Venice; Venezia. Venedig
by SDUK (Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge)
London: SDUK, 1844. unbound. W. B. Clarke. Map (in two sheets). Engraving with original hand coloring. Each image measures 15.5" x 11.5". The map of Venice, issued in 1844 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), is a highly detailed, hand-colored city plan issued on 2 sheets. It features the main islands of Venice, with labeled canals, roads, alleys, churches, and public institutions. The map includes profile views of prominent buildings like the Ponte De... Read More
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An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710
by Whitworth, Charles Lord
Printed at Strawberry-Hill, [England], 1758. Hardcover. 12mo (7.25" x 4.5"), later full English calf by Arno Werner with gilt-stamped title on spine. Title page with engraved view of Horace Walpole's Gothic revival home. xxiv, 158 pp. Two bookplates of Wyman Parker on front paste-down. Pencil collector's notes on rear endpapers. CONDITION: Very good, slightly worn. 5th book of Strawberry Hill. 2nd year of press. 1 of 700 copies, edited by Horace Walpole. According to Walpole's introductory advertisement, "Lord Whitworth's... Read More
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The Four Kings of Canada. Being a Succinct Account of the Four Indian Princes lately arriv'd from North America. WITH a particular Description of their Country, their strange and remarkable Religion, Feasts, Marriages, Burials, Remedies for their Sick, Customs, Manners, Constitution, Habits, Sports, War, Peace, Policy, Hunting, Fishing, Utensils belonging to the Savages, with several other Extraordinary Things worthy of Observation, as to the natural or curious Productions, Beauty, or Fertility, of that Part of the World..
by ANONYMOUS
London: Printed and sold by John Baker, 1891. 4to. (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches). 47,[1]p., Garret publisher ad. Original printed wrappers This reprint was limited to 250 copies. (First edition, 1710, 1 folio sheet, very rare). Four Iroquois chiefs, (the fifth died en route) were taken to London by Col. Peter Schuyler of Albany. They were presented to Queen Anne on April 19, 1710, and entertained for some months. (The Tatler, no. 171 and The Spectator, no... Read More
Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
Autograph letter signed in full, addressed "Cher Monsieur," in all likelihood noted musicologist, conductor, and music editor, Arthur Mendel
by BLOCH, Ernest 1880-1959
1 page. Octavo. Dated 25 July 1933. On letterhead of the Hotel Peter Stuyvesant in New York. In French (with transcription and translation). Bloch informs his correspondent that there will be a "hearing" of his "Service" the next evening at Schirmer's before a "very small committee" consisting of "C. Engel, I. Freed - "an old pupil of mine," possibly O. Downes," etc., and that he hopes to see him, specifying the meeting place and time, "in front... Read More
Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Rambles in the United States and Canada during the year 1845, with a short account of Oregon
by James, Thomas Horton (Rubio [pseud])
London: Samuel Clarke, 1846. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.25"), later red cloth, gilt leather lettering piece at spine, deckled edges. viii, 259 pp., early inscription in ink on title reading "With the publisher's compts." CONDITION: Very good, occasional very light foxing, rubbing at fore-edge. First edition of a venomous critique of early 19th century American culture, written by a traveling English-born Australian. Writing the Rambles after traveling through New England, New York, the Great Lakes region,... Read More
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Essays on American Silk, and the Best Means of Rendering It a Source of Individual and National Wealth. With directions to farmers for raising silk worms.
by D'HOMERGUE, John, and Peter Duponceau
Philadephia: John Grigg, 1830. Book. 8vo, original printed stiff wrappers. Pp. xxii, 120, [1]; uncut. Bookplate. A very fine copy. First edition, a series of essays by D'Homergue, with a long preface by Duponceau, both of whom led the movement to establish an American silk industry. Uncommon in this condition. Rink 1729; AI 1156.; Sabin 32731..
