Newton’s White Box : 20 Postcards

by Newton, Helmut

Paris: Xavier Moreau, [ca. 1975]. 8vo (8” x 5”), white paperboard box with slip-off lid. 20 color and black & white postcards (6” x 4.25”), loosely inserted in an internal tray; titles in French printed on verso of postcards. Inscribed on front panel of lid in black ink: “For Polly and Henry with my love. Helmet, New York. 14. 3. 1977. P. S. A set of real French postcards.”. A presentation copy of an early and exceedingly rare Newton... Read More

Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Archive of scripts for 56 episodes of "Peter Gunn" (Collection of 57 original screenplays from the 1958-1960 television show)

by Robert Altman, Blake Edwards, David O. McDearmon, Lamont Johnson, Robert Ellis Miller, Boris Sagal, Jack Arnold, George Stevens Jr., Alan Crosland Jr. (directors); Lewis Reed, Vick Knight, Ken Kolb, Lester Aaron Pine, P.K. Palmer, Tony Barrett (screenwrit

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the detective television series dated variously between 1958 and 1960. Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his manuscript name on the front wrapper of each episode. 36 scripts contain pink, blue, white, and yellow revision pages, many bound separately and laid in at the rear. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the series, starring the sophisticated,... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States. From the Original Text and Drawings in the Navy Department

Philadelphia: Printed for the Navy Department, by T. K. and P. G. Collins, 1852. Folio (13.875" x 11.5"), recent half navy blue morocco with navy blue cloth, gilt morocco title label on upper cover. 16 pp., 14 chromolithographic plates and 2 black and white lithographic plates. CONDITION: Good, small reinstated loss to upper-left corner of title page, a few short repaired tears to upper edge of title page, damp stains to lower-right margins throughout, not affecting text or image;... Read More

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From Virginia to Texas, 1835. Diary of Col. Wm. F. Gray Giving Details of His Journey to Texas and Return in 1835-36 and Second Journey to Texas in 1837 with Preface by A.C. Gray. Printed for the Information of His Descendants

by [Texas]: Gray, William Fairfax

Houston: Gray, Dillaye & Co, 1909. Good.. viii, 230pp. Contemporary black limp leatherette, with gilt titles on front cover and "Alice Gray Sears McGee" stamped at the bottom. Title page a bit chipped, with two brown cello repairs to both title and the first leaf of the Preface, the latter of which was repaired at the bottom right corner. Otherwise a lightly toned but clean textblock. A descendant's copy of one of the most desirable books on the... Read More

Offered by The Joe Fay Company

Frank Lloyd Wright Is Pleased to Have His Humanistic Style of Architecture Placed in Opposition to Le Corbusier’s Stark Modernism Throughout the Architecture World

by Frank Lloyd Wright

10/9/31. Wright first wrote to Lewis Mumford in 1926, when he was in his 50s and already renowned, but at a low point in his career and in desperate need of renewed critical interest in his work; Mumford was in his 30s and making his name in cultural criticism, with much of his writing focused on architecture and urban planning. His writing, however, connected the separate domains of philosophy, architecture, anthropology, and literature to one another and to the... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

Stranger on the Third Floor (Original screenplay for the 1940 film noir)

by [Film scripts] [Film Noir] Peter Lorre (starring); Boris Ingster (director); Frank Partos, Nathanael West (screenwriters); John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr. (starring)

New York: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1940 film noir, generally considered to be the first in the American film noir cycle. An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a cafe owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. Widely regarded as the first film noir. Author and occasional screenwriter Nathanael West, who is credited with revisions on the front... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Cato's Letters

by TRENCHARD John GORDON Thomas

1755. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (GORDON, Thomas) (TRENCHARD, John). Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, And other important Subjects. London: J. Walthoe, et al., 1755. Four volumes. Small octavo, 19th-century three-quarter plum calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $6800.1755 sixth edition of Trenchard and Gordon's famed essays, a major influence on the American Revolution—""ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement on the nature of political liberty and... Read More

