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The Mists of Avalon (Inscribed)

The Mists of Avalon (Inscribed) by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

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Seller: Thorn Books
Title
The Mists of Avalon (Inscribed)
Author
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
ISBN
9780394524061
Condition
Fine
Description
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. xi(i),876,(iv)pp. Black cloth spine, dark gray paper over boards, both blocked in copper foil. A fine copy without the usual sunning. The dust wrapper is not price-clipped and is also fine. Inscribed by the author in the title page: to Ross Voyles. "Historical writing on a grand scale, with all the magic conviction and resonance of ballad and ancient lore." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-48.
THE BEAUTIES OF TOM BROWN

THE BEAUTIES OF TOM BROWN by WILSON, Charles Henry

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Title
THE BEAUTIES OF TOM BROWN
Author
WILSON, Charles Henry
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
London: T.& R. Hughes, 1808. ROWLANDSON, Thomas. 12mo.beautiful, decorative full-morocco leather, top edge gilt; viii; 231 pages. Binding by Tallibart. With full pull-out frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson. Consisting Of Humorous Pieces, In Prose And Verse, Selected From The Works Of That Satirical And Lively Writer, To Which Is Prefixed A Life Of The Author. First Edition. Scarce! Near fine (covers & binding very nice; contents clean & tight with extremely minor foxing). A lovely copy!
THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE TOTEM FACES

THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE TOTEM FACES by WEST, Jerry

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THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE TOTEM FACES
Author
WEST, Jerry
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Garden City Books, 1958. Hamilton, Helen S.. WEST, Jerry. THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE TOTEM FACES. Illustrated by Helen S. Hamilto. Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, [1958]. 8vo., red cloth in dust jacket; 182 pages. First Edition (so stated); with $1.00 price & "70-100" on the lower left-hand corner of front d/j flap; with this title listed last on rear flap. Near fine (contents clean & tight); few small chips & short tears d/j. $25.00.
20,000 Bikinis Under the Sea (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

20,000 Bikinis Under the Sea (Original screenplay for an unproduced film) by Norman Maurer (writer)

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Title
20,000 Bikinis Under the Sea (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
Author
Norman Maurer (writer)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Hollywood: Self published, 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "20,000 Bikinis Under the Sea." Maurer rose to some popularity after his brief stint as a comic book artist, notably for "Three Stooges" titles and the first 3-D comics, "Three-Dimension Comics," featuring Mighty Mouse. He also married Joan Howard, daughter of Stooge Moe Howard, and this association led him to managing the Stooges after their contract with Columbia, producing seven Stooge films as well as the television series, "The New 3 Stooges" (1965). An interesting take on beach party phase during the 1960s, where an inventor develops a sustainable way to live underwater. He eats, drinks, and gets married, all underwater. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with a credit for writer Maurer. 45 leaves, with last page of text numbered 44. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.
Original "Zoot" mailer, for a performance by Zoot Sims and his ensemble, at the Church of Heavenly Rest, for their third concert of their fourth "Heavenly Jazz Concert" season, Sunday, February 3, 1980

Original "Zoot" mailer, for a performance by Zoot Sims and his ensemble, at the Church of Heavenly Rest, for their third concert of their fourth "Heavenly Jazz Concert" season, Sunday, February 3, 1980 by Zoot Sims, Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Joe Cohn Mike De Pasqua (artists)

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Original "Zoot" mailer, for a performance by Zoot Sims and his ensemble, at the Church of Heavenly Rest, for their third concert of their fourth "Heavenly Jazz Concert" season, Sunday, February 3, 1980
Author
Zoot Sims, Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Joe Cohn Mike De Pasqua (artists)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
New York: The Day School, 1980. Vintage mailer for "Zoot," a performance by Zoot Sims and his ensemble, for the third performance of the Church of the Heavenly Rest's fourth "Heavenly Jazz Concert" season, Sunday, February 3, 1980. Sims ensemble includes Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Joe Cohn, and Mike De Pasqua. The Heavenly Jazz Concert series were held at the Church of the Heavenly Rest to benefit the Day School (which adjoins the church). John Haley "Zoot" Sims was a prolific tenor, alto, and soprano saxophonist who recorded over 100 albums from the 1950s until his death in 1985. Among the musicians Sims recorded with include Pepper Adams, Chet Baker, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Al Cohen, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Quincy Jones, Gerry Mulligan, and Sarah Vaughan, among others. 8 x 13.5 inches. Very Good plus, with two horizontal creases from mailing, with starting at the right of the lower crease, and some light creasing overall.
Africa Erotica: A Happening in Africa [Africa Erotica] (Original photograph from the 1970 film)

