[Harold Pinter] Cronyn, Hume

A Terrible Liar. A Memoir. Ex-Libris Harold Pinter

New York, William Morrow and Company, (1991), 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). [Harold Pinter] Cronyn, Hume. A TERRIBLE LIAR. A MEMOIR. Ex-Libris Harold Pinter. New York: William Morrow and Company, (1991). Presentation Copy of some note. First Edition, second impression inscribed to playwright Harold Pinter and his wife, the novelist, Lady Antonia Fraser, on the ffe. "For Antonia and Harold, not required reading - just a gesture of admiration and respect - Hume". Royal 8vo. 431 pp. A near fine copy. Original deep royal blue boards with deep royal blue backstrip and gilt lettering on the spine. A minor bump at the crown of the spine, with a paperclip indentation on the half-title page in a near fine dustwrapper. 53 black and white photographs spanning Cronyn's career with actress-wife, Jessica Tandy. Ex-Libris Harold Pinter. A tremendous copy. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Cross, Amanda

The Players Come Again

New York, New York: Random House, (1990), 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition featuring the author's amateur sleuth, feminist Kate Fansler, English Literature Professor. A fine copy in 1/4 beige over turquoise paper covered boards, turquoise titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 229 pp. A bright, fresh copy of the ninth Kate Fansler mystery. A BIBLIOMYSTERY emerges when Professor Kate Fansler begins to research the biography of a woman suspected of penning the latest novel allegedly written by her famous husband, and the trail leads to three women who harbor shocking secrets about the literary couple. A very nice copy. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine/Fine.

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Crumb, Robert [Spiegelman, Alessandrini, Mason]

Small But Significant Archive Regarding the Translation of the "Crumb" Biography Signed

Winter's Calif, Robert Dennis Crumb, 1977. First Edition. R. Crumb. First Edition. Signed by Spiegleman, Crumb, Mason. Crumb, Robert [Spiegelman, Alessandrini, Mason]. SMALL BUT SIGNIFICANT ARCHIVE REGARDING THE TRANSLATION OF THE "CRUMB" BIOGRAPHY. In the late 1970's Montreal writer & comic book collector, William J. Mason spent several years working on a translation of one of the earliest biographies of the pre-eminent underground comic artist, Robert Crumb originally written in France by Marjorie Alessandrini. Mason spent several years on the project, had the approvals of Alessandrini & the support of Crumb but the project never materialized. What we have here is a fine small archive of Crumb letters related to the undertaking containing wonderful content. The file consists of three important letters [5 tight pages] to Bill Mason, the translator of the French biography called CRUMB, including his copy of CRUMB [in very good condition with his notes scattered throughout] with Mason's ownership signature dated 1977, along with a lengthy Maus postcard addressed to Mason from Art Spiegelman / Maus, June '79, concerning Crumb, along with a fine 2 page letter from Marjorie Alessandrini, dated Paris, April 24th 1979, to Bill Mason dealing with her recommendations for publishing contacts for CRUMB in the US, including comments about Masons fine translation and her delight with Crumbs approval of the work in progress. 1 - [Crumb, Robert] Art Spiegelman / Maus. APS, June 1979, on Spiegelman's own illustrated postcard, in fine condition. Spiegelman talks about a possible visit to Montreal in August & thanks Mason for the articles and the translation of the Crumb piece which he found "interesting" "(Crumb's America" far more so). I read the entire Tales From The Crypt books recently. A[nd] thought they represented an (unconscious) America. Jewish postwar response to the holocaust. The flip-side of Weird Science's preoccupation with Hiroshima and the Cold War. Do you see that too - or should I elaborate. Oh well back to Maus. All the best / Art. regards from F. [with Maus illustrated]. Superb example. with 2 - Crumb, Robert. Als to Bill Mason [Winters Calif.],dated Sept. 4th 1978. 1 lengthy page in Crumb's neat small hand. In part - "Dear Mr. Mason / Thank you for sending me the translation of M. Alessandrini's book about me. I'm overwhelmed . / Needless to say, I was completely absorbed and fascinated by her analysis of me .to see how she interpreted and intellectualized my crazy comics. / this is the first really heavy Freudian-type of criticism I've ever read of my sex stuff. with 3 - Crumb, Robert. Als to Bill Mason [Winters Calif.],dated Dec 6th 1978. 1 compact page in Crumb's neat small hand. In part - " Bill / Thanks very much for the latest chapter of the "Allessanrini Nails Crumb" series. it's very embarrassing but intensely fascinating. it's always delicious to read about yourself, and the more probing, the better. it's narcissistic. with 4 - A particularly informative & interesting lengthy biographical & historical letter that is unique in content. Crumb, Robert. Als to Bill Mason [Winters Calif.],dated August 11th, 1979. Very lengthy 3 page letter in Crumb's neat small hand about the chapters sent to him, adding his own comments & corrections. In part - " . I: 2/ Underground comics & the counterculture: Page 11: She says 'Crumb's frustration . led him to become the first artist to publish a comic book using the methods of the underground press'. This is incorrect. I was preceded by at least two others, maybe more, Jack Jackson published 'God Nose' in Texas around 1965, or possibly even '63. Joel Beck published several comic books in 1965 & '66 in /San Francisco. 'ZAP' was, I suppose the first really successful underground comic." / Page 14: 'Cu##' Comics - it was mostly a solo book by Rory Hayes but it contains one page by Jay Lynch and one by Kim Deitch. I doubt the story about most of the print run being destroyed. / Actually, the last and the filthiest of the little dirty books was "FELCH. Ill.: R. Crumb.

