Search Results: Titles starting with B from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1956. First edition. Luca, Mark. Folio, unbound sheets in printed folder. Fine. One of 175 copies.

London: Hogarth Press, 1940. First edition. Yellow cloth. Spine slightly light-stuck, a near-fine copy, with a very good dust jacket, showing light edge wear, designed by Robert Buhler. Spender's first novel. Woolmer 474.

(Genève: [Librairie] Rousseau, 1970. 122 p. illus. 28 cm. Panoramas forces vives. DJ and text very fine.

(Genève: [Librairie] Rousseau, 1970. First edition. 122 p. illus. 28 cm. Panoramas forces vives. Cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. Fine copy. Inscribed by Baj with a drawing.

Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1971. 1 v. (chiefly illus. (part col.)) 28 cm. Exhibition catalog.

Hollywood, 1940. First draft typescript (ribbon copy on Fidelity onion skin paper). 84 pages. Brad-fastened into textured paper covers from The Orsatti Agency, with typed cover label. Screen adaptation of the popular 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, which itself was adapted from her 1908 classic mystery "The Circular Staircase". A silent version had been produced in 1926, and a 1930 version was entitled "The Bat Whispers" served as an inspiration to Bob Kane in the creation of Batman. James Roosevelt, son of the President, who had no experience in motion pictures, set up a production company in late 1939 and hired the Perelmans to write this first film he wanted to produce. They began work on January 29 and by February 26, when the picture (along with Roosevelt's entire plan to produce feature films) was abandoned, they had written 108 pages. (Cf. S.J. Perelman letter to Augustus Goetz, Jan. 27 and Feb. 26, 1940, published in Don't Tread On Me.). A comparison with the published… Read More

Murray, Utah: Pharos, 1945. First edition. Original wrappers, wrappers a bit browned, and with some minor edge wear. Inscribed by the publisher James Laughlin to book designer Harry Ford. Crandell C67.

Stuttgart: Hansjörg Mayer, 1979. First edition. Rot, Dieter. Cloth, in dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. One of 1000 hardback copies, with an original "Speedy Drawing" by Dieter Roth, ("Selfportrait as Sprinter). Fine condition.

New York: Viking, 1980. First edition. Beaton, Cecil. Quarto, cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket.

Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, London. with Rier Run Press stamped over, 1986. First edition. xxvi, [2], 402 p. Eoin O'Brien ; photography, David H. Davison ; foreword, James Knowlson ; illustrations, Robert Ballagh. ill. ; 27 cm. Cloth, fine in slightly faded dust jacket.

New York: Macmillan, 1907. First edition. Original brown cloth, spine a bit dulled, but a very good copy, with all the lettering and decoration intact. BAL 11903.

New York: Scientific American / Munn, 1919. First edition. Orange pictorial cloth, fine.

New York: Time, 1964. First American wrappers edition. Black wrappers, grease pencil price on cover else fine. Juliar A24.4.

New York: Appleton, 1936. First edition. 8vbo, terracotta cloth, fine in dust jackety.

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982. First edition. 18 cm; Copy number 77 of 99 copies (plus a few h.c.) on Arches. Wrappers, fine.

Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, 1979. First edition. 1 portfolio ill. ; 22 cm.; Title from container. 8 pamphlets in red vinyl folder. Text in English, French, and German. Issued by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen; Austauschdienstes. Includes bibliography (1 p.). Fine. One of 1000.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First edition. First edition. Cloth. Contributors include Updike, Bowles, Salter, Dubus . Fine in dust jacket lightly faded on spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Contributors include John Berryman, Ray Bradbury, Vladimir Nabokov ("Time and Ebb"), Peter Taylor, etc. Fine in lightly used, price clipped, dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First edition. Cloth. Contributors include Donald Barthelme, Bermard Malamud, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition.

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1923. First edition. Maroon cloth, fine, the scarce dust jacket lacks most of the spine, but the front and back panels are largely present. Contains critical appraisals and descriptions of the production of films, including Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, The Pilgrim, The Covered Wagon, etc. Illustrated with stills from the various pictures.