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1946ref. 150460Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage studio photograph of Mervyn LeRoy and Claudette Colbert on location for the 1946 film. Based on the 1946 pulp novel by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston about a successful novelist who tries to convince a rowdy Marine to play the lead in the upcoming film adaptation of her book. Featuring an abundance of Hollywood cameos including Jack Benny Dolores Moran Cary Grant and Louella Parsons. 10 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine with some light creasing in corners. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1937ref. 150532Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1937. Vintage reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch from the set of the 1938 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1921 French play "La Huitieme Femme de Barbe-Bleue" by Alfred Savoir. Previously Filmed as a silent film in 1923 now lost directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Huntley Gordon. The first of many collaborations between screenwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Nicole Claudette Colbert marries the wealthy American businessman Michael Brandon Gary Cooper only to learn he has been married seven times before and she is determined that there will not be a ninth. 8 x 10 inches. Faint diagonal crease near top else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1997ref. 627850Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition hardcover issue. Tall octavo. 288pp. Illustrated. Edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin. Tiny bump at top corner still fine in about fine dust jacket with a modest crease on the rear flap. Inscribed by the author's son: John Hope Franklin and Signed by the author's grandson: John Whittington Franklin. Also issued in paperback the hardcover first edition is especially uncommon especially signed. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1938ref. 153216N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film showing director Ernst Lubitsch in conversation with actors Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert on the set between takes with a camera crew in the foreground. Based on the 1921 French play by Alfred Savoir. After discovering her multimillionaire fiance has already been married seven times the daughter of an impoverished marquis decides to develop her own strategy to lock him down. The first of many collaborations between screenwriters Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett including "Ninotchka" 1939 "Ball of Fire" 1941 "The Lost Weekend" 1945 and "Sunset Boulevard" 1950. Set in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 231512New York: King's Crown Press 1948. First. hardcover. very good. x 228pp. 8vo blue cloth. New York: King's Crown Press Columbia University 1948. First Edition. Very good History of the use of retaliation by nations during war and peace from the seventeenth century through World War I. King's Crown Press unknown books
1939ref. 160626Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage publicity photograph of James Stewart and Claudette Colbert from the 1939 film. Printed mimeo snipe and MGM label on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. 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. Colbert's first film for MGM. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1935ref. 164460Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1935. Collection of ten vintage photographs from the 1935 film including one keybook photograph and six double weight photographs including one taken on the set. All photographs with studio stamps crediting photograph Ray Jones on the verso and nine with mimeo snipes on the same. The collection includes one keybook photograph of Katherine Alexander one double weight photograph of Claudette Colbert and Michael Bartlett on the set four publicity photographs of Edith Fellows two being double weight photographs and four reference photographs three being double weight photographs. 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 went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Claudette Colbert stars as an extraordinarily competent secretary who marries her boss-only to discover taking care of him at home proves much more challenging than taking care of the office. 8 x 10 inches to 8 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall. Byrge and Miller. The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1940ref. 91868New York: Dial Press 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Facing pages a little roughly opened resulting in very small chips else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Memoir of a vaudeville star turned film actor. Ownership signature of film star Claudette Colbert: "Claudette Colbert / 471 North Faring Rd. / Hollinsby Hills / L.A. Calif." under which the book has been Signed by the author: "With memories J.C. Nugent." Born in Paris Colbert came to New York as a child. She made her screen debut in 1927 and starred in several notable films winning a Best Actress Oscar opposite Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. Dial Press hardcover books
1945ref. 148605N.p.: Loew's Incorporated 1945. Draft script for the 1946 film. "Sections of script" copy with multiple revisions of the majority of pages in place of thirteen pages omitted in other words complete. Annotations of the name of screenwriter Whitfield Cook on the top of nine pages along with the name of stenographers Ken Schwartz eight times and Helen Van Vlack once to top left all in manuscriptic pencil. Front wrapper stamped three times with "Vault Copy" and every page stamped "Permanent Script File." Several annotations throughout in manuscript pencil and ink. Missing 13 pages likely as used or issued. Brilliant pianist Larry Adams' Richard Derr frustrated ambitions leads him to suicide leaving behind a new wife Lee Addams Claudette Colbert and his two young children Penny and Chase June Allyson and Robert Sterling from his previous marriage. Blue titled wrappers noted as Sections of script on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 5157 dated 5-11-45 with credits for screenwriter Whitfield Cook. Title page integral with first page dated 5/11/45 with annotated credits for screenwriter Whitfield Cook. 231 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/9/45 and 7/26/45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with three small closed tears and small chip on rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Loew's Incorporated unknown books
2013ref. 57936Boston: Brier Hill Press 2013. Limited Edition. New. Folio 34 cm Designed by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press. Printed by Arthur Larsen at Horton Tank Graphics. Frontis portrait 12 pages of text in wraps plus 32 wood engravings printed directly from the blocks. A retelling in dramatically bold black-and-white of one of the most sacred stories ever told. James Reid studied illustration at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art under Thornton Oakley a disciple of the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle who was known as "The Father of American Illustration." Reid's "Life of Christ in Woodcuts" is viewed as one of the earliest wordless books ever published. A lavish portfolio of wood engravings printed directly from the original blocks created by James Reid for "The Life of Christ in Woodcuts" and "The Song of Songs." "The Life of Christ in Woodcuts" has 19 engravings and "The Song of Songs" has 13 engravings. Each print is numbered. The prints are laid into two paper portfolios. All contents housed in a fine green cloth clamshell case with a blind-stamped vignette on the front cover. Both books were published by Farrar & Rinehart. "The Life of Christ" published in 1930 contained 78 illustrations. "The Song of Songs" published in 1931 had 30 engravings. The illustrations in the two books were printed from electrotypes. Only 42 wood blocks survived all present here. This set is #55 of 125 numbered sets signed by the publisher. Brier Hill Press unknown books
