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

New York: Arbor House, 1985. First Edition. Paperbound. Advance review copy with the publisher’s dated notice laid in. Inscribed and signed by the author, Gerald Petievich, to writer Wayne Warga. Inscribed: “To Wayne, a friend and fellow novelist. Best wishes. Gerald Petievich. 8/31/84.” Fine in printed wrappers. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25, Warga reported on John F. Kennedy’s race for the Presidency, and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years, Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later, Warga became a mystery novelist, creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover, Fatal Impressions, and Singapore Transfer, featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer, Jeffrey Dean.

New York: Arbor House, 1985. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, Gerald Petievich, to writer Wayne Warga. Inscribed: “To my pal Wayne, with best wishes to a fellow author. Gerald Petievich. 9/1/85.” Fine bright copy in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of edge wear to the top edge of the rear panel. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25, Warga reported on John F. Kennedy’s race for the Presidency, and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years, Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later, Warga became a mystery novelist, creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover, Fatal Impressions, and Singapore Transfer, featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer, Jeffrey Dean.

New York: Grove Press, 1956. First American Edition. Copy number 28 of 100 numbered specially hardbound copies. Quarter brown cloth gilt-stamped spine with gray paper covered boards. Very good plus to near fine copy.

New York: Grove Press, 1956. First American Edition. Copy number 48 of 100 numbered specially hardbound copies. Quarter brown cloth gilt-stamped spine with gray paper covered boards. Fine copy.

London/Melbourne: Andersen Press/Hutchinson of Australia, 1980. First Edition. Previous owner’s inscription. About fine in illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued. A children’s book.

London: BIM Distribuzione & Canal+, 2006. First Edition. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Screenplay. 96 page shooting script for the critically acclaimed film The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Helen Mirren as HM Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Sheen as Prime Minister Tony Blair, James Cromwell as Prince Philip, Sylvia Syms as HM The Queen Mother, and Alex Jennings as Prince Charles. As new in printed wrappers. The Queen portrays an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the sometimes conflicted relationship between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair immediately following the death of Princess Diana. Helen Mirren won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, and Peter Morgan won one for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture. The film and the director were both nominated for Golden Globes for their work on the film.… Read More

New York: Venture/George Braziller, 1965. First Edition - American. Illustrated by Grambs Miller. Fine fresh copy in a very good plus slightly used price-clipped dust jacket with some minor edge wear.

New York: Putnam, 1964. First Edition - American. Near fine copy with a faint trace of a 1/4” dampstain to the bottom edge of the spine in a very good dust jacket with a trace of dampstaining to the bottom of the spine and minor age toning to the rear panel and a few tiny nicks and creases.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1930. Tenth Printing - October 1930. Used and read copy with a little fraying at extremities else very good example of the novel’s original book design in yellow cloth with blue stamping. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy side of the life of Hollywood during its golden age is like no other work of fiction. In the 1976 reprint edition, Budd Schulberg wrote “...in Queer People we have if not THE Hollywood novel - at least a truly seminal work on Hollywood in which may be found the seeds of at least three of the longer-lived Hollywood novels, The Day of the Locust, What Makes Sammy Run? and The Last Tycoon.” The book was a scandalous sensation when published and went through numerous printings very quickly. At publication, multimillionaire film producer Howard Hughes bought the film rights to the novel. He hired Leo McCarey to direct and Ben Hecht to write… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the authors: "Carroll and Garrett Graham, June 19, 1930". On the front pastedown is the engraved theatrical scene bookplate of Fritz Tidden, who was the Hollywood publicist for great silent film director Erich von Stroheim, and is known to have been one of only 12 people at a special screening who was shown the complete Greed, Von Stroheim’s 1924 massive uncut 42 reel film masterpiece before it was dramatically cut by the studio to only 10 reels. A few small stains to cloth otherwise very good in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears with the words office file copy stamped in a blank space on the rear panel. The front cover colorful artwork depicts a scantily clad beautiful actress posed in recline on a film set with a director and film crew photographing her. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. A few aging spots to cloth otherwise very plus in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy side of the life of Hollywood during its golden age is like no other work of fiction. In the 1976 reprint edition, Budd Schulberg wrote “...in Queer People we have if not THE Hollywood novel - at least a truly seminal work on Hollywood in which may be found the seeds of at least three of the longer-lived Hollywood novels, The Day of the Locust, What Makes Sammy Run? and The Last Tycoon.” The book was a scandalous sensation when published and went through numerous printings very quickly. At publication, multi-millionaire film producer Howard Hughes bought the film rights to the novel. He hired Leo McCarey to direct and Ben Hecht to write the screenplay. Hughes biggest problem turned… Read More

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1990. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the authors Ib Melchior and Frank Brandenburg on the half title: “To my friends, Alan and Joanna, with thanks for their friendship - much appreciated, Ib” and just below in German, “Fir Alan and Joanna, ___________. Frank Brandenburg”. Additionally signed by both Melchior and Brandenburg at their printed names on the title page. Illustrated. About fine copy with a trace of handling in a fine bright dust jacket. From the front jacket flap: “This is a true story of a young German’s investigation into the years of the Third Reich, into the events that made Hitler’s Germany a synonym for evil and destruction.”

Boston: John W. Luce & Co, 1907. First American Edition. Signed by Max Nordau with a revealing inscription dealing with anti-Semitism: “This play is called Doctor Kohn in the German original. The American editor insisted upon the change of title, alleging, an outspoken Jewish name would have a repulsing effect on the American reader and buyer. This shows remarkably an American publishers judgment of the degree of racial prejudice among his countrymen. Paris, May 3d, 1909, Dr. M. Nordau.” Max Nordau was a Hungarian-born doctor who settled in Paris in 1880, where he because a best-selling author, not for his controversial works of social and artistic criticism, and was a co-founder with Theodore Herzl of the Zionist Movement. Nordau helped draft the Basle Program at the first Zionist Congress in 1897, and played a major role in subsequent congresses. This book is the first translation in English which was originally published in German in 1898, and it concerns the question of intermarriage of Jews… Read More

Redding Ridge, CT: Black Swan Books, 1995. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author / editor Louis L. Martz to fellow professor and author, Donald L. Kaufman, best known for his studies on the work of Norman Mailer. Inscribed: “For Donald, ‘ancient friend...Now I remember that you built me a special’ regard for modern literature, Louis.” Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the rear panel of the dust jacket by L.D. Clark, editor of the Cambridge edition of The Plumed Serpent: “Written in 1923 but never carried beyond typescript, Quetzalcoatl is an earlier and much different version of Lawrence’s Mexican novel, The Plumed Serpent. Since the appearance of Mr. Noon a few years ago, Quetzalcoatl has been the only full-length work by Lawrence to remain unpublished. This fascinating novel, with meticulous and an illuminating introduction by Louis Martz, is now presented to readers of Lawrence for the first time.”

Los Angeles: Paramount, 2018. First Edition. Small format, paperbound, 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, 81 pages. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Original Screenplay for A Quiet Place written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski, story by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck. The film is directed by and stars John Krasinski, co-starring Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, and Cade Woodward. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Covers rubbed and used, interior fine. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1895. First Edition. From the library of Marguerite Erskine Westinghouse, the wife of George Westinghouse, Jr., the American pioneer of the electrical industry, with her signature on the title page, “M. E. W. Westinghouse.” 515 pages. Near fine copy with a trace of edge wear bound in burgundy cloth with bright gilt stamping to the front board and spine.