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6901 |
THURBER, JAMES Alarms and Diversions
New York Harper 1957
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, James Thurber to his wife's opthalmologist, ÒMerry Christmas to Graham Clark, James and Helen Thurber.Ó Fine in a lightly used dust jacket.
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650.00 USD
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6902 |
THURBER, JAMES Fables For Our Time
New York Harper 1940
First Edition. Illustrated by James Thurber. A wonderfully humorous and satirical look at the complexities of life in modern times. Near fine in a very good lightly dustsoiled dust jacket with a couple of small chips and tears.
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200.00 USD
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6903 |
THURBER, JAMES The Last Flower. A Parable in Pictures
New York Harper & Bros. 1939
First Edition. Oblong format, 11Ó x 8Ó. Illustrated throughout with drawings by James Thurber. A witty and somber tale about human nature. Very good slightly used and dust soiled copy with some edge wear in a lightly used dust jacket with some minor fading and dust soiling and with some small chips and tears.
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85.00 USD
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6904 |
THURBER, JAMES (PERELMAN, S.J) The Great Quillow
New York Harcourt Brace 1944
First Edition. Signed presentation copy from the author James Thurber to Abby and Adam Perelman, the daughter and son of the great American humorist, author, and screenwriter S.J. Perelman, with Abby's young signature in pencil on the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author: ÒFor Adam and Abby with love and kisses, James Thurber.Ó With ÒAbbie [sic] & Adam PerlemannÓ in pencil in Adam's hand on the front free endpaper above Thurber's signed inscription. A lovely children's book illustrated in color by Doris Lee. With some spotting to the cloth and a bit of darkening to the spine and with some minor edge wear in a very good bright used price-clipped dust jacket. Sidney Joseph Perelman, popularly known as S. J. Perelman (1904 Ð 1979), was one of the most widely read literary icons of the Golden Age of American Humor. His New Yorker pieces, fiction, and collected essays are legendary for their biting wit and mastery of caricature and language. Off and on throughout his career he worked in film, notably as a contributing screenwriter on such Hollywood comedy classics as Monkey Business and Horse Feathers with the Marx Brothers, Mike Todd's Around the World in 80 Days (for which he won an Oscar), co-creator of the hit Broadway musical comedy One Touch of Venus starring Mary Martin, as well as many publishing (including twenty-one books), radio, television, and travel writing ventures. He was the brother-in-law of the writer Nathanael West with whom he shared a close relationship up until West's death in a car accident in 1940 at age thirty-seven, and whose memory and literary reputation he devoted himself to maintaining. His inner circle of literary and show-business friends and associates included F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Marx Brothers, Mike Todd, Harold Ross, T.S. Eliot, Al Hirschfeld, Bennett Cerf, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Fred Allen, Kaufman and Hart, Ogden Nash, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, etc. S.J. Perelman was a gifted man with conflicting desires living and working in complex times. While his writing brought much laughter to the world, his personal life reflected his restless spirit and inner struggles with his relationships to his family, friends, and intimates. Dorothy Herrmann ends her wonderful biography of Perelman with these insights: ÒÉhis genius was uniqueÉhighly literate and inventive, yet cranky and irreverentÉperhaps no other modern writer was willing to match his commitment to wordsÉWhether this was a rare gift or a feverish obsession is unimportant in the last analysis. For he made us forget for a brief time our own pain and sorrows Ð and enter a wild, wonderful realm of fantasy that was sublime.Ó
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1500.00 USD
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6905 |
THYNNE, MOLLY The Crime at the Noah's Ark
London Thomas Nelson 1948
Reprint edition. Very good copy with some of the front free endpaper torn away which had a gift inscription, part of which remains, and with some slight edge wear in a very good lightly dust soiled price-clipped dust jacket with some tiny nicks and tears and a vintage Christmas stamp affixed to the front flap.
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37.50 USD
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6907 |
TIFFANY, LOUIS COMFORT & CHARLES DE KAY The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany - By Charles De Kay
Garden City Doubleday Page & Company 1914
First Edition. Privately printed limited to 492 copies printed on Japan vellum paper. Designed by Walter Gilliss and printed at the Country Life Press. Illustrated with 21 tipped-in color plates and 42 photogravures with tissue guards printed with the descriptions of the illustrations. With the bookplate of Louis C. Tiffany. The chapters include ÒTiffany the Painter,Ó Tiffany the Maker of Stained Glass,Ó ÒFavrile Glass,Ó ÒEnamels and Jewelry,Ó ÒTextiles and Hand Stuffs,Ó ÒA Decorator of Interiors,Ó :A Builder of Homes,Ó ÒAs Landscape Architect.Ó The huge production costs in printing the book were underwritten by Tiffany, who used the volume virtually as a calling card trade catalogue to be given to the wealthy. This copy has a beautiful modern custom full red ostriche leather designer binding by the Dragonfly Bindery Studio enclosed in a matching ostrich and cloth red velvet lined clamshell box. This large folio book has a gilt-stamped and beautifully tooled spine with wonderful Tiffanyesque color printed Oriental silk doublures at the front and rear interior boards. A superb piece of bookmaking and binding.
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6000.00 USD
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6908 |
TIGHE, HARRY Autograph Signature of British Author Harry Tighe
1939
Original autograph signature of British author Harry Tighe, inscribed to British autograph collector, L.E.L. Downing, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4Ó x 3Ó piece of paper. Inscribed: ÒTo L.E.L. Downing, Harry Tighe, June 1939.Ó Fine. Harry Tighe is the author of ÔThe Queen of Unrest,' ÔA Man of Sympathy,' ÔWomen of the Hills,' ÔLife's Antagonisms,' ÒThe Sheep Path,' etc.
