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Creature Comforts by ADDAMS Charles

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Creature Comforts
Author: ADDAMS Charles
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1981. First Edition. Signed. ADDAMS, Charles. Creature Comforts. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981). Tall, slim quarto, original half orange cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $4700.First edition, first printing, of this collection of Addams cartoons, inscribed to actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and his wife, with a pen-and-ink drawing to the fly-leaf depicting Addams famed character Uncle Fester flashing himself under a rain coat; appearing as a tattoo on Uncle Festers chest is the inscription, To Marydee [in red ink] and Douglas [in green ink] with Love [in blue ink] Chas Addams 82 [in black ink]. Uncle Fester wears boxer shorts striped in a bright red and green.""Addams specialized in a bizarre brand of comedy founded on the inexplicable in nature and the antisocial in humanity Although he sold cartoons to many magazines during the 1930s and 1940s, Addams is most closely associated with The New Yorker, where his macabre sense of humor became a fixture. That magazine bought its first Addams cartoon in 1935"" (ANB). Novelist Wilfrid Sheed remembers Addams as ""a tall, laconic man, with a head he might have drawn himself and a voice straight out of Casket and Sunnyside, the mortician's manual."" Addams' prototypical American family, described by Sheed as ""an American classic, a Halloween version of Norman Rockwell and Grant Wood,"" inspired a hit television series and two movies. Price sticker to rear panel of dust jacket. With armorial bookplate of recipient Douglas Fairbanks Jr., famed ""actor, producer, administrator, bon vivant and Anglo-American ambassador,"" whose many films include Morning Glory (1933) with Katharine Hepburn and Prisoner of Zenda (1937). After a brief marriage to Joan Crawford, during WWII Fairbanks enlisted in the Navy, becoming ""the first American officer to command a British flotilla of raiding craft during a commando operation."" Using his ""prestige and administrative skills as a volunteer for the United Nations his contributions won him many honors, including Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire"" (New York Times).Interior fine; light wear to binding extremities. Light wear to extremities of bright dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine head. A near-fine copy with exceptional provenance, scarce with a sketch by Addams.

WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR by Greenhaus, Ben

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Title: WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR
Author: Greenhaus, Ben
Seller: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (United States)
Description: Greenhaus, Ben. Greenhaus, Ben (American, 1908-1951). WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR. Mounted gelatin silver photograph of Willkie, presumably during the campaign of 1940. c. 12 x 10 inches, mounted to 20 x 16 inches. The verso with the photographer's stamp (Greenhaus photographed for the New York Times) and a label of the Press Photographer's Association of New York stating that this photograph was included its Sixth Annual Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center, NY, March 29 to April 27, 1941. Wendell Willkie, 1892-1944, was a lawyer and utilities executive who was the Republican candidate for the US Presidency in 1940. The sandwich mount is not archival, showing some discoloration at the bevel, and chipping at the edges, but the photograph appears to be in very good condition.

Outdoor Advertising by Wilmot Lippincott; Percival White [intro.]

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: Outdoor Advertising
Author: Wilmot Lippincott; Percival White [intro.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 340pp. Thirty-two color plates; black and white illustrations including frontispiece. Dark green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Stain to bottom of front boards; wear to extremities with shallow loss to top of spine, minor fraying, and brief exposure. Binding gives a little but overall sound. Advertisement for Creative Bureau, Thos. Cusack Co. mounted to front free endpaper; interior else unmarked. Still a Very Good copy. Scarce study of and promotion for early 1920s-era advertising. Discusses electric signage, wartime advertising, and employing street cards. Among the featured color plates are Coca-Cola, Glacier National Park, and Homaid Bread of Detroit.

Directory of Artists Under Exclusive Management of The Edward Small Co.

