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1949réf. 151739N.p.: Vanguard Films 1949. Spotting List script for the 1949 re release of the 1944 film. Based on the 1943 novel by Margaret Buell Wilder. A family in the American Midwest struggle with their lives on the home front as the father is off at war. Set in the Midwest shot on location in Richmond Pasadena and Culver City California. Yellow titled wrappers noted as Spotting List for Recut Version on the front wrapper dated August 22 1949. Title page integral with third page dated August 22 1949 noted as Spotting List for Recut Version. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two metal brads along the top edge. Vanguard Films unknown books
1949réf. 143179Los Angeles: Selznick International 1949. Dialogue & Cutting Continuity Draft script for the 1944 film. Based on the 1943 novel "Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife" by Margaret Buell Wilder. A unique and important screenplay for a classic American war film one that addressed the plight of the families left behind in the United States during the war rather than the more common portrayal of soldiers in the field. Nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Set in Midwest shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers noted as Dialogue & Cutting Continuity on the front wrapper dated March 1949. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered REEL 8 PAGE 22. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads at the head. Selznick International unknown books
1935réf. 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
1991réf. 89215Metairie Louisiana: Pendaya Publications 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Oblong quarto. Top corners a little bumped else fine in fine dustwrapper. Pendaya Publications hardcover books
1933réf. 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
1948réf. 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
2021réf. 579347New Haven: Yale University Press 2021. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Front endpaper with a small water mark else fine in a near fine dust jacket with faint wrinkling to the rear panel and mild edgewear. A scholarly biography of Hansberry supported by the background of the Greenwich Village art scene of the 1960s the homophile movement Black diasporic freedom movements and third-wave feminism. Yale University Press hardcover books
1986réf. 508719Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Just about fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of creasing at the spine base. Nicely Inscribed on the title page to author Robert Skinner and his wife: "3-26-88 This copy is for Bob and Patty with all good wishes-- and with the hopes that you are not indeed Too Sweet to be Rich Jim Colbert." Colbert has Signed the title page again above his printed name. The author's first book a mystery set in the Big Easy. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1986réf. 701153Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1986. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Houghton Mifflin paperback books
1956réf. 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
1952réf. 268273npl: npub 1952. Pamphlet. 26p. stapled wraps 4.5x7.25 inches very good condition. Address by Colbert the President of the Chrysler Corporation before the Alumni Business Conference of the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas on October 3 1952. On rising productivity and the need for free enterprise. npub unknown books
1940réf. 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
1973réf. 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
1988réf. 123049Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0395470161 . A first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition housed in an equal dust-jacket; This novel is set in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in 1922. The novel follows the lives of the Eggers family who are a wealthy and eccentric clan. The youngest Egger 10-year-old Georgie is the only child of parents who are in a hurry to get married and start a family. Georgie's parents are constantly traveling and they forbid Georgie from going on vacation with them because they don't want him to get too used to their lifestyle. Georgie spends his summer vacations with his Uncle Will and Aunt Lily who live on a farm in upstate New York. Georgie is fascinated by the farm and the way his uncles and aunts live simple but happy lives. When Georgie's parents come to visit him they are disappointed to find that he has been spending his time with his uncles and aunts. They are also disappointed that Georgie has not developed any interest in inheriting their wealth. This novel; 8vo; 204 pages . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1988réf. 101946Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine first printing of the first edition in Near Fine dust-jacket; Author's second mystery; 8vo; $7.50 . Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1988réf. 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
1988réf. 181965Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dustwrapper is slightly rubbed and has very minor chips on edges clean text and stamped cloth spine. Houghton Mifflin Co hardcover books
1988réf. 381367Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some fading and rubbing. Author's second album. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1988réf. 343995Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1988réf. 338850Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Light foxing to cloth spine very good in a very good dust jacket with internal foxing. The author's second novel. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1988réf. 701152Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1988. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Houghton Mifflin paperback books
1996réf. 278143Chatsworth: VCA Labs 1996. Magazine. 32p includes covers 8.25x10.75 inches explicit hardcore stills from the video lightly worn glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Ninn & Colbert's erotic gay male video about two stone gargoyles who come to life and live to cum! VCA Labs unknown books
1997réf. 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
1997réf. 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
1968réf. 467369New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. xi 283pp. Illustrated in black and white. Modestly rubbed spine and edges very good in an about very good dust jacket moderately edgeworn and rubbed with small creases and interior tape reinforcement on the front panel. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
