Search Results: Titles starting with N from James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.

New York: Random House, 1930. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 900 numbered copies signed by the author, Rockwell Kent. This copy is signed again as a presentation copy from Rockwell Kent, affectionately inscribed: “To my friend, pilot Fred Black from his apprentice, Rockwell Kent, 1930.” Evidence of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown. Laid in is a 8” x 7” black & white photograph taken out of doors of Rockwell Kent, Fred Black, and another unidentified gentleman posed in front of a Stout Air Lines airplane, all of whom are wearing suits with Mr. Kent, alone, wearing a hat looking straight into the camera smiling, with his hands in his pockets. Illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Evidence of a removed bookplate on front pastedown, else very good plus with a small light pink discoloration to the lower left corner of the front cover with very light wear without dust jacket.

New York: Rinehart, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author Jack Webb: “For Ginny & Mark, Jack”. Pages tanned as usual. A good copy with some mottling and minor rubbing in a dust soiled price-clipped dust jacket with some edge wear and chips and tears. A Murray Hill Mystery.

London: Victor Gollanz, 1957. First Edition - British. Signed by the author. Presentation copy from Jesse Lasky, Jr., to Donald Maclean, personal assistant to film director Cecil B. DeMille. Inscribed: “For Mac and Sparkey. Who have lived deep in the heart of the cactus, and are flowers in truth and friendship, among its thorns. May they enjoy this portrait of our town. Affection. Jesse, July 3rd 1961.” A Hollywood novel written by the son of one of Hollywood founding film moguls. Lasky Jr., was a noted screenwriter in his own right, and wrote or co-write the screenplays for such Cecil B. DeMille films as The Ten Commandments, Union Pacific, Northwest Mounted Police, Reap the Wild Wind.

New York: Bantam, 1972. First Paperback Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, film director, Frank Capra: “To _____ Stoddard, regards, Frank Capra.” Illustrated. Very good slightly used copy with some minor edge wear in printed wrappers. Capra directed such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, It Happened One Night, and It’s a Wonderful Life. Listed in 100 Books on Hollywood & the Movies.

New York: Bantam, 1957. First Edition. Paperback original. Collection of Archer short stories. Only slight wear, very good plus to fine in printed wrappers.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. First Edition. Quarto. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The remarkable work of memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning Native American writer of Kiowa heritage, N. Scott Momaday. Illustrted with many family and archival photographs. Momaday writes: “When I turn my imagination to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold. This is one way to tell a story...it is my way, and it is the way of my people.”

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1932. First American Edition. Some fading at spine, else a very good clean without dust jacket.

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001. First Edition. Paperbound. Illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibit of abstract paintings by Natalie Alper. Near fine copy with a narrow band of fading to the outer edges of the front and rear covers in printed wrappers.

New York: Farrar, 1970. Second printing. Signed and inscribed by the author, Jay Martin, to publisher and writer Noel Young: “To Noel Young, With great admiration. I look forward to having you present me with a copy of another biography of Henry Miller. Yours, Jay Martin.” Illustrated. Near fine in a slightly used dust jacket. The classic biography of Nathanael West. Noel Young’s publishing company, Capra Press, published several works by and about Henry Miller, including Henry Miller’s Book of Friends, Sextet: On Turning Eighty, Reflections on the Death of Mishima, First Impressions of Greece, Water Reglitterized, and The World of Lawrence. A Passionate Appreciation.

San Francisco: Butterfield & Butterfield, 1993. First Edition. Paperbound. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an auction of Native American and tribal art works, including textiles, weapons & shields, ornamental clothing, masks, pottery, fetishes, Kachina dolls, jewelry, and baskets. With estimated prices. Fine in printed wrappers.

San Francisco: Butterfield & Butterfield, 1994. First Edition. Paperbound. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an auction of Native American and tribal art works, including textiles, printed materials and paintings,Christian religious art and carvings, ornamental clothing, pottery, jewelry, and baskets. With estimated prices. Fine in printed wrappers.

New York: Harper, 1940. First Edition. Review copy with the publisher’s dated notice laid in. Fine in a very good dust jacket which is chipped at head of spine. The play version of Wright’s landmark novel brought to the New York stage by Orson Welles to great acclaim.

