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A Collection of Promotional Literature for 23 Charlie Chan Films

A Collection of Promotional Literature for 23 Charlie Chan Films

by TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX AND OTHERS

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Used - A mixed collection of original, contemporary British and American studio or distributor publications, mostly campaign books (or
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A mixed collection of original, contemporary British and American studio or distributor publications, mostly campaign books (or pressbooks); some with Sidney Toler and some with Warner Oland. Some folds and wear, but generally in very good condition, those with damage (mostly with portions clipped out) are noted; most are folio-sized and all are as issued in wrappers; as follow in no particular order: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (U.S., Starring Oland); Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (Toler, U.S.); another (U.K.); Charlie Chan in Panama (Toler, U.S.); a different one (U.S.); another (U.K.); Charlie Chan in Egypt (Oland, U.K., damaged); another (U.S.) and another (U.K.); Charlie Chan in Honolulu (Toler, U.S.); two others (U.K.); Charlie Chan in London (Oland. U.S.); another (U.K.); Charlie Chan in Reno (two publications; Toler, U.K.); another (U.S.); Charlie Chan in Paris (Oland, U.S. library stamp); Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (Toler, U.S.); another (U.K.); Charlie Chan’s Chance (Toler, U.K.);… Read More
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Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

by WAUGH, EVELYN

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  • Paperback
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Used - First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, not affecting illustration or lettering and with ve
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Paperback
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, not affecting illustration or lettering and with very minor internal archival mends. An observant bibliographically inclined collector of our acquaintance, in comparing this example with another at hand, discovered subtle differences in the titles listed on the back panel. Both jackets were priced at the first edition’s issued price of 7/6 (in pre-paperback days, English publishers generally reduced prices quickly to 3/6), but one ends with Jeffery’s Second Choice, while this example lists Jeffery’s Miss Vell Intervenes and follows with Winder’s Sin-Offering. His research indicates that this would have logically followed the former. It can then be presumed that this is at least a second state of the dust jacket.
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Thunderball

Thunderball

by FLEMING, IAN

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Used - First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Jonathan Miller from the Author.” F
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Jonathan Miller from the Author.” Fleming, an antiquarian book collector himself, was clearly very much aware of old conventions slipping away, and often adhered to this old custom of inscribing books from “the Author.” In the nineteenth-century, it is not uncommon to find the closest associations; to a wife, mother, child, friend, etc., presented in this manner. In our day, this would seem cold, peculiar, or incomplete, but it does have a certain old-fashioned charm that antiquarian books are supposedly cherished for.
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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

by STEINBECK, JOHN

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Reprint edition. A very good copy in dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to
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Hardcover
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New York: Sun Dial Press, 1941. Reprint edition. A very good copy in dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to William Faulkner's sister-in-law, "For Mrs. John Faulkner, John Steinbeck."
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The First Men In The Moon

The First Men In The Moon

by WELLS, H.G

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Used - First English Edition; first binding. An extraordinary copy in the rare dust jacket. Aside from minor dust soiling of the edges
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London: George Newnes, 1901. First English Edition; first binding. An extraordinary copy in the rare dust jacket. Aside from minor dust soiling of the edges and slight bumping at the foot of the spine, the book is as fine and bright as one might expect from the more than one hundred years of protection afforded by the jacket, which is virtually free of wear and has slight dust soiling to the spine of the dust jacket,
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Workes

Workes

by JONSON, BEN

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Used - Three volumes. First Edition; small-paper issue. Volume 1; third state title page; bound in contemporary (?) full brushed leathe
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Hardcover
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London: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby; Printed for Richard Meighen; no publisher stated for third volume, 1616, 1637,1640. Three volumes. First Edition; small-paper issue. Volume 1; third state title page; bound in contemporary (?) full brushed leather with tooling to front and rear panels; rebacked with spine laid down; title page backed; some worm-holing to upper right margin of 18 preliminary pages, else very good. Volume 2 lacks the title page; full contemporary leather, rebacked with the original spine laid down; some staining to a few pages on the bottom margin; about very good. Volume 3 has a typographical error not mentioned in Pforzheimer, the imprint of Magnetick Lady reading M.CD.XI instead of M.DC.XI. Full contemporary leather; rebacked with the original spine laid down and with some loss to the bottom edge of the front two blanks; very good. All volumes are housed in matching slipcases. Jonson was the most prominent contemporary of Shakespeare, whose theater produced some of… Read More
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Ashenden or the British Agent

Ashenden or the British Agent

by MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET

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Used - First Edition. Some foxing; near fine in a dust jacket with shallow chipping at the top of the spine; foxing, and some minor we
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London: Heinemann, 1928. First Edition. Some foxing; near fine in a dust jacket with shallow chipping at the top of the spine; foxing, and some minor wear. Queen's Quorum; Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
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Original Photograph of Louella Parsons [At the Opera]

