Burroughs, Ginsberg, Orlovsky Post Card Photographs Signed

by BURROUGHS, WILLIAM & GINSBERG, ALLEN

Shown in full length in suit and hat in New York City, Burroughs signed on the lower margin of his photograph, "William Burroughs." His photograph was taken by Gerard Malanga in 1975 as printed on verso. Malanga (b. 1943) is a writer and photographer. The two photographs of Ginsberg, one with poet Peter Orlofsky, were taken by photographer Elsa Dorfman (1937-2020) in 1977 and 1978 and published by The Witkin Gallery in 1979 as noted on verso. Ginsberg signed... Read More

Offered by Schulson Autographs, Ltd.

Dead Poets Society (Original screenplay for the 1989 film)

by Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Robert Sean Leonard, Gale Hansen (starring); Peter Weir (director); Tom Schulman (screenwriter)

Burbank, CA: Touchstone Pictures, 1988. Revised Third Draft script for the 1989 film, with rainbow revisions. Annotation in manuscript ink to the front wrapper, noting the name "Brigham," and a copied stamp to the title page, noting receipt by a "Beth Morrison" on October 7, 1988. The new English teacher at a prestigious all-boys prep school changes the lives of his students, encouraging nonconformity and creativity, irking the school's disciplinarian headmaster. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Slither (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)

by James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman (starring); Howard Zieff (director); W.D. Richter (screenwriter)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, belonging to uncredited crew member J.T. Woods, with their name in manuscript pencil on top of front wrapper, and with annotations in manuscript marker of layout diagrams on recto and verso of front wrapper, and with names and a phone number in manuscript ink, on verso of back wrapper . A recently paroled carjacker is lured back into a world of crime when his dying... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge

Boston; 1834-1837: Ball and Marshal; John L. Sibly and Benjamin H. Greene, and William D. Ticknor. Small quarto. This comprises all three volumes, each in the original monthly parts fully illustrated throughout.. Volume I: 536 pages (Sept. 1834-August 1835). Voluime II: 520 pages (Sept. 1835--Aug. 1836) and Volume III, 486 pages (Oct. 1836-Sept. 1837). The publisher in 1836 gave Nathaniel Hawthorne his first job as an editor (though he was unnamed in the volumes and also unpaid). What is... Read More

Offered by Alcuin Books and Autographs, LLC

GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL

by (TUDOR TRANSLATIONS). RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS

London: Published by David Nutt, 1900. 210 x 152 mm. (8 1/4 x 6"). Three volumes. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. Introduction by Charles Whibley. VERY ATTRACTIVE BROWN CRUSHED HALF MOROCCO BY BICKERS & SON (stamp-signed on verso of front endpaper), smooth russet linen boards, spines gilt in ruled compartments, raised bands decorated with double rules and small tool at either end, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Publisher's original buckram covers bound in... Read More

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts

The Floating Bear #21

by (MERWIN, W.S., Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Norman Solomon, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, and Diane di Prima) JONES, LeRoi [Amiri Baraka] and Diane di Prima, edited by

New York: LeRoi Jones / Diane Di Prima, 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. (12)pp. Single sheets printed both sides and secured with a staple. Folded once for mailing with post office cancel, stamp and mailing label, near fine. An influential mimeograph published by Jones and di Prima featuring some of the most important poets of the 20th Century. Unlike other magazines, this so-called "newsletter" was distributed via a mailing list, many of which were noted poets, journalists, critics,... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

American Art: Illustrated by Twenty-Five Plates, Executed by the Best American Etchers and Wood Engravers, from Paintings Selected from Public and Private Collections

by Koehler, S.R.

New York: Cassell & Company, 1886. Hardcover. VG-, slight soiling to cover extremities and corners slightly bumped, inner front hinge completely broken but cover firly attached to the spine.. Yellow cloth over thick board covers with beveled edges, gilt embossed design on spine and rear cover. 58 pp. of text and 25 etchings and/or wood engravings. A very nice copy, contents are extremely fresh with tissue guards. No plates are marked, all edges are gilt, one of the... Read More

Offered by Mullen Books, Inc.