Offered by Bauman Rare Books

Collection of 31 books inscribed by Paul Bowles to his friend, composer Phillip Ramey

by Bowles, Paul, et al.

v.p., v.d.. 31 vols. Various sizes, mostly 8vo. Generally in very good or better condition, unless noted otherwise below. 31 vols. Various sizes, mostly 8vo. Phillip Ramey is an American composer and writer and was one of Paul Bowles' closest friends towards the end of the author's life. Ramey was for many years the annotator and program editor at the New York Philharmonic and has written the liner notes to hundreds of recordings, as well as a biography... Read More

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A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the tru

by MALTON, Thomas

1776. MALTON, Thomas. A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in Theory and Practice; on the True Principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. [4], viii, [8], 284 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 46 numbered, mostly folding engravings, five with moveable parts. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robson, et al., 1776. BOUND WITH: An Appendix or second Part to the Compleat Treatise on Perspective. 160 pages : 10 plates, one with a moveable part.... Read More

Offered by Ursus Rare Books

Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, quae jussu Mariae Theresiae Augustae disposuit et descripsit Ignatius a Born

by BORN, Ignaz Edler von (1742-1791)

Vienna: Gerold for Johann P. Kraus, 1780. Folio. (16 x 11 inches). Half-title, dedication to the Empress Marie-Therese. Title with emblematic engraved vignette by C. Schütz, 4 headpieces and 8 tailpieces, 36 in-text illustrations of shells, all engraved by Schütz, C. Conti and others, 18 plates (17 fine hand-coloured engraved plates of shells by Schütz or J. Adam after Fr. Fuxeder and 1 plate [Plate 4] supplied in expert watercolour facsimile). Quarter vellum and marbled paper boards, original titling... Read More

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Cato's Letters

by TRENCHARD John GORDON Thomas

1755. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (GORDON, Thomas) (TRENCHARD, John). Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, And other important Subjects. London: J. Walthoe, et al., 1755. Four volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked with original spines and red morocco spine labels laid down. $7500.1755 sixth edition of Trenchard and Gordon's famed essays, a major influence on the American Revolution—""ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement on the nature of political liberty and... Read More

Offered by Bauman Rare Books

THE CORONATION OF HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH, SOLEMNIZED IN THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, WESTMINSTER, UPON THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JULY, 1821

by (FÊTE BOOK). NAYLER, SIR GEORGE

London: Henry George Bohn, 1837. First Complete Edition, incorporating the previously issued parts of 1823 and 1827. 587 x 433 mm. (23 1/8 x 17"). 3 p.l., lvi, 134, [10] pp. Modern red crushed morocco over marbled boards, raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. With two large engraved black & white seals in text, three plain engraved plates, and 42 HAND-COLORED AQUATINT PLATES (including title). Front pastedown with large engraved bookplate of Phiroze K.... Read More

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts

[Broadside]: Free Trade Hall, Manchester on Wednesday Evening, February 11th, 1852, The Amateur Company and the Guild of Literature and Art;... Will have the honor of performing for the Twelfth Time, A New Comedy, in Five Acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. called Not So Bad As We Seem... to conclude with (for the ninth time) an Original Farce in One Act, by Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Mark Lemon, entitled Mr. Nightingale's Diary... the Whole Produced Under the Direction of Mr. Charles Dickens

by DICKENS, Charles and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. (Wilkie Collins, John Tenniel, etc.)

Manchester: Committee of the Manchester Athenaeum, 1852. Unbound. Near Fine. Broadside printed in black and red. 10¼" x 21½". A few old roughly horizontal folds, small tear at the edge of one fold, faint offsetting on verso from an old mat, but a very nice, near fine example. A broadside program for a performance of a play by Bulwer-Lytton written in 1851, and performed to benefit the Literary Guild, a society for struggling authors. The performance of the... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

The Life of George Washington (in 5 vols.)

by [Washington, George]; John Marshall

London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First London edition. Near Fine. (In octavo). Overall a near fine and much cleaner set than is usually found with the folding plates and maps in excellent and undamaged state. Five octavo volumes (8 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 208 x 131 mm.). xxxvi, 579, [1], 2 folding maps; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 245, 254-633, [3]; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 570, folding engraved frontispiece and engraving on last page; viii, 684; viii, 843, [5],... Read More

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.

