(laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean as-new copy]. (color facsimiles) Catalogue, in French, issued by a gallery specializing in film posters. The introductory note, translated from the French, reads in part: "Now a recognized collector's item, the original cinema poster is more and more present in our environment. The evolution of the market has made generalist collections impossible. The choices are made more and more precise, new themes are researched, and the artistic quality is taken into account. We offer in this book a choice of posters classified by genre, as a po... View More...
(in Near Fine slipcase) [book itself is unworn, but slightly blemished on rear endpapers from removal of spot of sticky substance; slipcase shows some external surface-rubbing]. (color photographs and graphics) Large-format (approx. 9"x13") promotional book (in slipcase), issued in advance of the premiere of the fourth season of the FX series "American Horror Story," a self-contained 13-episode mini-series set in Jupiter, Florida, in 1952, and telling the story of the struggle fo survival of one of the last remaining freak shows in America. Several pages are devoted to each of the show's maj... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn copy, both hinges cracked but holding, front endpaper removed, rubbing/bumping at most corners, surface wear to covers, long-ago child owner's name and address in pencil on front pastedown]. (6 color plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Diana Serra Cary/"Baby Peggy" (signed with both names) on the half-title page; the inscription is undated, but the content places it as no earlier than circa 2003. A collection of two dozen fairy tales other children's fare, including some classic selections (from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brother Grimm, and the like) and more then-contemp... View More...
(pictorial boards) [wear to edges and corners all around (most pronounced at top of spine), bumping/softening to corners, a couple of shallow dents in top edge of front cover; book is still solidly-bound, with light age-toning to pages, and has a Christmas gift inscription (dated 1971) on the inside front cover]. (The Big Little Book, no. 1402) Series (cartoon illustrations) Chester Gump (son of Andy) accompanies an intrepid explorer on his attempt to circumnavigate the earth via the North and South Poles. View More...
(no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [light handling wear, very slight bumping to top corners, one-time owner's name (Epstein) in pencil at top of ffep, a couple of pages diagonally creased at bottom corners; spine lettering heavily rubbed, barely readable]. From the front matter: "It is a pleasure to present to our friends, on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Horace Mann School, this publication, in which is set forth the history and the educational philosophy of the Horace Mann School for Boys." By 1937, the school's notable alumni already included Val... View More...
[modest shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, small bookseller label (Jean French) on front pastedown; jacket somewhat edgeworn, crinkling and minor paper loss at top of spine, spine panel a bit faded]. (B&W photographs, tipped-on color plates) A profusely-illustrated visual guide to all parts of the well-appointed postwar French home (although a number of the examples are from American publications, e.g. Better Homes & Gardens), from the salon to the library to the bar, the kitchen, the bathroom -- you name it. Hundreds of black-and-white photographs and drawings, plus 28 tipped-on color pla... View More...
(embossed royal blue cloth; no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked but holding, otherwise a good sound copy; moderate wear to cloth at extremities, one-inch tear in cloth at top rear hinge, another tiny tear in cloth at top of spine; internally quite clean, with all plates present and in excellent condition]. (tipped-on color plates) An illustrated directory of prominent British judges and lawyers of the time, with each color plate accompanied by a one- or two-page biography. It starts at the top, with The Right Honourable Lord High Chancellor and The Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice of Engl... View More...
[nice tight clean book, showing no discernible wear; jacket has a few small nicks along the top edge (especially at top of spine, but with no significant paper loss), a little wrinkling at the top of the front panel, and a small tear at the bottom front hinge]. "This anonymous diary of a woman participant in the A.E.F. [American Expeditionary Force] is a peculiar human document that must stand with others of the great war. The writer who has woven her staccato series of ten years ago into a formal and continuous record will stir a thousand memories of Bordeaux, Tours, Paris, Le Mans, Malo, fo... View More...
(price-clipped?) [boards slightly bowed, top rear corner bumped; jacket clipped at both corners of front flap, spine slightly faded/rubbed, modest overall soiling]. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper ("To / James Donald, Esq. / with kindest / regards -- / 18th July, 1937") and SIGNED on the half-title page, presumably by the author. (The first initial of the signature is clearly a "T," but the remainder defies easy interpretation; possibly "Furillie." The real name of this author seems to be unrecorded; perhaps this signature is an important clue. See the second scanned image with this listin... View More...