Africa Erotica: A Happening in Africa [Africa Erotica] (Original photograph from the 1970 film) by Zygmunt Sulistrowski (director, screenwriter, starring); Jordan Arthur Deutsch (screenwriter); Carrie Rochelle, Alice Marie, Maude Carolle (starring)

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Africa Erotica: A Happening in Africa [Africa Erotica] (Original photograph from the 1970 film)
Author
Zygmunt Sulistrowski (director, screenwriter, starring); Jordan Arthur Deutsch (screenwriter); Carrie Rochelle, Alice Marie, Maude Carolle (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: Manson Distributing, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film, here under the working title "Africa Erotica." Provenance stamp on the verso. A travelogue of young women and a photographer traveling around the African continent. Shot on location in Tanzania and Uganda. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with light creasing and a 1.5 inch closed tear to the right side.
Jeu des Manifestants

Jeu des Manifestants by [Policing Protesters; Table-Top Game]

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Title
Jeu des Manifestants
Author
[Policing Protesters; Table-Top Game]
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1895. [Paris: n.d. ca 1895]. Original box (85 x 73 x 20 mm) covered in gilt-patterned paper with mounted color illustrated title on outside lid and printed instructions slip on inside lid. With 8 printed rectangular card game pieces plus the rare color printed solution sheet (120 x 120 mm), folded twice. Minor split to one edge of the lid, a few small tears to the sheet, otherwise a very good and complete example of this rare and fragile game. ß A very early, apparently the first, issue of this French game of protesters in which the player takes on the part of a police officer attempting to prevent people from assembling at a demonstration. Not located in OCLC, although other searches reveal copies in the Indiana Lilly Library (in the Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection), one within a "coffret de jeu" (a boxed group of puzzles and games) at the MusÈe du Jouet de Poissy, and another (a variant in which the game pieces are triangular) at the Marseille MusÈe des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la MÈditerranÈe (MUCEM). Later issues with varying artwork can also sometimes appear. The Marseille museum's copy featured in a forum held on February 5, 2024: "Faut-il parler des violences policiËres?" ("Should we talk about police brutality?"). The curator Mireille Jacotin explained: "Jeu des manifestants is a game in which you are the hero, that is to say, the police officer, and as the accompanying instructions explicitly state, you are firmly positioned on the side of the public authority responsible for maintaining order. In reality, the game consists of arranging a set of cardboard pieces printed on a right-angled triangle-shaped board in such a way as to ensure that no two red dots end up on the same line. The underlying concept is to simplify the police s task by ensuring that they do not face a mere undifferentiated crowd and certainly not any organized lines requiring a tactical breach, such as a battlefront during wartime. The game board features no specific characters; instead, it presents a simple grid comprising lines and sectors that serves as a framework for devising and visualizing a strategic plan atop a generic cartographic representation of public space. The red dots, in this scenario, represent the demonstrators. On the lid of the box, however, is an urban scene: an overturned double-decker bus, a urinal, figures stirring in the distance, and a policeman in the foreground." (For the original French, see https://www.davduf.net/le-jeu-des-manifestants-1895.) It seems likely this game was inspired by the many protests that took place in Paris throughout the 1890s, including the birth of the international May Day demonstrations.
Groucho Marx | Type 1 Photograph