The Abstract Garden [No. III of X of the special edition]

by Gross, Philip; Reddick, Peter (Artist)

Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Reddick, Peter. Number III of X special edition copies (total edition 200), quarto size, [60] pp., signed by the artist and author. As explained in the Press's description: "The first 'poem-by-way-of-a-preface' implies that this book is a three-way collaboration of the words (the poet's) and the image (the engraver's) and the space between (the printer/designer). On this occasion, it is not just one art form responding to another.... Read More

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Shock Corridor (Collection of 27 original photographs from the 1963 film)

by Samuel Fuller (director, screenwriter); Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evens, James Best (starring)

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Collection of 27 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film, including four photographs showing proposed advertising material for the film. All but the advertising promos photos have provenance labels on the versos. With a pink mimeograph production sheet laid in, showing credits and a brief synopsis. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force, about a Daily Globe journalist who, in an attempt to win a Pulitzer Prize, has himself institutionalized in an asylum recently implicated in... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

The Dresser (Original screenplay for the 1983 film)

by Albert Finney, Eileen Atkins, Edward Fox, Michael Gough, Sheila Reid, Tom Courtenay (starring); Peter Yates (director); Ronald Harwood (screenwriter)

N.p.: N.p., 1983. Second Draft script for the 1983 British film. Noted as copy No. 101 in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. 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 together, eventually realizing that the actor's mental capacities are failing in his advanced age.... Read More

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The Road Ahead

by Gates, Bill, with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson

New York: Viking, 1995. First edition. In-text illustrations. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue paper backed black boards, spine lettered in yellow; top and bottom edges of spine rubbed. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine in a ine dust jacket, lightly rubbed to top of spine panel. Without companion CD-ROM. First edition. In-text illustrations. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An inscribed, first edition of Bill Gates' first book. The Road Ahead was a collaboration... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

The Exorcist (Original oversize double weight still photograph from the 1972 film)

by William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (novel, screenwriter); Josh Weiner (photographer)l;

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above-and seemingly beyond-a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic, with a strangeness and depth supplied by Burstyn and Sydow that only increases with... Read More

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Billy Budd (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)

by Herman Melville (novella); Peter Ustinov (director, screenwriter, starring); Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen (screenwriters); Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas (starring); Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman (play)

N.p.: N.p., 1961. First Draft script for the 1962 film. Based on Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's 1949 play, which was based in turn on Herman Melville's 1924 novella. A seaman's innocence and optimism win him the affection of the entire crew except the abusive master-at-arms, who eventually wrongly accuses the seaman of conspiracy to mutiny. The feature film debut of Terence Stamp, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his... Read More

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Billy Budd (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)

by Herman Melville (novella); Peter Ustinov (director, screenwriter, starring); Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen (screenwriters); Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas (starring); Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman (play)

N.p.: N.p., 1957. Final script for the 1962 film. Early draft, preceding the film's release by five years, credited to screenwriter Robert Rossen. Rossen was ultimately uncredited in the film, but was involved in this early stage of the script's development. Based on Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's 1949 play, which was based in turn on Herman Melville's 1924 novella. A seaman's innocence and natural beauty wins him the affection of the entire crew except... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Three Autograph Letters, signed, one with a drawing, to Rev. E.F. Strickland

by Worth, Thomas

New York, 1884. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine. Worth, Thomas. 1 vols. 8vo. One letter dated September 15, 1884 forwards "a couple of sketches which are not exactly what I would like Mrs. Strickland to have as a specimen of my work" but hopes to send something more suitable later. On April 21, 1891 he reports that two men asked about have died, but that a third can be found at "Life" magazine; he hopes "to send portrait soon."... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Original cartoon: "A Two-legged Camel", pencil, ink and wash on paper, signed ("Tho Worth/80/New York")

by Worth, Thomas

New York, 1880. The caption: "Mr. Johnson, leaving his office for his country home loaded as usual, meets a French Dressmaker" [who says] "Ah Monsieur Johnson--I catch you just in time, here are three new dresses for Madame, you will carry them very careful and not muss them.". 1 vols. 13-3/4 x 11 inches. Old folds, else near fine. Worth, Thomas. The caption: "Mr. Johnson, leaving his office for his country home loaded as usual, meets a French... Read More