New York: Harcourt, 1952. First Edition of the Author’s First Book. Spine faded and cloth rubbed, a very good copy in a near fine bright dust jacket. The basis of the acclaimed motion picture directed by Barry Levinson starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, and Kim Basinger.

Los Angeles: ICM, 1992. First Edition. Original 125 page shooting script dated February 1, 1992 for the film ‘Natural Born Killers’ directed by Oliver Stone, starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr., and Tom Sizemore. Bradbound in printed ICM covers. With notations in an unknown hand on the title page. With some use and edge wear to the covers. The film tells the controversial story of an outrageously violent honeymoon couple and the media frenzy their murder spree inspires. Oliver Stone was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Director.

New York: Hyperion, 2006. First Edition. From the library of legendary science fiction author Forrest J Ackerman. Signed and inscribed by the author to fellow writer Forrest J Ackerman: “Dave Freedman. All the best, Forrest!” Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A science fiction thriller involving a shocking biological discovery of a previously unknown predatory species that is being driven from its hidden realms into the world of man. Forrest J Ackerman (1916–2008), or ‘Mr. Science Fiction,’ was from the 1930s into the 21st century, one of science fiction's best known promoters, spokesman, popular culture advocate, and was the creator of the now universally used term “sci-fi”. Living throughout his life in Los Angeles, Ackerman was a magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom. Internationally known for his role as editor of the magazine ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland,’ he was often called "Forry," "The Ackermonster," "4e" and "4SJ.”… Read More

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, (1830s). Bound in green marbled paper wrappers. Paperbound. 91 pages. Bookplate of novelist Garet Rogers. Very good solid copy. Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Hunter and the title page is engraved with a picture of The American Bison.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First Edition. Original paper wrappers. Staplebound, 8vo, 16 pages. Very good copy with some minor age toning and handling. During World War II in response to what would later be called the Holocaust, in Britain, in March 1943, William Temple, as Archbishop of Canterbury, joined Ernest Henry Lamb, Lord Rochester, in this historical speech before the House of Lords outlining ongoing atrocities within the Nazi regime and calling for the British government to develop plans to resettle Jewish refugees with great haste and urgency. Temple concludes his powerful speech with this: “My chief protest is against procrastination of any kind. The Jews are being slaughtered at the rate of tens of thousands a day on many days. We know that what we can do is small compared to the magnitude of the problem, but we cannot rest so long as there is any sense among us that we are not doing all that might be done. We have discussed the matter on the footing we are not responsible for this… Read More

Glendale: RAS Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by illustrator Gary Gianni. The last Ray Bradbury book published in Bradbury’s lifetime. A haunting ghost horror tale taking place in 1880s Egypt with a passenger train that has left Cairo running out of fuel to burn. The inhabitants of the train forage around the nearby area and discover an ancient tomb yard and they steal dried mummies to burn in the engine. A original outline story for a screenplay that Bradbury was never able to get produced, the manuscript was lost for many years until being recently rediscovered and published here, illustrated with 15 remarkable color illustrations by Gary Gianni. The book was published April 25, 2012, and Ray Bradbury viewed the finished book on May 11th, and was very moved by the result, and at which time he wrote "The Nefertiti-Tut Express is a beautiful and fantastic book!" Ray passed on June 5, 2012 less then a month later. 12 by 9 inches. Paperbound. As new.

New York: Delilah / Putnam, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author / songwriter Neil Diamond to Jay Morgenstern, general manager of Warner-Chappell publishers: “For Jay - with many warm wishes - a friend, Neil Diamond, 3/’84”. Oversize, 9 1/4 inches by 12 1/4 inches, 375 pages. Illustrated. Near fine slightly handled copy with some minor fading to the cloth at the spine and top edges in a very good or better price-clipped dust jacket with a 1/2” chip to the bottom edge of the front panel and some minor edge wear. A collection of songs grouped chronologically by the great singer-songwriter, musician Neil Diamond, including such classics as Cracklin’ Rosie, Song Sung Blue, Longfellow Serenade, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, Sweet Caroline, Cherry, Cherry, Solitary Man, America, Dry Your Eyes, and many more. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime… Read More

London: Cassell, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Very good in a very good slightly chipped dust jacket. Vintage mystery novel.