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50.00 USD
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6910 |
TINTORETTO (JACOPO ROBUSTI, named Il TINTORETTO, Venezia, 1518-1594) Original Autograph Manuscript Contract Signed Commissioning the Great Renaissance Italian Painter, Tintoretto, to Create Two Paintings, Subscribed and Signed Twice by Tintoretto
Venice In folio (31 x 20.5 cm). 4 pages 1572
Original Autograph Manuscript Contract Signed Commissioning the Great Renaissance Italian Painter, Tintoretto, to Create Two Paintings, Subscribed and Signed Twice by Tintoretto. Venice: In folio (31 x 20.5 cm). 4 pages, 1572. This original manuscript contract consists of 26 lines, the last 7 of them written in the hand of the great painter Tintoretto. On the first page, the contract is twice signed by the painter, followed by two blanks, title on the last page. The first 19 lines, of the contract are in a different hand, in the last seven lines the subscription is by the celebrated painter, and a 4 line summary in the last page. One minor stain, two small holes in the 23rd line from ink corrosion, with loss of two initials. Venice, February the 6th and June the 25th, 1572. A superb historic document in which the Procurator Hyeronimus (Jerome) De Mula, commissions two paintings for his bedroom. The painter agrees to create the history of Lazarus's resurrection, and the other to be Moses receiving the law. The frames are to be made at Tintoretto's expense and that the two paintings are to have a total of 40 personages disposed in the way that "the excellent master will find suitable." Tintoretto is to paint them in his "finest colors and ultramarine blues of the best quality." Written in the Venetian dialect which translates in part, "Io Jacopo Tentoreto state and promise what is said above. I. Iacomo, receive as an account 20, that is twenty, ducati. (written on February the 6th). Then on June 11th, he writes ÒIo Iacomo Tentoreto receive as final and total payment of the above mentioned paintings 25 ducati that is twenty five.Ó Tintoretto was one of the leading painters of the Italian Renaissance. His autograph material is exceptionally rare. Original autograph manuscript material relating to the business of art in such an early period is especially rare in private hands. The most recent major work on Tintoretto in English is Tom Nichols's Tintoretto - Tradition and Identity (London: Reaktion Books, 1999), and in the book refers to this commission and this specific document in several places based on a 19th century description of it (Nichols did not see this original). One of the two resulting paintings from this document, ÒRaising of LazarusÓ is beautifully reproduced in full color on page 108.
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75000.00 USD
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6911 |
TIOMKIN, DIMITRI Please Don't Hate Me
Garden City Doubleday 1959
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Dimitri Tiomkin, in the year of publication: ÒTo Barney Robbing, with best wishes, from Dimitri Tiomkin. Hollywood, 1959.Ó The great film composer's autobiography, best known for scoring such classic films as High Noon, The High and the Mighty, Lost Horizon, Red River, Giant, Rio Bravo, Shadow of a Doubt, Duel in the Sun, The Guns of Navarrone, etc. Illustrated. Very good copy with some minor offestting to the endpapers and a touch of edge wear and spotting to the cloth in a very good lightly used price-clipped dust jacket.
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650.00 USD
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6912 |
TIOMKIN, DIMITRI Please Don't Hate Me
Garden City Doubleday 1959
First Edition. "To Mr. & Mrs. Davidson, with sincere best wishes and admiration, from, Dimitri Tiomkin / Hollywood February 8, 1959." Some offsetting to a few pages, minor pen scoring to a few pages at rear, else very good in a very good dust jacket with some chipping at top and bottom of spine. Edna Davidson run a noted literary salon in Los Angeles. A scarce memoir signed -- "the gay confessions of an unpredictable musician" -- by the great Hollywood composer, who did the scores for HIGH NOON, THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, LOST HORIZON, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, DUEL IN THE SUN, GIANT, RIO BRAVO, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, RED RIVER and many more films.
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485.00 USD
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6919 |
TOLIVER, COL. RAYMOND F. & TREVOR J. CONSTABLE Fighter General. The Life of Adolph Galland (ISBN: 0962551902)
Zephyr Cove, NV AmPress Publishing 1990
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the authors: ÒTo my pal Art Neff - With fondest Aloha & warmest appreciation, Trevor Constable.Ó and ÒTo my friend Art Neff with much appreciation for your efforts to produce this book! With warmest personal wishes and HORRIDO! Raymond F. Toliver.Ó Also signed and inscribed by the book's subject, former German fighter ace and airman, Adolpho Galland: ÒTo Art and the lovely Marvine, all the best. Yours, Dolpho. 14, March 1990.Ó Galland has also signed his name in full ÒAdolph GallandÓ at his frontispiece portrait. Laid in is a color photograph of Adolph Galland and his lovely wife Heidi, signed by each of them, taken at a social function. Also laid in is a typed letter to Arthur Neff on ÔInternational Book Marketing Limited' letterhead, dated 4, March 1991, briefly referring to ÔFighter General.' Illustrated. Introduction by Gen. James H. Doolittle, USAF Ret. Fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. The fascinating story of Adolph Galland's military career during World War II as a gifted and dedicated fighter ace and one of the principle architects of the German air force, his years spent as a POW, and then, in post-war time, as a peacetime businessman.
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450.00 USD
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6920 |
TOLIVER, COLONEL RAYMOND F. & TREVOR J. CONSTABLE Fighter Aces
New York Macmillan 1965
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Col. Raymond Toliver, to the famous military aviator, Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, Commanding Officer of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, U.S. Air Service known as America's ÒAce of AcesÓ in World War I. Inscribed: ÒTo ÔEddie' Rickenbacker, with warmest regards and best wishes. Ray Toliver, Washington D.C., 2 November 1965.Ó Additionally signed and inscribed by the co-author, Trevor Constable, on the half-title: ÒTo ÔCaptain Eddie' Rickenbacker, Immortal inspiration to generations yet unborn. Trevor J. Constable.Ó Laid in is a blank, unsigned personal bank check from the account of William F. Rickenbacker, the son of Edward V. Rickenbacker, from the Bay Bank in Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts. On the verso of the check is a typed note reading: ÒJohn C. Meyer (p. 338) went on to become commanding general of SAC. He was commander of the base at Lockbourne (Ohio) when we rededicated it and named it Rickenbacker AFB in 1974. He sat next to EVR [Edward V. Rickenbacker] in 1944, I think it was, or 1945, in Columbus, at the world premiere of the movie ÔCaptain Eddie'.Ó The reference to John C. Meyer is to a section at the end of Fighter Aces, listing flying aces of World War II, with a special additional note indicating that he was among the few pilots who also scored victories in the Korean War. The 1945 film, Captain Eddie, told the story of Rickenbacker's life and aviation achievements, and starred Fred MacMurray in the title role, with Charles Bickford as William Rickenbacker. Illustrated. Near fine bright copy with a hint of edge wear in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with a faint dampstain to the bottom edge of the rear panel, barely affecting the cloth. Fighter Aces tells the story of the great military fliers who have gained the rank of ÔAce' by scoring five or more kills in air-to-air combat. Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker is pictured on the front cover.
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650.00 USD
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6921 |
TOLKIEN, J.R.R The Silmarillion
London George Allen & Unwin 1977
First Edition. Publisher saleman's dummy copy used in advance of the book's publication. This sample book prints the half-title, title pages, copyright page and the first 32 pages of the text followed by a couple of hundred blank pages to fill out the book. With a long blank folded sheet at the rear as a mockup for the map that would be in the finished book. Bound in blue cloth with the stamping and decoration the same as that of eventually used in the finished book. Fine copy in a fine proof state dust jacket.
