Handwritten, Working Lyrics for "High Gravity Lager
by Ramone, Joey [The Ramones]
c1994. Handwritten working lyrics by Joey Ramone for the Steel Reserve commercial jingle "High Gravity Lager," 2pp (8 ½” x 11”), unsigned, in blue and black ballpoint on the versos only of two scrap pages with late 1993 dates (a Ramones interview request from Ray Gun Magazine and an order form from Eggbert Records). On the right side of the first sheet, Ramone adds a phone number and pens a few lines to the Adios Amigos song "She Dreams... Read More
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Remarque, Erich
London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. First Edition. First edition in English, prior to the ubiquitous American edition, copies of which pile up for sale like newspapers on the doorsteps of dead homeowners. Fine in near fine, bright, and fastidiously preserved dustjacket. A superior copy of the first seriously detached view of WWI., still the most famous, and maybe still the best. Custom half buffalo box. One of literature's most powerful anti-war statements, stripping away the patriotic rhetoric of combat... Read More
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Original In Game Manuscript Play Call Sheets; From Round 1 of the 1987 Playoffs
by [LOS ANGELES LAKERS; PAT RILEY]
Los Angeles, 1987. Two original stiff blue paper play call sheets with Pat Riley's hand drawn directions in blue felt tip ink. These were collected in person from game 2 of the 1st round of the 1986-1987 NBA playoffs (the Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 139-127 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, CA on April, 25 1987). With the sheets is a redeemed ticket from this specific game. While 'Showtime' Laker memorabilia is rather common, game used ephemera... Read More
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Original In Game Manuscript Play Call Sheets; From Round 3 of the 1987 Playoffs
by [LOS ANGELES LAKERS; PAT RILEY]
Los Angeles, 1987. Two original stiff blue paper play call sheets with Pat Riley's hand drawn directions in blue felt tip ink. These were collected in person from game 1 of the 3rd round of the 1986-1987 NBA playoffs (the Lakers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 92-87 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, CA on May, 16 1987). With the sheets is a redeemed ticket from this specific game. While 'Showtime' Laker memorabilia is rather common, game used ephemera... Read More
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Poems
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. First Edition. 1st edition. 1 of 12 (maybe 13) on fine paper in an unrecorded binding of the publisher’s blue paper boards, white paper spine with no label. Top edge rough trimmed, other edges uncut. Front hinge split but holding, top and bottom edge of the spine perished, some scuffs and stains to the boards and wear to extremities. Ownership signature to front free endpaper, toning to the pastedowns and endpapers., else very good. Unrestored.... Read More
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The Early Italian Poets…(1100, 1200, 1300); Translated in the original metres by D. G. Rossetti
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First Edition. With page 352 misnumbered 252 and the customary cancels. Original cloth, binding flaws to the inner paper hinge (not cracked), else near fine, complete with errata and advertisement leaf. Rossetti's first conventionally published book, issued in an edition of 600 copies. This comprehensive anthology presents extracts from sixty-four medieval Italian poets—fifty-nine named and five anonymous—all translated into English while preserving their original metrical schemes, a technical achievement that demonstrated Rossetti's dual... Read More
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Marbled vignettes; Including Muir Dawson & Norma Rubovits in conversation
by Rubovits, Norma
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1992. First Edition. Limited to 135 signed copies, designed and printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh, with 35 copies (this being number 32 of those) in a cloth box with 5 matted examples of marbled vignettes. Also included is the original sales leaflet from Dawson’s Book Shop. The box a little dusty, else fine. The 8 page book of text is an interview (or "conversation") between the Los Angeles bookseller Muir Dawson and the Chicago... Read More
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Two Papers on Radioactive Decay; From Le Radium: La Radioactivité, les Radiation
by Rutherford, Ernest