Groucho Marx | Type 1 Photograph

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Groucho Marx | Type 1 Photograph
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
1959. A studio publicity photo of Groucho Marx taken in 1959, while he was the host of NBC's You Bet Your Life. This type 1 photo measures 7" x 9" and is in very good condition. Minor creases in image, age-toning throughout, and a faint crease to the top-left corner. Verso has several date-of-use stamps, and a notation in pencil. K21013 Shelved Case 0. CX Consignment. 1349119. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Death of a Fellow Traveller

Death of a Fellow Traveller by Ames, Delano

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Death of a Fellow Traveller
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Ames, Delano
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good in Good dj
Description
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1950). First Edition. Hardcover. [light bumping to lower corners, minor wear at spine ends, a good sound copy; jacket is edgeworn, and has been internally reinforced with brown paper tape along all edges and folds] Mystery novel set along the Cornwall coast, featuring "that delightfully zany pair of amateur sleuths, Jane and Dagobert Brown," who were (of course) vacationing in the area. (Because don't all amateur sleuthing couples, zany or not, always get involved with murders when they're on vacation?) Although American-born, the author spent much of his writing life in England, which pretty much infused his fiction -- one critic called the Dagobert and Jane books (of which there were ultimately a dozen) "at times exasperatingly British, even when they take place in France, Switzerland, or America." It's interesting that this book is cover-blurbed as "a new Dagobert Brown story," when in fact it's Jane who is both the narrator and, in some measure, the driving force of the books. Generally speaking (per critic Ellen A. Nehr), their adventures involve "Jane [doing] all the work and Dagobert wander[ing] through vague attempts at scholarly occupations," as befits a "black sheep of an entitled family." (This was the fourth book in the series, most titles in which seem to have been published simultaneously in England and America, with the American editions generally less common.) .
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Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre, Eds

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Title
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages
Author
Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre, Eds
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Fine
Description
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. An immaculate copy of the 1995 1st edition. As New in an As New dustjacket. Octavo, 322 pgs.
One Hundred Drawings in The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk

One Hundred Drawings in The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk by Zafran, Eric M.

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One Hundred Drawings in The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk
Author
Zafran, Eric M.
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG-. Cover lightly tanned, especially along spine. Clean contents.
Description
Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1979. Softcover. VG-. Cover lightly tanned, especially along spine. Clean contents.. Cream wraps with brown illustration, olive lettering on spine. 145 pp. 100 BW plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held March 2-May 6, 1979. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of 100 works accompanied by an alphabetical index to the artists.
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Mina Papatheodorou-Valyrakis: Executive Cars

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Mina Papatheodorou-Valyrakis: Executive Cars
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG
Description
VG. Color-illustrated tri-fold card with 4 illustrations. Text in Greek with a brief biography and 4 large color images.
Basle as a Residence

Basle as a Residence

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Title
Basle as a Residence
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Society of Welcome to Strangers at Basle, 1910. Hardcover. 109pp. Small octavo [20 cm] Gray cloth over flexible boards, with white lettering, and a white and brown ink stamped emblem on the front board. Decorative endsheets. Very good. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped. There is a contemporary owner's inscription on the front free endsheet. The top corners of the pages at the beginning have been folded over. From the Preface- "Wherefore constant are the inquiries at the General Inquiry Office as to actual conditions of living and as to rents and expenses. Thus arose the necessity of answering in printed form, the many and various inquiries of this kind." With a "Stadtplan von Basel.
The Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (Unofficial translation); Original text in French, German and Italian

The Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (Unofficial translation); Original text in French, German and Italian

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The Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (Unofficial translation); Original text in French, German and Italian
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
no city, Switzerland: no publisher, 1960. Pamphlet. 85p., 8.5x5.7 inches, reproduced from typescript, plain printed self-wraps, stock slightly toned, a very good copy.
English Music (Signed Advanced Reading Copy)

English Music (Signed Advanced Reading Copy) by ACKROYD, Peter

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English Music (Signed Advanced Reading Copy)
Author
ACKROYD, Peter
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Advanced reading copy of this well received novel. A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers, lacking the paper slipcase. Signed by Ackroyd.

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