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THE SHORT-TIMERS

THE SHORT-TIMERS by Hasford, Gustav

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
THE SHORT-TIMERS
Author
Hasford, Gustav
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780060117825
Condition
Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Rare inscribed first edition of the ex-Marine's brief and brutal semi-autobiographical novel - basis for Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET. Hasford joined the Marine Corps in 1966, shortly after having "refused to graduate from high school" because he "didn't want to validate what they were doing." Assigned to a North Carolina base as a military journalist, he applied to go to Vietnam - with only ten months left of service - out of curiosity; while still there, he joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War and contributed a poem to the first anthology of writings by veterans of that war. During the several post-Marine years of writing THE SHORT-TIMERS, Hasford supported himself as a used bookstore clerk, editor of fetish magazines, and sometime roommate of Harlan Ellison, who had previously advised Hasford to give up and get out of the writing business (Ross). The manuscript endured several rounds of rejection due to subject matter most publishers then considered "box office poison" before its eventual acceptance by Harper. More good fortune followed with Kubrick's purchase of the film rights; Hasford struggled for and eventually won a co-writing credit for the FULL METAL JACKET screenplay, which closely replicates much of the novel's harrowing boot camp sequence. Especially rare signed (given Hasford's premature death in 1993), a exceptional copy of "the best work of fiction about the Vietnam War" (Newsweek). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with red boards. Black endpapers. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket by John Sposato. 154 pages. Inscribed by Hasford on the half-title page: "for my friend / Bob / from Gus / Gustav Hasford / Silverlake Sept. 18, 1982." Some very faint soil to top edge of textblack. Trace sunning to jacket spine. Else bright, clean, and sharp.
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from San Francisco Resident G.S. Phillips to His Brother J.H. Phillips in Placerville, Discussing a Visit by His Wife and Children, and Other Matters]

[Autograph Letter, Signed, from San Francisco Resident G.S. Phillips to His Brother J.H. Phillips in Placerville, Discussing a Visit by His Wife and Children, and Other Matters] by [California Gold Rush]. Phillips, G.S.

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Title
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from San Francisco Resident G.S. Phillips to His Brother J.H. Phillips in Placerville, Discussing a Visit by His Wife and Children, and Other Matters]
Author
[California Gold Rush]. Phillips, G.S.
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
San Francisco: October 4, 1852. Very good.. [2]pp., with integral address leaf. Old folds, mild staining and soiling, three-inch closed tear to address leaf. An interesting letter documenting the family side of the California Gold Rush, in which a San Francisco man writes to his brother, offering to send his wife and daughters to Placerville as helpers. Interestingly, at first Phillips addresses the letter to his brother in Ohio, then scratches it out and writes in "Cal;" this most likely indicates the Phillipses hailed from Ohio and trekked to California along with scores of others in hopes of untold riches in the California gold fields. In his letter, Phillips writes that his wife, who has long been in San Francisco looking after a sick friend, can now leave as he is better, "And if you think best she will come up with the little girls and fix your carpets and superintend your affairs for a month or two untill your wife comes..." The formerly sick friend, Mr. Gardner, could also accompany them, apparently, as "He is coming up to P. and he wants you to give him work for a short time. Mr. G. is a good sailsman [sic] having been in the dry goods business...." While not overtly concerned with gold mining, the correspondence is nevertheless interesting for providing details on family routines during the Gold Rush era, when numerous families uprooted their lives and moved not only to places like San Francisco and Placerville, but between such locations during the years of speculation. A nice example of history from below, particularly notable for its domestic implications during the time of the great California Gold Rush.
Saikin Beikoku Seiko Jikketsu [Ten Outstanding Successes in the U.S.A.]

Saikin Beikoku Seiko Jikketsu [Ten Outstanding Successes in the U.S.A.] by Ishii, Isamu

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Title
Saikin Beikoku Seiko Jikketsu [Ten Outstanding Successes in the U.S.A.]
Author
Ishii, Isamu
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
About very good.
Description
Tokyo, 1903. About very good.. [2],4,26,371,[19]pp., plus three leaves of plates. Original tan printed wrappers. Spine partially perished, light wear to covers. First edition. Profiles of ten successful American businessmen, published as part of a late Meiji-era interest in business practices and strategies. The three plates show portraits of the men, among them J. Pierpont Morgan. The final section is mostly ad pages for business-related books. Three copies in OCLC, two in Japan and one at the Library of Congress.
Sport in Art [SIGNED with two ORIGINAL LETTERS]

Sport in Art [SIGNED with two ORIGINAL LETTERS] by Baillie-Grohman, William A.