Original Photograph of Louella Parsons [At the Opera]

by WEEGEE

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Used - Silver print; 11 x 14”; inscribed, legibly, but in dark ink on a dark background, “To Jimmy/ Weegee.” With the photographe
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Silver print; 11 x 14”; inscribed, legibly, but in dark ink on a dark background, “To Jimmy/ Weegee.” With the photographer’s address stamp, “Arthur (Weegee) Fellig” on the verso. A two page typed letter is included (November 31 [sic] 1950), signed, corrected and with a long postscript in the photographer’s hand. Weegee writes Los Angeles Herald-Examiner columnist Jimmy Starr regarding his promotional tour for his photographs and a 16 mm film, “...I photographed places that have never been photographed before...inside JAILS...BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE STRIP TEASERS...I will devote my time to my new book ‘ONLY HUMAN’ which will be published next summer...It will only make my former book ‘The Naked City’...look like a fairy story for little kiddies.” He notes that he is enclosing the above photo and two others. Aside from a minor surface crease in the print, excellent condition.
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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

by WELLS, H.G

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Used - First American Edition; with some minor textual differences and an epilogue not included in the English edition. Some cloth soil
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Hardcover
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New York: Edward Arnold, 1897. First American Edition; with some minor textual differences and an epilogue not included in the English edition. Some cloth soiling and wear; some old, hardly noticeable mending to the front endpaper; very good in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy; inscribed by Wells with two drawings, “[drawing of a fireplace and a chair and a steaming bowl] To J. Maclaren Cobban, from H.G. Wells [drawing of a small figure - presumably Wells - with a bowl labeled ‘GRUEL’] When they were both ill. 1898.” Cobban was primarily a novelist of adventure and fantasy fiction, and was also a contributor to the Strand Magazine. Inscribed copies of the Wells “scientific romances” are especially scarce.
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All The Sad Young Men

All The Sad Young Men

by FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

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Used - First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with just the slightest wear. The jacket illustration has a little of the battering
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New York: Scribner's, 1926. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with just the slightest wear. The jacket illustration has a little of the battering to the lips generally assumed to be in copies printed later in the run, a logical presumption of almost certain insignificance.
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Letters of Tribute to William Gillette On The Occasion of His Farewell to the Stage In His Famous...

Letters of Tribute to William Gillette On The Occasion of His Farewell to the Stage In His Famous Creation “Sherlock Holmes”

by VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS

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Used - An exceptionally large poster; 64 x 44”; backed with slightly larger linen for preservation, enabling it to be unrolled withou
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An exceptionally large poster; 64 x 44”; backed with slightly larger linen for preservation, enabling it to be unrolled without damage. Numerous creases from folds; some small chips, tears and minor discolorations; printed in two colors. At the start of his “Farewell Tour,” in New York’s New Amsterdam Theater, November 25, 1929, the author-playwright was presented with a book of congratulatory letters from many prominent contemporaries. This poster reproduces those in facsimile, surrounding Steele’s iconic image of Gillette as Holmes, depicted in dressing gown and with a pipe in his mouth. Accompanied by Letters of Salutation and Felicitation Received by William Gillette On The Occasion of His Farewell to the Stage in “Sherlock Holmes,” setting in type 62 of these letters, including testimonials by Doyle, Coolidge, Belasco, Frohman, C.D. Gibson, Otis Skinner, et al.; in original printed wrappers, with Holmes in profile on the front wrapper; very good. Gillette continued touring as… Read More
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts

The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts

by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST

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First Edition. A scarce book, of which only 1174 copies were printed. Front endpapers browned from a formerly laid in newspaper
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New York: Scribner’s, 1940. First Edition. A scarce book, of which only 1174 copies were printed. Front endpapers browned from a formerly laid in newspaper clipping, else near fine in a dust jacket with minor browning and spotting.
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Men Without Women

Men Without Women

by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST

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Used - First Edition; first printing. Very good in dust jacket. With Glenway Wescott’s ownership label. Contains “The Killers” an
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New York: Scribner’s, 1927. First Edition; first printing. Very good in dust jacket. With Glenway Wescott’s ownership label. Contains “The Killers” and other stories.
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Mantrap

Mantrap

by LEWIS, SINCLAIR

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Used - First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a tiny chip at the top of the spine; very minor wear and some short tears. An e
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1926. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a tiny chip at the top of the spine; very minor wear and some short tears. An exceptional copy; in a custom clamshell box.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by ORWELL, GEORGE

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Used - First Edition. Very minor cloth fading; nearly fine in a green dust jacket., which has minor tape strengthening removed; overall
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Hardcover
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First Edition. Very minor cloth fading; nearly fine in a green dust jacket., which has minor tape strengthening removed; overall very good, although a little awkwardly price-clipped.
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