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1350.00 USD
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6922 |
TOLKIEN, J.R.R The Return of the King
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1955
First Edition - American, First Printing. Near fine in a bright attractive dust jacket with a few very minor mends by a paper conservationist. The basis of the acclaimed Peter Jackson film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year.
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3500.00 USD
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6923 |
TOLKIEN, J.R.R The Lord of the Rings
London HarperCollins 2001
Special Limited Edition - Cannes Film Festival. Special paperbound edition given to selected individuals at the Cannes Film Festival showing of film director Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring. The front cover has printed: ÒSPECIAL LIMITED EDITION - THE LORD OF THE RINGS - J.R.R. TOLKIEN - CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2001.Ó The information is on the rear cover as well as ÔEXCLUSIVE EDITION - NOT FOR SALEÓ and the film logo of the film's production company, NEW LINE CINEMA, is also printed. A few minor nicks, else a fine unread copy. Very uncommon.
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300.00 USD
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6925 |
TOLKIN, MICHAEL & ANTHONY MINGHELLA Nine. Screenplay by Michael and Anthony Minghella. Based on the Broadway musical ÔNine,' Book by Arthur Kopit, Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston, Adapted from the Italian by Mario Fratti. With the Songbook from the Film, Including an Introduction by Maury Yeston
Los Angeles Relativity Media / The Weinstein Co. 2009
First Edition. Small format, paperbound, 5 1/2Ó x 8 1/2Ó. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay. Shooting script for the film, ÔNine,' by Michael and Anthony Minghella, based on the Broadway musical ÔNine,' book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, Adapted from the Italian by Mario Fratti. Fine in printed wrappers. With the ÔSongbook' (19 pages, 8 1/2 x 11Ó) from the film, which includes an introduction by Maury Yeston, ÔThe Reinvention of Nine from Stage to Screen.' Fine. ÔNine' was directed by Rob Marshall and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, and Stacy Ferguson. The film tells the story of famous film director Guido Contini (Day-Lewis) as he struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, engaging in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
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55.00 USD
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6926 |
TOLKIN, MICHAEL & ANTHONY MINGHELLa Nine. Screenplay by Michael and Anthony Minghella. Based on the Broadway musical ÔNine,' Book by Arthur Kopit, Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston, Adapted from the Italian by Mario Fratti. With the Songbook from the Film, Including an Introduction by Maury Yeston
Los Angeles Relativity Media / The Weinstein Co. 2009
First Edition. Small format, paperbound, 5 1/2Ó x 8 1/2Ó. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay. Shooting script for the film, ÔNine,' by Michael and Anthony Minghella, based on the Broadway musical ÔNine,' book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, Adapted from the Italian by Mario Fratti. Fine in printed wrappers. With the ÔSongbook' (19 pages, 8 1/2 x 11Ó) from the film, which includes an introduction by Maury Yeston, ÔThe Reinvention of Nine from Stage to Screen.' Fine. ÔNine' was directed by Rob Marshall and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, and Stacy Ferguson. The film tells the story of famous film director Guido Contini (Day-Lewis) as he struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, engaging in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
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55.00 USD
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6928 |
TOLKIN, NEIL The Emperor's Club. Screenplay by Neil Tolkin. Based on the Story by Ethan Canin
Los Angeles Universal / Beacon Communications 2001
First Edition. Specially produced screenplay made for select members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in conjunction with the Golden Globe Awards. Signed by the author / screenwriter, Neil Tolkin, based on the short story ÒThe Palace ThiefÓ by Ethan Canin. 116 page shooting script for the film, The Emperor's Club, directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Kevin Kline, Rob Morrow, Edward Herrmann, Emile Hirsch, and Embeth Davidtz. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Fine copy. The story of an esteemed and tightly wound Classics professor (Kline) whose life and work are challenged to the breaking point by a bright and provocative student (Hirsch).
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150.00 USD
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6929 |
TOLMAN, HILDEGARDE Hero by Proxy
New York Little, Brown 1942
First Edition. Near fine bright copy with just a faint trace of edge wear in a very good bright dust jacket with a couple of shallow chips, a 1/4Ó spot and slight darkening to the rear panel, and a few tiny rubbed spots to the spine. The front panel of the dust jacket is a dramatic illustration of a man standing precariously on a ledge against a high and steep rock face with an upturned car below him.
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35.00 USD
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6930 |
TOLSTOY, LEO Resurrection. Illustrated with Scenes from the Motion Picture
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1927
Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the silent film starring Dolores Del Rio and Rod La Rocque. A romantic drama in which a Russian prince falls in love with a beautiful peasant girl. Rear hinge cracked, else about fine in a very good chipped and torn dust jacket with slight sunning. The front panel of the jacket is a vivid color painting of Del Rio and La Rocque in Russian costume, gazing into each others' eyes.
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55.00 USD
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6931 |
TOLSTOY, LEO The Cossacks. Illustrated with Scenes from the Motion Picture
London Readers Library 1928
Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the British release of the MGM silent film starring John Gilbert and Renee Adoree. Gilbert plays a reluctant Cossack who learns the meaning of valor in his fights against the marauding Turks and finally asserts himself and steals away his true love (Adoree) from her betrothed because he let his pride almost lose her. Very good in an internally repaired dust jacket with a wraparound color painting of Gilbert in Cossack garb on horseback kissing Adoree goodbye.
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50.00 USD
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6932 |
TOLSTOY, LEO, MAXIM GORKY, ANTON CHEKOV (SHAW, ARTIE) Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays. Edited by Oliver M. Sayler. Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch by Count Alexei Tolstoy, The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, The Cherry Orchard by Anton Tchekhoff, The Three Sisters by Anton Tchekhoff, Uncle Vanya by Anton Tchekhoff. English Translation by Jennie Covan
New York Brentano's 1923
Later printing. From the library of the great jazz musician, composer, and bandleader Artie Shaw - with his autograph signature and bookplate. Also with pencil signature of Shaw's second wife, Mrgaret Allen to whom he was married from 1934 - 1937. On the page after the title is a signature of a previous owner. With a minor pencil notation in an unknown hand on the ÔCast of Characters' page for Tolstoy's play Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch. Very good lightly used copy with a touch of fading to the spine and a few tiny tears to the cloth at the top and bottom of the spine without dust jacket. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (1910 - 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, started out his career in music at thirteen as a saxophone player and switched to the clarinet at sixteen. He gained experience and skill while on the road at a young age which lead to steady work in the 30s as a session musician and performing with various bands and orchestras and on radio. His first critical acclaim came with his performance of ÒInterlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935. And during the swing era, Shaw's big band enjoyed such enduring hits like Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," "Back Bay Shuffle,Ó "Moonglow,Ó "Rosalie," "Frenesi," and "Summit Ridge Drive." He was known for his innovation both in his musical arrangements and for becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer, Billie Holiday, in 1938 to tour the then segregated southern United States. Throughout his career he worked with many of the great jazz musicians and vocalists of his day, including Helen Forrest, Mel Torme, drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough, guitarists Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff. A charismatic and complicated man, Shaw was married eight times, most notably to actresses Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Doris Dowling, and Evelyn Keyes, Betty Kern, the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern, and ÔForever Amber' author Kathleen Winsor. In 2004, he was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his musical career and accomplishments, he is the author of an autobiography, ÔThe Trouble With Cinderella: An Outline of Identity,' three short novels; ÔI Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead!,' a collection of short stories, ÔThe Best of Intentions and Other Stories,' and an autobiographical novel titled ÔThe Education of Albie Snow,' which, sadly never made it to publication.
