Claude Gardner (12 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Light creases to the lower right of the front cover. A good very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Creamy white pages. A very good or better copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good minus. First Edition. 4 titles in 1 vol. Quarto, 10 3/4" tall, 100 pages + 10 plates; 104 pages + 4 plates; 112 pages + 6 plates; 96 pages + 8 plates (412 pages + 28 plates total); gilt tiles, gilt decorations and top edge, decorative maroon cloth. A very good, clean volume overall, with minor shelf wear, cloth just starting to fray at top and bottom edges of spine and fore-corner tips; some fading to cloth color along the back strip; gilt title and decoration on front panel bright; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with light foxing to fore-edges (top edge gilt quite bright) as well as to the margins of the plate pages. Note: overseas shipping is prohibitively expensive at present.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Edna Eicke Pool In the Courtyard Cover Art; Perry Barlow, Gardner Rea, Robert Kraus, Leonard Dove, Claude Smith, Etc (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 60 pages; includes items by/about: S.J. Perelman ("Dr. Perelman, I Presume, or Small-bore in America"); Phyllis McGinlehy (Poem); Adrienne Cecile Rich (Poem); Ida Treat ("The Third Monsieur"); Laura Fermi (That Was the Anhattan District: Pt. I--a Domestic View); John McCarten (Current Cimema "On the Waterfront"); molline Painter-Downes (Letter from London)paul H. Rohmann (("Wig, Mask, and Hunting License"); Drienne Garrett, Miss Rhi=eingold 1954 on Inside Back Cover; Talk of the Town; Books, Art, Theater, Cinema, Food Reviews, Etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3 volume. No case. Name inside front cover. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 92pp, 80pp, 104pp, 100pp leather bound collection of four editions of The Portfolio, Artistic Monographs, With many Illustrations. VG.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

1st edition. Very good copy, finely bound in gilt-blocked aniline-calf-backed, cloth boards. Spine and boards dust-dulled, somewhat sun-toned and rubbed as with age. Plates accompanied by loose guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. Marbled end-papers. Some pages loose, cracked and foxed. IN good condition overall. Physical description; odd pagination, 27 cm, b&w plates. Subjects; Book portfolios. Arms and armor, English. Albrecht Durer. John Crome. John Sell Cotman. The Earlier Works of Titian. Military art and science England History. Weapons England History. Substance-Related Disorders. English Norman Medieval Renaissance Middle Ages History. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Very good copy, finely bound in gilt-blocked aniline-calf-backed, cloth boards. Spine and boards dust-dulled, somewhat sun-toned and rubbed as with age. Plates accompanied by loose guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. Marbled end-papers. Some pages loose, cracked and foxed. IN good condition overall. Physical description; odd pagination, 27 cm, b&w plates. Subjects; Book portfolios. Arms and armor, English. Albrecht Durer. John Crome. John Sell Cotman. The Earlier Works of Titian. Military art and science England History. Weapons England History. Substance-Related Disorders. English Norman Medieval Renaissance Middle Ages History. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. Numerous Plates (illustrator). The Portfolio: Four Volumes included : The Paintings and Drawings of Allbrecht Durer by Lionel Cust: John Crome and John Sell Cotman by Laurence Binyon: Armour In England by J. Starkie Gardner: The Earlier Work of Titian by Claude Phillips. Maroon binding, gilt titles plus with handsome gilt decoration. Pages: 104+104+100+104. Bumped corners. Profusely illustrated. Heavy book but no extra postage will be asked for delivery in the UK.