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Crumley, James

One to Count Cadence

New York, Random House, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Crumley, James. ONE TO COUNT CADENCE. New York: Random House (1969). First Edition of James Crumley's popular and critically acclaimed first book, an important title in the literature of the Viet Nam War. 8vo. 338 pp. A fine copy in brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh neatly price-clipped dustwrapper. "six for pallbearers, two for road guards and one to count cadence". An superb example of this important novel about GIs in the Philippines waiting to be shipped to Vietnam. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Cushing, Harvey W. M.D.

The Western Reserve and Its Medical Traditions: An Address Delivered at the Dedication of the New Medical Building . By Harvey Cushing, M.D. , Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Cleveland, Privately printed, 1924, 1924. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Cushing, Harvey, M.D. THE WESTERN RESERVE AND ITS MEDICAL TRADITIONS: An Address Delivered at the Dedication of the New Medical Building. By Harvey Cushing, M.D. Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Cleveland, Ohio: Privately printed, 1924. Inscribed Family Presentation Copy. First Edition. Fine leather binding with the original paper wraps bound in. Signed by Cushing on the front cover with a brief inscription for his nephew: "Edward H. Cushing / from / H.C." Cushing family bookplate on the front pastedown with the ownership signature of E. H. Cushing. The bookplate, designed by Harvey Cushing himself, incorporates his family crest and motto, along with the initials of the long line of doctors from the Cushing family and the years they graduated medical school. Cushing signed with his initials "HC" when the recipient was family or close friend. For those inscriptions to folks he did not know well, he signed in full. Handsomely bound in half-leather over burgundy cloth. Gilt spine title and ruling. Original printed gray paper covers bound in. 8vo. 33pp followed by (50) blank leaves evidently added by the binder to enhance the appearance of the volume for the Cushing family. Small binders ticket on rear pastedown (W.A. De Podesta / Art Book Binder / Cleveland.) Map illustration facing the first page of text. A very good or better copy with sound, tight binding. Some light rubbing and wear to the extremities and along the outer joints. Modest age-toning to the endpapers and some darkening of the fore-edge areas adjacent to the leather corners. Text pages clean and unmarked. No creasing, tears or other flaws to the paper covers. A superb Cushing item (1869-1939), noted American neurosurgeon, an innovator of brain surgery, and the first to describe Cushings syndrome. Often called the father of modern neurosurgery, Cushing was a professor at Harvard starting in 1911, later served in a medical capacity with allied forces in World War I, and was with the Yale University School of Medicine from 1933 until his retirement in 1937. His literary credits include a 1926 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of another medical pioneer, Sir William Osler. Cushing Bibliography no. 224. "The essay shows evidence of much patient research, but as with the 'Osler' it was obviously a labor of love, since there was nothing that stirred him [Cushing] more than the stories of his pioneering forebears on both sides of the family who, discontented with their lot in New England journeyed to the Western Reserve where they set up their own vigorous way of life, their schools, and their traditions in medicine" - Fulton, Harvey Cushing, pp. 511. A very nice example of this very desirable Cushing publication uncommon in any condition, and unique as a family association. Custom slipcase in fine condition. [30754] $3250. .