Paris: Masson et Cie, 1907. First Edition. Offprints, 8vo. "Produits de transformation lente du radium" (Slow Transformation Products of Radium), vol. 2, No. 11, Nov. 15, 1905, pp. 355–361; (292 x 210mm), pp. 2, 32, 2. “Vitesse et Energie des Particules" (Speed and Energy of Particles, vol. 4, No. 2, Feb. 1907, pp. 84–87; (295 x 210mm), pp. 2, 48, 2. French translations of papers originally published in the Philosophical Magazine (1904-1905) and Philosophical Magazine (1906). Ex–Dr. Myron Prinzmetal.... Read More
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The Catcher in the Rye
by Salinger, J. D.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1951. First Edition. his first book. Fine in a near fine example of the first issue dustjacket (with the price on the front flap partially over the R in “Salinger” and Salinger’s hair just touching the top edge in the portrait on the rear panel), lightly toned with minute wear at the corners. Copies marginally less fine are many times more common. Fame is Salinger’s Lex Luthor, but Catcher stands tall as the modern... Read More
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![Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638. ; [Trans. Jasper Mayne and Francis Hicks]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/466/808/1584808466.0.l.jpg)
Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638. ; [Trans. Jasper Mayne and Francis Hicks]
by Lucian of Samosata
Oxford: Printed by H Hall for R Davis, 1663. First Edition. The Mayne translation and the 2nd edition of Hickes translation. This edition of Lucian is thus the first substantially complete edition in English. Prior to the publication of the 9 Dialogues translated by Hickes (d. 1631) at Oxford in 1634, only two of Lucian's Dialogues had been translated into English and published in book form. Mayne's translation of fifty had been made in 1638 for the private entertainment... Read More
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The Marquis de Villemer
by Sand, George
Boston: James Osgood and Co, 1871. First American edition, 4to (237 x 155mm), pp. [6], 130, [4]. Original green cloth, titled in gilt; the slightest bit of rubbing to the extremities, coated brown endpapers, light marginal dampstaining, else a superior copy and very good in the scarce green cloth (it was also bound in brown with no priority). Sand's early novels, particularly Lélia (1833) and Indiana (1832), interrogated conventional sexual identities and gender roles with such directness that the... Read More
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![Two Offprints on the Structure of Insulin; La Structure de l’Insuline [and] The Disulphide Bonds of Insulin](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/479/107/1741107479.0.l.jpg)
Two Offprints on the Structure of Insulin; La Structure de l’Insuline [and] The Disulphide Bonds of Insulin
by Sanger, Frederick
1955. First Edition. Sanger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 for determining the complete amino acid sequence of insulin (the first protein ever to have its primary structure fully established) and a second in 1980 for developing methods for sequencing DNA, making him one of only four individuals ever to have received two Nobel Prizes. The two offprints offered here, both signed by Sanger, together constitute the complete published record of that first achievement: a synthetic lecture... Read More
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Visages
by Sartre, Jean-Paul [illus. Wols]
Paris: Seghers, 1948. First Edition. First printing, original wrappers, number 231 of 900 copies on Crèvecoeur du Marais paper (there were also 15 copies on Chine paper and 10 hors commerce copies for the author and illustrator). In French. Toning and rubbing, ownership signature to the front blank, else very good and internally clean. 41pp. with 4 drypoint etchings by Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze). "Visages" is a philosophical meditation on the human face as a site of meaning,... Read More
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The Monastery
by Scott, Walter Scott
Edinburgh: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, Bookseller to the King, Edinburgh, 1820. First Edition. 3 vols. 1st edition. Original boards and labels, rebacked with new endpapers (a fitting match). Soiled and worn else very good, but troublesome to weigh against other sets, because variables won’t and constants aren’t. Just after publishing Ivanhoe, Scott returned to his Scottish roots for this novel. The monastery of the title... Read More
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![The Historie of the World; Commonly Called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/789/140/1694140789.0.l.jpg)
The Historie of the World; Commonly Called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus [...]
by Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
London: Adam Islip, 1601. First Edition. Good. Folio. 2 vols. in 1. [60], 614, [42], [12], 632, [86]. First edition in English of Pliny’s important encyclopedic work, which was, for centuries, considered the highest authority on subjects relating to the natural and physical world, including botany, zoology, geography, pharmacology, and more. Lowndes referred to this translation as a "work of immense labour, and what few men of his time could have executed in a superior manner to Dr.... Read More
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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
by Seros, Alexandra
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. First Edition. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Seros on the title page. The book features over 150 photographs and archival documents providing vital historical context. As Seros notes, "Seeing the documents is as important as reading about them... through them, Lupino's voice will become clearer." In screenwriter Alexandra Seros' meticulous analysis of Ida Lupino's career, we see a compelling portrait of a filmmaker who transcended the gendered constraints... Read More
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Julius Caesar
by Shakespeare, William
London: by H[enry]. H[ills]. Jun. for Hen Herringman and R Bentley, and sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1691. 2nd or 3rd separate edition, an internally fine copy of it and other copies are not fine. As rare as any of the 17th century editions of Julius Caesar including the 1st of 1684 (census data is vague). That said, the glory of this copy is its quality. Early 20th century full red morocco by Rivière & Son, spine... Read More
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Pygmalion; A Romance in Five Acts
by Shaw, George Bernard
New York: Everybody’s Magazine, 1914. First Edition. 1st separate edition (unauthorized), and 1st separate issue, comprised of sheets from the periodical publication, specially bound up and distributed by Putnam. When advised by Shaw’s agent that they had acquired only the serial rights, distribution in this format was halted. Formal book publication in English finally happened in 1916. Near fine original violet cloth, dustjacket chipped and with a split to spine strengthened, else good. An early pencil note on the... Read More
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Rosalind and Helen
by Shelley, Percy
London: Ollier, 1819. First Edition. 1st edition. Gilt and inlaid crushed green morocco, signed by Riviere & Son in gilt on the turn-in. Inlaid morocco doublures, green silk moire endpapers, original wrappers preserved and bound in. Slightest bit of rubbing at the extremities, clean and fresh internally, near fine. Written after Shelley had left England for good and with a preface dated in Naples, December 20, 1818, Rosalind and Helen tells the story of two lovers (based on Percy... Read More
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Queen Mab
by Shelley, Percy
London: P.B. Shelley, 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, 1813. First Edition. 8vo (200 x 124mm), pp. [6], 240, [2]. Shelley’s first major poem. Original boards, joints cracked but holding, the interior is intact (many copies have Shelley’s name and the printer’s imprint cut out as the book was being hunted by moralists and royalists). A virgin and unmutilated copy, with the title page, dedication and final leaf intact. One of only 250 copies printed for private distribution, rare unrepaired... Read More
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The Poetical Works
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
London: Reeves & Turner, 1892. Third Edition. 2 vols. A reprinting of the 1839 original, the edition selected by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, England's premier bindery, as the best choice for the binding they planned, based on its typeface, paper, size, and inclusion of all the notes by Shelley's wife Mary, an essential source for the study of Percy's work. A fastidiously executed dark blue crushed morocco, gilt binding. The outside covers with central gilt panel formed by multiple plain... Read More
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Two Original Scripts for the 1945 Film)
by Slesinger, Tess and Frank Davis (screenwriters); Elia Kazan (director); Betty Smith (novel, 1943); Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and James Dunn (starring)
Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, 1944. Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-198 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Final draft script for the 1945 film. Blue titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped, internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three), typed spine label. Noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, copy number 190, dated April 5, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 190, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated April 5,... Read More
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Time: The Present
by Slesinger, Tess
New Orleans: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing. Neatly inscribed by Slesinger to her editor at Vanity Fair on the front endpaper: “To Frank Crowninshield / with a sophisticated bush / Tess Slesinger / May 8, 1935." Upper front corner lightly pushed, else clean and fine, dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities, else near fine. This is Slesinger’s second book and first collection of short stories. Known for her only novel,... Read More
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A Set of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery
by Smellie, William
London: D. Wilson, 1754. First Edition. The finest, most accurate, and largest obstetrical atlas published up to that time. Large folio (21 1/2" X 14 9/16"), 22 leaves of text, unsigned and unpaginated, errata on recto of last leaf, 39 engraved plates, numbered I-XXXIX. 19th century half morocco with gilt leather label to front board, endpapers renewed, but this is a very good and superior copy with no repair, and no stains. Rare (Norman says, "presumably issued in only... Read More
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The Skylark of Space
by Smith, E. E. [in collaboration with Garby, Lee]
Providence: Buffalo Book Company, 1946. First Edition. (preceded only by the novel’s appearance as a 3 part serial in Amazing Stories magazine). Smith’s first book Just 500 copies were published (Hadley’s 1947 edition is a reprint). Near fine in a very good dustjacket. Ref: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2–114, ”The archetypal pulp space opera...”. Although earlier snippets of science fiction, imaginary voyages, and futuristic military fiction, touched the concept of what is now called space opera, The Skylark of... Read More
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