[Radio script]: Promise by Henri Bernstein Adapted for Radio

by ANDERSON, Robert (Henri Bernstein)

[No place]: United States Steel Corporation presents The Theatre Guild on the Air, 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. Marked "Final Rehearsal." Quarto. Stapled mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. 76pp. Some foxing and moderate wear on the first leaf, else near fine. An adaptation of a French play that stars Gloria Swanson and Hume Cronyn. The play displays extensive textual corrections (as well as a drawing of a man) in pencil by the director of the play Homer Fickett. Robert... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

CHANGES Vol. 1 Number 1. July 1963

by McCallum, Tracy S (editor). Ponce, Charles H. (contributing editor). LaMonte Young, Jerome Rothenberg, Clauss Stamm, C.V.J. Anderson, Angus Maclise, Peter Pilafian, Lousi Gallo (contributors)

NY: Change Publications, 1963. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. CHANGES, about which little information is available aside from its contributors, was apparently a short-lived literary journal of the avant-garde printed in the lower East Side community in the early 1960s, which featured the early work of poets, philosophers and composers some of whom went on to have long and influential careers. This copy is Volume 1, Number 1 July 1963; we could find no record of subsequent... Read More

Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.

1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets)

by Walter Shawn Browne 1949-2015) signed

Twelve of the fourteen original hand written score sheets, lacks the game with Christiansen and Reshevsky, and the Kogan game is in Kogan's hand. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) Signed by all of his opponents except Shamkovich, Fedorowicz and Benjamin. The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two co-champions, Grandmasters Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan. Since the top three finishers automatically qualify for the... Read More

Offered by The Book Collector, Inc

THE INVISIBLE COLLECTION

by Zweig, Stephan

New York: Peter Kraus, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy. Limited to 90 copies, and privately printed by Gunnar A. Kaldewey for Peter Kraus. Unpaginated. Zweig's timeless story, set in Germany, in the aftermath of the first World War. This copy is signed by Peter Kraus on the front endpaper: "Christmas 1990 / Best Wishes / Peter Kraus." Laid in is an Ursus note card with this message in Peter's hand: "With Thanks for your /... Read More

THE STORY OF PETER RABBIT [and] DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT

by Potter, Beatrix; Neill, John R.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1908. Near fine.. Early American version of Peter Rabbit, illustrated by J.R. Neill, best known for illustrating the Oz series. A volume in the Children's Red Book Series. Although not credited on the title page, Potter's name does appear on the cover. Very scarce in nice condition. 6.75'' x 5''. Original red paper boards, pictorial paste-on. Color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Neill 15 full-page color images plus black-and-white images throughout. 3 pages of... Read More

Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Starship Troopers (Collection of eight original storyboard sequences from the 1997 film)

by Paul Verhoeven (director); Robert A. Heinlein (novel); Ed Neumeier (screenwriter); Peter Kuran (visual effects); Jon Davison (producer); Alan Marshall (producer)

Los Angeles: Sony Imageworks, 1996. Collection of vintage bound gatherings of storyboards, representing eight sequences from the 1997 film. Storyboards belonging to visual effects producer Peter Kuran, with his name in manuscript ink or pencil on three pages. Sequences represented include an advertisement from the Federal Network, Jump Ball, the brain bug capturing, fleet training, the battle of Klendathu, a bug meteor, the Starship Athena, and asteroid grazing, among others. Based on the 1959 novel... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Lawrence of Arabia (Original keybook photograph Alec Guinness, Sam Spiegel, Jack Hawkins, 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)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Alec Guinness, Sam Spiegel, Jack Hawkins, 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... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Pieces of Time: Peter Bogdanovich on the Movies

by BOGDANOVICH, Peter

[New York] An Arbor House/Esquire Book [1973]., 1973. First edition. 8vo. Introduction by Harold Hayes. 1 b/w illustration by Chuck Jones. Dust jacket (unclipped; slight rubbing; few nicks). Very good. 269 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Bogdanovich on the front free endpaper: "12/4/73 - For Rich - with thanks for making the fourth essay in section II possible! Best - Peter Bogdanovich". Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Abbey, Edward; Illustrated by Peter Parnall