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Dali, Salvador

Dali [ Introduction by Michel Tapie ]. Inscribed

Paris, Les Editions Du Chene, 1957. 1st Edition. Dali. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. A very uncommon Dali monograph, with an extraordinary two page Dali presentation inscription. First edition. 4to. [14 1/2' x 11"] French style wrap-a-round stiff paper covers, with a mounted colour illustration on the front panel. 11pp Tapie introduction, in French; 16 exquisite full colour plates, each mounted on the recto of each page; & a 5 pp biography at the rear. All of the mounted illustrations are of excellent quality, and include: "La Harpe Invisible Fine Et Moyenne", "Spectre De La Libido", "Le Severage Du Meuble Aliment", "Le Chevalier De La Mort", "Les Atavismes Ce L'Angelus De Millet", "Pain", "Leda Atomica", "Madone De Port-Lligat", "Paysage De Port-Lligat", "Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina", "Persistance De La M emoi re", "Le Christ En Croix", "Vitesse Supersonique Staique De La Madone De Raphael", "La Cene", a detail of "La Cene", & "Nature Morte Vivante". On the front endpapers is a large & bold Dali inscription that read "Pour Comte Du Liege / Dali / 1958 . The Comte Du Liege, is a Regal title of the Belgian Royal Family, and is akin to the rank of a Duke. The best Dali inscriptions are noted for their flare & elaborate Daliesque design - this one is no exception. A superb example from perhaps the greatest artist of this past century - we know he would agree. Ill.: Dali.

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Queen, Ellery. [Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee]

The Detective Short Story. A Bibliography. Signed

New York, Biblo & Tannen, 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). One of 150 only Signed & Numbered copies of a total edition of 1000. First Thus. Original mustard coloured buckram 8vo. pp. xii, 146. Very fine in dustwrapper. B & T's excellent series, a reprint of the 1942 edition with a new introduction & with many of the titles well-annotated. The history of the detective short story by the pseudonymous masters of the genre, Frederick Dannay & his cousin Manfred B. Lee. "Anthony Boucher described Queen best when he wrote: `Ellery Queen is the American detective story.'. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Daragnès, Jean-Gabriel [Villeboeuf, André]

Jeux. Suite de Quatorze Eaux-Fortes de Daragnès. Signed by Daragnès. This Is the Portfolio Edition "No. 25" out of the Print Run of "26" with Original Engravings Each Signed and Numbered 25/26. Printed and Dedicated to His Fellow Illustrator, André Villeboeuf

Paris, Cinq-vingt, 1935. 1st Edition. Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. 1st Edition. An exquisite copy of this Limited and numbered Edition "JEUX" number 25 of 26 limited editions, size: 16" x 12" which includes a suite of 14 black and white etchings in a series of Sports and Circus themes. Each numbered and signed 25/26. Yellow cover with beige marbled spine and gold gilt lettering and design. A fine example of this book with only slight wear showing on the slip case. The engravings are bold and dynamic. This is a rare very FINE portfolio. It is unique since it was dedicated to another great artist: André Villeboeuf who like him, spent his time creating etchings and illustrations in Montmartre. In 1925, Daragnès had set up his workshop on avenue Junot, in Montmartre which was the hub for many an artist of that time. This rare and beautifully designed edition contains these original and outstanding engravings. TABLE DES GRAVURES/TABLE OF CONTENTS: X 1.Manège [Merry-go-round] 2.Corde raide [Tightrope] X 3.Acrobates [Acrobats] X 4. Au cirque [Circus] X 5.Pelote basque [ Basque Pelota] 6.Au trinquet [At the Trinquet(court)] 7.Dribbling (Dribbling] X 8.La mélé [Sport Melee] 9.Les débutants [Beginners] 10.Combat [Combat] 11.Soigneurs [Trainers] X12. Le ring [Ring] 13.Knock out [Knockout] X14. L'épaulé [The shoulder] X=(Gravures exécutées a la manière noire. [Engraving executed in black style]. Ill.: Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.

