The Borough: a Poem, in Twenty-Four Letters [Peter Grimes]
by Crabbe, Rev. G. (George, 1754-1832)
London: Printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Opp.osite Albany, Piccadilly, 1810. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good+. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of Crabbe's best known work, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, a series of twenty-four verse letters including Peter Grimes, the poem that Benjamin Britten used in 1945 as basis for his masterly opera. Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters, covering various social strata,... Read More
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GRANTING A MARRIAGE DISPENSATION
by (PAPAL BULL ON VELLUM). POPE PAUL V.
Rome, 1614. 203 x 319 mm. (8 x 12 5/8"). Single column, 25 lines, in a papal chancery hand. With braided cloth tie for appended seal (now gone). Elaborate lettering all across top line of text, especially the first (8-line) initial, and at lower right corner. Lower margin with several signatures in ink (behind the fold); verso with brief notes in ink; remains of hemp tie for appended seal (which has been cut away). Three vertical and one... Read More
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“Cato” (William Smith, first Provost of College of Philadelphia) Opposes Common Sense, and “Cassandra” (Penn’s Professor of Mathematics) Answers
by [THOMAS PAINE]
"you have only entertained us with some loose declamations upon abuses in the English government; and shocked us, for want of better arguments, by a perversion of things sacred; filling the papers with personal invectives, and calumnies against all who cannot swallow, at a venture, every crude notion, you may cook up as the politics of the day. This will as little agree with the stomachs of others as with mine; although I have... Read More
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The Works of Tobias Smollett
by Smollett, Tobias; Saintsbury, George (Editor); Richards, Frank (Illustrations); Bedford, F.D. (Decorations)
London and Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company / J.B. Lippincott Company [Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh], 1895. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Richards, Frank; Bedford, F.D.. Twelve volumes (complete), octavo size, total pp. approximately 3100, one of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Tobias George Smollett (ca.1721-1771), a Scottish author, was known for his "picaresque" novels (stories which depict the adventures "of a roguish, but 'appealing hero', of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society"... Read More
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Bullitt (Original one sheet poster for the 1968 film)
by Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn (starring); Norbert Jobst (designer); Peter Yates (director); Robert L. Pike (novel); Alan R. Trustman, Harry Kleiner (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1968 film. Based on the 1963 novel, "Mute Witness" by Robert Pike, easily one of Steve McQueen's most minimal performances, and one of the best examples of location shooting ever made. A key crime film, complex and unsentimental, that set the bar for many action and crime films that would follow. Shot on location in San Francisco. 27 x 41 inches.... Read More
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University Library of Autobiography 15 volume Limited President's Edition (University Library of Autobiography, 15 volumes) [Leather Bound]
by Leading Scholars and Educators of America (Editor)
New York: F. Tyler Daniels Co., Inc, 1918. President's Edition, limited to 1,050 numbered copies. Hardcover. Complete in 15 volumes. Quarto. Original publisher's full brown leather binding with color illustration stamped on front cover and blind-stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Ribbon marker. Each volume with decorative series title-page and individual title-page. Illustrations of autobiographical persons in gravure after paintings, drawings and photographs. Each plate protected by captioned tissue-guard. Limitation page with decorative golden border.... Read More
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A Mining Engineers Journal Recounting His Role in Nome, Alaska Gold Rush
by TREVE M. GIBSON
There is no word in our language which will grip the listener's attention quicker, than the word, gold. No story is more likely to arouse the spirit of adventure than an authentic report of the discovery of new and exceptionally rich goldfields. A reminiscence of the early stages of the Nome Gold Rush (1899-1909) written by a mining engineer with fascinating and sometimes tragic details about his voyage to Alaska, wildlife, native Americans, traveling along... Read More
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Hell's Angels
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: The Modern Library, 1999. Reprint. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing of the Modern Library Edition. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with imprint in blind on the front cover and gilt titles to the spine. Near Fine. From the library of Peter Matthiessen though not marked as such, with some underlining in Matthiessen's hand. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed and with a short... Read More
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The Carpenter and Joiner’s Assistant; containing Practical Rules for making all Kinds of Joints, and Various Methods of Hingeing them together; for Hanging of Doors on Straight or Circular Plans; for fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, with Rules for Hanging Them: for the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonry; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: for placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which are Added, Examples of Various Roofs Executed, with the Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. on the Strength of Timber, with Practical Observa
by NICHOLSON, Peter
79 engraved plates. xi, 79, [1] pp. Large 4to, cont. sheep, flat spine gilt. London: I. & J. Taylor, 1797. First edition and a nice copy from Schloss Tetschner, with the private library’s attractive stamp on verso of title. Nicholson (1765-1844), architectural writer and mathematician, “was probably the most prolific communicator on the technical aspects of architecture in the first half of the nineteenth century and his influence should not be underestimated. He wrote at least twenty-seven books... Read More
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[Three offprints] [1]: "A Note on the Capture of Slow Neutrons in Hydrogenous Substance" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 51, Iss. 3.