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Peter Parnall. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth over boards, with title stamped in white and beige on spine. The spine is a hair rolled, and there are a couple of small, light moisture stains along the bottom edge of the rear board. The larger moisture stain measures roughly 1 inch wide by 1 inch deep. There is a gift inscription, dated "1968," on the front free endpaper.... Read More

Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books

Autograph Letter, signed ("P. Kropotkin"), to Mr. Casenove [sic.]

by Kropotkin, Peter

Viola, 1911. 2 pp. 8vo. Old fold, stamp from recipient with X in pencil. 2 pp. 8vo. Written to the literary agent Charles Francis Cazenove (1870-1915), with whom Kropotkin worked. He writes: Will you be in town on Monday in the morning? I should call upon you to exchange a few words about the proposed agreement with Nelson. Best thanks for it! - There is only one print I do not quite like - the 100,000 copies of... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

A Stand in the Mountains

by TAYLOR, Peter

New York: Frederic C. Bell, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in fine original slipcase. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Additionally Inscribed by the author to noted Southern critic and historian Louis D. Rubin: "For Louis Rubin with best wishes, Peter Taylor. New York, June 1, 1986." One of a reported 1500 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. A notable association.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

The Royal Hunt of the Sun. A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru

by SHAFFER, Peter

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, variant issue binding in black cloth (also seen in dark brown cloth). Light foxing on preliminary pages, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Peter Shaffer: "To Michael Curtis from Peter Shaffer with best wishes." Basis for the 1969 film of the same name, directed by Irving Lerner and starring Christopher Plummer and Robert Shaw. Scarce signed.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Original Wood Engraving: "Peter Ring Dem Bells," 1941

by MACKAY, Jean [aka Jean Mackay Henrich, 1909-2002]

1941. Original wood relief engraving, 7" x 5", on approx 10" x 8" sheet; printed in black on handmade Japanese paper. Titled, signed and dated in pencil beneath image. In hinged gallery mat. Subtle age-darkening to image area evident upon lifting the mat, else quite clean, and a strong impression. Edition size not stated. A finely detailed woodcut, inspired by the traditional African-American spiritual of the same title. Henrich, born in Nova Scotia, worked for most of... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Trilby

by Du Maurier, George

London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1895. One of 250 Large Paper copies, signed by the author. Frontispiece of Trilby, six plates in facsimile of the author's pencil drawings, 121 illustrations by the author in text. xi, 447pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Vellum spine and buckram, t.e.g. Some soiling to spine. Near fine. Bookplate of H.R. Bishop. One of 250 Large Paper copies, signed by the author. Frontispiece of Trilby, six plates in facsimile of the author's pencil drawings, 121 illustrations by... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

[Television Screenplay]: Anything But Love: "Say It Again, Han

by NOAH, Peter

[Hollywood: no publisher], 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Shooting script. Quarto. 47 numbered mimeographed leaves printed rectos only, with blue revision leaves bound in. Bradbound in printed self-wrappers. Last leaf partly detached but present, very good. Season premiere for the second season of the comedy featuring Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis in an oft-thwarted romantic dalliance. In this episode Lewis was about to plight his troth when guest star John Ritter inserted himself into the romantic mix, with... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

[Outsider Art][Folk Art] Oil Painting on Board of a Rural Balkan Village Square with a Few Vendor Stalls and People Here and There

by Peter

Balkans (Greece, Serbia, Croatia,...?), 1950. Fine. A charming naive painting of a small town square in the Balkans, signed by Peter with no surname (or perhaps no Christian name, as Peter could be the surname). The square has a small Church whose steeple, topped by an egg-shaped dome, not quite a full-out onion dome, together with the cypress trees, places this somewhere in the Balkans -- Greece, Serbia, Croatia, etc. The bushy downward pointing mustache of the man... Read More

Offered by White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

DISFARMER: THE HEBER SPRINGS PORTRAITS 1939 - 1945

by Disfarmer, Mike (photographs of). Scully, Julia (text). Miller, Peter (editor)

Danbury NH: Addison House, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+/NF-. Photographer MikeFarmer's photographs of the local folk of Heber Springs, Arkansas. Inscribed by the publisher on the half-title: "Too bad that the artist is not alive to sign this so you will just have to accept mine. Addison" Disfarmer (1884-1959) was best known for his portraits of everyday people in rural Arkansas from the 1920s to the 1950s. His stark, realist photographs were rediscovered in the 1970s and... Read More

Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.

