Boston: Taggard and Thompson, 1863. First Edition. A collection of children's fables with accompanying illustrations demonstrating how to make shadow puppets. Included is a story of a freed slave who is tempted to steal to feed his starving cow, but refuses, and his ultimately rewarded for his honesty. Very Good in wrappers. Light soiled, with a two inch spilt to.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872. First Edition. 12mo. Publisher's red cloth, with titles and rule in gilt on the front board, design and rule in blind on the rear board, no titles on the spine; all page edges gilt, reddish-brown coated endpapers. Very Good with some rubbing to the boards, slightly cocked. A very presentable copy overall.
New York: Cardinal Editions / Pocket Books, 1953. Later printing of this edition. A Dicken's classic, not often seen in the Cardinal Edition from Pocket Books. Cover design by Charles Skaggs. Production wrinkle to the spine, and light rubbing to the extremities, else Near Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Edward Everett Hale's unedited 1863 short story "The Man Without a Country," here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 7, 1944. Hale's short story was first published in the December 1863 issue of The Atlantic. The story has been adapted four times for film. First in 1917, directed by.....
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1882. First Edition. With color illustrations by the author. Very Good in illustrated boards with gilt titles and page edges. Contemporary gift inscription to the first blank. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed, with a tide mark to the rear board. Interior pages lightly foxed.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. 12mo. First Edition. Bright gilt and black designs and titles, with ads at the rear. A few leaves have minor corner creases, else about Near Fine. Mostly erased pencil notation on the rear pastedown. An attractive copy.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1889. First Edition. Very Good, with bumps to the corners, light rubbing and soil.
Springfield, MA: Willey, 1891. First Edition. A history of African-American newspapers beginning in 1827 and continuing through to the book’s publication, with over 70 biographical sketches of editors and journalists, including a separate chapter dedicated to female African American journalists, and essays on the state of the Black press and its relationship to “Anglo-Saxon” newspapers. Rare. About Very Good in maroon.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Nathaniel Hawthorne's unedited 1844 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 8, 1944. Hawthorne's short story was first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. It has been adapted into two plays and several operas, as well as a section.....
New York: Sotheby's, 2004. Just about Fine in illustrated wrappers as issued. Perfect bound, illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes auction items from the collection of collector Maurice F. Neville, with highlights from Ernest Hemmingway, Jack Kerouac, George Orwell, and many others.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First American Edition, preceded by the 1841 French edition published by Magen et Comon. Scarce. Basis for the 1950 film noir "Vendetta," written for the screen by W.R. Burnett and directed by Mel Ferrer. Very Good in publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles. Contemporary owner name on the front endpaper. Slightly bowed boards, with mild rubbing.....
New York: Brentano's, 1897. First American edition. Publisher's tan cloth, with titles, design and rule in gilt on the front board, rear board, and spine. Near Fine. Small article tipped in at the front endpaper, with corresponding offsetting on the front pastedown, else a bright, clean copy.
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1946. Final Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1892 novel, adapted for the screen by Allan Scott for Selznick International. David O. Selznick held the movie rights to Hardy's story for many years (with Jennifer Jones in mind for Tess). Selznick's two greatest dreams had been to film "Gone With the Wind".....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published in 1862 by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven and Company. Basis for the 1925 French silent film, directed, written, and produced by Henri Fescourt, and starring Gabriel Gabrio. and Paul George, as well as other versions too numerous to count. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Hinges tender.....
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1888. Two volumes. First German Edition, preceding the UK Edition by one year. Text in English. The final novel published during Collins' lifetime, a exploration and rejection of the idea of hereditary evil, the story of two women raised as sisters by a minister and his wife, only for it to be revealed that one of them.....