[spine slightly turned, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, a couple of lightly bumped corners, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned, small chip at top of rear panel; jacket a teensy bit shorter than the book, apparently made that way]. "A novel of protest, written by a young apostle of revolt, against the present system of education in the colleges." Although the author is not identified by gender, the book seems to have a definite feminist slant, telling of the travails of a young graduate student teaching Freshman English whil... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn but still sound copy, a bit of bumping/fraying at all corners, spine cloth faded (lettering just about gone)]. Epistolary relationship/romance novel. View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid binding but much external wear, including fraying at several corners, spotting on front cover, etc.; internally quite clean, and firmly bound with the exception of one loose page]. (B&W photographs, plates, diagrams, plans, etc.) Bound volume of 24 monthly issues of this large-format architectural trade periodical (approx. 13" x 10-1/2", containing about 550 pages altogether), "devoted to the interests of architecture in materials of clay." The publication contains a wealth of information regarding architectural and construction practices of the period... View More...
[no discernible wear to book, but the previous owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase at the top of the front endpaper, and has also taped there the business card of the bookshop where he bought it; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of edgewear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Author Arthur (A.C.) Benson's "abiding passion was the diary which he began to keep in 1897," when he was about thirty-five years old. "This selection from the first few years is a marvellous evocation of Edwardian Britain, a series of twelve period pieces mixing London and the count... View More...
(laminated boards; no dust jacket) [moderate rubbing/scuffing to covers, top corners very slightly bumped]. (Contemporary Theatre Studies, Volume 5) Series "Beginning in the 1980s Edward Bond's dissociation with the established theatre was inevitable as many leading theatre, such as the RSC and the Royal National Theatre, produced plays antithetical to his belief in a new and useful theatre. Consequently, most of Bond's latest plays were not staged in London but given performances in the regions or abroad. This separation from the London theatre as a venue for his latest work along with ... View More...
[nice clean copy, a couple of short diagonal creases at upper right corner of front cover]. (B&W and color photographs, ads) The cover story is "Witty Women," profiling five sitcom writers: Yvette Lee Bowser, Lona Williams, Dana Savel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Eileen Conn. Featured articles: "Preston Sturges: A Screwball Centennial" by Devra Maza (along with the schedule of a Sturges retrospective then playing at the L.A. County Museum of Art) and "A Conversation with Stephen Schiff," screenwriter of the 1997 remake of LOLITA. Also in this issue: a column by Ernest... View More...
(1/4-bound, teal and rust cloth, gilt decoration on front cover; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [gift inscription on ffep from "Anne & George," the latter possibly George Conklin, although this is unconfirmed]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Privately- (and posthumously-) published memoir of Iola Schmidlapp Conklin (1872-1955) -- or, more properly, a partial memoir, since it covers only her early life and ends in 1891, following her courtship by (and proposal of marriage from) a young German banker -- which (per her son's Afterword, which briefly sketches the remaining 64 years of... View More...
(no dust jacket, likely as issued) [faint diagonal scrape across front cover (more distinctive in scanned image than it appears to the naked eye), otherwise no significant wear]. (line drawings, glued-in original calligraphy pg.) A history of printing, with special focus on the process of producing newspapers, compiled as a school project by a group of New Jersey students -- junior high-schoolers, to judge by the general tone and quality of the prose. The history itself is basic term-paper stuff (illustrated with crude drawings and maps), but the most interesting reading is the 7-page preface... View More...
[a bit of wear to bottom edges of book's covers; jacket very slightly wrinkled along top edge, tiny tear at top front hinge]. (100 color plates) One hundred examples, reproduced in color, of the art of Shanghai-born painter Cheng Shenghu. (All text is in Chinese, except: the title and publisher information (taken from the front cover and front jacket panel), a brief blurb on the front jacket flap, the list of editorial board members, the introduction by Huang Chunyao, and the titles (captions) of the individual paintings.) From the jacket flap: "Mr. Cheng Shenghu was born in May 1960 in... View More...
DETAILS NEEDED. Catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of the graphic work produced by George Grosz during his years in Berlin, from 1916 to 1932. The text of this edition is in Catalan -- appropriate enough, given that the exhibition was held in València, although my observation is that the regular Spanish-language edition is a good deal more common. But who cares?: given that there doesn't appear to have ever been an English-language edition of this publication, what monolinguists like myself are left with are the illustrations, and they are magnificent: over 150 of them (in black & w... View More...
(half-bound, black cloth and black textured boards, with gilt spine and front cover lettering; no dust jacket) [some wear evident at all corners, including slight exposure of boards at several corners, some modest loss of binding material at spine ends; front hinge a little weak but still intact]. (one halftone plate with tissue guard) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by the honoree of the commemorated event, Dr. Gurdon W. Russell, dated "Hartford, March 24, 1888." The rather lengthy inscription covers about half the page, and conveys the author's "kind regards & pleasant remembrances of the... View More...
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