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150.00 USD
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6933 |
TOMALIN, CLAIRE Mrs. Jordan's Profession. The Actress and the Prince
New York Knopf 1995
First Edition - American. Dora Jordan was a comic actress of the late eighteenth century who was swept off her feet by Prince William, the Duke of Clarence, third son of King George III. She lived with him for over twenty years, bore him ten children, and due to the pressure of the Royal Family, was thrown out and estranged from her children so that Prince William could marry a German Princess. Film director Peter Bogdanovich's copy with his autograph signature and stamp. Fine in dust jacket.
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45.00 USD
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6934 |
TOMASI, GINO The Lake Dwellings of Lake Ledro
Trento, Italy Societa de Scienze Naturali del Trentino 1982
First Edition. Paperbound. Text in English. Illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine with a hint of use in printed wrappers. An archaeological study of a prehistorical lake-dwelling culture on the shores of Italy's Lake Ledro.
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50.00 USD
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6935 |
TOMLINSON, H.L All Our Yesterdays
London Heinemann 1930
First Edition. This copy belonged to T.E. Lawrence, with the Clouds Hill book label. This is the limited edition copy number 1019 of 1025 signed by H.L. Tomlinson (the last 25 were for Tomlinson's use). Very good plus copy enclosed in a handsome morocco and cloth clamshell box. In a February 19th, 1930 published letter to editor A.S. Frere, Lawrence remarked on his enthusiasm for Tomlinson selecting him for Ò...my entirely uncritical admiration, as man and nature and mind - and particularly pen...I am a pluralist, a whole-hogger, in all his words and works and ÔAll Our Yesterdays' is a big thing among them.Ó A recorded letter to Lawrence, dated March 19th, 1930, noted that in All My Yesterdays, my ghosts had to be laid. I was thinking of you, often enough, when I was writing it. There is a notebook here with reflections from the ÔPillars'. I pondered that book of yours...There you were, once on a time, no doubt of it, involved in a mess you didn't make. The evil that others had done caught you, & you faced it for them - was crucified, if you like. That was I wanted to show....Ó A major piece of World War One Literature in an historic association copy.
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4500.00 USD
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6938 |
TOOTSIE - THE FILM Original Program for the Film ÔTootsie'
Los Angeles Columbia Pictures 1982
First Edition. Single page, two-sided, 8 3/4Ó x 11 3/4Ó. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film, ÔTootsie' for reviewers and members of the motion picture industry, specifically for Academy Award consideration. The film was directed by Sidney Pollack and starred Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, George Gaynes, and Geena Davis. Fine in printed wrappers.
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22.50 USD
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TOPPER - THE FILM Original Set of Thirty-Six Drawings from the Hal Roach Studio for the ÔTopper Car' Custom-Created for the Film
c.1937
Original set of thirty-six drawings from the Hal Roach Studio for the ÔTopper Car' which was custom-created for the classic screwball comedy film ÔTopper' starring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, and Alan Mowbray. The drawings are on vellum sheets ranging in size from 13 3/4Ó x 8 1/4Ó to 13 3/4Ó x 16 1/2Ó and show aspects and lines of the car with various perspectives and details. With occasional notations, including one presumably in the hand of Tony Gerrity, one of the designers at Bohman & Schwartz which reads: ÒWalt - am going to look at Barker's trucks this afternoon - be back around 3:30. Tony.Ó Includes an original illustrated brochure for the Cord automobile which was the initial inspiration for the car used in the film, but after researching the matter determined that it wasn't large enough to accommodate camera equipment and stunt drivers. With the original brown envelope (15Ó x 10 1/4Ó) which has ÒF. 17 - Topper, Automobile SketchesÓ written at the top right corner. The Cord brochure is in fine condition in printed wrappers and all of the drawings are in uniformly near fine only slightly used condition with creases from folding and occasional unobtrusive holes from removed staples. ÔTopper' tells the delightful story of a fun-loving adventuresome couple George and Marion Kerby (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett) who are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts and set about lightening up the rather conventional life of their friend, bank president Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), much to the consternation of his wife Clara (Billie Burke). The ÔTopper Car' driven by the Kerbys was custom built by the Bohman & Schwartz Co. using a 1936 Buick Roadmaster chassis.
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TORME, MEL It Wasn't All Velvet
New York Viking 1988
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Mel Torme, to actress Anna Lee: ÒFor Anna, With love, admiration, and great gratitude. Always, Mel.Ó Illustrated. About fine with a faint spot on the foreedge in a near fine dust jacket with just a hint of fading to the spine. The jazz singer's autobiography. Anna Lee was a British born actress who appeared in many films, including Seven Sinners with Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne, My Life with Caroline opposite Ronald Colman, John Ford's How Green Was My Valley and Fort Apache, etc., as well as playing Lila Quartermain on two popular television soap operas General Hospital (1978 to 2004) and Port Charles (1997 to 2003).
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TORME, MEL My Singing Teachers. Reflections on Singing Popular Music
New York Oxford 1994
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Mel Torme: ÒTo Dick - Regards! Mel Torme.Ó Illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The great jazz vocalist's perspectives on American popular music, featuring commentary on such noted singers and song-writers as Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Ethel Waters, Nat ÔKing' Cole, Helen Forest, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and more.
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TOWHIDI, JULIETTE & TIM FIRTH Calendar Girls - Screenplay by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth
Los Angeles Harbour Pictures / Touchstone Pictures 2003
First Edition. Specially produced screenplay made for select members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in conjunction with the Golden Globe Awards. Signed by the authors / screenwriters, Julietter Towhidi and Tim Firth. 123 page shooting script for the film, Calendar Girls, directed by Nigel Cole, starring Helen Mirren, Julie Waters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, and Philip Glenister. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Fine copy. A film based on the real-life Rylstone Women's Institute in North Yorkshire, England, which produces an annual fund-raising calendar - normally illustrated with photographs of the local landscapes. When one of the member's husband dies of leukemia, the women get together and decide to pose nude for a calendar, the proceeds of which would go toward leukemia research. Much to everyone's surprise, the calendar is a big hit, outselling those of even Britney Spears and Cindy Crawford. A delightful and poignant film.