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Seller: ReadInk

Title: Directory of Artists Under Exclusive Management of The Edward Small Co.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Hollywood/New York: The Edward Small Company. Fair. [1926]. First Edition. Flexible boards. (flexible leatherette-overed boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [extensive white paint staining at edges of front cover, with some impact on the interior; it appears that somebody once used this book to support something that was being painted white; why do people do such things?]. (B&W portrait photographs) A directory (like the title says) of actors, actresses, directors, and writers who were under the management of Edward Small (1891-1977), who up until this time (1926) was primarily an agent; he had established his agency in New York in the mid-1910s, and in 1917 set up shop in Hollywood. (The title page of this directory indicates that he also had offices in London, Paris, and Berlin.) It was in 1926, though, that he began to shift his focus to the production of motion pictures, and over the next 45 years or so was one of the most successful and prolific of Hollywood-based independent producers. Judging from this volume, he had a pretty extensive roster of talent -- there are full-page portraits here of over 100 performers, each with their three most recent credits -- although most were character actors rather than top-line talent. (Some of the more notable names are John Gilbert, Nita Naldi, Baby Peggy, Lionel Barrymore, and Francis X. Bushman -- although those who are steeped in the history of the American silent film will recognize many more. Two more who caught my eye the sisters Eva and Jane Novak, who appear on facing pages; this volume was acquired from a relative of Jane Novak, so it can reasonably be assumed that it belonged to her.) Only a relative handful of directors and writers are included, notably Joseph Henabery (whose name is misspelled) and John M. Stahl. The firm's motto (at the bottom of the front cover and title page) was apparently "Service Plus Integrity." There's also a quote from Edward Small inside that pretty much sums up the agent mentality: "Personality is a Commodity." .

IN PHARAOH'S ARMY: MEMORIES OF THE LOST WAR [Signed] by Wolff, Tobias

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Title: IN PHARAOH'S ARMY: MEMORIES OF THE LOST WAR [Signed]
Author: Wolff, Tobias
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780679402176
Description: New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 221 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black and gold with white and black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price clipped from front flap, flaps have mild age-toning and bending wear. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities; spine mildly cocked. Textblock head edge dyed red, fore edge speckled red. Signed flat on title page by Tobias Wolff. Shelved Room C. 1403775. Special Collections.

The Checkered Demon III by S. Clay Wilson

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: The Checkered Demon III
Author: S. Clay Wilson
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1979. Pictorial boards. Very Good +. A clean, crisp copy of this 1979 S. Clay Wilson offering, published by the formidable Last Gasp of San Francisco. Bright and VG+ to Near Fine in its wild stapled wrappers, with just a touch of very light creasing along the bottom-edges. Oblong octavo, raunchy, over-the-top work by one of the major American underground cartoonists, a central figure in the underground comix movement.

Scientific Discovery Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes by Pat Langley; Herbert A. Simon; Gary L. Bradshaw; Jan M. Zytkow

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Title: Scientific Discovery Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes
Author: Pat Langley; Herbert A. Simon; Gary L. Bradshaw; Jan M. Zytkow
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780262121163
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition: A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only light rubbing to the spine head and flap folds. An exceptional copy of this look at computational explorations in information processing. Not remaindered and not ex-library; will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Ferdinand including It Was by ZUKOFSKY, Louis

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: Ferdinand including It Was
Author: ZUKOFSKY, Louis
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First English edition, wrappered issue. 12mo. White printed wrappers. Slight foxing on topedge, a bit of discoloration at bottom of cover from dust jacket, near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear, and a slightly sunned spine.

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver by ADELMAN, Bob, Raymond Carver, and Tess Gallagher

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Title: Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver
Author: ADELMAN, Bob, Raymond Carver, and Tess Gallagher
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780684191669
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 159 pages. Features an introduction by Carver's widow Tess Gallagher. A fascinating book that features excerpts from Carver's unpublished letters and from some of his stories as well. Includes numerous black and white images by Bob Adelman. A fine copy in photo-illustrated boards in a very near fine dust jacket.

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