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1972CNFBV03New York: E. P. Dutton and Company Inc 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Oblong quarto 40 pp. Caldecott Medal winner. Based on a story by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn 1850-1904;born in Greece raised in Ireland at the age of 19 he emigrated to the United States spending time in Cincinnati and New Orleans. He eventually traveled for work newspaper reporting to the West Indies and thence to Japan where he found his true home. He married Setsuko Koizumi who was from a Samurai family; they had four children and Hearn fully immersed himself into Japanese culture. He and his wife would travel around Japan gathering the old folk tales which he translated; they were immediately popular and would eventually delight generations. This tale is of a "funny little woman" who goes chasing after a runaway dumpling laughing all the way only to find herself cooking with a magic paddle for the wicked "oni" that live underground. Illustrated by Blair Lent 1930-2009 who is probably best known for his Asian folklore inspired work; this volume was the winner of the 1973 Caldecott Medal.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original green cloth with a dark-green illustration to the upper board title stamped in dark-green to backstrip illustrated title page fully illustrated throughout in colour; oblong quarto size 9.25" by 9.75" 40 unnumbered pp. first edition. In the original pictorial dust jacket which shows the price of $5.95 summary of the book on the front flap author and illustrator bios on the back flap Caldecott Medal on the front panel back panel illustration which mirrors the design on the front board.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A near fine copy the binding is clean and without wear the corners are straight and unrubbed the hinges are strong internally bright and free of prior owner markings; a slight lean to the spine else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is very good with several short closed tears some with old cello tape on the verso from a prior owner and minor overall edgewear; the colours are bright the cream background just lightly toned. Overall a near fine copy of the first edition and a lovely story by a renowned author retold for a contemporary audience.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc hardcover books
1973142419New York: Wroderick Productions 1973. Draft script for a 1973 Roderick Cook adaptation of the 1929 Noel Coward musical likely written after Cook's 1972 musical review of Coward's work entitled "Oh Coward!" <br/><br/>A three act operetta in which a wealthy young woman elopes with her music teacher. Coward's original script was basis for the 1933 film directed by Herbert Wilcox and the 1940 film directed by WS Van Dyke. The Van Dyke film was so disliked by Coward that he vowed to never let Hollywood adapt one of his works again. <br/><br/>Adaptation writer/actor Roderick Cook worked extensively with Coward's material his best-known work being a highly well-received 1972 musical review of Coward's work entitled "Oh Coward!" While it is believed that Cook's adaptation of "Bitter Sweet" was never performed professionally and the material in this script was not utilized in "Oh Coward!" it was likely written after Cook's considerable success with the review encouraged him to take another look at Coward's oeuvre. <br/><br/>Set in London and Vienna. <br/><br/>Pink titled wrappers with credits for playwright Noel Coward and adaptation writer Roderick Cook. Title page present dated September 1973 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Coward and adaptation writer Cole. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered III-1-18. Mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Wroderick Productions unknown books
19719007144New York: Schirmer 1971. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Text is in French and English. <br/><br/> Schirmer paperback books
194829420New York: Alfred de Liagre Jr. 1948. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good . Bradbound screenplay in printed paper covers. 50 and 42 pps respectively for the two acts of this play. In very good condition The play was first performed on December 27 1948 at the Belasco Theatre by Alfred de Liagre Jr. director. Alfred de Liagre, Jr. paperback books
194180079New York: Harms 1941. Sheet_music. 8p. 9x12 inches sheet music very good in yellow pictorial wraps. Harms unknown books
2000257362Paris: Guy Delcourt Prods 2000. Hardcover. 48p. 9x12.5 inches texts in French pictorial endpapers retelling of the novel in comic illustrations lightly-used first edition thus in glossy pictorial yellow boards small chip at bottom edge of front board. Guy Delcourt Prods hardcover books
