FLORENCE, GeneABAA
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1988Best.-Nr. 1880Paducah KY: Collector Books 1988. 4to; 221pp 3pp index and publisher's ad; glazed yellow pictorial boards; light wear from use. Collector's resource for collecting glassware from the Depression period. Collector Books unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 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
1901Best.-Nr. 1760London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green and Co 1901. Boards. Very good. Florence K. UPTON. STIGMATIZING ILLUSTRATIONS RHYMING VERSE WOMAN AUTHOR WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR. 8vo oblong 8 5/8" x 11"; 66pp; color pictorial boards a Golliwog and two Dutch dolls in a go-cart on front; quarter-bound green cloth; color patterned endpapers with swans and sailing ships lacking rear free endpaper; color vignette of a Dutch doll on title page; 31 full-page color illustrations; text and line drawings in sepia; wear and light soiling to boards with loss at corners spot on front board last page has age-toning lacking rear ep; very good minus. The story follows a Golliwogg and its Dutch doll companions as they go on an adventure in a go-cart. The Golliwogg character a Black doll with wild hair large white eyes and bright red lips was invented and popularized in Europe by the writings of Florence Kate Upton 1873-1922 and was based on the Black minstrel doll she owned in her youth. The Jim Crow Museum Big Rapids Michigan classifies the character as a "caricature of a caricature." The Dutch dolls were penny-wooden dolls popular because of their jointed limbs and inexpensive prince. This book was part of a series of 13 Golliwogg stories popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and illustrated by Florence Upton and written by her mother Bertha. Golliwoggs later appeared in stories by other authors and as dolls and other children's toys. Longmans, Green and Co unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. 160349Allentown PA: Center for the Arts Muhlenberg College 1978. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 13 through July 31 1978. Foreword by George Segal. Introduction by Leah Sloshberg. Text by Frank Trapp Linda Weintraub Peter Fingesten Dr. Florence M Hetzler William M Milliken Monroe A. Denton Jr. and Carter himself. Includes numerous black and white illustrations biographical notes list of previous one-man shows and public collections. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 157248New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Ai's fifth collection of poems she went on to win the 1999 National Book Award for "Vice: New and Selected Poems." A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight crimping to the base of the spine. W.W. Norton & Company unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 157901New York: Holiday House 1971. Later printing. Small oblong hardcover. Features text by Heide and illustrations by Edward Gorey. A very good plus copy in illustrated boards with some light bumping to the base of the spine and some faint foxing to the page edges in a very good dust jacket with some minor wear. Holiday House unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 654761936. 1936 Pardon for an African-American Issued by the Governor of Texas Texas. Murphy Florence. Conditional Pardon for Florence Murphy from a Conviction of Assault to Rape. Austin December 18 1936. 14-1/2" x 9" blue-backed legal-sized sheet headed "Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas. Signed by Governor James V. Allred and Secretary of State B.P. Matocha state seal affixed. Negligible wear rust marks from staples and paper clips. $350. Murphy an African-American was convicted of assault to rape in 1933. His pardon which notes the several appeals for clemency sent on Murphy's behalf refers specifically to a letter from District Attorney H.H. Wellborn "who states he was never satisfied about this negro's case that since his conviction certain things have come to light which leave him in doubt as to this negro's guilt that if he is guilty he has been punished sufficiently and that some of the best white citizens of his county are of the same opinion he is. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 140817Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Klanak Press 1967. First edition. Softcover. A nicely printed collection of poems. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with a bump to the base of the spine. Klanak Press unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 130144London: Latimer Press 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 35 pages. Copy 21 from an edition of only 25 that were specially bound in buckram. A collection of poems with drawings by Kate Jackson. A fine copy in an about very good glassine jacket that has a long tear and some chips to the top of the rear panel. Signed by both Bull and Jackson on the limitation page. Latimer Press unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 130145London: Latimer Press 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 35 pages. One of only 75 cloth copies. A collection of poems with drawings by Kate Jackson. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Latimer Press unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 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
1984Best.-Nr. 584111984. Cohen Jerome A.; Timothy A. Gelatt; Florence M.L. Li translators. The Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law of The People's Republic of China. Beijing: Foreign Langues Press 1984. ii 298 pp. Paperback. Light wear small old price tag affixed on upper front cover a very good copy. $15. Represents the first complete set of English translations of China's two basic laws on criminal law and procedure enacted in 1979 which are fundamental to an understanding of China's socialist legal system. Contains an English-Chinese and Chinese-English Legal Glossary at pages 252 to 298. unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 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
1966Best.-Nr. 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
1903Best.-Nr. 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
1940Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1929Best.-Nr. 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
1910Best.-Nr. 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
