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1949ref. 442913Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1949. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. 203 5pp. Mass market paperback. With illustrations by Edith Longstreth Thompson. Book store label on half-title age-toned pages with foxing on the panels very good. Penguin Books unknown books
1954ref. 130802New York: Croydon Books 1954. First Edition. First Edition a paperback original. Digest size. A chauffeur's "services" are requested by several man-hungry women around town. Cover art by Bernard Safran who also did nice work for Pocket Books. Light rubbing at the spine ends else Near Fine in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. Schreuders UK p. 222. Croydon Books unknown books
1922ref. 14259New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good. 1922. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket solid enough book with binding intact but should be considered a reading copy only due to external wear and bumping an unsightly beverage-ring scar on the front cover see scan and internal tape repait to a page that had been ripped in half. Uncommon novel originally published in France in 1921. It's "historical fiction" in a sense but as the New York Times described it in 1922 "it is not a history of Salt Lake City as occupied by the Mormons so much as the story of the mental and physical anguish of a young widow who is unsuspectingly drawn into marriage with a Mormon and finds herself the second wife -- one of three wives and perhaps others." A stage adaptation was presented in Paris in 1926 about which the Times correspondent commented that the playwright "obviously knows very little about Utah and the history of the Mormons and Mormonism and was forced to rely entirely upon Pierre Benoit who also unfortunately knows very little concerning them a fact which did not prevent his novel from obtaining immense popularity in France." Nor did it prevent Benoit whose best-known work is probably "L'Atlantide" 1919 from becoming a member of the Académie française in 1931. . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1939ref. 84219New York: Samuel French 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Ink ownership name else near fine in soiled and spine-tanned near very good dustwrapper. Campbell and Ryerson were married to each other and were both screenwriters Ryerson best known for co-scripting The Wizard of Oz. Samuel French hardcover books
1971ref. 132532New York: Eugene O'Neill Theatre 1971. Draft script for the 1971 Neil Simon play. Copy belonging to actress Tresa Hughes who played the part of Jessie with her annotations in blue ink red ink green ink and pencil on 28 nearly consecutive pages. Opened at the Eugene O'Neill on Broadway on November 11 1971 for a run of 4 previews and 798 performances. Hughes was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress for her role in the 1961 production of "The Devil's Advocate." Green studio wrappers with credits for playwright Simon. Title page present dated September 1 1971 with credits for playwright Simon. 126 leaves mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. Eugene O'Neill Theatre unknown books
1966ref. 172993N.p.: Golden Era Film Distributors 1966. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1966 Italian film. With mimeo snipes attached to the versos. Based on the 1869 novel by Florence Montgomery. Two children try to cope with the death of their mother as their father retreats into his career. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Florence Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint emulsion irregularities. Radiance Films 51. Golden Era Film Distributors unknown books
1903ref. 88414Boston: Little Brown & Co 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19.5cm. Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 3924pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy. A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust conspires to blow up the son's competing and union-led mill the millworkers bravely come to the lad's rescue. The old bastard gets it in the end. HANNA 3832. BLAKE p.227: "Mostly drivel. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1940ref. 158569N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage photograph of journalist and progressive activist Florence Welch and famed milliner Mr. John at a nightclub along with an unknown woman circa 1940s. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Welch worked as a newspaper journalist and activist for women's suffrage in Topeka Kansas later moving to California and marrying prominent artist and writer Rob Wagner. In 1929 the pair founded "Script" a left-leaning weekly literary film magazine that often published interviews and articles concerning progressive and radical topics in Hollywood. Welch was also an early supporter of writers William Saroyan and Ray Bradbury publishing their work extensively in the magazine. After Wagner's death Welch would remarry early aviator James L. Breese with whom she lived in New Mexico and California until her death in 1959. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners even age toning and a couple tiny splashes on the recto. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 209180Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1979. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 49 pages. Ai's second book of poems which was the 1978 Lamont Poetry Selection. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some very faint foxing and in a near fine dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Company unknown books
