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The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Ernest

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Title: The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Half-cloth and illustrated paper boards. Some warping and foxing to boards and endpapers, endemic to books from the Caribbean, i
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Second English edition, first printing, second issue; First illustrated edition. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. 8vo. Half-cloth and illustrated paper boards. Some warping and foxing to boards and endpapers, endemic to books from the Caribbean, in dust jacket with some fading to spine, bit of edgewear and some closed tears along top edge, with a "With the Compliments of the Author" panel pasted to rear flap. Second English edition, first printing, second issue; First illustrated edition. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. 8vo. A wonderful association copy of The Old Man and the Sea, inscribed by Hemingway on the half title to film director and producer Fred Zinnemann: "Dear Freddy: Better luck if there is a place where we get better luck, Papa" Laid in are two photographs of Ernest and Mary Hemingway at a table with Fred Zinnemann, who had made an unofficial trip to Cuba in October 1955 to discuss the project with Hemingway before being brought on as director. Additionally laid in is a typed sheet with the heading: "December 20th, 1955 / "Old Man of the Sea" / Lima - Peru" containing notes on prices, accommodations, restaurants, etc. associated with filming on location in Peru." There is also a pictorial postcard from a group fishing expedition in Peru for capturing footage for the Old Man and the Sea film, that includes Hemingway and Mary, as well as cinematographer Hans Koenekamp. They spent April in Cabo Blanco, Peru, fishing every day and getting footage of Marlins for the film. The card's typed message is addressed to film producer Norman Cook and Fred Zinneman at the Hotel Rosita De Hornedo in Havana, Cuba, from Joe Barry, who's name appears in minor film roles throughout the period, as well as in the Leland Hayward archive at the NYPL, and was likely working as a production assistant on this shoot. Sent on May 1, 1956, he writes about the photo on the verso: "This is the one we got but he did not give us any action, 730 lbs. 13 Ft 5 In. long. Too bad, he might have been the one, it is one foot longer then [sic.] the biggest one caught here but not as heavy. We are still trying and hope we get what we came here for. My best wishes to you both and hope to see you soon." Leland Hayward, who had persuaded Life magazine to serialize the novel, acquired the rights to The Old Man and the Sea in 1953, Hemingway was brought in to work on the script - eventually handled by Peter Viertel - and supervise the fishing scenes. Fred Zinneman's first film The Wave (1936) - shot on location in Mexico with non-professional actors - was one of the earliest examples of a social realist film. He had recent success with the films High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and Oklahoma! Zinneman was unhappy with the difficulty in capturing marlin and shark activity suitable for use in the film, and after a mechanical marlin sank in the waters off of Cuba, Zinneman walked away, saying afterwards: "It made little sense to proceed with a robot pretending to be a fish in a studio tank pretending to be the Gulf Stream with an actor pretending to be a fisherman." His son, Tim, gives a more colorful version of his parting from the film: "My father had been directing the movie of 'Old Man and the Sea' but had a series of fights with Spencer Tracy and quit in the middle of shooting. Hemingway took my father's side and gave him the book with the 'better luck next time'" message. They remained good friends until Hemingway's death...Hemingway,Tracy and Leland Hayward were the producers of the film. Tracy would get drunk and habitually show up five or more hours late on the set (at sea). My father was furious and quit. Hemingway backed up my father and went to see Hayward at his hotel in Havana - got into an argument with him and punched him out." A letter sent to Zinneman by Hemingway in August 1956, after the project has already wrapped, reads "Will not write any atrocity stories about the picture. You must be as sick of them as I am," and congratulates Zinneman on passing up an offer to work on a film version of The Sun Also Rises (Christies, 2005). Finally, laid into the book is a Christmas card to Zinnemann's family written by Mary Hemingway, and sent during the Hemingways' Eurropean trip at the end of 1956: "Dear Z's - we really ought to be together in this fine town - best to have all three of you - Mary (Hemingway) (Paris)" Beneath Mary's inscription, Hemingway writes: "Love Papa. Hope things go well." A lovely association between Hemingway and someone he saw as a close friend until the end of his life. Grissom A.24.1; Baker, Carlos, Ernest Hemingway: A Life, pp. 533

The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts. Being The study of Biochimo the famous Italian by CHESS. Greco, Gioachino (1600-1634); Lovelace, Richard (1618–1658)