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Title
Sport in Art [SIGNED with two ORIGINAL LETTERS]
Author
Baillie-Grohman, William A.
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
Description
London: Ballantyne and Co, ND. Edition de Luxe. Hardcover. g. 1/25. Sm. folio. xxiii,422,[1],pp. Brown suede with gold-stamped illustration of medieval hunting scene, gold lettering on cover and spine. Age wear to binding. Two-inch split along head of spine on front board. Abrasions to parts of leather. Top edge gilt. Fore- and bottom page edges untrimmed. Ex-Libris of Harry Worcester Smith to inside of front board. Decorated endpapers. Sporadic foxing throughout. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Signature of author on verso of half-title. Two original letters pasted-in. 1) Letterhead of “Schloss Matzen Bei Brixlegg (The work was written in this castle).” Tyrol Austria, 25th June 1922. Dear Mr. Worcester Smith, Thank you for all the trouble…(original signature) of authors wife. Letter was written on typewriter with a few misspellings. 2) Handwritten letter of certification by author tipped-in on verso of frontispiece. “Boxley Abbey, Maidstone. Sept. 6, 1917. I certify herewith that No. 10 of the Edition de Luxe of my “Sport in Art' was purchased by Mr. Harry Worcester Smith of Lordvale (?), North Grafton, Mass. N (?). S. A. I am giving this certificate because I was …? to affix my signature on the flyleaf before dispatching it to W. W.S. (signed, W. A. Baillie-Grohman).” Harry Worcester Smith was an industrialist, machinery inventor and sportsman who was also known as the “Master of the Westmeath Foxhounds.” “An Iconography of Sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries.” Illustrated with 243 reproductions of full-page as well as in-text drawings in b/w & few in color and duo-tone. Includes appendix of artists. Binding in fair (with stunning gold illustration), interior in overall very good condition. Rare.
Leondardo da Vinci 1452-1519. The complete paintings and drawings

Leondardo da Vinci 1452-1519. The complete paintings and drawings by Zöllner, Frank

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Leondardo da Vinci 1452-1519. The complete paintings and drawings
Author
Zöllner, Frank
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Köln, London etc.: Taschen, 2012. Large folio, pp. 695, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout, illustrated paper boards, pictorial dust jacket; a touch of aging to the edges of textblock, else fine in original cardboard case.
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Card by Vliet, Claire Van

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Title
Card
Author
Vliet, Claire Van
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Hardcover. Very Good. Handwritten note and example of Vliet's paper illustrations.
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Walt Whitman in Camden by Wescott, Ralph W.

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Title
Walt Whitman in Camden
Author
Wescott, Ralph W.
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
Trenton, NJ: Walt Whitman Foundation and State of New Jersey Department of Conservation and Economic Development, 1952. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. Minor creasings at spine edge, rear cover slightly soiled. Black and white photograph of title poet decorating front cover. Black and white photographs throughout. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions.
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Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1906-1907

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Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1906-1907
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Government Printing Office, 1912. Good. . Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1906-1907. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. 308pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Good. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed. Fore edges of the covers have numerous small moisture stains. There is a previous owner's name on the front paste-down. Contains the report on Casa Grande, Arizona by Jesse Walter Fewkes.
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Guide to the Study of Volume Seven of the Documentary History of the Church

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Title
Guide to the Study of Volume Seven of the Documentary History of the Church
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Deseret News, [1951]. Good. Guide to the Study of Volume Seven of the Documentary History of the Church. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, [1951]. 36pp. 12mo. Yellow stapled wraps. Book condition: Good with lightly faded and soiled covers and former owner's name on head of front wrap.
Souvenir de Genes: 30 Vues

Souvenir de Genes: 30 Vues by [no author]

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Souvenir de Genes: 30 Vues
Author
[no author]
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
Genova, 1900. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. Good plus red cloth backed red decorative paper covered boards with glit and black stamped designs and title on front board. Wear to edges of exterior includes chipping. Rubbing to boards. 30 tourist sites, pages connected with descriptions in 4 languages (including English) on back. Travel. TRA/4233.
DINOSAURS AND VIOLINS

DINOSAURS AND VIOLINS by Sobiloff, Hy

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Title
DINOSAURS AND VIOLINS
Author
Sobiloff, Hy
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1954. First edition, first prnt. Foreword by Conrad Aiken. Small smudge on foreedge; one and a half inch closed tear on rear panel of the acetete dustjacket. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket. The image is of the actual book described and not a stock photo.
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A Moonlight Witch: A Fantasy. by ADAIR, Diana.

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Title
A Moonlight Witch: A Fantasy.
Author
ADAIR, Diana.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
London & NY: Regency Press, (1970).. First edition.. 59 pp. Very good only in glossy wrappers with a crease to front and rear covers. Poems with a foreword by Le Comte de la Villesbrunne (!).
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Tomboy Bride. by Backus, Harriet Fish.

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Title
Tomboy Bride.
Author
Backus, Harriet Fish.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Publishing Co., [1969]. 14th printing. Octavo, softbound, 273 pp. Photos. Near-Fine.

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