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Daragnès, Jean-Gabriel (Kieffer, Rene; Claudel, Paul)

La Passion de N-S Jesus Christ, Signed and Inscribed by Daragnes & Signed by Kieffer #44 of 140 Editions

Paris, Rene Kieffer, 1949. 1st Edition. Daragnès. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED DARAGNES, SIGNED KIEFFER. One of Kieffer's Greatest Bindings exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs / 35ème. 1949 (Societé des artistes décorateurs). A glorious copy of this illustrated LA PASSION DE N-S JESUS CHRIST [PASSION OF CHRIST], number 44 of 140 limited editions, 11" x 14", on vellum paper inside. Prussian blue cover with gold gilt lettering and design. A fine example of this book with only slight wear showing on the slip case. Comprises 112 pages, including over 57 prints sepia tinted by the French Impressionist Daragnès in an exquisite binding by Rene Kieffer featuring a bold and and dynamic navy blue and marbled frontispiece, Inside is a translation of the twenty-first psalm by the French Poet Paul Claudel. This unique art book was printed by Kieffer on his presses. Bindery tag and stamp shown. Certainly a labor of love for these three gentlemen with the book being dedicated to the memory of Daragnès mother. A rare and beautifully designed edition. Ill.: Daragnès.

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[Daragnès, Jean-Gabriel]

Les Pièces Condemnées de Charles Baudelaire, Ornées de Douze Bois de Daragnès

Paris, Chez Leharanger-Coq, 1917. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Daragnès. 1st Edition. Soft cover. by Artist. [Daragnès, Jean-Gabriel] LES PIÈCES CONDEMNÉES DE CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, ORNÉES DE DOUZE BOIS DE DARAGNÈS signed printed November 15, 1917 at the Studium printing house This is no. XVI from the limited double suite edition of 50 printed on Chine paper signed by Daragnes: [12 copies on Old Japan (I to XII); 30 copies on China (XIII to XLII); 50 copies on Imperial Japan (numbered 1 to 50) and 300 copies on Vélin de Hollande, numbered from 51 to 350.] Format: 9 7/8" x 7 7/8" Both Soft Cover Suites are printed in red and black housed in the original glassine. The first book includes the poetry with illustrations in uncut pages: Table des Matières: Lesbos. Femmes damnées. Le Léthé. À celle qui est trop gaie. Les Bijoux. Les Metamorphoses du Vampire. Second wrap includes a series of beautiful loose printed woodcut images printed in black and sanguine Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) was a painter, a publisher and an illustrator of books, and in particular of works that are now commonly referred to as modern illustrated books. A wonderful example of the talent of Jean-Gabriel Daragnès and his visions of the Charles Baudelaire poetry. "Charles Baudelaire's poems known as Pièces condamnées (The Banned Poems), which were omitted at the demand of the French government censors. The 'forbidden' poems ('Lesbos', 'Femmes damnées (à la pâle clarté)', 'Le Léthé', 'À celle qui est trop gaie', 'Les bijoux', and 'Les métamorphoses du vampire') appeared in print in 1866, but were officially banned in France until the 1940s because of their lesbian and sado-erotic content. This made them particularly attractive to publishers of limited illustrated editions."*https://honesterotica.com/portfolios/1146. Ill.: Daragnès.

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Davey, Neil K.

Netsuke. A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.J. Hindson Collection

London, Faber & Faber, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A definitive monogram on Japanese Netsuke and a key Netsuke reference from the noted Krouners' Oriental collection. Small folio. 564 pp. A near fine copy in blue cloth, (tiny bookseller's ticket to the rear pastedown), gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with the Krouners' original older format Brodart tipped gently to the boards. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates exploring Netsuke artists, signatures, diverse schools and subjects. An important study indispensable for the collector and scholar. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Davies, Robertson

A Masque of Mr. Punch

Toronto: Oxford University Press, (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 58 pp. A play written for the Preparatory School boys of Upper Canada College. A fine copy in decorated orange cloth, black titles to the spine in an otherwise fine pictorial dustwrapper that has faded somewhat from orange to yellow. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine/Near Fine.