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TOWNE, ROBERT The Two Jakes
N.p. n.p. 1984
First Edition. First draft 164 page screenplay for the 1990 film, The Two Jakes, the belated sequel to the 1974 film, Chinatown. Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, reprising his role as L.A. private investigator, Jake Gittes, once again unraveling a tangled web of deceit and passion with oil replacing water as the currency of power. Also starring Harvey Kietel (as the other Jake), Meg Tilly, and Eli Wallach. Very good, bound with brads in wrappers.
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TOWNE, ROBERT Chinatown. Screenplay by Robert Towne
Santa Barbara, CA Neville 1993
First Edition. Of an edition of 350 numbered copies signed by the author, screenwriter Robert Towne, this is one of a tiny number of presentation copies given away by the author, and marked ÒPresentation CopyÓ on the colophon page. This copy is inscribed: ÒBilly, You make me feel like it's worth trying to do it right - there's no gift nicer than that. Love & gratitude, Robert.Ó Illustrated with scenes from the award winning film Chinatown, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston. Robert Towne won an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and the film and crew received ten nominations, including Robert Evans (Best Picture), Jack Nicholson (Best Actor), and Faye Dunaway (Best Actress). Very good copy with some minor spotting to the cloth and to the front endpapers, a trace of edge wear, and a minor bump to the top of the spine without dust jacket as issued.
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TOWNEND, W Autograph Signature of Author W. Townend
1930s
Original autograph signature of author W. Townend, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4Ó x 3Ó piece of paper. Fine. W. Townend is the author of ÔVoyage Without End,' ÔThe Ship in the Fanlight,' ÔRoyal Highlander,' ÔThe Promised Land,' ÔThe Ship in the Swamp,' ÔThe Tramp,' etc.
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6949 |
TRAVEN, B The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
New York Knopf 1935
First Edition - American. Fine clean copy in a bright dust jacket with two small one inch tears, a few minor nicks, and some minor rubbing. The basis of the John Huston directed film classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston.
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TRAVEN, B The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
New York Knopf 1935
First Edition - American. Near fine copy with a tiny spot to the bottom outside corner of the front free endpaper, else a fine bright copy in a bright dust jacket with a hint of dust soiling to the rear panel and a couple of tiny tears. The basis of the John Huston directed film classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston. ÒThe treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this one alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.Ó
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TRAVERS, PETER & STEPHANIE REIFF The Story Behind The Exorcist
New York Signet 1974
First Paperbound Edition. Illustrated throughout. Tiny red mark on the bottom edge, else a very good copy with some minor creasing to the spine and very slight wear. The fascinating and bizarre behind-the-scenes story of the writing of William Peter Blatty's novel, The Exorcist, and the making and promoting of the classic film adaptation for which Mr. Blatty also wrote the screenplay and won an Oscar in the process. The film was directed by William Friedkin and starred Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, and Jason Miller.
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TREFIL, JAMES & ARTIE SHAW The Edge of the World. 101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1996
Book Club Edition. From the library of the great jazz musician, composer, and bandleader Artie Shaw and with his bookplate. Also, with a Ôfake' signed inscription on the front free endpaper from ÔJames Trefil' to Shaw completely in the hand of Artie Shaw: ÒTo Artie, With respect & admiration, Jim Trefil.Ó With a few notations in pencil in Shaw's hand on the rear endpapers. As it turns out, Artie Shaw signed and inscribed some of his books to himself, both as a security measure and as a private bit of humor. Given that Shaw was well known for his reluctance to give autographs, this is an opportunity to have not only his signature, but an element of his mischievous personality as well. Laid in is a copy of a 2-page typed signed document written by Shaw's personal assistant attesting to and explaining the quirky story behind the counterfeit nature of the signed inscriptions. Lightly used copy in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of use. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (1910 - 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, started out his career in music at thirteen as a saxophone player and switched to the clarinet at sixteen. He gained experience and skill while on the road at a young age which lead to steady work in the 30s as a session musician and performing with various bands and orchestras and on radio. His first critical acclaim came with his performance of ÒInterlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935. And during the swing era, Shaw's big band enjoyed such enduring hits like Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," "Back Bay Shuffle,Ó "Moonglow,Ó "Rosalie," "Frenesi," and "Summit Ridge Drive." He was known for his innovation both in his musical arrangements and for becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer, Billie Holiday, in 1938 to tour the then segregated southern United States. Throughout his career he worked with many of the great jazz musicians and vocalists of his day, including Helen Forrest, Mel Torme, drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough, guitarists Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff. A charismatic and complicated man, Shaw was married eight times, most notably to actresses Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Doris Dowling, and Evelyn Keyes, Betty Kern, the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern, and ÔForever Amber' author Kathleen Winsor. In 2004, he was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his musical career and accomplishments, he is the author of an autobiography, ÔThe Trouble With Cinderella: An Outline of Identity,' three short novels; ÔI Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead!,' a collection of short stories, ÔThe Best of Intentions and Other Stories,' and an autobiographical novel titled ÔThe Education of Albie Snow,' which, sadly never made it to publication.
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TREIB, MARK Graphic Design
Santa Barbara, CA University of California, Santa Barbara 1970
First Edition. Paperbound. A uniquely formatted and designed illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of graphic designs (posters, programs, catalogues, images, etc.) by Mark Treib, put together in the form of a match book with loose pages. 7Ó x 7 1/4Ó. Fine in printed wrappers.
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TRESS, ARTHUR Arthur Tress
Carmel, CA Center for Photographic Art 1993
First Edition. Paperbound. An illustrated, finely printed catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Arthur Tress. With an introductory essay ÒThe Possessed Objects of Arthur TressÓ by Michel Tournier, translated from the original French by George Stambolian. Fine in printed wrappers.
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TRUE CONFESSIONS - THE FILM Original Program for the Film ÔTrue Confessions'
Los Angeles United Artists 1981
First Edition. Single page, folded, two-sided, 8 1/2Ó x 11Ó. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film, ÔTrue Confessions' for reviewers and members of the motion picture industry, specifically for Academy Award consideration. The film is based on the novel by John Gregory Dunne who also wrote the screenplay, was directed by Ulu Grosbard, and starred Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, and Rose Gregorio. Fine in printed wrappers.
