor's ownership signature. Also laid in is a leather bookmark, inscribed on the rear to Taylor by his son. Taylor is one of Tennessee's best-known authors.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Good-bye, Mr. Chips: A Play in Three Acts (Goodbye)

by HILTON, James and Barbara Burnham

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked, near fine in very good dustwrapper with some soiling and the publisher's later reduced price label on the spine. Hilton's own adaptation of his novel, which was the 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 best year ever), Greer Garson, and... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

A Shimmer of Joy One Hundred Children s Picture Books in America

by Loker, Chris

2019. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches), 329 pp. over 200 full-color illustrations. Hand-numbered and signed by the author. Red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine, with decorative endpapers photo-reproduced from hand-painted paper by Eric Carle. ß From the regular edition of 200 copies, this is #179. From the prospectus (The Book Club of California, 2019), "A Shimmer of Joy is an exciting and colorful... Read More

Offered by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

A Shimmer of Joy One Hundred Children s Picture Books in America

by Loker, Chris

2019. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches), 329 pp. over 200 full-color illustrations. Hand-numbered and signed by the author. Red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine, with decorative endpapers photo-reproduced from hand-painted paper by Eric Carle. ß From the regular edition of 200 copies, this is #180. From the prospectus (The Book Club of California, 2019), "A Shimmer of Joy is an exciting and colorful... Read More

Offered by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

Autograph of Jerome Robbins

by ROBBINS, Jerome (1918 - 1998)

framed. very good. Autograph of American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Framed with black and white portrait. Circa 1958. Please inquire for more information. Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his numerous stage productions were On the Town, Peter Pan, High Button... Read More

Offered by Argosy Book Store

[Widgeon (Anas penelope) and Pinkfooted geese (Anser brachyrhynchus)]

by SCOTT, After Sir Peter Markham (1909-1989)

London: The Curwen Press for Arthur Ackermann, 1982. Coloured offset-lithograph by the Curwen Press, signed in pencil by the artist (lower right just beneath the image). In pristine condition. A very fine signed print from the one of the greatest bird artists of the 20th century. Sir Peter Scott was best known in later life for his work as a founding member and chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, but in "the period before and after the war,... Read More

Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Small archive of seven chatty Autographed Letters Signed "Ellie

by POWELL, Eleanor (1912 - 1982)

1976. unbound. These letters were written on greeting cards and her personal stationery, six with handwritten envelopes, various formats, 1976 to 1979, at a time when she was preparing for her new role as a grandparent while also trying to overcome the loss of her mother, who had introduced her to the world of show business at the age of 12 in Atlantic City. No matter what her circumstances, she still manages to convey her sense of humor and/or... Read More

Offered by Argosy Book Store

Autograph Letter Signed, Forks of the Yough Settlement, Fayette County, Washington Township, Pennsylvania, to his cousin, R. C., 1795

by Cunningham, William

folio, 2 ½ page letter, inscribed on a four page folding letter sheet, old folds and creases, some spotting, ink faded on several lines of text, remains of sealing wax on integral address leaf, else in good, clean legible condition. Cunningham, in this letter, writes to his cousin giving an account of his family's life and activities, the death of his brother, and a picture of conditions at this frontier settlement in Western Pennsylvania along... Read More

Offered by Michael Brown Rare Books