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Title: The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts. Being The study of Biochimo the famous Italian
Author: CHESS. Greco, Gioachino (1600-1634); Lovelace, Richard (1618–1658)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to image), blank corner of leaf B6 excised (no loss), a few tiny repairs to marginal tears. The book includes a woodcut chess board on p. 14. The portrait of King Charles I is by Peter Stent (fl. 1640-1667). The book includes a poem by Richard Lovelace (1618–1658). In this issue the poem begins “Sir, now unravell’d is the Golden Fleece” and is unsigned. In another issue (no precedence), the poem is titled “To his Honoured Friend on his Game of Chesse-Play” and is signed “R. Lovelace.”(See Leon, “The Games of Greco”, p. 234). “Gioachino ‘the famous Italian’ Greco was a masterful chess analyst, head and shoulders above his seventeenth-century contemporaries… Greco’s great service to chess lies in the fact that he had made this material known to a wider circle of players than Polerio and his contemporaries had ever reached. In this way his MSS. became one of the most important productions in the literature of chess.”(Murray, p. 830) Greco's book consists of 94 chess gambits. For this English edition, the translator-editor, Richard Beale (d. ca. 1666) has included a discussion of the origins of chess and a chapter of rules ("The Lawes of Chesse"). These rules, which include "If you touch your man you must play it," reveal the still inchoate state of the game. The book includes the first known use of the verb "castle". “Known as Il Calabrese, Greco was born around 1600 in Celico, Calabria. Already in 1619, Greco started keeping a notebook of tactics and particularly clever games; and he took up the custom of giving copies of his manuscripts to his wealthy patrons. In 1621, Greco left Italy to test himself against players in the rest of Europe. He apparently met with success while traveling for, on his way from Paris to England, he was waylaid by robbers who divested him of 5,000 scudi, a princely sum. Finally making it to London, he beat all the best players. “While in London, Greco developed an idea to record entire games, rather than positions, for study and inclusion in his manuscripts. He returned to Paris in 1624 where he rewrote his manuscript collection to reflect his new ideas. He then went to Spain and played at the court of Philip IV. There he beat his mentor and the strongest player of the time (other than himself), Don Mariano Morano. He finally returned to Italy where he was enticed to traveling to the New Indies, the Americas, by a Spanish nobleman. He seemingly contracted some disease there and died around 1630 (possibly 1634) at the young age of 30 (34). He generously left all the money he earned at chess to the Jesuits." (David Hooper, in The Oxford Companion to Chess) This English edition begins with a dedication to Montague, Earle of Lindsay, who appears to have extended his protection to the publisher of the text. The editor/publisher proceeds by addressing "the industrious chess player" wherein he compares chess with warfare. He also that chess play enlightens mysteries covered by the Arts and Sciences and "in the most grave and serious professions." “Greco's name is given as "Biochimo" on the title page - "either the original translator, or the copyist of the M.S., or the editor of the printed edition, appears, first, to have misread the Italian of Greco's Christian name; and then, secondly, (like a good Cavalier,) to have had Shakespeare's Cymbeline running in his head. In this way, Gioachino Greco Calabrese, (with a lopping off of what served at least for a surname,) came to take the odd shape of plain Biochimo" (Chess Monthly, May 1861, p. 135).

The Day of the Brown Horde by Tooker, Richard

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Title: The Day of the Brown Horde
Author: Tooker, Richard
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Payson & Clark, Ltd, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Minus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, First Printing of the author's first book. Near Fine with some light shelf-wear and a bit of pulling at the spine extremities but no tears. Text is clean throughout. The beautiful Art Deco, unclipped wrapper is about Near Fine with some nicks and darkening but really in tremendous shape and uncommon thus.

Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place by Clark, Tom

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Title: Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place
Author: Clark, Tom
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780811212502
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: New Directions, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Creeley on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Published together with Creeley's own "Autobiography," this work is "an interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between the poet and Tom Clark.

Flora and Fauna, Birds and Animals, Trees and Fishes of Australia by Australia. Johnson, Dorothy Ann

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Title: Flora and Fauna, Birds and Animals, Trees and Fishes of Australia
Author: Australia. Johnson, Dorothy Ann
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Australian News & Information Bureau No date, circa 1960s. Paper wraps printed in blue and black, school stamp on front cover, else Near Fine. Brief text about the flora and fauna of Australia including Kangaroo, Platypus, Koala, Emu, etc... Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. . Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 24mo.

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