Fabbriche e Disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi...

by QUARENGHI, Giacomo; Giulio, Cav.

1821. QUARENGHI, Giacomo. Fabbriche e Disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi Architetto di S. M. L'Imperatore di Russia, Cavaliere di Malta e di S. Waldimiro, Illustrate Dal Cav. Giulio suo Figlio. [5], 6-46, [2] pp., illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Quarenghi, and 59 full-page engraved plates. Folio, 480 x 330 mm., bound in contemporary Italian light blue paste-paper boards. Milan: Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi, 1821. First edition. The Italian architect and painter Giacomo Quarenghi (1744-1817) spent his... Read More

Offered by Ursus Rare Books

Life of George Washington Commander in Chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States, The

by [WASHINGTON, George]; MARSHALL, John

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. The "Best Edition" of Marshall's Classic Biography Near Fine in Contemporary Mottled Sheep [WASHINGTON, George]. [MARSHALL, John]. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, from original papers bequeathed to him by his deceased relative. To which is prefixed, an introduction, containing... Read More

Offered by David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late fellow of St Peters Colledge in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition. London: In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1670 BOUND WITH: Poemata et Epigrammata, quae scripsit Latina & Græca, dum Aulae Pemb. Alumnus fuit, et Collegii Petrensis Socius. Editio Secunda

by Crashaw, Richard (1612-1649)

Cambridge: Ex Officina Joan. Hayes, celeberrimae academiae typographi, 1670. THIRD EDITION of "Steps to the Temple". SECOND EDITION of the "Poemata et epigrammata. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (deftly re-backed, corners bumped, boards with light stains). A fine copy internally, complete with the engraved frontispiece. Last leaf of second work lightly browned at edges. With two 17th c. ownership inscriptions: "Chaerandri Ailsburiensis 12 Maii 1690" and "Schol. Gram. Ailsburiensis"(the Aylesbury grammar school, founded 1598.). This collection... Read More

Offered by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts

Album of the Passion-Play at Ober-Ammergau. Being Sixty Albumen Prints of the Scenes and Tableaux of the Passion-Play, Taken by Command of His Majesty King Ludwig II. of Bavaria, by the Court-Photographer Albert, of Munich; A Series of Etchings, in Heliotype, from the Pen and Ink drawings of "The Homes of Ammergau," by Eliza Greatorex, and Engravings on Wood. (Being the first complete photo documentaiton of the "Passion Play")

by Jackson, John P.

Munich and London: Joseph Albert, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition.. 1/200. Folio. 4 leaves, iv (i), 194 (2)pp., 60 Albumen prints, including frontispiece. Original purple pebble-grain cloth, rebacked with brown pigskin, spine lettered and ruled in blind and gilt, blind paneling to covers, front cover lettered and ornately paneled in gilt, and beveled edges. Gilt edges. Silk moire endpapers. Frontispiece. Contemporary penciled ownership signature of Colonel Jams M. Wilson on front free endpaper. Laid in small... Read More

Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Sketches from Punch's Book of British Costumes

by Sambourne, Edward Linley

London, 1874. Oblong twelvemo (3 x 5 1/2 inches; 75 x 140 mm.). Hand colored manuscript title-page and 59 original pen and ink hand-drawn satirical cartoons after images produced in Punch magazine, one dated January 1874. A fine Persian style lacquer 'wallet' binding ca. 1874, original purple velvet spine expertly restored, original silver clasp. Housed in a red felt lined quarter black morocco over pale green cloth clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt... Read More

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.