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Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter
by ARNO, Peter
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small folio. Quarto. A bit of rubbing at the bottom of the spine, near fine in very good or better dust jacket with small chips, tears, and rubbing at the extremities. Inscribed by the artist writ large: "For Mae and Jack Rose - With my best wishes and kind regards, Peter Arno.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
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Star Wars [Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope] (Original photograph of George Lucas and Alec Guinness on the set of the 1977 film)
by George Lucas (director, screenwriter); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director George Lucas sitting with actor Alec Guinness on the set of the 1977 film. The film that started a multibillion dollar media empire (pun intended) which now includes ten additional live action films, animated shows, novels, comic books, video games, and countless tons of officially licensed merchandise, with no signs of slowing down. Winner of six Academy Awards, nominated for four more, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original... Read More
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Star Wars [Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi] (Original publicity photograph of Carrie Fisher from the 1983 film)
by George Lucas (director, screenwriter); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1982. Vintage color publicity photograph from the 1983 film, showing actress Carrie Fisher frolicking in the ocean in her iconic gold bikini. Note that the "crown" watermark is digital, and not present on the photograph itself. The third in a trilogy of films that started a multibillion dollar media empire (pun intended) which now includes ten additional live action films, animated shows, novels, comic books, video games, and tons of officially licensed merchandise, with... Read More
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The Old Man and the Sea (Original photograph from the set of the 1958 film)
by Ernest Hemingway (novel); John Sturges (director); Peter Viertel (screenwriter); Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver (starring)
N.p.: Leland Hayward Productions, 1958. Vintage photograph of Ernest Hemingway and Spencer Tracy on the set of the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, very light creasing.
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The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf [Inscribed and Signed by Wind to Sir Peter Allen]
by Jack Nicklaus and Herbert Warren Wind; Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. [foreword]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1969]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 416pp.; half tone photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, top textblock edge foxed, else a Very Good copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "For Sir Peter Allen / with warm regards / Harold Wind / P.S. Thanks for the photographs at your wonderful... Read More
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The Old Man and the Sea (Original bound set of ten literary photographic prints published in conjunction with the 1958 film)
by Ernest Hemingway (novel); John Sturges (director); Peter Viertel (screenwriter); Spencer Tracy, Harry Bellaver, Don Diamond (starring)
Logan, IA: The Perfection Form Company, 1958. Complete bound set of ten literary photographic prints, published in conjunction with the 1958 film, made for educational use. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. Housed in blue wrappers measuring 13 x 10 inches. Photographs 12 x 9... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Serpico (Signed First Edition)
by MAAS, Peter
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 314 pages. A biography of New York City police officer Frank Serpico who was best known for his work on corruption. The basis for the classic Sidney Lumet directed movie with Al Pacino in the title role. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some slight sunning to the bottom of the rear board and in a near fine dust jacket... Read More
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books
Lawrence of Arabia (Original photograph of Peter O'Toole, Gamil Ratib, and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film)
by David Lean (director, screenwriter); T.E. Lawrence (writings); Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (screenwriters); Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Peter O'Toole, Gamil Ratib, and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46, we then follow, in flashback, Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo, assigned to investigate the progress of the... Read More
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Shock Corridor (Original poster for the 1963 film)
by Samuel Fuller (director, screenwriter); Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evens, James Best (starring)
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Vintage insert poster for the 1963 film. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force, wherein Daily Globe journalist Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), determined to win a Pulitzer Prize, has himself institutionalized in an asylum to solve a case where an inmate had recently been murdered. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus, with three horizontal creases from being previously folded, and light edgewear. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese, A Personal... Read More
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Fearless [Joyride] (Original screenplay for the 1993 film)
by Peter Weir (director); Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Bridges, John Turturro, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez (starring); Rafael Yglesias (novel, screenwriter)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1992. Revised Second Draft for the 1993 film, with rainbow revisions. Copy belonging to production accountant Ken Ryan, with his name in manuscript ink on one of the title pages. Based on the 1993 novel by Rafael Yglesias, who also wrote the screenplay, about a man whose personality drastically shifts after surviving a deadly plane crash. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rosie Perez. Shot on location... Read More
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Baker Street (Original script for the 1965 Broadway musical)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (stories); Fritz Weaver, Inga Swenson, Peter Sallis, Martin Gabel (starring); Marian Grudeff, Ray Jessel (music, lyrics); Jerome Coopersmith (book)