by LAMB, Willis E., Jr. (1913-2008).
[Minneapolis:: American Physical Society], 1937., 1937. Offprint. 8vo. 187-90 pp. Self-wrappers. Fine. [See below for the following]: [2]: "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 58, No. 8. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1940. [with] [3]: "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 64, Nos. 5 & 6. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society], 1943. [with:] "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" [from] Physical Review, Vol. 58, No. 8. [Minneapolis: American Physical Society],... Read More
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books
GENERAL SCOTT'S ENTRANCE INTO MEXICO. FROM THE ALBUM: THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO
by Kendall, George and Carl Nebel
New York; Philadelphia: D. Appleton; George S. Appleton, 1851. Hand colored print (1), matted and framed with UV conservation glass. Hand-colored lithograph and elaborated by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot (b. France 1810-1866) based on paintings by Carl Nebel (b. Germany 1805-1855). Heightened with gum arabic by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot after Carl Nebel): "Nebel's version of Scott's entrance sticks closer to the truth and is packed with psychological drama. There is no doubt here that the war is still on. Loaded... Read More
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Serpico (Original banner poster for the 1973 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Peter Maas (biography); Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler (screenwriters); Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe (starring)
N.p.: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System," about a plainclothes police officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department, only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in New York. 82 x 24... Read More
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Amadeus (Original script for the 1980-1983 Broadway play)
by Peter Shaffer (playwright); Peter Hall (director); Tim Curry, Ian McKellen, Jane Seymour (starring)
New York: McCann and Nugent, 1981. Revised Draft script for the 1980-1983 Broadway play, dated February 1981, copy belonging to actor Russell Gold, with the manuscript ink and marker annotations of "R. Gold" and copy number "#45B," respectively, on the top of the title page, with copious manuscript pencil and ink annotations and dog-eared pages throughout. Gold played the character Guiseppe Bonno in the Broadway production, as well as being the understudy for Salieri's Valet and Count Johann Killan... Read More
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Colonial Era Ledger Document Signed by the Prominent New England Slave Trader William Vernon, 1762
by VERNON, William; (Peter Dordin)
[Newport, Rhode Island, 1762. Very Good. Manuscript Ledger Sheet in two columns (8" x 13"). Signed by William Vernon, Sept. 14th, 1762. The sheet is headed: "Capt. Peter Dordin to W. Vernon, Philadelphia Currency". Light vertical folds, a few very small closed tears at the edges, very good or better. A well-preserved account statement of charges dating from 1757-60, payable to the Newport, Rhode Island-based merchant and slave trader William Vernon from fellow merchant and slave trader Peter... Read More
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LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. [signed by the author]
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
1886. [signed, also with an A.L.s.] New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 14 pp undated ads. Original medium-brown cloth pictorially decorated in red, black and gilt. First Edition, first issue, of this classic tale for children. Though not mentioned on the title page, the book is profusely illustrated by Reginald Birch. The author is generally regarded as an American, but she was actually born and raised in England -- until in 1865, the family textile business ruined by the... Read More
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Becket (Original screenplay for the 1964 film)
by Peter Glenville (director); Edward Anhalt (screenwriter); Jean Anouilh (playwright); Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud (starring)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few manuscript pencil annotations throughout, mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate, however, how seriously Becket will take the vocation, leading to the dissolution of their friendship in... Read More
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Fifty Wonderful Portraits
by Cooper, R., & R. Page, engravers
London: J. Robins and Co, 1824. First edition. [Title page lacking], 8pp. letterpress, and 50 engraved plates by Cooper and Page. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed boards, spine rebacked; plates and text quite clean. First edition. [Title page lacking], 8pp. letterpress, and 50 engraved plates by Cooper and Page. 1 vols. 4to. A wonderful compilation indeed, with fine engraved portraits of early 19th-century characters. Among the attractions, who are described in short paragraphs preceding the engravings... Read More
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![Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere [Normal Plates of the Development of the Vertebrates].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/739/156/1702156739.0.l.jpg)
Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere [Normal Plates of the Development of the Vertebrates].
