Lyon: SERDOC (Société d'Études, Recherches et Documentation), 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed by Italian film director Alberto Lattuada to Tay Garnett: "To Tay Garnett/ A friend and a/ great colleague/ with admiration./ Alberto/ April, 1975" Tay Garnett (1894-1977) was one of the great American film directors of Hollywood's Golden... More
NY: Viking Press, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Interview with Michel Ciment, inscribed by Elia Kazan to Tay Garnett; "for Tay Garnett/ with all the best wishes of/ Elia Kazan/ Merci '75 . Tay Garnett (1894-1977) was one of the great American film directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, best known for... More
London: Heinemann, 1971. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Colin Higgins to Tay Garnett; "For my old pal Tay- / from his new friend/ and fan! / Peace & Love, / Colin/ May 1975" Tay Garnett (1894-1977) was one of the great American film directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, best... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tay Garnett (1894-1977) was one of the great American film directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, best known for the MGM film noir masterpiece, The Postman Always Rings Twice. This is a presentation copy to him from another great film director, who... More
NY: Macmillan, 1971. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by film director Capra to fellow film director Garnett on the half-title: "To Tay/ With fond memories of / our long friendship and/ the cockeyed but wonderful/ Mack Sennett days/ Affectionately- / Frank" Tay Garnett (1894-1977) was one of the great American... More
NY: Evert Duyckinck, 1813. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 12 mo, original binding, gilt-ruled quarter leather, marbleized paper over boards, 104 pp. Lacking free front endpaper. John C, Totten identified as printer on title page. Binding loosening, covers heavily worn, some loss to spine ends. Some pages darkened/ stained. Ownership signature... More
London: Thomas Allman, 1843. Hardcover. Original brown cloth, front cover gilt-pressed, framed vignette of woman with harvest basket on head, man with slain dear on back and basket of game in arm, double blind-ruled front and back. Covers stained and edges worn, spine missing, thus in need of rebacking. Engraved... More
NY: The Mentor Association, 1915. Bound issues from Sept 1, 1914 Vol 2 Number 14 Serial 66 through Sept 1, 1915 Vol 3 Number 14 Serial 90. Bound in green cloth, all text but no covers except for first serial. Bonding rubbed, internals fine. More
London: John Murray, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A complete 4 volume set, each a first edition, uniformly issued in dustjackets designed by Frank Quilter. First volume is 2nd printing, the others all 1st printings. Some loss at dustjacket spine tips third and fourth volumes. Solid, clean copies - no names... More
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Scarce, pro-Communist interpretation of the Soviet visitor in the land of America, retold from the Swift satire and illustrated by Commuinist member Hugo Gellert in his signature expressionist style. 8vo, 43 pp text each with accompanying b&w illustration. Three color (red/white/blue) pictorial endpapers... More
1st Edition. Hardcover. Clean copy, no names, inscriptions or bookplates. UNclipped dw, slightly rubbed, spine slightly soiled. More
Freeport ME: privately printed (L.L. Bean), 1960. Scarce first hardcover edition. Apparently unread, fine in near fine dustjacket. More
Harrisburg PA: Stackpole, 1961. Hardcover. Scarce first edition. Apparently unread, fine in near fine dustjacket. More
NY: Holt Rinhart, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy from editor Kimball to Broadway baritone legend Alfred Drake, who originated the role of Petruchio in the Porter's KISS ME KATE. Inscribed by Kimball to Drake and his wife "with admiration and gratitude" on the title page. More
NY: Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy from author Kimball to Broadway baritone legend Alfred Drake, who originated the role of Petruchio in the Porter's KISS ME KATE. Inscribed by Kimball "with admiration and warm regards" on the ffe. More
![A Wall-to-Wall Tour of The Leash [Privately Printed upon the observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of The Leash 1925-1975]. Morgan S. A. Reichner.](/pictures/thumb/011009.JPG?v=1482184432)
NY: privately printed (by The Leash), 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, 300 copies, this #164, signed by the author. History of VERY private club dedicated founded during Prohibiion dedicated, ostensibly, to sports involving real sporting dogs. Faux-wood covers with brass plaque of title and terrier ans separate brass device... More
NY: privately printed, 1927. 1st Editio, Limited. Hardcover. Privately printed, only 250 copies. Brown, quarter cloth, gilt titles over tan paper-covered boards with titles inset in gilt, gte, sides untrimmed. Laid-in is a Christmas memento, one sheet, single fold, with reproductions of portraits John Taylor Johnston and James Boorman Johnston... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, stout 8vo, brown pebbled cloth, decorated in black and gold. Some of the signatures are springing from Volume 1. Both volumes show cloth loss spine tips, darkened spines and worn corners. All plates, including pocket map in rear of Volume 1... More
Edinburgh and London: C.Elliot and G. Robinson, 1784. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Original calf with red leather label (MACIVER'S/COOKERY), sides and covers worn, ffe loosening, scattered spotting/brownng throughout. xii + 238. A nice, unsophisticated copy. More
Philadelphia: James Sharan, 1812. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original calf, red leather label, covers scuffed, edges worn all over, lacking front and rear endpapers, and top quarter of title page. Prelims with facing portraits of Lewis and Clarke extant but stained. Leaves browned. xii + 14 - 300pp. Binding firm. Spine... More
Edinburgh: Blackie & Sons, 1837. Hill, D. O. (engravings of). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon complete set of the "new" edition of Hogg's works - certainly after 1837, perhaps as late as 1860s, but decorated cloth bindings are more typrical of the 1840s - uniformly bound in narrow ribbed, cordovan/brown cloth... More
NY: Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. Shallow, white, styrene box measuring 18" square, top cover with black titles, housing five items: single title sheet, introductory text booklet, and three booklets for Projects A, B, and C (varying lengths), illustrated, presenting... More
Privately Printed, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 35 loose, heavy stock, printed sheets, some text, mostly plans for housing projects, neatly encased in corrugated cardboard box, as initially issued privately from architect Sherwood to colleagues, before publication as bound volume. Uncommon. More
Paris: Vincent, Freal, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 14 page booklet + 88 single sheet plates of Lurcat's modernist structures, housed in original folio with cloth spine and ribbon ties. Covers siled and half of front ribbon gone. Scarce. More
Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1939. Lacking orange covers, and missing plate5 , of the 14 plates called for but including the one with pochoir-coloured plan and all 8 full-page photographs. Sold as is. More