New York: Robert McBride, 1943. First Edition. About Fine in a Very Good plus jacket. Jacket has a couple of small chips and closed tears at the extremities, with cello tape repairs to the verso, and light amateur touchup to the faded spine. Still a very attractive copy on the history of money, intended for a child audience and illustrated...
Beverly Hills, CA: Mirisch Productions / United Artists, 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film, "Some Kind of Nut," here under its working title, "The One with the Fuzz." Dick Van Dyke's earlier effort, "Fitzwilly" (1967), was also produced under the same working title, though the two films are unrelated. Fred Amidon (Van Dyke) is a Manhattan bank teller waiting...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923. First Edition. Described on the jacket as "the novel of The Woman in Business," and dedicated "To the Working Women of America." Charles Norris was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a....
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1983. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page: "To -- Thank you for your support, sponsorship, and encouragemet. / A Silver 5-12-83." A few dampstain rings to the front cover, else Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket. The book details a....
New York: B.W. Huebsch / Viking Press, 1925. First Edition. Very humorously INSCRIBED by co-author Joseph Freeman to Rex Stout and his wife on the front endpaper, with a drawing of a naked man and woman embracing: "For Rex and Fay / Casanova's Homecoming; or, The Technique of Peaceful Economic Penetration / see p. 28 / With best wishes /...