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Davies, W. Robertson

Shakespeare's Boy Actors

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's rare first book. 8vo. pp. vii, 207, [1] [Bibliography]. Publisher's [electric] blue cloth covered boards, clean blue topstain, gilt-lettered at the spine with the blind-embossed crest on the front cover. Eight black & white plates. A very nice, near fine or better copy, in a very good or better copy of the rare [pc] illustrated white dustwrapper showing minimal use; 1 tear neatly mended on the verso of the back panel. An excellent, bright, unfaded example of this Davies highspot & in definite collector's condition. Davies account of the life & training of the Elizabethan boy actors, a consideration of their particular abilities & shortcomings, & discussion of the extent to which these actors set free or hampered Shakespeare in his female characterizations. Very scarce indeed. Most of the edition was pulped to accommodate the paper shortage of the war years. Perhaps a few hundred copies were actually sold which accounts for its infrequent appearance on the market. In the last twenty-five years, less than a dozen copies have surfaced in varying states of perfection or lack thereof, usually without dustwrapper, in both the Toronto & Montreal markets. .

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Dixon, Captain George

Voyage Round the World: But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America : Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. Dedicated, by Permission, to Sir Joseph

London, Geo. Goulding, 1789. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dixon, Captain George. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD: but more Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock: London Geo. Goulding, 1789. Excellent example. First Edition. Tall copy, 11" 1/8. Quarto pp.xxix, [1]blank, [1 leaf]errata & directions to binder, 360, 47. with half-title. 5 folding engraved maps & bound with 17 engraved plates, 3 of which are folding & 1 of which [Cape St. James p.214] was never originally bound in & now supplied in excellent facsimile. Large [24.5 x 35 inches] folding frontispiece chart. Half-title page present. Errata on recto and instructions to binder on verso of unpaged leaf following introduction. Account of the voyage of the "Queen Charlotte" in a 4-year expedition from England to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and China via the Pacific Northwest. Contemporary calf sumptuously bound with an ornately decorated & tooled spine with 5 ship devices in compartments, black leather labels, tree calf boards with braided rope gilt border. Beautiful marbled endpapers. An excellent example showing minimal use & wear at the tips. "Portlock and Dixon, who had been with Captain Cook, made this expedition to the northwest coast of America to collect furs for a group of London merchants. Portlock, the Commander-in-Chief, was on the King George. The expedition left Gravesend August 29, 1785, and arrived at the Sandwich Islands via Cape Horn in May 1786. The mouth of Cook's River in Alaska was reached July 18 and the rest of the summer was spent in sailing down the Coast as far as Nootka Sound. The expedition wintered in the Sandwich Islands and in 1788 proceeded to Prince William Sound where they met Captain Meares. The vessels parted company in May, with Portlock exploring the Alaskan coast and Dixon sailing again for Nootka Sound, where he named 'Dixon's Entrance' and the 'Queen Charlotte Islands.' The furs were sold in Canton, China, and both ships, after a most successful voyage, arrived back in England by way of Cape Good Hope in the summer of 1788. "The account, except for the introduction by Dixon and the two appendices, is in a series of forty-nine letters signed 'W.B.' The writer was William Beresford, a Quaker who, says Dixon in his introduction, 'has been totally unused to literary pursuits, and equally so to a sea-faring life.' Notwithstanding this, his letters, corrected by Dixon on nautical points, make good reading and the book is an excellent authority for the early days of fur trading on the northwest coast" (Streeter). Dixon also contributed the valuable maps. The work is sometimes confused with Portlock's account of the voyage, published the same year under the same title. Bell B204. Howes D-365. JCB II 3270. Sabin 64390 [vide PORTLOCK]. JCB II 3270. Smith 779. Strathern & Edwards 37. TPL 593. Hill p. 23. Lada-Mocarski 43. Lande 960. Streeter VI 3484. Story p. 217. A superior, beautiful copy. Fine entry slipcase supplied. .

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Dreiser, Theodore

Original Signed & Inscribed Portrait Photograph

Dreiser, Theodore. (August 27, 1871-December 28, 1945), 1943. Original Photo. Framed & Glazed. Original Photo. Framed & Glazed. Signed by Author. Dreiser, Theodore. (August 27, 1871-December 28, 1945). Regarded as one of the pre-eminent American novelists of the first half of the twentieth-century [Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy]. Original photo display. Hollywood, February, 1943. Framed & glazed to an overall size of 14" ½ x 16" ½. Elegant museum framing, double matte, 8" x 10" original sepia oval style photo of the author. Neatly inscribed in black fountain pen: "For Wm W. Seward, Jr. / From Theodor Dreiser / Hollywood / Feb-1943". An excellent portrait of Dreiser. .

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