ALBUM BINDER of c1979 'ANNIE' COMIC STRIP PANELS -- drawn by artist Leonard Starr. Compiled in promotional 1970s 3-ring Burger King binder. Approx. 850-900 strips. 200 pp. 'Little Orphan Annie' was originally created by Harold Gray in 1924; it was seen in national newspapers for 50 years. The original strip was named for a poem entitled 'Little Orphant Annie', written by James Whitcomb Riley in 1885. Following the successful Broadway run of 'Annie-The Musical' in 1977, cartoonist Leonard Starr revived the original strip and renamed it 'Annie'. Starr continued to draw 'Annie' until his retirem... View More...
1930s COURTSHIP SCRAPBOOK-- Original drawings & love poems by ARTHUR 'ARTY' WHITE. Arty White (of Kitchener, BC, Canada) 'looks for a bright future' with Irma Higgins (of Kearney, Nebraska). 1930s 'COURTSHIP SCRAPBOOK' of handwritten poems & original art is 40 pages complete-- made by a Canadian man wooing an American girl-- Arty White of Kitchener, BC, Canada (pop. 200) fell hard for Irma Higgins of Kearney, Nebraska (pop.1,500). We don't see how they met-- maybe a lonely-hearts promotion or by friends? Arty wishes for a 'long, sweet corresponding acquaintance' with Irma-- he romances her wi... View More...
Motoi Oi was trained in Japan in Western and Japanese painting and in the late 1950s moved to the United States to teach art at Queen's College in New York. Moto Oi's paintings and prints are in the collection of renowned museums including the New York Metropolitan. View More...
This undated red clamshell album includes 100 Chairman Mao photos. Photo size: 12cm x 18cm (4.75"x7"). About fine condition. The Cultural Revolution which took place between circa1966 and 1976 was a social/ political movement. Mao Tse Tung, then Chairman of the ruling Communist Party started this movement to reinforce strict communist dogma. Capitalism and traditional Chinese culture were to be obliterated. Photos & posters were used to denounce people as opponents of the Revolution. Red Guards (pupils and students who swear loyalty to Mao and his Little Red Book) destroy anything that is b... View More...
Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition- maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in original dust jacket. A cut autograph, dated 1961 tipped onto the title page. View More...
Directing Films : The Director's Art from Script to Cutting Room In this fascinating book, acclaimed and controversial film director Ken Russell displays the creative insights, technique, know-how, and sheer determination that have enabled him to create more than fifty diverse and yet intensely personal films. Drawing on his parallel experiences of producing, screenwriting, and editing, and referring to films by his fellow directors, Russell places the director's role of author within the context of filmmaking as a collaborative enterprise. View More...
1965, 1st edition. "...The Sacramento Delta is a maze of inland waterways formed by....3 rivers... This boating paradise was a second home to Erle Stanley Gardner. His life aboard his houseboat, traveling along the shady banks or visiting small, almost forgotten towns which were once bustling ports during steamship days, opens up new and delightful vistas for the armchair sailor. "the World of Water" was written a scant few years before his death, but exhibits the same captivating prose that his mystery novels are known for. Approx. 6.5x9.5 inches, in very nice collectible condition. View More...
'I am writing to you with my eyes'.... said by Frida Kahlo. 2002. 1st Edition. 'FRIDA' is SIGNED by 3 Artists: lead star/co-producer, SALMA HAYAK, ALFRED MOLINA and director JULIE TAYMOR. The book follows the making of the movie about Frida Kahlo, her life as an artist with health issues and her relationship to Diego Rivera. These married artists were famous for their art, socialist politics, love affairs, landmark journeys between Mexico & the U.S., friends and associates. Newmarket Press Pictorial Movie-Book. 'FRIDA' the illustrated screenplay/movie-book is a deep dive into Frida Kahlo's l... View More...
From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonizing history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum. View More...
Henry Gregor Felsen "The Granddaddy of Street Rodding" Felsen wrote 6 classic, teenage hotrodding, drag racing books in the 1950s-1960s. In 1990 Felsen reprinted his 6 classic hot rod novels as a limited edition boxed set of 6, signing each volume of this set. Crash Club - ISBN 091747306X; Fever Heat - ISBN 0917473094; Street Rod - ISBN 0917473108; Hot Rod ISBN 0917473116; Rag Top - ISBN 0917473086; Road Rocket ISBN 0917473078 Each volume SIGNED! Includes some promotional papers. About fine condition in a lightly shelfworn cardstock slipcase. View More...
Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin, written by Nat Segaloff. Nice inscription from William Friedkin on the front free endpaper of this early biography of Friedkin. Contains a comprehensive filmography and bibliography. the book chronicles the career of William Friedkin from his early documentaries to his major films ( The Boys in the Band ; The French Connection ; The Exorcist ), which have made him a dominant, controversial figure. Basing much of the book on interviews with the director and his friends and associates, the author attempts to understand Friedkin's... View More...