New York: Alexander Cohen, 1964. Revised script for the 1965 Broadway musical. Loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1891 Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia," with elements of "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House" drawn in. The play was first staged at the Broadway Theatre in February of 1965, running through the end of October of the same year and later transferring to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (then known as the Martin Beck Theatre). Nominated... Read More
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Taxi Driver (Original photograph of Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster at a press conference for the 1976 film)
by Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle (starring); Martin Scorsese (director); Paul Schrader (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage oversize matte-finish photograph of actors Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster at a press conference for the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, where "Taxi Driver" would win the Palme d'Or. Mimeo snipe in French on the verso. A landmark release that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors De Niro and Foster, and one that has only gained significance with the passage of... Read More
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HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; with Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery ... From Original Sketches by Artists of the Highest Ability
by (DENSLOW, W[illiam] W[allace], Illustrator)
Philadelphia and Reading: Peter Fritts, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Front endpaper lacking with the title page reinforced at the gutter; Easton plate with partial tear along centerfold; Lafayette College plate with complete tear along centerfold; Bethlehem and South Bethlehem plate with fold and crease down centerfold; one plate with small chunk out of corner touching image; overall some soiling and darkening. Fraying at bottom of spine with cover a little loose. A Good example of this uncommon book. ... Read More
Offered by Charles Agvent
PETER ALLEN LIVE AT RENO SWEENEY (1974)
by Reno Sweeney
Reno Sweeney. No binding. Fine. [New York]: Reno Sweeney, [1974]. Vintage original 22 x 17" (56 x 43 cm.), unfolded, FINE. The flamboyant and immensely gifted Peter Allen, in a cabaret performance at New York's Reno Sweeney club. Since his third album, Continental American, is referenced on the poster, we can date it from the year of the album's release, 1974. ... Read More
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Three original photographs of Mary Martin, circa 1950s
by Mary Martin (subject); Stanley Rice (photographer)
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Three vintage borderless double weight photographs of actress Mary Martin, circa 1950s. With the stamp of photographer Stanley Rice on the verso, along with the stamp of Monkmeyer agency. Martin was best known for her work on Broadway, in particular with noted composers Rodgers and Hammerstein, originating the roles of Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" (1949), Peter Pan in the eponymous 1954 musical, and Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" (1959). ... Read More
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Pennies from Heaven (Original screenplay for the 1981 film)
by Herbert Ross (director); Dennis Potter (screenwriter); Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1980. Revised Final Draft for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper. One of Steve Martin's earliest and most bizarre critical successes and, along with "The Singing Detective" (1986), the work for which the late Dennis Potter is best remembered. Potter's trademark dark sensibilities permeate the film's mood, punctuated by wildly complex, choreographed musical numbers. Nominated for three... Read More
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Nixon (Archive of six original storyboards and seven reference photographs from the 1995 film)
by [Storyboards] Oliver Stone (director); Christopher Wilkinson, Stephen J. Rivele (screenwriters); Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen, James Woods (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1995. Archive of six hand-drawn storyboards from the 1995 film, executed in manuscript ink and watercolor paint by visual effects artist Peter Kuran. Additionally included are seven black-and-white photographs of Nixon used for illustration reference. Kuran worked as a visual effects artist and supervisor for a number of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably including "RoboCop" (1987), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "Starship Troopers" (1997), and "Men in Black" (1997). The second of director Oliver... Read More
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The Beast with Five Fingers (Two original photographs taken on the set of the 1946 film, with manuscript captions on the versos by Robert Florey)
by Robert Florey (director); James Wong Howe (cinematographer); Curt Siodmak (screenwriter); Mac Julian (photographer); W.F. Harvey (story); Robert Alda (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1946. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1946 film, one showing director Robert Florey with a camera crew, including James Wong Howe behind the camera, the other showing Florey with actors Robert Alda and Andrea King. Both with photographer stamps on the verso, and both with annotations in manuscript pencil in Florey's hand to same, one noting "1945-Juin / avec mon operateur chinois James Wong Howe" ("1945-June / with my Chinese camera operator... Read More
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Havana een vermaerde haven in't Noorder Amerika, op't eilant Kuba / Havana insulae Cubae imo totus Occidentis, notiffimg portus
by SCHENK, Peter; VALK, Gerard
Amsterdam: Schenk, 1702. unbound. Map. Copper plate engraving with original hand color. Image measures 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" This rare view of Havana, Cuba appeared in Schenk's 1702 "Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum", a beautiful collection of engravings including 100 views of ports on four continents. The port city is seen from the sea, outside the entrance to the port, with a large ship in the foreground, and other smaller ships approaching the harbor.... Read More
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