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1947rif. 164461Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1947 film showing actors Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the 1945 memoir by Betty MacDonald about a young couple who decide to become chicken farmers leading to a number of humorous mishaps. Colbert was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Universal-International unknown books
2012rif. 15427New York: Grand Central Publishing 2012. First edition. Hardcover. A fine crisp copy in a similar dust jacket. Includes the 3-D glasses in the original publisher's envelope. Book store nation in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore we've mortgaged our future to China and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders. Worse the L.A. Four Seasons Hotel doesn't even have a dedicated phone button for the Spa. You have to dial an extension! Where did we lose our way! Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1997rif. 628138Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin. 288pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner label on the front pastedown else fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the editors on the half title page. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1933rif. 02332SCREEN PERSONALITIES G & D 1933 first edition light wear to the lower corner tips and spine soiling to the yellow covers closed tear to the f.e.p. else a good to very good copy. Each page is a full page of a Hollywood persona with both illustrations and biography. Some of personalities within are: Bankhead Barrymore Baxter Berry Bennett Bow Brown Cagney Cantor Chaplin Colbert Colman Copper Crawford Del Rio Dietrich Durante Fairbanks Farrell Gable Garbo Gaynor Gilbert Harlow Hayes Hepburn Howard Huston Jolson Karloff Laughton Lloyd Lombard Loy March Marx McLaglen Menjou. Mix Muni Powell Raft Robinson Rogers Ruggles Shearer Sidney Stanwyck Swanson West Young et.al. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1970rif. 134169Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Set in Italy in 1944 where the entire population of a village has been massacred by the SS except for a group of young boys. Rock Hudson the only US paratrooper left alive after a failed mission to blow up a nearby dam decides to lead the boys on the mission instead. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. 143 leaves mimeograph duplication. Scrip bent at the foredge else pages about Fine in Very Good plus wrappers bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown books
rif. 35418No binding. Very Good. 254 x 206 mm. Wearing headdress from her role in the 1934 film Cleopatra Slightly worn; remnants of mounting tape to upper portion of verso. unknown books
1956rif. 334921New York: Playbill 1956. Softcover. Very Good. Stapled illustrated self-wrappers. A little wrinkling and a couple of creased corners else very good. Playbill for the week of May 28 1956 of the Plymouth Theatre production near the end of the original Broadway production's seven month run. Signed on the front wrap by two of the play's stars Claudette Colbert who returned to Broadway after a hiatus of over 25 years in order to replace Margaret Sullivan in the lead and Claude Dauphin. Playbill unknown books
1988rif. 508721Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Foxing on the top page edge else near fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author author on the front free endpaper and Signed by the author on the title page. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1871rif. 42434Cincinnati and New York. . . 1871. Frontis illustration of Chicago in 1820. Folding map of Chicago. 528pp. Illustrations. Original cloth worn library gum label. Fore-edge with ink blotch and rubberstamp. Good plus. unknown books
1962rif. 225727Windsor Ontario 1962. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 7.25 inches. Windsor Ontario May 23 1962. Written as Chairman of the Board complying with an autograph request in part: ".I will sign this letter and also make a duplicate signing at the bottom of the page which I trust will serve your purpose. " Bottom edge unevenly trimmed; two horizontal folds. Very good- condition. Pioneer car designer who in 1959 became Corporate President and Chairman of the Board of the Chrysler Car Company. He is best remembered for manufacturing the DeSoto under a host of names transferring production from Dodge to Plymouth and eventually back to Chrysler. The DeSoto would be called the Airstream Freedom Firelight and Adventurer -- all essentially the same car. unknown books
1946rif. 146146Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage studio photograph of Mervyn LeRoy and Louella Parsons rehearsing on the set of the 1946 film. Based on the obscure 1946 pulp novel by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston about a best selling novelist who meets Marine who she thinks is perfect for the lead in an upcoming film adaptation although he doesn't her book. An abundance of Hollywood cameos with columnist Louella Parsons playing herself. 8.25 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some light creasing. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1931rif. 171388Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film musical showing Maurice Chevalier and Charles Ruggles saluting a smiling Claudette Colbert. Basd on Hans Müller-Einigen's 1905 novel "Nux der Prinzgemahl" previously adapted as an operetta by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann in 1907. A lieutenant is obligated to marry a socially inept princess after she mistakenly believes he has winked at her instead of his lover. The first of three films directed by Ernst Lubitsch to star Miriam Hopkins. Considered lost for many years until a print was discovered in Denmark in the 1990s. Set in Vienna. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown books
rif. 161102Document Signed New York May 24 1963. Page 6 of a contract between Colbert and Benton & Bowles on behalf of General Foods; also signed by a representative of the William Morris Agency. 4to. 1 page file holes at top. AUTOGRAPHS VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. unknown books
