Search Results: Authors starting with U from James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. First Edition. The story a group of people living in a rooming house and caught up in the destinies of steel magnets and their mills. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny tears and some dust soiling.

New York: Amour Press, 1932. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to film actor Douglas Fairbanks Senior dated 1932. Some staining to spine, very good. An organized gang of criminals kidnap millionaires. Its leader is called the Purple One. When the millinaires get returned they were “pallid and shaken, they would not utter a word. Men who had flaunted, they quailed at the memory of the power of the Purple One.” A secret group of twelve organizes to combat him.

New York: Macy-Masius, 1926. First Edition. Near fine copy with just a hint of aging in an about fine bright dust jacket. Illustrated. The intimate memoirs of the great silent film star by his business manager. A lovely copy.

1930s. Original autograph signature of author Richard Ullmann, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Fine. Richard Ullmann is the author of ‘The Soldier and the Angel,’ ‘Escape from Freedom,’ etc.

Austria: Verlag Filmarchiv, 2004. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Rudolf Ulrich, in German and dated May 27, 2004. Text in German. Oversize format. Massive illustrated 622 page encyclopedia of German and Austrian filmmakers who have worked in Hollywood. Fine copy without dust jacket. A massive film reference book.

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979. First Edition - American. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Netflix, n.d. (2017). First Edition. Small format, paperbound, 5 3/8” x 8 3/8”, 84 pages. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay. Shooting script for the film First They Killed My Father written by Luong Ung and Angelina Jolie, based on the novel First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung, directed by Angelina Jolie, starring Sareum Srey Moch and Mun Kimhak. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language. Fine bright copy in printed wrappers.

New York: Signet Books, 1966. First Edition - Paperback Original. Signed by the author / editor Arthur Unger. Near fine copy with just a hint of use. A collection of short stories about love and friendship chosen from the pages of ‘Datebook’, a magazine for young adults, by its editor Arthur Unger. From the library of Unger’s publisher Dr. Kurt Enoch (1895-1982) who was a noted German publisher, forced to flee the Nazis, landing in New York in 1940. In 1948, Dr. Enoch co-founded and became President of New American Library - Signet Books which became one of the successful and acclaimed post-war publishing houses. Enoch went on to become one of the most highly regarded figures in American book publishing. Signet #KD516

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Original mimeographed continuity and dialogue script prepared towards the end of production for the classic Universal horror film. This script is signed and inscribed by the beautiful and very talented Latina actress Elena Verdugo, who co-starred in the film: “John, Thanks, Elena Verdugo, Has signed here 1995.” In addition, the film stars Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., (as the Wolfman), John Carradine, J. Carrol Nash, Lionel Atwell, Anne Gwynne, George Zucco, Peter Coe, Bradbound. Very good. Enclosed in a handsome custom cloth clamshell box.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1941. Screenwriter Eric Taylor created and wrote the original story for The Ghost of Frankenstein. These three manuscripts by Taylor are the studio’s own file copies, each stamped with Universal’s Central Files stamp, on the front covers. Bradbound in original studio wrappers. Very good. Enclosed together in a custom cloth clamshell box. Manuscript number one is Taylor’s original 58 page ribbon typescript in which he X-ed out words and sentences as he wrote, and contains his pencil annotations and corrections throughout. Manuscript number two is a 39 page carbon typescript and is dated April 23, 1941. The third manuscript is a 62 page ribbon typescript. The Ghost of Frankenstein is the fourth film in Universal’s Frankenstein series. IMDB describes the story: “Ygor (Bela Lugosi) resurrects Frankenstein's monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) and brings him to the original doctor's son, Ludwig (Cedric Hardwick), for help. Ludwig, obsessed with the idea of restoring the… Read More

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1902. First Edition. Stapled pamphlet, 5 1/4” x 7 1/2”, 36 pages, original red paper printed covers. Unobtrusive ownership signature to the front cover and some faint notation to the rear cover. Very good copy with some slight edge wear and tiny tears. A number of the songs included in this spirited collection take on their long-running arch rivals, the University of California at Berkeley.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 2002. First Edition. Signed by John Updike. Printed in an edition of approximately 200 copies with 50 of them signed by Updike. A four page illustrated Christmas card keepsake printing a poem by John Updike.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by John Updike, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Janet Leigh, Ramsay Campbell, Dennis Etchison, S.T. Steibel. A remarkable collage of original essays published here for the first time and terrific illustrations in color and black & white of classic movie posters and stills. In John Updike’s essay he confesses to a lifelong interest in animation and cartoon films, Ray Bradbury reflects on how his life has been tied up with Hollywood. Robert Bloch writes about 100 memorable films from the 1920s and 1930s, etc. Additional contributors are President Gerald R. Ford (on actor James Stewart), Norman Corwin, Delbert Mann, Kenneth Turan, Harry Crews, Charles Champlin, Stevr Rasnic Tem, Richard C. Matheson, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert B. Parker. 225 pages. Large fomat (9 inches wide by 11 1/2 inches tall). Hardbound in full gilt-stamped black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition. Illustrated with drawings by Warren Chappell. From the screenwriter David Lloyd (1934–2009) wrote television comedies for series such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier and Wings. Lloyd wrote "Chuckles Bites the Dust", an October 1975 episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and is regarded today as one of most famous television episodes of all time. In 2009, this episode was ranked No. 1 on TV Guide's "100 Greatest Episodes Of All Time". Scarce first edition of this imaginative version of the "The Ring", the series of four famous operas by Richard Wagner, with fantastic drawings by Warren Chappell, this is a compelling adaptation by John Updike (1932–2009), the famed American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic and one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Bound in the… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1978. First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Brookline, MA: Waiting for Godot Books, 1980. First Edition. Staplebound pamphlet in printed covers. A catalog comprised of 315 books, broadsides, letters, and more by or related to the author John Updike. With a small “4/10/80” written in ink on the front cover, else fine.

New York: Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Fine in a slightly faded dust jacket.

London: Heinemann, 1965. First Heinemann Edition. Near fine in a near fine neatly price-clipped dust jacket.

London: William Heineman, 1963. First Edition - British. Some foxing to outside edges and on a few pages in the text else very good in original green gilt-stamped cloth in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.