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

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1983. First Edition. Paperbound. Signed and inscribed by the author, Saundra Taylor, to Hilda Bohem. Inscribed: “For Hilda, To keep your ‘Taylor’ bibliography up-to-date. It’s taken only 18 months of my life to get this product and six years to get the collection catalogued. Love, Saundra. 12 April 82. Hot off the presses!” Fine fresh copy in printed wrappers. A well-researched catalogue of the Lilly Library’s collection of letters and manuscripts of Samuel Fischer, the founder of the S. Fischer publishing house in Berlin, including material from Edward Albee, Alfred Doblin, Gerhaart Hauptman, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Henry Moore, Boris Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, Felix Salten, Franz V. Werfel, Emile Zola, etc.

London: Dent, 1937. First Edition. Signed by the book’s subject, the young Indian actor Sabu, “Sincerely, Sabu”. This book is the film story of Elephant Boy and is extensively illustrated with stills from the film. Very good copy without dust jacket.

New York: Bantam, 1988. First Edition. 344 page book written by L’Amour to fill in the chronological background of the Sackett clan as well as explaining how he wrote his books. With maps, illustrations, and an extensive dictionary of places, people, and events to be found in his books. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Essential for anyone interested in L’Amour.

New York: Parke, Austin and Lipscomb, 1917. Film director Cecil B. De Mille’s copy with his striking and colorful bookplate announcing CECIL B. DE MILLE LIBRARY depicting a spread wing black and gold-tipped bird against a gold sun with a bright orange background. Illustrated. Hardbound. 430 pages. Fine condition.

New York: Parke, Austin and Lipscomb, 1917. Film director Cecil B. De Mille’s copy with his striking and colorful bookplate announcing CECIL B. DE MILLE LIBRARY depicting a spread wing black and gold-tipped bird against a gold sun with a bright orange background. From the library of screenwriter and director Carl Macek with a Certificate of Authenticity. Illustrated. Hardbound. 401 pages. Fine condition. Carl Macek is best known for the television series Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985 - 86) and the films Akira (1988) and 2009: Lost Memories (2002).

New York: Parke, Austin and Lipscomb, 1917. Film director Cecil B. De Mille’s copy with his striking and colorful bookplate announcing CECIL B. DE MILLE LIBRARY depicting a spread wing black and gold-tipped bird against a gold sun with a bright orange background. From the library of screenwriter and director Carl Macek with a Certificate of Authenticity. Illustrated. Hardbound. 469 pages. Fine condition. Carl Macek is best known for the television series Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985 - 86) and the films Akira (1988) and 2009: Lost Memories (2002).

New York: Parke, Austin and Lipscomb, 1917. Film director Cecil B. De Mille’s copy with his striking and colorful bookplate announcing CECIL B. DE MILLE LIBRARY depicting a spread wing black and gold-tipped bird against a gold sun with a bright orange background. From the library of screenwriter and director Carl Macek with a Certificate of Authenticity. Illustrated. Hardbound. 415 pages. Fine condition. Carl Macek is best known for the television series Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985 - 86) and the films Akira (1988) and 2009: Lost Memories (2002).

New York: Parke, Austin and Lipscomb, 1917. Film director Cecil B. De Mille’s copy with his striking and colorful bookplate announcing CECIL B. DE MILLE LIBRARY depicting a spread wing black and gold-tipped bird against a gold sun with a bright orange background. From the library of screenwriter and director Carl Macek with a Certificate of Authenticity. Illustrated. Hardbound. 397 pages. Fine condition. Carl Macek is best known for the television series Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985 - 86) and the films Akira (1988) and 2009: Lost Memories (2002).

London: Heinemann, 1928. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author: “For Ted Lielenthal, W. Somerset Maugham, San Francisco. 11.3.36.” Offsetting on front and rear endpapers, otherwise near fine in a very good dust jacket with the usual darkening and soiling and a couple of expert mends by a paper conservationist.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1928. First Edition - American. Very good lightly used copy in a chipped and torn tape repaired dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1928. First Edition - American. Bookplate. Some slight foxing to the preliminaries, else a very good copy with some minor rubbing and age toning to the paper label at the spine.

Garden City: Doublday Doran, 1928. First Edition - American. Very good lightly used copy without dust jacket.

Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1994. First Edition. A very good copy with a little dust soiling to covers, interior fine.

Santa Barbara, CA: Department of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 1974. First Edition. Paperbound. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of Indian art selected by curator Pratapaditya Pal of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Fine in printed wrappers.

New York: Look Magazine, 1954. First Edition and Only Printing. One of the rarest of all Ernest Hemingway A items which was unknown for many years until revealed in C. Edgar Grissom’s A Descriptive Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway published in 2011 and is listed as item A.26. This oversize booklet (10 1/2 wide by 13 inches tall) separately prints the article and photography for the January 1954 issue of Look Magazine for which Hemingway wrote an original piece. The article is 3500 hundred words plus photographs for which Hemingway wrote the captions. This special printing was the brainchild of the magazine’s publisher, Vernon C. Myers, who presented it to a small select number of people calling it a literary first “you may want to add to your library.” A little light soiling, and use to the printed wrappers. Enclosed in a custom cloth folding case. A Hemingway first edition lacking in almost all Hemingway collections.

New York: Putnam, 1928. Later printing. Illustrated with photographs by the author, the famous explorer Martin Johnson, who later became the noted documentary filmmaker in Africa with his wife, Osa. Good lightly used copy with some minor edge wear and small tears to the cloth at the top and bottom of the spine without dust jacket. A story of adventure and exploration in Africa, with much information about the extraordinary wildlife, including elephants, lions, rhinos, and gorillas.

New York: Putnam, 1928. Later printing. Illustrated with photographs by the author, the famous explorer Martin Johnson, who later became the noted documentary filmmaker in Africa with his wife, Osa. Used copy with some minor edge wear, slight dust soiling, a bit of pitting to the cloth on the front board, and a thin split to the front hinge without dust jacket. A story of adventure and exploration in Africa, with much information about the extraordinary wildlife, including elephants, lions, rhinos, and gorillas.

New York: Putnam, 1928. Later printing. Illustrated with photographs by the author, the famous explorer Martin Johnson, who later became the noted documentary filmmaker in Africa with his wife, Osa. Very good plus bright copy with a touch of dampstaining to the cloth at the rear board without dust jacket. A story of adventure and exploration in Africa, with much information about the extraordinary wildlife, including elephants, lions, rhinos, and gorillas.

New York: Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Fine fresh copy in a fine bright dust jacket. A collection of three one-act plays, thematically connected through the subject of AIDS: Manny and Jake, Safe Sex, and On Tidy Endings.

New York: Viking, 1992. First Edition. Signed and dated 1992 by the author, Ken Kesey. Fine in dust jacket. A novel set in Alaska.