Johnny Funny-Bunny's Picnic Party

by CADY, Harrison

New York, N.Y.: Stoll and Edwards Co., Inc, 1928. Boards. Very good. Harrison CADY. Harrison CADY, illustrator. Small 4to; [16]pp; color pictorial boards, two bunnies with baskets and vegetables on front, green cloth shelf-back; color fp, color vignette on title page; illustrations throughout in b&w and color; 2pp publisher's ads for other Johnny Funny-Bunny stories; light warping of boards, scuffing of edges and corners; very good. OCLC locates only one copy at the University of Florida. Scarce. The... Read More

Offered by Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller

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

by HILTON, James and Barbara Burnham

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. American publisher's copyright notice label on the copyright page else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with scattered foxing. 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 Paul Henreid and the... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets) Reshevsky vs field

by Samuel Herman Reshevsky (1911-1992) signed

Set of 12 original score sheets in Sammy Reshevesky's hand. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2). Lacks the games with John Peters and Joel Benjamin. Signed by each of his contestants except the Kavalek, Byrne, Kogin and Kurdrin games.The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two co-champions, Grandmasters Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan. Since the top three finishers automatically qualify for the Zonal, a... Read More

Offered by The Book Collector, Inc

Peter’s letters to his kinsfolk

by [LOCKHART, John Gibson]

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819. Volume 1 with half-title, frontispiece, engraved title vignette, 3 plates and 18 pages publisher’s advertisements; Volume 2 with half-title, engraved title vignette and 3 plates; Volume 3 with half-title, engraved title vignette, 3 plates, 1 text engraving and 1 page publisher’s advertisements. Grey cloth-backed boards with paper spine labels; some light occasional interior spotting. Uncut; ownership inscription to fly-leaf of volume 1. Second edition, although there is some... Read More

Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Autograph Letter Signed

by Pargeter, Edith (also known as Ellis Peters)

("Edith Pargeter") in blue ink on pictorial note card, Madeley, Telford, Salop, March, 12, 1978. 3 15/16" x 5 5/8"; 4 sides; 2 1/2 pages text. Very good. To Mrs. Metcalfe: In part: ".I'm very glad to know that the people I have created, especially in these border-Welsh books.have come to life for the readers as they have, most vigorously, for me.I am just finishing another, a single work this time, about the sad story of Hubert de Burgh's little... Read More

Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs

MUSTER ROLL OF CAPTAIN GEORGE H. CRAM, COMPANY K, TWENTY SECOND REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, [COLONEL DAVID S. STANLEY,] FROM THE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER, 1871, WHEN LAST MUSTERED, TO THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1871

by [Indian Wars]

[Fort Randall, Dakota Territory], 1871. Elephant folio printed broadsheet, 20-1/2" x 31", completed in neat ink manuscript. Signed and dated at Fort Randall, D.T., December 31, 1871, by Geo. H. Cram, Captain, and E. Sotis [a/k/a E.S. Otis], Lieut. Col., 22nd Infantry. Contains the usual columns and information such as name, rank, enlistment dates, whether present, money due, etc. The majority of the soldiers are listed as having money due for clothing. Old folds, several fold splits repaired with... Read More

Offered by David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

Bulls of Iberia [Inscribed Association Copy]

by VAVRA, Robert

(n.p.): King Ranch Edition. 1972. The limited edition. Copy 54 of 1000 (or, likely, fewer) numbered copies produced for the King Ranch, at the time reputed to be the largest ranch in the world, and signed by the author. Additionally, this copy is inscribed by Vavra to the writer Peter Matthiessen: "For Peter - who at one time was also under the spell of the bulls of Iberia. Thanks again for your help with my new book. It would be... Read More

Offered by Ken Lopez - Bookseller

The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Introduction by Peter Zahn

by Wilson, Adrian, & Joyce Lancaster Wilson

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1978. Second printing, small folio, pp. 255, [1]; map endpapers, 3 bifolium inserts printed in color, illustrations throughout; a fine copy in original charcoal cloth stamped in white on upper cover and spine; the dust jacket with a few short tears and nicks. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Adrian Wilson on the half-title: "For Kim Merker / best of friends / and best of printers / Adrian Wilson October 14, 1983."... Read More

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books