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Original Typed Letter Signed

Original Typed Letter Signed by Watson, James D.

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
Original Typed Letter Signed
Author
Watson, James D.
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Fine.
Description
Cold Spring Harbor, New York: n.p., 1970. Fine.. Original signed typescript letter from the Nobel Prize winner to teen autograph-hunter Harris Lentz III, who would later author the multi-volume CELEBRITY OBITUARIES book series. Watson's response to Lentz's autograph request was written eight years after his receipt (with Francis Crick) of the 1962 Nobel Prize for their pioneering work on the structure of DNA, and just two years after the publication of THE DOUBLE HELIX and his appointment as director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 11'' x 8.5''. Original typescript letter on single watermarked leaf of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory letterhead. Signed by Watson in pen above printed name. Faint horizontal mailing creases.
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Seven original photographs from the 1975 film)

Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Seven original photographs from the 1975 film) by Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintgnant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina, Sylvia Kristel (starring)

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Seller: Royal Books
Title
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Seven original photographs from the 1975 film)
Author
Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintgnant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina, Sylvia Kristel (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless, black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in image making, fourth wall breaking, and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism, voyeurism, and doppelgangers. One of his most commercially successful films, down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel, far more prevalent in the marketing material (she appears in two of the photographs here) than in the actual film. 7 x 5 inches. Fine.
Without a Stitch

Without a Stitch by Bjørneboe, Jens (translated from the Norwegian by Walter Barthold)

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Title
Without a Stitch
Author
Bjørneboe, Jens (translated from the Norwegian by Walter Barthold)
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description
New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1969). First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; the jacket is also quite clean, and has a printed price label affixed at the top of the front flap, on top of the original printed price on the jacket itself]. First-person narrative novel about a "19-year-old girl troubled by her frigidity with boys" who discovers her Lesbian libido via a serious fight with a girlfriend, "complete with scratching, hair-pulling, and fists." Purportedly "widely published in Europe" without incident, it ran into trouble in the author's native Norway, with their Supreme Court banning the book and fining Bjørneboe for "sexual nihilism." The book seems to have not been published in the U.S. until November 1969, just a month or so before the release of a Danish-made film adaptation; it was the latter event that led Grove to issue a new dust jacket featuring a still from the film (which appears on the second and all subsequent printings). However, there may have been another reason the original jacket was "retired." Take another look at that naked beach babe: it's none other than Jane Fonda, and although the photo itself is properly credited to the photographer, she might as well have been an anonymous model. But the weird thing is that Jane was hardly an unknown at the time: on-screen since 1961, she'd reached the peak of the first (sex-kitten) stage of her career by starring in her then-husband Roger Vadim's ultra-campy 1968 film BARBARELLA. Nor was this particular nude-ish photo session exactly obscure: a very similar shot had been given major exposure (sorry) in a March 1968 issue of Life Magazine (in a cover story on BARBARELLA), and yet another was mass-marketed as a male-dorm-room-suitable poster -- which poster, in turn, would be re-purposed a few years later as a vehicle for expressing anti-"Hanoi Jane" vitriol. The point being: did Grove's decision to use this already-close-to-iconic celebrity image to package their titillating Scandinavian import represent prescient marketing boldness, or a simple unlicensed "oops"? The episode (if it can be called that) seems to have gone unremarked-upon in any of the literature on Ms. Fonda, so any claims that she might have effected its "withdrawal" or "suppression" should be taken with a grain of sand, pending actual, you know, evidence. Do note, however, that second and subsequent printings (with the film-still jacket) are considerably more common than the "naked Jane" first. .
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The Care of Time by AMBLER, Eric

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Title
The Care of Time
Author
AMBLER, Eric
Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
First edition, first printing (so stated). Octavo. Original gilt stamped dark blue cloth. Fine. Original publisher's red cloth slipcase. As issued, without dust jacket. 277 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Number 24 of 300 numbered copies, signed by Ambler on limitation page.
繪圖釋音百家姓 / Hui tu shi yin bai jia xing [= One hundred surnames, illustrated and pronounced]

繪圖釋音百家姓 / Hui tu shi yin bai jia xing [= One hundred surnames, illustrated and pronounced]

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繪圖釋音百家姓 / Hui tu shi yin bai jia xing [= One hundred surnames, illustrated and pronounced]
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
[Shanghai]: Guang Yi Shu Ju, 1920. 8" x 5", pp. 18; text in Chinese and printed lithographically, each page with four small portraits at the head; stab stitched, pictorial paper wrappers; the impression a low quality, leading to blotching and fading, but condition wise clean and sound. Guang Yi Shu Ju was an printing house established in the early 20th century and was known mostly for its cheapness, both in the price of its books and in their production quality. Taiwan Central Library only in OCLC.
Moment in Peking: A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life

Moment in Peking: A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life by YUTANG, Lin (novel; preface)

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Title
Moment in Peking: A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life
Author
YUTANG, Lin (novel; preface)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine; maroon topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 815pp; illus. Modest shelf-wear and soil, with light indentation to upper front board, and light rubbing to board edges; Good. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear, 1" chip to base of spine, tiny chips and creases to extremities, and foxing to verso of spine panel; Good. Yutang's novel explores forty years of contemporary China, focusing on conflict and love within an upper middle-class family. Text includes information on how to pronounce names and a family tree. [84450].
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Archive/Atlas/ Album: The Photographic Constructions of Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, and Dinh Q. Lê. by Albers, Katharine Palmer.

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Archive/Atlas/ Album: The Photographic Constructions of Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, and Dinh Q. Lê.
Author
Albers, Katharine Palmer.
Seller
Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description
Ann Arbor (UMI Dissertation Services), 2008.. xix, 417pp. Sm. 4to. Wraps. Ph.D. thesis, Boston University, 2008, in microfilm photocopy.
Centro de Entretenimientos Populares "José Arrieta"

Centro de Entretenimientos Populares "José Arrieta" by [Fundación Arrieta ]

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Title
Centro de Entretenimientos Populares "José Arrieta"
Author
[Fundación Arrieta ]
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A near fine copy, faint sunning at edges.
Description
Santiago de Chile: Escuela Tip. La Gratitud Nacional, 1928. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy, faint sunning at edges.. 32, [2] pp. Illus. with 2 b/w plates. 12mo. Report on the Jose Arrieta Center and its programs. With a one page update of 1928.
The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War

The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War by CRITCHFIELD, Richard

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Title
The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War
Author
CRITCHFIELD, Richard
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. xi, 401pp. A tiny tear at the crown, else fine in a very good dust jacket with a sunned spine, several chips and small tears along the edges, a touch of foxing, and light rubbing including an abrasion near the upper corner of the front cover.
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SIMS by Wilson, F. Paul

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Title
SIMS
Author
Wilson, F. Paul
Seller
THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
SIMS, Forge, 2003, first edition, fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Signed by author.
Palms of Malaya

Palms of Malaya by Whitmore, T. C.

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Seller: McBlain Books
Title
Palms of Malaya
Author
Whitmore, T. C.
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. frontis, photos, illustrations, xv, 132p. Original green boards. dj. 26cm.

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