Characters at the West End of the Town. Drawn and Etched by Richard Dighton

by DIGHTON, Richard

London: Thomas M'Lean: Repository of Wit and Humour, 1825. Richard Dighton's Caricatures of British Society Forty Fine Hand Colored Engraved Plates DIGHTON, Richard. Characters at the West End of the Town. Drawn and Etched by Richard Dighton. London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1825. First edition. Large folio (14 x 10 inches; 356 x 254 mm.). Letterpress title and forty hand-colored engraved plates watermarked "J. Whatman 1824." Small closed (1 1/8 inch) marginal tear... Read More

Offered by David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Calamus. A Series Of Letters Written During The Years 1868-1880. By Walt Whitman To A Young Friend (Peter Doyle). Edited With An Introduction By Richard Maurice Bucke M.D. One Of Whitman's Literary Executors

by WHITMAN, Walt

Boston: Published By Laurens Maynard At 287 Congress Street, 1897. First (trade) edition, first issue, following a limited edition of 35 large-paper copies, signed by Dr. Bucke, of which 25 were for sale. Myerson A14.1.b1. In addition to the letters by Whitman, who died in 1892, this book contains a very interesting interview with Peter Doyle, conducted by Bucke and Horace Traubel in 1895, in which "Mr. Doyle is reported almost absolutely in his own words." Presentation copy, inscribed... Read More

Offered by James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

ARCHIVE Discussing Proposal for French Production of His Musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY

by HUGHES, Langston

New York, 1959. Letters. Near Fine. Interesting archive consisting of 4 SIGNED (as “Langston”) items in green ink and various other pieces concerning a French production of his musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY, all to Léo Sauvage. Included are a TYPED LETTER SIGNED, two AUTOGRAPH NOTES SIGNED, and a SIGNED offprint with a note of “Sorrow for a Midget.” The one-page letter reports having sent a copy of SIMPLY HEAVENLY and suggests some possible alterations and casting for a French... Read More

Offered by Charles Agvent

Kavanagh’s Weekly: A Journal of Literature and Politics. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-12, (April-June, 1952)

by KAVANAGH, Patrick and Peter, Brian O’Nolan [Flann O'Brien]

Dublin: Printed for the Publisher, Peter Kavanagh, 1952. Very Good. Magazine. 12 issues. Large quartos. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-12 (April 12 - June 28, 1952). Each stapled issue consists of eight pages. A continuous run of the first 12 issues (of only 13 issues published), lacking the final issue (No. 13, July 5, 1952). A few small edge tears, the first two issues are toned with scattered foxing in issue No. 1 and a bump and associated chip... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Nouvelle Collection de Quarante-Deux Vues de Saint-Pétersbourg et de ses Environs, Dessinées d'après Nature par Divers Artistes. Accompagnées d'un Plan de la Ville, Divisé par Carrés de Renvois, pour s'Orienter Facilement, à l'Usage des Étrangers

by PLUCHART, Alexander Ivanovich (1777-1827)

St. Petersburg: Chez Alexandre Pluchart. Grande Morskoy, Maison Kossikoffsky, No. 69, 1826. Oblong folio. (13 3/4 x 20 inches). 44 ff. Letterpress title-page, engraved hand-colored city plan with a keyed reference sheet, table of contents, 44 lithograph views of St. Petersburg's buildings and monuments printed on rectos, versos blank. All but 3 lithographs are titled in French: 1 is in English, 2 are untitled. Bound to style in quarter straight grained red morocco and nineteenth-century paper boards Pluchart's... Read More

Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

[Portfolio of 40 lithographs of Civil War Union officers]

by Ehrgott, Forbriger, & Company

Cincinnati: Ehrgott, Forbriger, & Company, 1862. 40 lithographed plates (2 hand colored). Folio. Contemporary half dark brown morocco and cloth covered boards, worn. Some foxing, a few plates with edge tears. 40 lithographed plates (2 hand colored). Folio. The patriotism inspired by the Civil War, particularly in the urban centers of the north, engendered a dramatic growth in the production of various media, such as sheet music, prints, photographs, and other ephemera, marketed to individuals by enterprising printers,... Read More

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