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[WARNER BROS] [RALSTON, Marcia, 1906-1988]Biblio.com

Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston circa 1937.

réf. 29301Burbank Ca. : Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. circa 1937. Gelatin silver print publicity photograph 175 x 125 mm inscribed in white fountain pen by the actress 'Sincerely Marcia Ralston'; verso blank; in fine condition. The classically beautiful Sydney-born actress Marcia Ralston - winner of a Miss Australia contest - was one of a small number of Australians to have a career in Hollywood prior to World War Two. After being awarded a contract with Warner Bros. in 1937 she appeared in no fewer than seven films that year including Call It a Day alongside Olivia de Havilland. In 1938 she had small roles in another four films appearing alongside Carole Lombard in Fools for Scandal and Humphrey Bogart in Men Are Such Fools. 'Marcia Mascotte Ralston 19 September 1906 – 23 November 1988 was an Australian-born actress who appeared in Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. She was married to Phil Harris from 1927 to 1940. Ralston's father was well known Australian singer and actor John Ralston. She attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and won third place in a 1926 Miss Australia competition. She met band leader Phil Harris in Australia in 1927 and they married then moved to California. She had a Warner Bros. contract by 1937 and appeared in a number of supporting and leading roles mostly in B films. Her marriage to Harris ended in divorce in 1940. She continued to act in various bit and supporting roles until the late 1940s. Work after this included instructing for the Arthur Murray dance studio in the early 1950s. She married Bud Henderson in 1954. Henderson's sister Betty was married to actor Robert Young. The connection resulted in an occasional supporting role as Nurse Donnelly in the TV series Marcus Welby M.D. in the early 1970s. She died at Rancho Mirage California in 1988.' Wiki unknown

Douglas Stewart Fine Books · Australie180,00 $AU≈ 112,93 €

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner [Samuel L Clemens]Biblio.com

The Gilded Age: A Novel.

1874réf. 133018London: George Routledge and Sons 1874. First English edition of the rarest of Mark Twain's works: the only novel he wrote with a collaborator and the book that gave the era its name in history. Octavo three volumes original publishers green cloth gilt titles to the spine illustrated. The only multi-volume work Clemens produced except for the two-volume Tramp Abroad London 1880 the first English edition of The Gilded Age is the rarest of Mark Twain's major works and the most difficult to obtain. Its rarity is due largely to its format three volume sets were quite expensive and were produced almost solely for circulating libraries during the Reconstruction era and so the books were vigorously read by many readers generally rebound and most were pulped in paper drives during the Second World War. In 1873 Samuel Clemens had written only four other major books - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography and Roughing It. A relatively unknown American author in London at the time the English edition would have necessarily been small no more than a few hundred. From the library of noted collector Frederic R. Kirkland. Kirkland formed a well-known collection of Americana and American and British literature much of which was sold in 1962. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco folding chemise slipcase. Exceptionally rare with one other copy traced in auction records and only the Yale set listed in the Bibliography of American Literature. The first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Twain and good friend and neighbor Charles Warner borrowed the term from William Shakespeare's King John 1595: "To gild refined gold to paint the lily. is wasteful and ridiculous excess." Another interpretation of the title of course is the contrast between an ideal "Golden Age" and a less worthy "Gilded Age" as gilding is only a thin layer of gold over baser metal so the title now takes on a pejorative meaning as to the novel's time events and people. Although more than a century has passed since its publication the novel's satirical observations of political and social life in Washington D.C. are still pertinent and the work has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. BAL 3359. George Routledge and Sons hardcover

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis65 000,00 $US≈ 58 072,04 €

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