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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage -"To Hon. Will H. Hays- Who's(sic) powerful influence is for American Pictures that are clean and above reproach, this humble little book-"Solemn Johnson Plus" which I hope at least is clean, I most cordially inscribe- Earl Wayland Bowman, Hollywood, Calif. Feb. 1-1928". A wonderful and UNIQUELY INSCRIBED Hollywood Association Copy from the era of blacklists and morality codes ! Will. H. Hays was most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies, Hays installed a more formal production code, called the Hays Code( later…
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Hollywood, CA: Warner Books, 1984. 8 x 10 black and white publicity photograph SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by George Burns in blue felt tip -"To Jeff Best George Burns". Fine, as issued. From a recently-acquired large collection of celebrity signed photographs accumulated over the past 50 years by a high school teacher and regional NPR affiliate film and theater critic.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Photograph. Fine. 10" x 8".
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Solemn Johnson Plus
by Bowman, Earl Wayland
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Northwest Passage
by Roberts, Kenneth
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Copy #469 of 1050 copies in the First Edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Limitation Page, Two volume set in original red cloth, top edge gilt, map end pages Vol. I, tissue-guarded lithograph of Major Robert Rogers Vol. II, Both volumes Near Fine, spines sunned, lacking the dust jackets and slipcase, toning at title and verso of half title from an old clipping , which also left impression from clip top edge 1st 4 pages. Binding tight and unmarked, set appears unread. Basis of the 1940 film starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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Grove Press Film Catalog with Five Associated Pamphlets
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New York (1999): Grove Press Film Division RARE, Worldcat shows one institutional holding. No date (1971). Catalog of feature films, for rental and sale. 72 pages : illustrated with black and white photographs, with rental and sale prices, running times, and order numbers. The catalog Near Fine, lightly rubbed. Together with 5 pamphlets: a 6 page 4to pamphlet "Announcing Grove Presss International Film Festival" Very Good, caption at top of page 6 cut out and clipped to front cover; 4 page 4to pamphlet for the film "Darkness. Darkness": 2 single sheets 8 1/2" x 11" announcing release of new films "Malcolm X Speaks" and Yukio Mishima's Film "Rite of Love and Death (Yukoku)": and 10" x 17" bi-fold sheet announcing "Three Films by Les Blank; A Well Spent Life, Spend It All, and The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins". The latter 3 pamphlets all Fine. "By the early 1970s, the Grove Press Film Division catalog…
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Near Fine, scant shelf rub bottom edge, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small chips at head of spine. From the library of James Armsey, ( 1918-2008) who was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s, with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that the colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them, including Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Tulane University, and several major private colleges, to admit black students for the first time. Armsey's name and gift inscription from his wife front paste down, hidden by front flap. Basis for the 1962 Broadway play starring Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee, the 1967 film also starring Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee, as well as the 1975 TV movie of the same title. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo -…
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No More Vietnams
by Nixon, Richard
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New York: Arbor House, 1985. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED and Dated BY AUTHOR former President Richard Nixon at half title page "Richard Nixon 1-15-90". The First Trade Edition in dust jacket, not the ubiquitous Presidential Edition in blue slipcase. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, the spine and top edge back panel a shade sunned. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Solemn Johnson Plus
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage -"To Hon. Will H. Hays- Who's(sic) powerful influence is for American Pictures that are clean and above reproach, this humble little book-"Solemn Johnson Plus" which I hope at least is clean, I most cordially inscribe- Earl Wayland Bowman, Hollywood, Calif. Feb. 1-1928". A wonderful and UNIQUELY INSCRIBED Hollywood Association Copy from the era of blacklists and morality codes ! Will. H. Hays was most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies, Hays installed a more formal production code, called the Hays Code( later…
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1906 Typed Letter Signed on His Personal Stationery to United States Senator Knute Nelson, Discussing Bates' Plan for Building the Panama Canal
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New York: Lindon W. Bates , 1906. SIGNED two page letter typed, folded twice, with original postmarked envelope, Very Good, paper clip impression top edge both pages. On Bates' personal stationery, dated Jan. 6, 1906 and headed "Hon. Knute Nelson, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- I have the honor to enclose under separate cover a copy of "The Panama Canal, System and Projects", and venture to hope that some of the matter contained therein may be of interest to you." Bates then goes on to explain the cost, scale, and completion time for his plan in the next paragraph. The rest of the letter goes on to explain how his plan will "...submerge entirely the swamps at sea level, which, at the present time, extend all along the prospective canal.." making "...fresh water lakes of clean water, in which a vessel having large steerage can make twice as rapid speed as in the constricted earth bounded out of any lakeless canal...". And finally stating…
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Grove Press Film Catalog with Five Associated Pamphlets
by Grove Press Film Division
