Here Lies (Signed Limited Edition)
by Eric Ambler
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1986. First US Edition. One of 100 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 71) SIGNED by the author. Fine in blue cloth covered boards and matching slipcase.
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Original ribbon typescript copy letter signed from Eric Ambler to the Mystery Writers of America, 1964
by Eric Ambler
Los Angeles: Eric Ambler, 1964. Original ribbon copy typescript letter, signed by Eric Ambler, on Ambler's letterhead, dated March 23, 1964, to Executive Secretary Catherine Barth of the Mystery Writers of America, Inc. (MWA), in response to a letter from Barth, announcing Ambler's 1962 novel, "The Light of Day" being awarded an Edgar Award for Best Novel, and inviting... Read More
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Ability to Kill (Limited Edition, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author)
by Eric Ambler
New York: Mysterious Press, 1987. Limited Edition, one of 26 hand-lettered copies (this being letter E) SIGNED by the author. Near Fine, with no dust jacket, in publisher's Near Fine cloth slipcase.
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Journey into Fear (First Edition)
by Eric Ambler
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. First Edition. A key Ambler title, basis for the 1942 film directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, and Agnes Moorehead. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner name on front endpaper. Jacket is bright, with light rubbing at the spine ends and... Read More
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Background to Danger (Publisher's Advance Reading Copy in wrappers)
by Eric Ambler
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First American Edition. Very Good in publisher's standard card wrappers, stating "SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY: For private and confidential use only." Tipped on on the front wrapper, as issued, is the full-color illustration from the first edition jacket. Basis for the 1943 film directed by Raoul Walsh,... Read More
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The Mask of Dimitrios (First UK Edition)
by Eric Ambler
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. A beautiful copy of the author's most famous book, basis for the 1944 film noir written for the screen by Frank Gruber and starring Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Zachary Scott. Very Good or better in a Fine dust jacket. Slight spine lean, with spine cloth lightly faded and... Read More
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Dirty Story (Signed First Edition)
by Eric Ambler
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First American Edition, preceded by the First British Edition published by The Bodley Head the same year. SIGNED on the half-title by the author. An Arthur Abdel Simpson mystery, also published under the title "This Gun for Hire." About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Prunella (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)
by Ambrosia Fox, Ron Jeremy, George Payne (starring); Phil Prince [as Phil Prinz] (director, screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Avon Productions, 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower, and they proceed on a rampage of violence, rape and sexual assaults. [IMDB]. Title page integral with the first page of... Read More
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Original screenplay for the 1956 student film)
by Ambrose Bierce (story); Douglas Gallez (director, screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative manuscript black ink, presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards, corresponding with the script that follows, all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second... Read More
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La puerta abierta [Femme Fatale] (Seven photographs from the 1957 film)
by Amedeo Nazzari, Marta Toren, Rafael de Cordoba, Nadia Marlowa (starring);Cesar Fernandez Ardavin (director, screenwriter); Lajos Zilahy (play); Akos Tolnay, Bruno Valeri, Nino Miñuto (screenwriters)
London: Gala Film Distributors, 1961. Seven vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release (as "Femme Fatale") of the 1957 Spanish-Italian film, "La puerta abierta." Distributor (UK) rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on a Hungarian play about the murder of an actress, and the young female eyewitness who can keep a secret. Marta Toren's final film credit,... Read More
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Wings of Tomorrow: The Story of the Autogiro (First Edition, copy belonging to Amelia Earhart)
by [Amelia Earhart] Juan de la Cierva, Don Rose
New York: Brewer, Warren, and Putnam, 1931. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart on the half-title page. Earhart was married to one of the book's publishers, G.P. Putnam, at the time of the book's publication. An account of the creation of the autogiro, an experimental rotorcraft predating the modern helicopter, co-written by the... Read More
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Original program for the Second National Convention of the Motion Pictures Exhibitors League of America, 1912
by [Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America]
Chicago: Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America, 1912. Vintage program for the Second National Convention of the Motion Pictures Exhibitors League of America, held in Chicago from August 13-17, 1912. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of members, as well as numerous period advertisements, including ones for films, projectors, and other material for movie theaters. Rare, with no copies in OCLC. ... Read More
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Archive of 12 vernacular photographs of a tractor pull at the Boone County Fair in Indianapolis, circa 1964
by [Americana]
N.p.: N.p., 1964. Archive of 12 vintage vernacular photographs of a tractor pull at the Boone County Fair in Indianapolis, circa 1964. Tractor pulls became popular in the Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s, and endure to this day. Pulls generally consisted of tractors in varying weight classes competing in towing a drag, which was either composed... Read More
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Archive of 133 photographs from a custom automotive upholstery shop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