1950145904N.p.: N.p. 1950. Ribbon copy typed manuscript for an unproduced play with essays on the history of the project the production casting and set/costume design written by June Shannon a drama student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. With extensive holograph annotations in ink and pencil on virtually every page and 15 hand painted watercolor sketches of set and costume designs.<br/><br/>Based on the 1775 play by Richard Sheridan. A comedy of manners set in 18th century Bath where three suitors quarrel over the love of one woman. In this hypothetical casting Tony-winning Broadway actor Jose Ferrer assumed the role of Bob Acres a buffoonish country suitor to young Lydia played by Laura Hope-Crews. The character of Mrs. Malaprop who throughout the play uses words incorrectly helped coin the term malapropism.<br/><br/>Set in France. <br/><br/>Black untitled wrappers. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus in a spring binder. N.p. unknown books
1964WRCLIT71875New York etc.: Samuel French Inc. 1964. Printed wrappers. First edition. Wrapper priced at $1.25. Small bookseller's stamp in lower edge of upper wrapper otherwise very good. Samuel French, Inc. unknown books
195324796New York: Random House 1953. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original simulated cloth photographic plate mounted to upper cover top edge dyed dark purple; in cream decorative dust jacket; 6178pp.; photographic double-page title page. Lower edge of rear jacket cover shows signs of creasing spine darkened else a Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. "A Random House Play." Comedy involving a woman and her husband and lover trapped on a desert island; adapted from Roussin's La Petite Hutte 1947. Random House unknown books
1948140733Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1948. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1948 film. Photographer's rubber stamp and mimeograph snipe to the verso. Featuring an image of Lee J. Cobb and William Holden at a chess board. <br/><br/>A psychopathic killer takes a young psychoanalyst and his family hostage never expecting that the psychoanalyst would cure him of his murderous urges. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. <br/><br/>Grant US Classic Noir. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1973WRCLIT80587Np 1973. 293pp. Folio 35.5 x 25.5 cm. Loose sheets punched at left and bradbound. Moderate wear and tear consistent with use with annotations scattered throughout some tape marks from absent inserts corners turned etc. Good. A large format rehearsal script for the 1971- 1973 roadshow revival of Shaw's dramatic piece a free standing scene from Act 3 of MAN AND SUPERMAN. The production was directed by John Housman and starred Ricardo Montalban Paul Henreid Agnes Moorehead and Edward Mulhare. This copy bears the ownership and address stamp of Paul Henreid who played the role of the Statue in the performances in Boston Chicago Los Angeles and New York in the latter as the "Commander". Throughout this script the lines for the Statue have been highlighted and annotated with prompts and revisions presumably for or by Henreid. Henried born Paul Georg Julius Freiherr von Hernreid Ritter von Wasel-Waldingau 1908- 1992 had a long and active career on stage and in film and television as both actor and director. He is most widely recognized for his role as Victor Laszlo in CASABLANCA 1942. unknown books
1998Embry 169774Stage & Screen 1998. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Stage & Screen, 1998. unknown books
19281323620New York: The Macmillan Company 1928. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine tan with brown print; Boards are in green cloth with gold print peripheral fading/tanning tanning to spine small ink stain on spine tattering to corners and spine caps slight blemishes to front shelfwear mild warping; Text block has bookplate on pastedown name in ink on front flyleaf block is tight but for pp. 7-8 present but separated from binding age-toning to paper; vi 61 pages includes printed music for the chorus. 1323620. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
195615567London: Neville Spearman 1956. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . INSCRIBED BY EZRA POUND IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION TO HIS WIFE DOROTHY POUND "D.P." on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1956 true 1st edition of Pound's translation. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp price-intact VG to Near Fine dustjacket with just a touch of light chipping at the front upper tip and along the lower-edges. 12mo this volume also contains "an account by Denis Goacher of Mr. Pound's predicament and his strange life in St. Elizabeth's Hospital Washington D.C." <br/><br/> Neville Spearman hardcover books
1963WRCLIT70673New York: The Theatre Guild 1963. 16pp. Quarto. Color pictorial self-wrappers. Black & white photographs. Fine. First edition of the souvenir program produced for the run of the play a new comedy written by Leonard Spigelgass based on a story by Gertrude Berg and James Yaffe and presented at the Music Box Theatre. Herman Shumlin directed Gertrude Berg Howard Da Silva Jill Kraft and Ron Leibman in his first Broadway role. The program features an essay by the author Spigelgass many production scenes a feature on the Theatre Guild and biographies of each of the principal players. The play had a run of 145 performances. The Theatre Guild unknown books