1935ref. 164515Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1935. Vintage reference photograph of Florence Rice from the 1935 film with a stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones and a mimeo snipe on the verso. Not to be confused with the 1925 silent film directed by Al Rogell and starring Reed Howes and Mildred Davis. 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. A scientist invents a "superspeed" formula for race cars that everyone is soon fighting to own. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1935ref. 164512Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1935. Vintage publicity photograph of Norman Foster Florence Rice and Victor Jory from the 1935 film with a two stamps on the verso including one stamp crediting photographer" Ray Jones and a mimeo snipe under the working title "Song of the Damned" 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 went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. In a remote cottage Florence Rice eagerly awaits the arrival of her father Victory Jory and Norman Foster escapees from the French penal colony Devil's Island. After Foster arrives with the news Rice's father was killed the two begin to fall in love until Jory shows up several days later. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1935ref. 164455Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1935. Vintage publicity photograph of Kathleen Burke from the 1935 film. Mimeo snipe and studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones 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 went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. A construction boss agrees to raise his estranged son after his ex-wife dies and is dismayed to find him reading studying and practicing violin and not at all interested in the more manly pursuits he was hoping to teach. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1929ref. 166070N.p.: N.p. 1929. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1929 pre-Code film showing actress Clara Bow in a ruffled collar. A beautiful bareback rider loves a trapeze artist but he loves two things much more: alcohol and a manipulative vamp named Zara. Actress Kay Francis' first Hollywood film. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1910ref. 9032502New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Designed with decorations by Margaret Armstrong illustrated by Townsend. Bound in publisher's original green textured cloth with spine and cover stamped in beautiful illustrated gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Includes eight color plates and beautiful illustrated title page and text margins. Text block is fine. Book is gorgeous but has rubbing at corners head and heel through cloth. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 340 pages. G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker hardcover books
1938ref. 163804N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1938 film showing actors Melvyn Douglas Florence Rice and Louis Calhern. Annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1938 novel by Marco Page about the Sloanes a pair of married book dealers who help solve a murder. The first of three films to follow the adventures of the Sloanes followed by "Fast and Loose" and "Fast and Furious" both released in 1939 although different actors played the couple in each of the three films. Set in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 200868New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1977. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 191 pages. Review copy with laid in slip and two promotional press photographs. A biography of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis. Features text by Victor Boesen and Florence Curtis Graybill. Includes numerous images. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1976ref. 198655New York: Thomas E. Crowell 1976. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 302 pages. Features text by Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen. A collection of sepia toned images of Native Americans by Edward Sheriff Curtis. A tight very good copy in brown cloth boards with some foxing to the page edges and in a very good plus dust jacket with some edge tears and associated creases. A solid copy of this terrific book. Thomas E. Crowell unknown books
1975ref. 161331Burbank CA: NBC 1975. Final Draft script for the twelfth episode of the thirteen episode 1975 comedy and variety show television series SIGNED on the front wrapper "Tom & Dick" by Tom and Dick Smothers with an inscription on the top left partially lost due to dampstaining "illegible Wishes from the Smothers Brothers." Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member David Carroll with manuscript marker and pencil annotations of his name or partial name "David C." on the top of the title page and two other pages with manuscript ink and marker annotations on 32 pages marking music cues. NBC's tamer and largely unsuccessful revival of CBS's 1967-1969 variety series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" which aired for thirteen episodes January 13 through May 19 1975. The episode on offer here was the penultimate episode which was taped on March 28 1975 and aired on May 12 1975 featuring guests Florence Henderson and David Gates. Of note the script is labeled as "Production #011 / Air Sequence #11" with a manuscript marker annotation of "12" over the air date of "May 5 1975." The May 5 episode of the series featured guests Kris Kristofferson Rita Coolidge and Arlo Guthrie and the episode found here featuring Henderson and Gates was aired as the twelfth episode on May 12 1975. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 26 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout undated. Pages Very Good with dampstaining throughout and silverfish damage to the extremities of the first three leaves. NBC unknown books