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TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS Truffaut by Truffaut (ISBN: 0810916894 / 0-8109-1689-4)
New York Harry N. Abrams 1987
First Edition - American. Signed and inscribed by actress Theresa Russell to the great American cinematographer John A. Alonzo. Inscribed: ÒDear John - Thanks always looking out for my Ôbaggage'. But for you I might have gone up in Smoke! Love, Theresa Russell, Toronto 1987.Ó Given by Russell to Alonzo on the set of the film Physical Evidence which starred Russell and Burt Reynold which Alonzo filmed directed by Michael Crichton. John Alonzo photographed such excellent films as Chinatown, Harold and Maude, Vanishing Point, Norma Rae, Scarface, etc. The book is a remarkable pictorial and textual look at the great French film director by himself. A coffee table book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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125.00 USD
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TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS Hitchcock (ISBN: 0671526014 / 0-671-52601-4)
New York Simon & Schuster 1984
Revised Edition. Scarce hardbound issue. With a new preface by Francois Truffaut, different pictures and layout form the original 1967 edition, and a new final chapter which concludes the book with the death of Alfred Hitchcock. Oversize format. Illustrated. The landmark series of interviews of Hitchcock on all of his films conducted by the great French film director, Francois Truffaut. Trace of edge wear, else fine in a near fine bright price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks.
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150.00 USD
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TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS Les Films de ma Vie (The Films In My Life)
Paris Flammarion 1975
First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author / director Francois Truffaut to film director Peter Bogdanovich and his then companion, actress Cybill Shepherd. Inscribed: ÒPour Cybil and Peter, tres amicalement, Francois Truffaut.Ó With Bogdanovich's signature and ownership stamp. Text in French. French director Francois Truffaut's writings on the films, directors and stars that influenced his career, including Federico Fellini, Elia Kazan, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, Howard Hawks, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, etc. Illustrated. Paperbound. Near fine with just a trace of use in printed wrappers. Enclosed in a handsome custom quarter morocco clamshell box with gilt-stamping to the spine.
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TRUMAN, HARRY S Memoirs by Harry S. Truman. Two Volumes: Volume One: Year of Decisions. Volume Two: Years of Trial and Hope, 1946 - 1952
Garden City Doubleday 1956
First Edition. An historic presentation copy to James M. Barnes who was with Truman when he got the telephone call summoning him to become President. Inscribed in volume one, ÒTo my friend and comrade Ôwho was there,' Jim Barnes, with kindest regards and with appreciation of his support and friendship. Harry S Truman, Independence, February 16, 1956.Ó On April 12, 1945, Truman stepped down from the dais after the Senate had adjorned in the late afternoon. He then made his way over to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn's private office to have drinks with Rayburn, Lewis Dechsler the House parliamentarian, and James M. Barnes a former Congressman who had been appointed by President Roosevelt to be his personal liason with Congress. Truman mixed himself a drink and then Sam Rayburn told Truman that President Roosevelt's Press Secretary, Steve Early, wanted Truman to call him right away. As David McCullough recorded in his Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Truman, he then picked up the phone and called Early: ÒSteve Early's voice was tense and strange. Truman was to come as quickly and quietly as he could...Truman lost all his color. ÔJesus Christ and General Jackson' he said putting down the phone. He was wanted at the White House right away, he told Barnes and the others. They must say nothing.' Thinking that he must be needed urgently by the President, he rushed to the White House and was immediately taken upstairs to Eleanor Roosevelt. ÒMrs. Roosevelt stepped forward and gently put her hand on Truman's shoulder. ÒHarry, the President is dead.' Truman was unable to speak. ÔIs there anything I can do for you?' He said at last. ÔIs there anything we can do for you,' she said. ÔFor you are the one in trouble now.Ó Both volumes are in very good condition with some light cloth wear in very good dust jackets with some light chippings and some small tears. A remarkable association referencing an historic moment in American history.
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TUCCI, NICCOLO Tico-Tico. Photos by Ylla. Story by Niccolo Tucci. Design by Robert Pontabry
New York Harper 1950
First Edition. Oversized. About fine bright copy with just a trace of edge wear in a near fine bright dust jacket with a touch of fading to the spine and a small sticker over the price on the front flap. The charming story of a lonely little squirrel named Tico-Tico who becomes smitten with a sweet little tabby kitten named Palla who lives in a house on the other side of the park. This enchanting story is illustrated throughout with black & white photographs by famous animal photographer, Ylla.
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TUCHMAN, BARBARA The Book. A Lecture Sponsered by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors League of America Presented at the Library of Congress, October 17, 1979
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 1980
First Edition. Paperbound. With an introduction by author John Hersey, then President of The Authors League of America. Fine in printed wrappers. The printed address given by noted historian, author Barbara Tuchman, in which she traces the history of the book from ancient times to modern, noting that books have Òthe power to transport a reader to another time and place, and certain books could so deeply involve him that he felt himself engaged in their eventsÓ. Now, if that's not magical, what is?
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TULLY, ANDREW The FBI's Most Famous Cases. With an Introduction and Comments by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York Morrow 1965
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, J. Edgar Hoover, inscribed in the year of publication: ÒTo John Gottlieb. Best Wishes, J. Edgar Hoover, Xmas Ô65.Ó Laid in is a one-page Typed Letter Signed, dated March 1, 1961, to General John O. Gottlieb, on J. Edgar Hoover's personal FBI stationary signed ÒEdgarÓ in blue ink. The text of the letter is both cordial and authoritative in tone, initially referencing an invitation extended by Gottlieb to Hoover and Hoover's long time companion, Clyde Tolson, to visit him the next time they were on the west coast. In the next paragraph, Hoover responds to Gottlieb's inquiry into rumors of Hoover's possible retirement: ÒWith regard to your comments on the prediction of my retirement as Director of the FBI, I thought you might like to know there is not a scintilla of truth to this story, and that I have no intention whatsoever of retiring.Ó The book is a look into some of the more sensational FBI cases and criminals of the 20th Century including John Dillinger, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, and Machine Gun Kelly. Illustrated. Very good in a dust jacket missing two pieces (1Ó and 2Ó) on the spine and some small chips and tears.
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850.00 USD
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TULLY, JIM Beggars of Life. Illustrated with Scenes from the Motion Picture
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1926
Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the acclaimed silent film starring Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery, and Richard Arlen directed by William Wellman. Signed presentation from Tully to the great German writer, Thomas Mann. Signed and inscribed by the author: ÒTo Thomas Mann with the deep respect of Jim Tully. Hol-d. Cal. 1939.Ó The front panel of the dust jacket is a series portraits of Brooks, Beery, and Arlen. Very good in dust jacket. Photoplays inscribed by their authors are very scarce.