by Keibel, Franz
Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1897, 1900, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912. First editions. NINE FOLIO VOLUMES OF KEIBEL'S MONUMENTAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VERTEBRATE EMBRYOS, A TRIUMPH OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Published over a period of 41 years (1897-1938), Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere [Normal Plates of the Development of the Vertebrates] comprises 16 volumes, with the last two published posthumously. Offered here are 9 of the volumes including the landmark first volume all of which are very scarce today. The... Read More
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Collection of rare 18th century songs published in London ca. 1737-1790
by [VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century - English]
Folio. 19th half black leather with marbled boards, spine in compartments gilt with titling gilt. Engraved throughout, with the exception of the ninth songsheet, which is typeset. Provenance Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker (1835-1914), with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Contains 25 songs including works by Arne, Bride, Dibdin, Clarke, Galliard, Handel, Harington, Hook, Jackson, Leveridge, Selby, Smith, and others. With occasional ornamentation, filling out of chords, and corrections in contemporary manuscript. 1. Clark. "The... Read More
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![Gold Diggers [Golddiggers] in Paris (Original screenplay for the 1938 film, presentation copy belonging to story writer Jerry Wald)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/206/752/1593752206.0.l.jpg)
Gold Diggers [Golddiggers] in Paris (Original screenplay for the 1938 film, presentation copy belonging to story writer Jerry Wald)
by Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert (starring); Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley (directors); Warren Duff, Earl Baldwin, Felix Ferry, Sig Herzig, Peter Milne (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final script for the 1938 film musical. Specially bound copy belonging to story writer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox,... Read More
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Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel.
by Switzerland, Five Hotel Registry Books.
Territet & Montreux,: 1898-1910., 1898. A look into the turn-of-the-century activities of a major hotel and the registers for recording guests from 1898-1910. These registers offer a primary resource to study the activities of the Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel, Territet & Montreux. FIVE ALBUMS: [1] Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel. Livre des Etrangers. Approx. 26x37 cm. Unpaginated. Original quarter calf, maroon gilt-stamped boards. This is an alphabetical register of guests, showing the room number,... Read More
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The Exorcist
by Blatty, William Peter
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. First edition. (First printing with complete number line at rear.) Signed by William Peter Blatty on the front free endpaper, inscribed in the year of publication "To Nancy- With all my best, + the hope you'll avoid Princess phones! Bill Blatty May 28, 1971." [viii,] 340, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original glazed red maroon cloth boards over maroon spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine, slightly rubbed, spine lean, slight... Read More
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Fine pastel portrait of the composer by Copmann after the 1828 pastel portrait by Christian Horneman (1765-1844). Signed with the artist's initials "PC" and dated 1832
by [KUHLAU, Friedrich 1786-1832]. Copmann, Peter 1794-1850
51 x 42 cms. (20 x 16.5"). Canvas over wooden board. A sensitive portrait of the composer, blind in his right eye since childhood, depicted head-and-shoulders, turned right, wearing a blue coat and white-collared shirt. Some minor wear and smudging but in very good condition overall. "Together with C.E.F. Weyse he was the foremost representative of the late Classical and early Romantic periods in Denmark. ... Unlike Weyse, the other principal Danish composer of the period,... Read More
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Star Wars [Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope] (Collection of 25 original photographs from the 1977 film)
by George Lucas (director, screenwriter); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Collection of 25 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1977 film, including 23 matte-finish and 2 glossy. Several with manuscript pencil annotations to the verso, noting the film's title in French ("La Guerre des Etoiles"). The film that became a multibillion dollar media empire (pun intended), now including eleven 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... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed
by HEALY, George Peter Alexander (1813-1894)
Philadelphia, 1851. unbound. very good. Excellent content A.L.S. 4to, 2 pages, Philadelphia, November 29th 1851, an uncharacteristically chatty communication addressed to 'Dear Friend', in part: "...I can wait no longer for dame fortune to smile, she seems to have given me the cold shoulder in the most unkind manner, yet I trust she will grow warmer as I continue to the south: how gratifying it is not to be disappointed, the picture is doing just as well as... Read More
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