1930ref. 158866New York: Vandamm Studio 1930. Vintage portrait photograph of actor Otto Kruger by the photography team of Florence and Tommy Vandamm Vandamm Studio circa 1930. Photograph with a blind "Vandamm / New York" stamp on the bottom left of the recto and a "Vandamm Studio" stamp on the verso and a label on the verso announcing Kruger in the leading role of the Broadway play "The Boundary Line" by playwright Dana Burnet which premiered at the 48th Street Theatre on February 5 1930 and ran for 37 performances closing in March 1930. The photograph was likely commissioned by the Theatre Guild which contracted Vandamm Studios to photograph all of their productions beginning in 1928. Kruger began his career as a Broadway matinee idol in the 1920s and 1930s before establishing a niche in feature films as the charming villain such as in Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 film "Saboteur" Joseph M. Newman's "711 Ocean Drive" and Douglas Sirk's 1954 film "Magnificent Obsession." Kruger starred in over 80 films between 1915 and 1964 as well as multiple television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. The husband and wife photography team of Florence and Tommy Vandamm married in 1918 emigrated from London to New York in the 1920s due to declining business in their portrait studio following World War I. By 1928 Vandamm Studio began to dominate the field in New York after being contracted by the Theatre Guild to photograph all of their productions. Florence took responsibility for most of the portrait work while Tommy documented the stage work. The studio was closed by Florence in 1961. Vandamm Studio's work was known for their carefully planned lighting and composition and their attention to detail. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with two vertical folds and three horizontal folds cropping the face. Vandamm Studio unknown books
1974ref. 189796Torino Italy: Martano Editore 1974. First edition. Small oblong softcover. Catalog on photographer and artist Florence Henri. Features text by Maurizio Fagiolo in English and Italian. Includes numerous black and white images. A very good copy in wrappers with some wear. Internally a clean copy. Martano Editore unknown books
1940ref. 158544N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage portrait photograph of newspaper reporter screenwriter and progressive rights advocate Florence Welch circa 1940s. Annotations in Welch's hand on the verso: "Florence / 1. Welch / 2. Wagner Rob / 3. Breese Jim / How fortunate and happy I have been / Florence." Welch worked as a newspaper journalist and activist for women's suffrage in Topeka Kansas later moving to California and marrying prominent artist and writer Rob Wagner. In 1929 the pair founded "Script" a left-leaning weekly literary film magazine that often published interviews and articles concerning progressive and radical topics in Hollywood. Welch has also been credited as an early supporter of writers William Saroyan and Ray Bradbury publishing their work extensively in the magazine. After Wagner's death Welch would remarry early aviator James L. Breese living with him in New Mexico and California until her death in 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1925ref. 151005N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage borderless linen-backed publicity photograph of Florence Vidor from the 1925 silent film. A woman wants to leave her second husband a wealthy but heartless count who refuses to grant her a divorce and decides to seek help from her first husband whom she still secretly loves a well-known divorce lawyer. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1920ref. 151014N.p.: N.p. 1920. Vintage borderless linen-backed photograph of actress Florence Vidor and an unknown male actor circa 1920s. Texas-born actress Vidor began her career through the urging of her husband noted director King Vidor. She signed with Vitagraph Studios in 1916 and appeared in her breakthrough role as Mimi in "A Tale of Two Cities" that same year. She also starred in several films with her husband's production company including "The Other Half" 1919 "The Family Honor" 1920 and "Real Adventure" 1922. As with many of her contemporaries she found the transition to sound film difficult and after appearing in one talkie "Chinatown Nights" 1929 she retired from film altogether. 6.75 x 8.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1926ref. 151008N.p.: N.p. 1926. Vintage borderless linen-backed reference photograph from the 1926 film showing actress Florence Vidor seated at a vanity table. An aristocratic married woman falls in love with a shy trustworthy writer on a train to Biarritz to the displeasure of her unfaithful husband. Considered a lost film. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned. N.p. unknown books
1925ref. 151012N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage linen-backed borderless publicity photograph of actress Florence Vidor from the 1925 film. A wealthy couple's teenage daughter discovers her parents are planning to divorce and pretends to be in love with a foolish actor in order to reunite them. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Faintly toned near the left edge else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