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450.00 USD
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6975 |
TURCOTTE, BRYAN RAY & CHRISTOPHER T. MILLER Fucked Up and Photocopied. Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement
Corte Madera Ginko Press 1999
First Edition. Signed by authors, Brayn Ray Turcotte and Christpher T. Miller as well as the noted rock poster artists, Winston Smith, Frank Kozik, and James Stark. Also signed by rock musician Penelope Houston, contributing writer Robert Dapello. 240 page hardbound coffee table-sized book extensively illustrated with rock posters in black & white and color with photographs of the punk rock scene. As new without dust jacket as issued. An excellent volume and the definitive work on the subject.
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375.00 USD
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6976 |
TURNBULL, ANDREW Scott Fitzgerald
London Penguin Books 1962
First Edition - British. Uncorrected proof copy with the publisher's typed and printed dated notice laid in. Paperbound. This was the office file copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's agent, Harold Ober Associates, with their agency stamp. With a pencil note on the front cover just below the title: ÒContains notes in no other Edition.Ó and the date Ò12 May 1970Ó stamped on the lower right corner of the front cover. Very good copy with the slightest hint of age toning to spine and interior pages in printed wrappers. Harold Ober (1881 - 1951) was one of America's most respected and successful literary agents. He represented such distinguished authors as William Faulkner, and is perhaps best known for both his professional and personal association with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ober's relationship with Fitzgerald was particularly close and supportive, and like any complex alliance, it suffered through occasional bouts of conflict and contention. Over the years Ober played an integral role in the cultivation of Fitzgerald's career, offering professional counsel and financial assistance, often giving him advances against unsold stories. In turn, Fitzgerald dedicated his book, Taps At Reveille, to Ober. After Fitzgerald's wife Zelda was institutionalized, Harold and Anne Ober stepped in as virtual foster parents to the Fitzgerald's young daughter, Scottie. When Fitzgerald died suddenly in Hollywood, CA while working on The Last Tycoon, his companion Sheilah Graham's first call was to Ober, with whom Scottie was staying, informing him of the sad news. Ober then called Zelda Fitzgerald in Montgomery, AL. The Obers continued their affection and support of Scottie, including lending her money so that she could complete her education at Vassar. All in all, Fitzgerald and Ober were clearly a dynamic literary force, and without question helped to bring modern American literature forward with intelligence, commitment, and style.
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TURNER, ALICE K. (ED.) Playboy Stories. The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction
New York Dutton 1994
First Edition. Signed by the author - legendary founder of Playboy Magazine, Hugh Hefner, on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. A substantial collection of over 600 pages of short stories which appeared in Playboy over the years, including works by Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Irving, Nadine Gordimer, James Thurber, Nelson Algren, James Jones, Vladimir Nabokov, and many more. Just goes to show you - there really was something to read in Playboy all these years!
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225.00 USD
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6978 |
TURNER, GEORGE E The Cinema of Adventure, Romance, and Terror
Hollywood, CA American Society of Cinematographers 1989
First Edition. Signed presentation copy from the editor, George E. Turner; contributor, film historian and director, Rudy Behlmer; and cinematographers, Linwood B. Dunn, who worked on the original King Kong, and Stan Cortez, who shot Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons - both are mentioned in the text. A study of many exciting films including Laura, Dracula, Cat People, and numerous others. A coffee table-sized book. Illustrated. Near fine in dust jacket.
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200.00 USD
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TURNER, GRACE, ED The Celebrities' Cookbook
New York Crowell 1948
First Edition. A collection of recipes bringing a Ôgalaxy of stars' into your kitchen, including contributions by Marlene Dietrich, Robert Montgomery, Lillian Gish, Milton Berle, Fanny Brice, Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Fonda, and many others. About fine in a very good, slightly used dust jacket.
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125.00 USD
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6980 |
TURNER, LANA Lana: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth
New York Dutton 1982
First Edition. Signed by the author / actress Lana Turner. Illustrated. Very good plus copy with a touch of use and very minor edge wear in a near fine very slightly used dust jacket. The autobiography of the noted star of such classic films as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Peyton Place (for which she received an Oscar nomination), Imitation of Life, and more.
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150.00 USD
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6981 |
TURNER, VICKERY Focusing (ISBN: 0575034734 / 0-575-03473-4)
London Victor Gollancz 1984
First Edition of the Author's First Novel. Near fine bright copy with the faintest hint of edge wear in a near fine bright dust jacket with just a trace of edge wear. Vickery Turner (1945 - 2006) was a British actress, playwright, author, and stage director. Her first role as an actress was in the first production of ÔThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' with Vanessa Redgrave, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award for the best supporting performance and the London Critics Award for the most promising newcomer. She met Warren Oates in while working together on the film ÔCrooks and Coronets' with Telly Savalas. After a tumultuous time together, they divorced in 1974. One of the characters in ÔFocusing' is a thinly veiled portrait of Warren Oates. She went on to act in a variety of American and British television series and movies including The Waltons, The Brontes of Haworth, Love American Style, Ruby and Oswald, The Good Soldier, and more. Turner was also a successful novelist and her published novels included Focussing, Lovers of Africa (Love & Hunger in the USA), The Testimony of Daniel Pagels and Delicate Matters.
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85.00 USD
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TURNER, VICKERY Lovers of Africa (ISBN: 0575040483 / 0-575-04048-3)
London Victor Gollancz 1987
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Vickery Turner: ÒFor Janet, A thousand thanks. Love, Vickery.Ó With the recipient's signature. Near fine bright copy with the faintest hint of edge wear in a near fine bright dust jacket with just a trace of fading to the spine. Vickery Turner (1945 - 2006) was a British actress, playwright, author, and stage director. Her first role as an actress was in the first production of ÔThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' with Vanessa Redgrave, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award for the best supporting performance and the London Critics Award for the most promising newcomer. She met Warren Oates in while working together on the film ÔCrooks and Coronets' with Telly Savalas. After a tumultuous time together, they divorced in 1974. She went on to act in a variety of American and British television series and movies including The Waltons, The Brontes of Haworth, Love American Style, Ruby and Oswald, The Good Soldier, and more. Turner was also a successful novelist and her published novels included Focussing, Lovers of Africa (Love & Hunger in the USA), The Testimony of Daniel Pagels and Delicate Matters.
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95.00 USD
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6983 |
TURPIN, BEN The Little Movie Mirror Books - Featuring Film & Vaudeville Comedian, Ben Turpin
New York Ross Publishing Co. 1920
First Edition. Paperbound. Small format, 4 1/2Ó x 6Ó, 16 pages. Illustrated. Near fine with a trace of dust soiling in printed wrappers. A promotional book published for the fans of the great slapstick film and stage comedian, Ben Turpin, best known for his work with Mack Sennett. The front cover is a color painting of Turpin wearing his trademark bowler hat and cross-eyed expression. At the end of the book is a reproduction of a letter from the star addressed to his fans.