46 signed letters [34 TLS, 12 ALS] comprising decades of correspondence between Frederick Gardner Cottrell and various notable figures of his day in U.S. politics, the international science community, and academia. All letters are housed in new archival mylar sleeves. Cottrell was a notable chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, best known today for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator - one of the first inventions to combat air pollution - and his founding of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, which used the revenue from the electrostatic precipitator to fund further scientific research, and continues to do so today. While best remembered for these feats, Cottrell had a long and influential career both in the U.S. Federal Government and as a science consultant. He was well known nationally and internationally - in industry, in government, and in academia - for his support of and contributions to new ideas and new talent within the scientific community. The letters, which span from 1901-1941, track Cottrell over the course of 40 years, and evidence the many relationships he had over that period with some of the most influential people of the time. These include a letter of introduction from Alexander Graham Bell, a discussion of chemistry with Thomas Edison, replies from two Nobel Prize winning scientists - the discoverer of the noble gasses, William Ramsay, and discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson - to Cottrell's request to study in their labs, and exchanges with two presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson. Other letters show his personal interactions with leading scientists of his day (Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georges Claude, George E. Hale) and heads of industry (Henry L. Doherty, Ivy Lee), and track the path of his career through his time as the director of the Bureau of Mines; to chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on the National Research Council; to head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Lab, and beyond. These letters, the vast majority of which were sent by these notable figures to Cottrell, evidence his expertise, the depth and breadth of his professional interests, and his eagerness to collaborate and share research and ideas, coming together to trace the life of a man whose work was and continues to be consequential to the advancement of science as a whole. CONTENTS: 1-Page TLS from inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell to a Mr. Fish, dated December 20, 1911, introducing Cottrell to him. In Very Good condition. In this letter, Bell is writing in his capacity as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. On 1331 Connecticut Avenue letterhead. Faintly creased, with mild wrinkling along the edges. Signed in black ink by Bell: "Alexander Graham Bell". 1-page TLS from inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison to Cottrell dated January 13, 1925, discussing the unexpected results of a past chemistry experiment of his in relation to the generation of ammonia. In Very Good condition. TLS is on Edison's personal letterhead ("From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison"). Lightly age toned, with some wrinkling and small closed tears along the top edge. Faintly creased from past folding. Signed by Edison in black ink: "Thos. A. Edison". Includes a lightly soiled 1-page facsimile of Cottrell's reply. 2-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning physicist Joseph John Thomson to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated July 6, 1901, discussing the possibility of Cottrell coming to study at Thomson's lab. In Very Good condition. In 1901, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin, seeking to study in the laboratory of an accomplished scientist. Thomson was already a figure of some renown for his 1897 discovery of the electron, which represented the first identification of a subatomic particle, and would be awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his work. ALS is on Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge letterhead, and shows a faint crease across the middle and light pencil writing in the top margin of the first page. Small red pencil mark beneath letterhead. Signed in black ink by Thomson: "J. J. Thomson". 1-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning chemist William Ramsay to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated 14th August, 1901, in which Ramsay says there is no availability for Cottrell to study in his lab. In Very Good condition. As with the letter from J. J. Thomson, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin at the time this letter was sent. In 1901, Ramsay was just a few years away from his landmark 1904 discovery of argon, the first identified noble gas, which would earn him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and lead to the development of a new section of the periodic table. ALS is lightly toned along the edges, faintly creased, with a similar red pencil mark in the top margin. Signed by Ramsay in black ink: "W. Ramsay". 1-page TLS from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to Cottrell, dated September 17, 1920. In Very Good minus condition. Brief letter of thanks for Cottrell's forwarding another person's letter to Hoover. On Hoover's personal letterhead. Faintly stamped, "Received / 1920 Sep 18 / Interior Department Bureau of Mines / Washington D.C.". Small rust marks and light wrinkling along the top margin; faintly creased. Signed in black ink by Hoover: "Herbert Hoover". Two 1-page TLS's from Herbert Hoover, each part of an exchange with Cottrell. In Very Good condition. Includes a 2-page facsimile of Cottrell's response. First Hoover TLS sent February 5, 1926; Cottrell's response sent February 8, 1926; Hoover's second TLS sent February 12, 1926. In his first letter, Hoover asks Cottrell about the potential improper investigation of a new method of creating aluminum by the Bureau of Mines. In the second letter, Hoover thanks Cottrell for clearing up the issue. Hoover's letters are on Department of Commerce letterhead. Letters show fa. Signed.

Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar, with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film, including two programs, an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling," and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. Delamar worked as a producer, production manager, and assistant director on over 30 films, and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" (1948), Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" (1957), and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" (1966). Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet, and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves, with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, lightly rusted to the binding, bound internally with a silver prong.