1939152217New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1939. Hardcover. viii 350p. save for a torn corner on the last fep very good reprint in cloth and unclipped dj with sunning to spine. Liveright Publishing Corporation hardcover books
193520818London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . minimal wear to book; jacket a bit soiled but otherwise unworn. Translation and adaptation of a German play a drawing-room comedy about some French aristocrats. Presented in London at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1935 it was notable as the first big success of Vivien Leigh who appeared in the role of Henriette Duquesnoy garnering excellent notices and much subsequent press attention. The latter was doubtlessly tied in with the promotional efforts of film producer Alexander Korda who signed her to a contract after seeing her performance on opening night having failed to discern her potential at an earlier meeting. Reportedly and even more fatefully it was in this play that she was first seen by Laurence Olivier later to become her lover and then husband. . Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
19081331028Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co 1908. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair-; Hardcover; Spine tan with red print; Boards in tan illustrated cloth tattering to spine caps worn exposed corners tears to hinges stain to rear top edge shelfwear; Text block has cracked hinges front and rear intermittent spine breaks inscriptions in ink on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers mild age-toning to paper; 312 pages illustrated color.<br /> <br /> <p> This book is part of the overstocked 15's kept in Room X. 1331028. FP New Rockville Stock. The Reilly & Lee Co hardcover books
1987WRCLIT72637New York: Grove Press 1987. Printed wrappers. First US edition wrapperbound issue. BAKER & WACHS C7bB. Grove Press unknown books
1941WRCLIT72043New York: National Broadcasting Company 1941. 157 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. A few pencil notes on terminal leaf otherwise very good or better. A preproduction script for this adaptation for NBC's radio series "Great Plays" scheduled for production on Sunday 9 March 1941. The series first aired on NBC Blue in Spring of 1938 and was until its suspension in 1942 one of its most prestigious undertakings. This production was included in its fourth season. The specific cast for the broadcast is not included in this script and presumably drew upon the substantial stable of performers the show engaged for its season. National Broadcasting Company unknown books
195464261Cleveland Ohio: The Press of The World Publishing Company. Very Good. 1954. Hardcover. Typography by Jos. Trautwein with decorations by Ismar David. #148 of 1250 copies Produced by The Press of The World Publishing Company Cleveland Ohio. Christmas 1954. Red cloth with gilt printing spine ends and corners are just a bit scuffed- otherwise this is a clean bright nice copy. Very Good. . The Press of The World Publishing Company hardcover books
184008829London: British and Foreign Bible Society for Spottiswoode 1840. Full Leather. Very Good. Quarto. Bound in full embossed black leather with marbled edges. Very good with owner inscriptions on endpapers and pastedowns; rear inner hinge cracked ink stamp lower fore-edge; light wear at extremities. Internally clean and bright. A very good collectible example of the "family Bible size" King James Version. <br/><br/> British and Foreign Bible Society, for Spottiswoode hardcover books
19711338593London: Hamlyn 1971. Hardcover. Quarto; G/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with yellow print; DJ has tears to edges toning to spine small stain on front flap shelfwear; Boards in tan cloth with gold print slight bumps to bottom edge and top fore corner else clean and strong; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf and following page slight tanning to endpapers slight age-toning to paper else clean and tight; 180 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w and color. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1338593. FP New Rockville Stock. Hamlyn hardcover books
1977127206Burbank CA: Mars Production Corporation / Virgo International Pictures 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1977 film. A redneck hotel owner in Texas murders innocent victims and feeds them to his pet crocodile. <br/><br/>Tobe Hooper's next film after the legendary "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" 1974 and six years before his next big hit "Poltergeist" 1982. <br/><br/>4 pages folded twice 8.5 x 14 inches. A couple of tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Mars Production Corporation / Virgo International Pictures unknown books
195649504Knoxville: S. B. Newman Printing Co 1956. 32p. wraps illustrated by humorous line drawings colored-in; light external soiling. S. B. Newman Printing Co unknown books