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125.00 USD
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TURTLEDOVE, HARRY Colonization: Second Contact
New York Del Rey/Ballantine Books 1999
First Edition. Signed by the author, Harry Turtledove, on the title page. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a 1/4Ó tear to the front flap fold and a hint of edge wear. The second book in Turtledove's Worldwar tetralogy, an epic story of how the world would be a much different place had the Allies not prevailed during World War II.
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25.00 USD
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TURTLEDOVE, HARRY Conan of Venarium
New York Tor 2003
First Edition. Signed by the author, Harry Turtledove, on the title page. Fine copy in a fine fresh dust jacket. A story of the young Conan, the barbarous adventurer created by Robert E. Howard, and brought to life in film by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The front panel of the dust jacket shows the young and handsome bare-chested Conan in a snowy mountain landscape fending off a pack of wolves with his bow and arrow.
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75.00 USD
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TURTLEDOVE, HARRY Between the Rivers
New York Tor 1998
First Edition. Signed by the author, Harry Turtledove, on the title page. Near fine copy with some edge wear to the top edges at the outer corners in a near fine fresh dust jacket with a 1/3Ó tear to the top edge of the rear flap fold.
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20.00 USD
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TUSSAUD, JOHN T The Romance of Madame Tussaud's
London Odhams Press Ltd. 1921
Second edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, John T. Tussaud, Madame Tussaud's great grandson, inscribed by the author: ÒTo Rev. G.T. Morse with the author's best compliments. John T. Tussaud. 9th January 21.Ó With recipient's bookplate and book shop label. Illustrated. Hinges starting, else a very good copy with some spotting to cloth and fraying at the extremities without dust jacket. The life story of Madame Tussaud, the well-known creator of life-like historical figures made from wax and founder of the most famous wax museum in the world.
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175.00 USD
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6990 |
TUTTLE, PAUL Paul Tuttle: 3 Evolutions
Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum 1995
First Edition. Paperbound. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of the exquisite design works of Paul Tuttle. With an essay by Aaron Betsky, curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The form and structure of the catalogue is as innovative and original as the works themselves. Fine in printed wrappers.
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35.00 USD
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6991 |
TWAIN, MARK Three Sketches by Mark Twain
Stamford Overbrook Press 1946
Original wrappers. Containing ÒMy Late Senatorial SecretaryshipÓ, ÒThe Facts Concerning the Recent ResignationÓ and ÒHow I Edited an Agricultural NewspaperÓ. IssuedÓ...for our Senators and Congressmen, who, in these troubled times, may find much needed distraction in the refreshing humor of Mark TwainÓ. Fine.
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35.00 USD
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TWEED, BOSS WILLIAM M. Statistical View of the United States, Embracing its Territory, Population - White, Free Colored, and Slave - Moral and Social Condition, Industry, Property, and Revenue; The Detailed Statistics of Cities, Towns, and Counties; Being a Compendium of the Seventh Census, to Which are Added the Results of Every Previous Census, Beginning with 1790, in Comparative Tables, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes, Based Upon the Schedules and Other Official Sources of Information
Washington, D.C. A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer 1854
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by U.S. Representative from New York (March 4, 1853 Ð March 3, 1855), William M. Tweed, popularly known as ÔBoss Tweed': ÒWith Respects of W. M. Tweed.Ó Dark brown cloth boards with decorative blindstamp design and gilt-stamping to the spine, 400 pages. Very good copy with just a hint of edge wear, minor foxing to endpapers and slight evidence of use. William Marcy Tweed (1823 - 1878) was an American politician and legislator best known for his leadership of Tammany Hall, the primary Democratic Party force to be reckoned with in 19th century New York. Tweed's power and status revolved around his being the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New York Printing Company, as well as owner of the glamorous Metropolitan Hotel. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852, the New York City Board of Advisors in 1856, and the New York State Senate in 1867. His downfall came in the form of a major scandal when he was convicted of stealing between $40 million and $200 million from New York City taxpayers through political corruption.
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950.00 USD
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6993 |
TYLER, ANNE A Slipping-Down Life
New York Knopf 1970
First Edition. Near fine copy with a 1Ó x 1 1/4Ó erased area on the front free endpaper without dust jacket. The basis of the 1999 film directed by Toni Kalem, starring Guy Pearce and Lili Taylor.
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20.00 USD
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6994 |
TYNAN, JAMES J The Great Divide. Illustrated with Scenes from the Motion Picture
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1925
Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the silent film western starring Alice Terry, Wallace Beery, and Conway Tearle. Pencil ownership signature. Fine in a very good bright dust jacket with a few tiny tears and chips and evidence of a removed label on spine. The front panel is a colorful painting of a tense encounter between Beery and Tearle as the beautiful Terry looks on wearing only a robe.
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45.00 USD
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6995 |
ULLIN, ROBERT Besides, the Wench is Dead
Garden City Doubleday, Doran 1935
First Edition. The story a group of people living in a rooming house and caught up in the destinies of steel magnets and their mills. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny tears and some dust soiling.
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50.00 USD
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6996 |
ULLMAN, ALBERT E The Kidnappers
New York Amour Press 1932
First Edition. Signed presentation copy to film actor Douglas Fairbanks Senior dated 1932. Some staining to spine, very good. An organized gang of criminals kidnap millionaires. Its leader is called the Purple One. When the millinaires get returned they were Òpallid and shaken, they would not utter a word. Men who had flaunted, they quailed at the memory of the power of the Purple One.Ó A secret group of twelve organizes to combat him.
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65.00 USD
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6997 |
ULLMAN, ALLAN & ROLFE BLOOM The Naked Spur
New York Random House 1953
First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket which is lightly rubbed at the extremities. The novel was issued to coincide with the release of the classic western film starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, and Ralph Meeker, directed by Anthony Mann.
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225.00 USD
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6998 |
ULLMAN, ELWOOD & EDWARD BERNDS The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters. Screenplay by Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds
Los Angeles Allied Artists 1954
First Edition. Original 105 page revised script for the comedy / horror film The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters directed by Edward Bernds, starring Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the rest of the Bowery Boys. Bradbound. Ownership stamp and signature on the front cover. Lightly used copy with some spotting and minor edge wear in printed wrappers. A combination slapstick comedy and campy horror film in which the Bowery Boys meet up with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire.
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750.00 USD
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6999 |
ULLMAN, S. GEORGE Valentino As I Knew Him
New York Macy-Masius 1926
First Edition. Very slight erasure mark to the front free endpaper, else near fine in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few small and edge nicks and with some very slight darkening to the spine. Illustrated. The intimate memoirs of the great silent film star by his business manager.
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295.00 USD
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