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London: Readers Library, 1926. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the British release of the MGM silent film swashbuckling epic starring John Barrymore, Mary Astor, and Myrna Loy. Very good copy with a thin split to the rear hinge in a very good dust jacket with a 1/2” chip at the head of the spine and some tiny tears and small chips. The front panel of the jacket is a full color painting of the dashing Barrymore kneeling to kiss the hem of Astor’s gown. The rear panel painting shows a pensive Barrymore leaning against a table toasting with a glass of wine.

London: Hutchinson, 1926. First Edition. Very good copy with some minor foxing to the edges in a lightly dust soiled and handled dust jacket with some small chips and tears. The novel tells the story of a cunning young man who finds himself immersed in the tumultuous politics of fifteenth-century Italy. The front panel of the dust jacket shows a beautiful woman dressed in gold looking down at a young man in red.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Edition - American. Near fine copy with a hint of handling in a full wraparound dust jacket painting by N.C. Wyeth dust jacket which has some very minor dust soiling and some small nicks and tears.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the silent film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Milton Sills and Enid Bennett. The classic sea adventure and romance. Near fine in a lightly used dust jacket with some dust soiling and some small chips and tears. The front panel is a vivid color painting of the “Sea Hawk” Sills commanding his ship wearing flowing robes with a beautiful Bennett standing at his side.

Boston: Little Brown, 1923. First Edition. Bookplate. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. A rare book in dust jacket which has a terrific color exotic painting on the front cover. The basis for the classic Errol Flynn swashbucker directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Claude Rains, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale, Henry Daniell, Una O’Connor, Gilbert Roland, and William Lunidigan.

London: Hutchinson, 1949. First Edition. Very good copy with a bit of fading to the cloth at the spine in a lightly dust soiled and handled dust jacket with a clipped corner to the front flap and some small chips and tears. The front panel of the jacket shows an aristocratic man sitting at a desk with a document in front of him while an angry mob is just outside the window behind him.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First Edition - American. Near fine bright copy with some minor edge wear in a lightly handled dust jacket with some small chips and tears.

London: Hutchinson, 1939. First Edition. Ownership signature crossed out and a small bookseller’s stamp at the front free endpaper. Very good copy with some edge wear and some minor foxing to the edges in a lightly dust soiled and handled dust jacket with a circular price cutout at the spine and some small chips and tears.

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1925. First Edition - Canadian. Very good plus copy with a trace of edge wear in a lightly dust soiled and handled dust jacket with some small chips and tears. The front panel of the dust jacket shows a dashing man in uniform taking the hand of a beautiful young woman.

London: Hutchinson, 1923. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the Rex Ingram directed silent film starring Alice Terry, Ramon Navarro, and Lewis Stone. Very good lightly used and dust soiled copy without dust jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1919. First Edition. Very good copy with some minor rubbing to the cloth and some minor edge wear in a dust soiled dust jacket with some small chips and nicks.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945. First Edition - American. Very good copy with a bit of offsetting to the endpapers and slight fading to the cloth at the spine in a lightly dust soiled and handled dust jacket with some small chips and tears. The front panel of the jacket is a montage of images showing a beautiful woman in a blue gown, a sword fight, a rapier in the foreground, with a crown atop some unfurled fabric at the center.

8” x 10”, n.d. Original black & white photograph of actor Sabu Dastagir, popularly known as Sabu, signed: “Sincerely, Sabu.” In the photo Sabu is smiling warmly and is wearing a turban and a checked button-down shirt. Fine condition. Sabu’s film work includes such classics as The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Jungle Book (1942) as Mowgli, Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948), and Song of India (1949).

New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Dial Press, 1968. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Howard Sackler, to actor Yaphet Kotto: “For Yaphet, with great expectations & best wishes to a new friend. Howard. 17 August ‘69.” Additionally, signed by Yaphet Kotto on the title page. Near fine copy with a trace of spotting to the edges in a rubbed dust jacket with some small small chips and tears. Basis for the film biography of boxer Jack Johnson, which starred James Earl Jones. Yaphet Kotto replaced James Earl Jones on stage when he left the play to do the movie. Kotto began his acting career on Broadway and then in film, portraying Parker in Alien with Sigourney Weaver, and in television as Baltimore police Lieutenant Al Giardello in the hit series Homicide: Life on the Street.

Los Angeles, May 12, 1969. Original 155 page revised first draft screenplay printed on eye-rest green paper hardbound in black cloth with gilt-stamping. This copy belonged to casting director Eddie Foy III who has signed the script and laid in is a document signed by Foy providing provenance. The Great White Hope, the 1970 Martin Ritt boxing sports biographical melodrama starring James Earl Jones (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Jane Alexander (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Lou Gilbert, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Moses Gunn, and Robert Webber. Howard Sackler’s play won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Award and Sackler successfully adapted his work to film. The story is a fictionalized veiled biography of legendary heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, an incredible black African American boxer who encountered many problems due to his refusal to be treated as a second class citizen.

1930s. Original autograph signature of British author Adam Sadler, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Fine. Adam Sadler is the author of ‘The Sunlit Road,’ ‘Lord Harry,’ etc.

New York: Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, 2003. First Edition. Paperbound, 7” x 8 1/2”. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibit of art works by Lynne Yamamoto. With an essay by Kerri Sakamoto: “Unbroken Blossoms: Ambivalence and Beauty in the Work of Lynne Yamamoto.” Fine in printed wrappers.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942. First Edition. Very good copy with a touch of edge wear and a small dampstain to the top outer corner of the first few pages in a lightly used price-clipped dust jacket with some dust soiling and small chips and tears. A novel of murder, medicine, and movie making.

Los Angeles, 1966. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the popular comedic entertainer, Soupy Sales: “To my dear friend Leonard. One in a million! I love you, Soupy Sales.” Original 81 page final draft script for a pilot episode of an unsold prime time black & white comedy/variety television show titled ‘The Soupy Sales Hour,’ dated March 6, 1966. The show’s guests included Ernest Borgnine. Bound in a black leather binder with the title ‘The Soupy Sales Hour’ and ‘Leonard Franklin’ stamped in silver on the front. Fine condition. With a DVD which includes this ‘Soupy Sales Hour’ pilot, a 30 minute black & white unsold pilot called ‘Where There’s Smokey’ starring Soupy Sales, Jack Weston, and Gale Gordon, and an episode of ‘Lunch with Soupy Sales.’ Soupy was born Milton Supman, and was given the nickname ‘Soupy’ as a child. He is best known for his long-running daily noontime children's television show, ‘Lunch with Soupy Sales,’ originally called ‘12 O'clock… Read More