by [Automobiles] [Design] [Americana]
N.p.: N.p., 1980. Archive of 133 vernacular photographs from an custom automotive upholstery shop, the "Auto Seat Cover Co.," located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, housed in acrylic photo sleeves in a photo album, circa 1961-1983. The majority of the photographs in the archive appear to date from the 1970s, capturing before and after photographs, and ornate custom automotive upholstery... Read More
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Original promotional theater flyer for the Carver Theater and the Capitol Theater, circa 1947
by [Flyers] [Cinema] [Americana]
N.p.: N.p., 1947. Vintage promotional flyer for the Carver Theater and the Capitol Theater in Alexandria, Virginia, circa 1947. Films advertised in the flyer include "The Red House" (1947), "Body and Soul" (1947), "Shadowed" (1946), "'Song of the Wasteland" (1947), and "Angel and the Badman" (1947). The flyer also includes advertisements for local businesses in Alexandria such... Read More
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Archive of 30 original photographs taken at Franz Bakery, circa 1935
by [Transportation] [Food] [Americana]
Portland, OR: N.p., 1935. Vintage leatherbound photograph album containing 30 photographs of Franz Bakery of Portland, Oregon, circa 1935. Photographs stamped by two local photography studios (Columbia Commercial Studio and Angelus Commercial Studio) on the versos. A comprehensive document of the daily operations of Franz Bakery, with many shots of both the bakery's exterior (with the company's... Read More
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Original program for a 1925 Baltimore City College vs. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute football game
by [Americana]
Baltimore: N.p., 1925. Vintage program for a Baltimore City College vs. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (or what Baltimoreans would call a "City vs. Poly") football game, held at the Baltimore Stadium in 1925. Included with the program is a ticket for the 1943 City vs. Poly game, as well as a small illustrated postcard showing the Polytechnic Institute in north... Read More
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Original promotional theater flyer for "No Way Out" at the Carver Theater circa 1950, also featuring "The House Across the Street," and "If You Knew Susie
by [Flyers] [Cinema] [Americana]
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage promotional flyer for screenings of the film noir, "No Way Out" at the Carver Theater in Alexandria, Virginia circa 1950. Films promoted in this flyer include "No Way Out" (1950), "The House Across the Street" (1949), and "If You Knew Susie" (1948). This flyer also includes advertisements for local business in Alexandria such... Read More
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Original promotional theater flyer for the Carver Theater circa 1949, featuring "The Yearling," "Rachel and the Stranger," and "Fighter Squadron
by [Flyers] [Cinema] [Americana]
N.p.: N.p., 1949. Vintage promotional theater flyer for the Carver Theater in Alexandria, Virginia circa 1949. Films promoted in this flyer include " The Yearling" (1946), "Rachel and the Stranger" (1948), and "Fighter Squadron" (1948). This flyer also includes advertisements for local businesses in Alexandria such as Queen's Restaurant and White Star Market. 10 x... Read More
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Poker Illustrated: "Soon Parted" (Original manuscript scrapbook made by members of a poker club in Lancaster, Ohio)
by [Gambling] [Poker] [Americana]
Lancaster, OH: N.p., 1890. Vintage manuscript scrapbook of poker memorabilia, presented to the Lancaster, Ohio Poker Club by "two victims" of the club, identified as Ecaroh Nidri and Trebor Niarud (almost certainly pseudonyms for Horace Irdin and Robert Durain) on the first page. Charmingly illustrated throughout with 14 original photographs of the club's members, as well as multiple tipped-in... Read More
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Collection of ten original route cards for five itinerant theatre productions
by [Theatre] [Americana]
N.p.: N.p., 1929. Collection of ten vintage route cards advertising the showing schedules of five different traveling theatre shows produced by Cincinnati producer George E. Wintz between 1926 and 1929. Among the shows represented in this collection are "Ziegfeld Follies," Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue," "The Vagabond King," "Rio Rita," and "George White's Scandals." The shows apparently... Read More
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Dutchman (Four original photographs from the 1967 film)
by Amiri Barala writing as Leroi Jones (screenwriter, play source); Anthony Harvey (director); Shirley Knight, Al Freeman, Jr. (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. One with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A bold film adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by Amiri Baraka, writing here, as he often did in the 1960s,... Read More
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (Uncorrected Proof, signed)
by Martin Amis
New York: Harmony Books, 1993. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Light fading to the spine, else Fine and unread in wrappers.
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Two Stories: Denton's Death and Let Me Count the Times (Signed Limited Edition)
by Martin Amis
London: Moorhouse and Sorensen, 1994. First Edition. First Edition. One of 100 copies (this being No. 34) SIGNED by the author, out of a total limitation of 326. The first book publication of Amis' first published story, "Denton's Death," published in the October 1976 issue of "Encounter" magazine, along with "Let Me Count the Times," a revised... Read More
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![Del amor y de la muerte [Of Love and Death] (Original photograph of Amparo Muñoz from the 1977 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/002/922/1639922002.0.m.jpg)
Del amor y de la muerte [Of Love and Death] (Original photograph of Amparo Muñoz from the 1977 film)
by Amparo Muñoz, Simón Andreu, Luis Barboo (starring); Antonio Giménez Rico (director); Miguel Madrid, José Luis García Sánchez (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film, showing actress Amparo Muñoz in the nude. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou... Read More
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