The Complete Wisconsin / Warner Brothers Screenplay Series
by Balio, Tino
(Madison, Wisconsin): University of Wisconsin Press, 1979. First printings all. Very good plus to near fine overall.. Full 21-volume set of this series dedicated to in-depth analysis of Hollywood screenwriting in the 1930s and '40s. Developed using the Warner Brothers Films archive at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, titles in this complete 21-volume series include: THE JAZZ SINGER (1927), LITTLE CAESAR (1931), THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931), I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932),... Read More
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BINDWEED
by Balk, Christianne
Iowa City, Iowa: Labrador Press, 1983. First printing. Very good plus.. Scarce signed limited edition of these seven poems by seven women poets, additionally inscribed by contributing poet and binder/designer Balk to American poet Stanley Plumly, her teacher at the Iowa Writer's Workshop - one of just 36 copies. Other contributing poets include Lisa Lewis, Moira Belcher, Jane Eklund, Laurel Black, Connie Corzilius, and Cindy Nichols. Balk's 1985 solo collection, also titled BINDWEED after the same poem included... Read More
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LOST CITY OF STONE
by Ballinger, Bill S.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Ballinger's investigation of Nan Madol, a Micronesian "monolithic stone corpse of a city" identified as a remnant of the lost continent Mu by James Churchward and his followers. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth. In original unclipped ($8.95) dust jacket. 192 pages. Mild edgewear, light toning and faint soil to jacket.
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THE JEFFERSON LETTERS
by Ballinger, John
(Richmond, VA): (The Dietz Press), 2001. Fine in fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of Ballinger's second murder mystery set in the fast-paced, high-stakes, violence-ridden world of American antiquarian book and manuscript collecting. 8'' x 5.5''. Original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. In original pictorial dust jacket by David Willis. 225, [1] pages. Inscribed by Ballinger on front free endpaper from "one ex North Carolinian to a present one." Additionally signed by Ballinger on title page. Only minor edgewear.
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CENSUS
by Ball, Jesse
New York: Ecco, 2018. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed special first printing of this surreal tale of a very unusual census undertaken by a dying man and his disabled son - issued with slipcase as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names... Read More
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IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
by Ball, John
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina. This book and the landmark film adaptation directly engaged with the civil rights movement, then in full swing. According to director Norman Jewison, he put "the focus on the relationship between Virgil Tibbs, the black detective from Philadelphia... Read More
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SLEEPY RIVER
by Bandes, Hanna; Winter, Jeanette
New York: Philomel Books, 1993. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this peaceful bedtime story about an Indigenous mother and son's trip home in their canoe. Jeanette Winter's vibrant colors and flat shapes bring to mind American folk art. 8.5'' x 9''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Inscribed by Bandes to front flyleaf, "For Brunice and Vida Cole, / who will never stop... Read More
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A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Very good in good plus jacket.. First edition - in the rare original dust jacket - of Bangs's comic fantasy on the afterlife of literary characters and their makers. These twelve collected episodes introduce Bangs's dead poets society, a floating fraternity of the dead encompassing historical and the fictional alike, from Shakespeare to Hamlet and Baron Munchausen to Beau Brummel. A HOUSEBOAT was followed by three more books in the same metaphysical... Read More
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R. HOLMES & CO
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Very good minus.. Rather scarce first edition of Bangs's double pastiche of Doyle and Hornung, featuring the exploits of Raffles Holmes, offspring of both his namesakes. 6.5'' x 4.5''. Original blue and red pictorial cloth. Illustrated with frontispiece and five additional plates by Sydney Adamson. 230, [2] pages. This copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his emboss to front free endpaper. Hinges cracked, showing webbing,... Read More
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JACK AND THE CHECK BOOK
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. Very good plus.. Inscribed first edition of this satirical short-story collection with a financial theme, including the eponymous Progressive-Era riff on the classic fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. 7'' x 4.75''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in white, orange, and darker green. Illustrated by Albert Levering in black and white. 236 pages. Inscribed by Bangs in ink on front fly leaf: "To my friend / John Hawkesworth, / these tales of... Read More
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THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
by Bangs, John Kendrick; Newell, Peter
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First printing. Very good.. First edition of this comic pastiche, in which a host of ghosts and literary constructs - Shakespeare, Boswell, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes among them - seek after their house-boat, formerly lost on the River Styx. 6.5'' x 4.25''. Original tan pictorial cloth, with green, red, and black image of Captain Kidd stamped on front board. Gilt-lettered spine. BAL state B. 204 pages, followed by [4]... Read More
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THE BICYCLERS : And Three Other Farces
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Very good.. Inscribed first edition - presented to American publisher Robert Howard Russell, who issued a number of Bangs's children's books from 1891 to 1902. Founded in 1888, publisher R.H. Russell specialized in children's and illustrated books; Bangs published illustrated children's books with them, alongside such authors and illustrators as L. Frank Baum (A NEW WONDERLAND) and Maxfield Parrish (KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK). Among Bangs's publications with Russell were TIDDLEYWINK TALES... Read More
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THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF: The Stories of Russell Banks
by Banks, Russell
(New York): HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. Fine in about fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this collection of stories by the O. Henry and Best American Short Story Awards winner. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original black boards in unclipped ($27.50) pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. 506 pages. Inscribed by Banks on title page. Hint of a crease to jacket rear panel. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout.