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New York (1999): Grove Press Film Division RARE, Worldcat shows one institutional holding. No date (1971). Catalog of feature films, for rental and sale. 72 pages : illustrated with black and white photographs, with rental and sale prices, running times, and order numbers. The catalog Near Fine, lightly rubbed. Together with 5 pamphlets: a 6 page 4to pamphlet "Announcing Grove Presss International Film Festival" Very Good, caption at top of page 6 cut out and clipped to front cover; 4 page 4to pamphlet for the film "Darkness. Darkness": 2 single sheets 8 1/2" x 11" announcing release of new films "Malcolm X Speaks" and Yukio Mishima's Film "Rite of Love and Death (Yukoku)": and 10" x 17" bi-fold sheet announcing "Three Films by Les Blank; A Well Spent Life, Spend It All, and The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins". The latter 3 pamphlets all Fine. "By the early 1970s, the Grove Press Film Division catalog…
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
by Mead, Shepherd
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Near Fine, scant shelf rub bottom edge, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small chips at head of spine. From the library of James Armsey, ( 1918-2008) who was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s, with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that the colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them, including Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Tulane University, and several major private colleges, to admit black students for the first time. Armsey's name and gift inscription from his wife front paste down, hidden by front flap. Basis for the 1962 Broadway play starring Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee, the 1967 film also starring Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee, as well as the 1975 TV movie of the same title. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo -…
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Set of 22 NASA Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 Moon Flight Photographs, 11" x 14"
by NASA; Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
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Waltham, UK: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1969. A collection of 22 Apollo 11 and 12 photographs, 20 color and 2 black and white. 2o of the photographs, Near Fine to Fine, 2 are Very Good with moderate toning. With one of the 2 original mailing envelopes. An UNCOMMONLY large collection of these iconic NASA photographs, suitable for framing. . First Thus. Photograph. Near Fine. 11" x 14".
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Publicity photo of boxer Frankie Limon [personal inscription signed and dated]
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San Antonio: Maffet Studios, 1942. Photograph. 5x7 inch b&w publicity photo of the Latino Lightweight boxer in boxing gear and stance, white borders, personal inscription to George El Sueno Svenson signedand date 9/24/42 San Antoniotiny closed ear at top and tape-repaired on rear, stamped on back Moffet Studios.
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Publicity photograph inscribed "To Anello and Davide for the best shoes of the year !!!.....1964". Signed by all three.
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10 x 7 3/4 inches. Professionally laid-down on light card. Very good. [Since 1922, Anello & Davide, of London, have been the premier brand in dance and theatrical footwear, with a reputation for specialised, handcrafted shoes]. NB Postage will be reduced to actual cost when the order is processed.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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The Midnight Sky
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Los Angeles: Netflix, 2020. Oversized hardcover with white boards, front cover embossed title and photo, spine black embossed lettering, black endpapers. Very good condition with some shelf wear. Pages are unmarked. Book published in conjunction with the movie. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
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Norwalk, Ct: The Easton Press, 1967. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 138. Bound in full grey leather covered boards elaborately decorated with the letter 'H' stamped in gilt designed by Peter Winfield Johnson. The book includes raised bands to the spine, gilt edges, frontispiece, and satin endpapers. The illustrations by Legrand were originally in the 1939 Limited Editions Club publication. The text of this edition is also from the 1939 publication which was derived from the Second Quarto of 1604 and the First Folio edition of 1623. It contains the old style spelling and punctuation of the earlier printings. The size of the text block is almost exactly the same as that of the First Folio. The paper was made at the Glatfelter Paper Mill in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Laid in is a four-page booklet on the historical context of this publication.
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Deliverance
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NY Houghton Mifflin 1970.. vg+/vg+/very minute wear to top of sp. panel. Dickey's 1st novel that was filmed in 72 by John Boorman w. a screenplay by Dickey who also had a sm. part in the film. 1st print. edition. Binding is cl.w.dj.
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
by Ba Jin; Pa Chin; Li Yaotang; Li Fei-Kan; Jock Hoe (trans); Sidney Shapiro (trans)
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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family…
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Grand Hotel
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GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.
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Another Part of the Forest
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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Witness for the Prosecution (Dell #855)
by Agatha Christie
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923ChristieWitness Witness for the Prosecution (Dell #855) Dell Publishing, NY. 1948. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Copyright page states MCMXLVIII and states reprinted by arrangement with Dodd, Mead. No other printings are stated. Cover Art by William George. 192 pages. Mystery Anthology 4 ¼ x 6 3/8. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. A bit toned.
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