237 pp. Decorated endpapers. Signed on a tipped in White House carte-de-visite. the story begins with his Kansas boyhood, service in the Army, rise to General in WW II, his presidency and major events, and then home to Gettysburg. View More...
2010. Signed presentation copy - by photographer Naomi Harris. In excellent condition all around. Photographer Naomi Harris was living in Miami, freelancing for the Miami Herald and New York Times, when she attended her first swingers party. She was brought there by a friend she'd met at the local nude beach ("I don't like tan lines and I don't like bathing suits," she said) and initially found herself horrified by the sight of frumpy attendees loading up on roast beef before heading to the backroom for an orgy. At the same time, she was intrigued. The result is Harris' America Swings, named ... View More...
Metrical Romance is another term for Chivalric Romance. Whether written in prose or verse, Metrical Romances were incredibly popular in Medieval Europe. Its emphasis on heterosexual love and courtly manners distinguishes it from other kinds of epic, in which masculine military herosim predominates. 8vo. 7.5x4.5 inches. pp [xxxvii], 381; [vi]479; [iv] 459, [3] pages, half-titles and errata present; nineteenth century full pebbled dark green-black hard grain morocco, spines lettered in gilt. An attractive set. Weber was described by Scott as "a man of very superior attainments, an excellen... View More...
Smiley delivers a tour de force, a satire of university life that leaves no aspect of contemporary academia unscathed. The setting is a large midwestern agricultural college known as Moo U., whose faculty and students Smiley depicts with sophisticated humor, turning a gimlet eye on the hypocrisy, egomania, prejudice and self-delusion that flourish on campus-and also reflect society at large. Everybody at Moo U. has an agenda: academic, sexual, social, economic, political and philosophical. Among the more egregious types that Smiley portrays are Dr. Lionel Gift, an intellectual whore who calls... View More...
Henri Martin Barzun, a leading intellectual of the French Modernist movement centered in New York and Paris inscribes this volume to another world famous 'expert' in French poetry, Germaine Bree. Both these French 'experts' worked and taught in the USA. Included is a short hand written letter from Prof. Barzun to Prof. Bree summing up Barzun's work in his lifelong field of 'Orphic Art'. View More...
2017. --'PANTOMIME'-- by Daido Moriyama. Printed (#238) in a signed & numbered edition of 600 copies, 'Pantomime' has a silk screened cover printed on canvas. "It was a long, long time ago-- each of them was sleeping in a liquid inside a small flask about the size of a human thumb, all with oyster-colored skins and shaped like shrimps. In a glass case at the end of a row of shelves in a dark corridor of an obstetrics and gynecology hospital near the Tanzawa mountains in Kanagawa, countless fetuses in formaldehyde were quietly leaning on each other as they looked out into the sun-drenched cour... View More...
This photo album has 264 4"x6" color photo. 221 associated with railroads, 43 local scenes and sights. EVERY PHOTO HAD AN INK ANNOTATION ON THE BACK The snapshots are in sleeves- in a like new, 13"x9" photo album. The photos were taken during a trip to Cuba in March 2002, as indicated by the dates on the back of the photos. *Augusto Cesar Sandino (abbreviated "A. Sandino" in the ink behind the photo) sugar mill site, its environs and its "shop". *Jose Smith Comas sugar mill trains * Trinidad Convent - a few snaps of local scenes. * Hershey Electric Railway *Central Osvaldo Sanchez train... View More...
930 --'Raboliot'-- Written by MAURICE GENEVOIX (the novel is considered his greatest work). Awarded the 1925 Prix Goncourt prize, in the year it was published. Illustrated by JOSEPH HEMARD. Copy #269 from an edition of 400. 'Raboliot' (French for rabbit) is the story of a poacher in France. The novel has (37) charming illustrations, a frontispiece plate, and 8 full-pages in color. Beautifully rebound in full pigskin & horsehair boards, housed in 1/4 horsehair and paper slipcase - it was originally paper bound. THE BOOKBINDER WAS S.J.M. NITRA, his name is stamped on bottom of the front board... View More...
Folio size, approx.19x13 inches. One of 250 author signed copies printed on Arches paper. A separate suite of 24 etchings are each signed by Ira Moskowitz. Pages are unbound as loose sheets in cloth portfolios. Two volumes housed in a publisher's slipcase. Excellent condition. Approx.18.5x13 inches. View More...
Americans don't just want changer, they want real change -but most have no idea where it will come from. Democrats can't provide it and Republicans won't. But former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich does. He explains what is wrong with our country and how to solve our problems in his blockbuster new book, Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works. In this no-holds-barred assessment of American politics, Gingrich approaches our nation's problems with a private-sector mentality and an entrepreneurial spirit, offering commonsense solutions for the issues of today and the ... View More...