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THE STORY OF THE TEASING MONKEY
by Bannerman, Helen
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Very good.. Very scarce first US edition of this little tale of a mischievous monkey named Jacko. 5.25'' x 3.5''. Original quarter brown cloth, color pictorial paper boards. Printed in the "Dumpy" format, on one side of each leaf only. Illustrated by Bannerman with full-page color plates throughout. 142, [2] pages (illustrations included in page count). Faint erasure lines to first leaf. Binding with some soil and general wear, some subtle... Read More
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ANCIENT LIGHT
by Banville, John
(London): Viking / Penguin, 2012. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Banville's novel, the conclusion of a trilogy whose first two books were ECLIPSE and SHROUD. 9'' x 6''. Original black cloth with copper-lettered spine. In original unclipped (£16.99) dust jacket. 244, [2] pages. Signed by Banville on title page. Minor edgewear.
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RUSSKIY YAZYK V KARTINKAKH [RUSSIAN IN PICTURES]
by Barannikov, I.V.; Varkovitskaja, L.A.
Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1964. Very good.. First edition primer for non-Russian speaking children in the Soviet Union, illustrated in color on every page. 10.25'' x 8''. Original color pictorial paper boards with yellow cloth spine. Illustrated in vivid color throughout. 142 pages. Some shelfwear and rubbing, a bit of bumping to corners. Interior with faint toning, small bump to bottom corner of some leaves. Bright. Shows well.
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HYMNS FOR CHILDREN, IN PROSE
by Barbauld, Mrs. [Anna Laetitia Barbauld]
New Haven: S. Babcock, 1843. Very good plus.. First edition thus, from New Haven published Babcock, of this illustrated collection of hymns by one of the most famous children's writers of the 19th century. HYMNS FOR CHILDREN was "immensely influential in [its] time; [it] was reprinted throughout the nineteenth century... and [its] effect on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class people, who learned to read from them, is incalculable" (McCarthy, 196). We locate only one holding of this edition... Read More
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Autograph manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE
by Barclay, Florence L.
n.p.: n.p., 1910. Very good.. Original draft, entirely written out by hand, of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY. While Florence Barclay was working on this manuscript, she was in the midst of a life-changing experience: her romance novel THE ROSARY had just become one of the biggest blockbuster novels of the Edwardian era. It was not only a runaway bestseller for years on end, but also parodied by PUNCH, made into at least five films,... Read More
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FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE AUTUMN
by Barker, Cicely
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Very good in very good jacket.. First US edition of this popular seasonal book with illustrations and verses of fairies that anthropomorphize various plants, from blackberry to nightshade. 5.5'' x 4''. Original brown pictorial boards with color pictorial paste-on. In original color pictorial dust jacket (flaps blank). Blue pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with beautiful color plates and a couple black-and-white images, all by Barker. Rather soiled and foxed, no repairs or tears, still... Read More
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THE END OF ELFINTOWN
by Barlow, Jane; Housman, Laurence
London: Macmillan & Co, 1894. Very good plus.. First edition of these Irish verses about fairies, with beautiful Art Nouveau designs by Housman carrying distinct notes of Beardsley's style. Housman scholar Rodney K. Engen calls this Housman's "first important fairy illustration commission" and ranks it "among his best known work" - though such avant-garde fairies came as a bit of a shock to a Victorian audience used to twee Little Folk, with one contemporary review calling Housman's versions... Read More
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SHARP TEETH
by Barlow, Toby
(New York): Harper Collins, 2008. First edition. Near fine.. Inscribed first US printing of this tale of warring werewolf gangs in Los Angeles. SHARP TEETH exhibits an air of the classical in its verse format: think THE ILIAD, but set in LA and with werewolves. A winning combination if we've ever heard one. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black and white and red pictorial boards. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. 312 pages. Inscribed by... Read More
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THE BOOK OF REPULSIVE WOMEN
by Barnes, Djuna; Mayer, Hans
[n.p.]: (Hans Meyer), 1972. Near fine.. Handmade artist-book "transcription" of the 1948 chapbook reprint (suppressed by Barnes) of her first book - a landmark of lesbian verse - lovingly recreated with collaged elements by the German critic Hans Mayer for presentation to Barnes. Originally published in 1915, Barnes later dismissed and tried to suppress later editions of REPULSIVE WOMEN. However, it is now rightly viewed as a landmark of lesbian verse. This edition was transcribed by Mayer for... Read More
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NIGHTWOOD
by Barnes, Djuna; [Hans Mayer]; [Wolfgang Hildesheimer]
New York: New Directions, 1961. Near fine in good only jacket.. Inscribed later edition of Barnes's great Modernist classic, an association copy with Barnes's handwritten postcard to literary critic Hans Mayer, with several letters and translations sent from Mayer to Barnes. In the early 1970s, Mayer wrote extensively to Barnes, assisted in negotiations with Suhrkamp Verlag, her German publisher, and visited her in person at least once. This copy was inscribed to Jack Oldfield, with whom Mayer co-translated... Read More
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ENGLAND, ENGLAND
by Barnes, Julian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket.. Signed first printing of Barnes's postmodern novel, provocatively suggesting that England might be a real place, as well as a run-down amusement park and far country of the mind - shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped (£15.99) blue pictorial dust jacket. 266 pages. Original printed card advertising a Julian Barnes/Ian McEwan reading laid in. Book... Read More
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HARDWARE
by Barnes, Linda
New York: Delacorte, 1995. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this high-tech (for the 90s) mystery, in which the hardboiled, cab-driving PI Carlotta Carlyle takes her business online with unexpectedly deadly consequences - signed in the year of publication. Linda Barnes's fast-talking, sexy PI Carlotta Carlyle is Boston's answer to Kinsey Millhone. 9.25'' x 6''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 338 pages. Inscribed by Barnes to title page "For Kathleen,... Read More
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