rif. 501661See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good COLBERT Claudette. Document Signed New York May 24 1963. Page 6 of a contract between Colbert and Benton & Bowles on behalf of General Foods; also signed by a representative of the William Morris Agency. 4to 1 page. file holes at top. Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
1973rif. 448890New York: Reprinted from Foreign Affairs 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Offprint. Quarto. Paginated as in the magazine: p.608-628. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by Colbert on the front cover. Reprinted from Foreign Affairs unknown books
1940rif. 161657N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage double weight photograph of producer Michael Todd with actress Claudette Colbert at New York's famed Stork Club circa 1940s. Stamp of the club's in-house photographer Ernest Brooks on the verso. Over the course of his short career in show business Todd worked as a producer for theatre and film most notably producing the 1956 Academy Award-winning film "Around the World in 80 Days." He is perhaps best remembered now as Elizabeth Taylor's third husband the only one whom she did not divorce Todd died in a plane accident a year after their marriage. Founded in 1929 at 132 West 58th Street by a former bootlegger the Stork Club served as a symbol of café society for the wealthy elite of New York. After being raided by Prohibition agents in 1931 the club moved to East 51st Street where it remained until its closure in 1965. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. N.p. unknown books
2005rif. 273601New York: Flying Elephant 2005. paperback. very good. Many exquisite sepia photographic prints. Exhibition catalogue March 5 - June 6 2005: Nomadic Museum. Oblong 8vo stiff brown wrappers with inlaid picture of kneeling elephant on front cover envelope format with string. New York: Flying Elephant Press 2005. First Edition. Very good . Flying Elephant unknown books
rif. 161101Autograph Note Signed boldly penned on engraved personal letterhead ca. 1940: "Thank you and best wishes to you - Claudette Colbert." 1 page. AUTOGRAPHS VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. unknown books
rif. 501660See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good COLBERT Claudette. Autograph Note Signed boldly penned on engraved personal letterhead ca. 1940: "Thank you and best wishes to you - Claudette Colbert." 8vo 1 page. Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
1939rif. 160979Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1939 film showing James Stewart standing on a scale sporting a safari costume. Mimeo snipe on the verso. One of Ben Hecht's most brilliant and underrated screenplays. A novice private eye is unjustly fingered alongside his wealthy client in a murder case. Claudette Colbert's first film for MGM. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly age toned and curled. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1948rif. 164459Universal City: Universal Pictures 1948. Two vintage publicity portrait photographs of French-American actress Claudette Colbert in 1948. One with the stamp of Universal Pictures photographer Claudette Colbert on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. Colbert was offered a seven-year contract with Paramount in 1940 but declined after learning she could command far more money as a freelance artist. The decade proved to be the height of the actress' career and she was the film industry's highest-paid star in 1942. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1937rif. 163739Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1937. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film showing Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in an intimate moment. Mimeo snipe provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A woman is unexpectedly caught in a love triangle during a trip to Paris. Shot on location in Sun Valley and Ketchum Idaho. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creases at the bottom corners. Paramount Pictures unknown books
rif. 40483Pen and ink on paper. 8-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches. Marginal binding holes else fine. Pen and ink on paper. 8-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches. Colbert trained as a lawyer climbed the ladder at Chrysler becoming President in 1950 and Chairman in 1960 his tenure marked with colorful controversy leading to executive fistfights and some internal dislocations not evident in his note to Eisenstaedt: "With thanks for a delightful photographing appointment--and thanks too for the pleasant and enlightening conversation that went along with the picture taking.". unknown books
1950rif. 160937Los Angeles: RKO 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. Claudette Colbert stars as a woman who is accused of bigamy by an intruder during her wedding ceremony to David McLean. The two then must travel to a small seaside village to investigate the claim where villagers claim to have remembered her previous nuptials. Shot on location in Santa Monica California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. RKO unknown books
1942rif. 149117Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage photograph of Preston Sturges adjusting Claudette Colbert's outfit made of men's pajamas and a pullman blanket on the set of the 1942 film. Studio label affixed to bottom margin of recto with ambiguous initials and "May 30" written in manuscript ink. Mimeo snipe on verso. In the minds of some critics Sturges closed out the screwball comedy era with a bang in this breakneck venture which had dialogue flying back and forth at a speed that was radical even by Sturges' standards. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some creasing and edgewear. Criterion Collection 742. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Paramount Pictures unknown books