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Peter Puzzle-all's New and Improved Riddle Book; or, Amusing Companion. Containing some of the best Enigmas, Charades, Rebusses, Anagrams, Conundrums, &c. ever printed

by [Children's Education]

1819. London: Dean and Munday, 1819. 12mo, 35 pp. Original printed wrappers. Covers and folding color frontispiece both detached, frontispiece with large chip from top left corner, some offsetting but generally clean. § A rare children's puzzle book; no copies on OCLC. The publisher's catalogue on lower wrapper lists "Puzzle-all's entertaining Riddle Book", which was published the previous year and is recorded on OCLC in just a single copy (at the British Library). Dean and Munday... Read More

Offered by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED PAINTERS with Medallions from their Best Performances, with Authentic Memoirs from Established Authorities

by CORNER JOHN

London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1825. Tall 4to. (13 x 9 1/4 inches), newly bound in period style quarter morocco over marbled sides with hidden morocco corners, red morocco title label on the spine; all edges marbled. Some light, widespread foxing but generally a clean attractive copy. For each of the twenty-five artists represented, Mr. Corner has produced an engraved portrait within a frame, after an existing painting or drawing. In the lower margin of each, he... Read More

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Suppose One Were A Fish [One of 26 Copies]

by CROWLEY, John

[Seattle]: Incunabla. 2007. The lettered limited edition of this poster, a broadside excerpt from Crowley's 1981 novel Little, Big, issued in conjunction with what was to be the 25th anniversary edition of Crowley's World Fantasy Award-winner, which was not published until 2021. A 24" x 37" poster, with art by Peter Milton, whose haunting drawings, etchings, engravings and prints grace the new edition. When Little, Big was first published, Ursula Le Guin famously wrote that "all by itself it calls... Read More

Offered by Ken Lopez - Bookseller

Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day

by Johnson, James Weldon

New York: The Viking Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed limited edition of Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day by James Weldon Johnson.. Octavo, [8], 3-14pp, [2]. Black hardcover, title stamped on spine. Untrimmed edges. Solid text block, light wear to corners, otherwise fine. Includes a laid-in card stating: "With the Compliments of The Viking Press." Limited edition of 200 copies, this copy numbered 158. Signed by the author on the limitation page in... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

The Man with the Golden Arm (Original contact sheet from the 1955 film)

by Peter Basch (photographer); Otto Preminger (director); Nelson Algren (novel); Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak (starring)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage contact sheet containing 12 test images of a sultry Kim Novak in a somewhat otherworldly parlor room setting, shot by noted photographer Peter Basch for the 1955 film. With Basch's name and studio address along two margins of the recto, and two different stamps, crediting both Basch and his studio, on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Selby US.

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Along This Way; The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson

by Johnson, James Weldon

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. First Edition, Third Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Signed first edition, third printing of Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson.. Octavo, 418pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "Third Printing, January 1934" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $3.50 retail price on front flap, a few closed tears and small losses along top edge.... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

[Radio Script]: Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge Adapted for Radio

by ANDERSON, Robert. (William Inge)

[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. 58pp. Some foxing and moderate wear on the first and last leaves, very good. An adaptation of the Broadway drama that featured Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth. The play displays extensive textual corrections in pencil by the director of the play, Homer Fickett. Booth won a Tony Award for Best Actress... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Further Fables for Our Time

by THURBER, James

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, stated "Special Printing". About fine in mildly sunned else near fine illustrated slipcase (issued without dust jacket). A follow-up to Thurber's excellent 1940 collection *Fables for Our Time*, with 47 new fables including ten printed here for the first time (the others appeared in *The New Yorker*). Inscribed in pencil by Thurber to Peter De Vries and his wife Katinka, Thurber's close friend and colleague at *The... Read More

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Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System (First Edition, inscribed)

by Peter Maas

New York: Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "to Ruth Unger / with my best / Peter Maas." Basis for the classic 1976 Sidney Lumet film starring Al Pacino. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with a nick and accompanying creasing on the bottom edge of the front panel.

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.