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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux/ The Noonday Press, 1992. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster,18" w x 27"h, featuring an image of the original poster for Bill Pickett, World's Colored Champion in "The Bull-Dogger". Near Fine, faint creases, small rub upper right in margin, published in limited numbers for the ABA trade show in 1992. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 18" w x 27"h.
Any Number Can Play (SIGNED) by Heth, Edward Harris - 1945
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New York/ London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Stated First Edition.. New York/ London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Edition, SIGNED by the author. Clean unfaded blue cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Very light surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. SIGNED "Edward Harris Heth" on front free endpaper. Small neatly stamped previous owner name in top left corner of front free endpaper. Pages and edges are clean. 193 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has small chip at top spine edge, slight edge wear, a few tiny closed edge tears. Author's photo on rear panel. Made into a motion picture by MGM Studios (1949) starring Clark Gable, the story of a gambling house owner who finds himself estranged from his wife and his son. 8vo. Fiction..
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A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters: Promotional Poster
by John Kisch and Edward Mapp; Preface by Spike Lee; Introduction by Donald Bogle
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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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Wilmette, Illinois: Films Incorporated, 1976. SCARCE. As New, still in original publisher's mailing plastic bag, unopened and as mailed in 1976. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. As New/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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Pylon (Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing Thus)
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WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."
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LEARNING TREE, THE [RAGAZZO LA TUA PELLE SCOTTA] (1969) Italian poster
by Manfredo Acerbo
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No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Gordon Parks (screenwriter, director) Italian title: Ragazzo la tua pelle scotta. Rome: Dear Film, 1969. Vintage original 78 x 55"" (140 x 200 cm.) 4-fogli poster, Italy. Printed in two sections and folded (as issued), NEAR FINE. Artwork by Italian poster artist Manfredo Acerbo. THE LEARNING TREE was the first film directed by an African American and financed by a major Hollywood studio, Warner Brothers. Writer-director Parks adapted his autobiographical novel about a black teenager growing up in Kansas in the 1920s. The film was one of the first twenty-five movies selected in 1989 for preservation as part of the United States National Film Registry.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Signed)
by Susanna Clarke
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United States: Bloomsbury, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Portia Rosenberg. Book is new, unread. There are three dark spots to the outer pages that seem to be part of the paper itself, otherwise clean. Signed in my presence by Clarke. The black and white American covers with red end-papers were printed simultaneously and are both true first editions. Later printings lack the red end-papers. The American edition precedes the British edition by three weeks. Winner of the 2005 Hugo awards for best novel as well as the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
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LEARNING TREE, THE [RAGAZZO LA TUA PELLE SCOTTA] (1969) Italian poster
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No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Gordon Parks (screenwriter, director) Italian title: Ragazzo la tua pelle scotta. Rome: Dear Film, 1969. Vintage original 78 x 55"" (140 x 200 cm.) 4-fogli poster, Italy. Printed in two sections and folded (as issued), NEAR FINE. Artwork by Italian poster artist Manfredo Acerbo. THE LEARNING TREE was the first film directed by an African American and financed by a major Hollywood studio, Warner Brothers. Writer-director Parks adapted his autobiographical novel about a black teenager growing up in Kansas in the 1920s. The film was one of the first twenty-five movies selected in 1989 for preservation as part of the United States National Film Registry.
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Birdman Of Alcatraz
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RARE SIGNED STATED FIRST EDITION: Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Ed. w/ exlib replacement 1st Ed. DJ is an original HARVEY GABOR White/black jail bars/ bird inset dust jacket protected by a mylar wrap. Unclipped Front flap states 9/55. Used. Good-/Good condition original dust jacket. Front cover states: "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. Quite the find. Will ship from Oregon.
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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes (Cheaper Edition)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Cheaper Edition. Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.
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Shrek!
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SHREK! By William Steig. 1990 Stated First Edition, Farrar, Straux Giroux. QUITE RARE IN A STATED FIRST. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NONE AS ISSUED. ISBN 0374368775. Swamp creatures back panel. Unpaginated. 8 5/8 X 10 7/8. Summary: Original source material for the beloved film of the same name. Summary: "Shrek, a horrid, ugly, little ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in armor, a dragon, and, finally, a hideous princess, who's even uglier than he is!" About the artist/author William Steig: "He created his masterpiece character, Shrek, in 1990, at the age of 83."
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Any Number Can Play
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Any Number Can Play
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New York: Harper and Bros., 1945. Second edition. . Hardcover. Good +/Dust Jacket Included. 191 pages. Bleached spots on top board. Light wear to extremities. Minus dust jacket. No markings or creases. Firmly and squarely bound. K-1 TB1518
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The World Publishing Company, January 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Good/Fair. Local Independent Bookstore. All Orders ship within 2 business days. 1st Edition/2nd Printing. Average Reading Wear Former Library book.
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ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY
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NY: HARPER AND BROS, 1945. STATED FIRST. . Hardcover. Fine/NoNE. N/A. A FILM -NOIR BOOK SOLID SQUARE AND CLEAN FIRST PRINTING STATES 10-5 AND H-U BOUND IN BLUE WITH NICE COMPLETE SILVER LETTERING
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945. First Edition (stated) . Blue Cloth. Very Good +/Good to Very Good Dustjacket. Basis of the 1949 Mervyn LeRoy film starring Clark Gable. Slight edgewear to book. Dustjacket shows wear at all edges, with small chips not affecting lettering or design.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated First edition. FINE IN VERY GOOD++ DJ WITH SLIGHT WEAR. A VERY NICE COPY OF A WARTIME BOOK. Source of Mervyn LeRoy's 1949 film with Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey and Mary Astor.
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Harper and Brothers, 1945T. hardcover. Very Good. . Stated first, signed by the author. Shows minor wear, lacking dj.
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New York: Harper, 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper. Tears on dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers [1945]., 1945. First edition (so stated; "10-5. . .H-U"). 8vo. Title page printed blue and black. Dust jacket (unclipped; 2" chip to back panel; two other small chips). Very good. 193 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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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
by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East
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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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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)
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- Used - Very Good
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- None Issued
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- First Edition Thus
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- Paperback
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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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