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2221635<p>Sinclair Upton. Youthful Black and White Vintage Photograph Signed "Upton Sinclair" 8" x 10" on original mount of photographer E. Willard Spurr 165 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena Cal. Signed and inscribed to author/newspaperman Harold D. Carew n.d. but ca. 1930 old stains right side of mount most would mat out. Very good.</p><p>Carew 1890-1943 was a literary editor Pasadena Star-News from 1923 and author of a 3 volume "History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley" 1930.</p><p>Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 was an American writer. He was best known for the Jungle his 1906 novel exposing the horrors of the U.S. meat packing industry. His other novels include "The Brass Check" 1908 "King Coal" 1917 and "Oil!" 1927. In the 1940s he wrote an 11-volume series about contemporary American character Lanny Budd who travels through time and meets historical figures; "Dragon's Teeth" 1942 in which Budd meets Hitler won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Eight of Sinclair's books have been adapted for film and TV including There Will be Blood 2007 based on "Oil!" and starring Daniel Day-Lewis who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Daniel Plainview.</p> books
19452221984<p>10 1/2" x 7 3/4". Complete issue of 132 pages covers. Very good light rubbing; short tear; page 70 margin tear.</p><p>Other articles by A. Einstein W. R. Benet Vilhjalmur Stefansson F. Prokosch Roald Dahl.</p><p>Newsstand Edition.</p> The Atlantic Monthly paperback books
19062222102<p>First edition August 1906. Octavo. One page preface with credit to Dr. E. H. Nichols for technical assistance. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in blue black red grey and gilt with design of baseball batter and catcher. No dust jacket. No foxing. Very good slight lean. 300 pages six pages of ads.</p><p>Previous owner's signature: "Nathaniel P. Norton."</p> Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. hardcover books
19062222103<p>First edition August 1906. Octavo. One page preface with credit to Dr. E. H. Nichols for technical assistance. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in blue black red grey and gilt with design of baseball batter and catcher. No dust jacket. Good slight lean. 300 pages six pages of ads.</p><p>Signature of Alan W. Burke on front pastedown.</p> Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. hardcover books
19592552<p>1/600; CHRISTMAS GREETING FIRST EDITION FINE.</p> SPIRAL PRESS paperback books
2222138<p>ca. 1942. First Armed Service edition. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2". No. 880. Original stiff printed colored pictorial wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good spine a bit faded. 415 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Council on Books in Wartime paperback books
19232221977<p>First edition. 4to. 16 facsimile plates. 3/4 dark green morocco over matching cloth boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamping top edge gilt other edges uncut. Original printed blue wrappers bound in. Very good. Unpaginated.</p><p>Descriptive annotated catalogue of what was purported to be the world's finest collection of Voltaire's works. 202 items.</p><p>Printed by J. Miles & Co. Ltd. London.</p> G. Michelmore & Co. hardcover books
19362221915<p>Christmas 1936. 11" x 7 1/2". Introduction by Nathan Van Patten. Color frontispiece drawing of Virgin and Child by Judson Starr. Original stiff brown wrappers. Fine. 10 pages unpaginated.</p><p>One of 200 copies this copy unnumbered printed by the Grabhorn Press.</p><p>GB 260: "First published as poetical preface to Frechette's 'Noel au Canada' in 1900."</p> Grabhorn Press paperback books
19792221834<p>INSCRIBED COPY</p><p>First edition. Tall thin octavo. Illustrations printed in brown by Catherine Kanner. Gilt stamped brown cloth dark brown endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 138 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Gardner on leaf before halftone: "For Hugh Mullins with regards and best wishes. Los Angeles March 14 1981."</p> Lord John Press hardcover books
18484463<p>First edition. Small octavo. Original glazed yellow boards spine a bit worn. With half title page. Good a little foxing. 27 pages. No signatures or bookplates. BAL 13069.</p> NICHOLS hardcover books
199123574Washington D. C.: Library of Congress 1991. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy and as new in a lightly soiled plain dust jacket. xxxv 427 pp. Illus. with 98 color & b/w plates. Sm. 4to. One hundred essays about The Rosenwald Collection which "constitutes the largest single gathering of rare books at the Library of Congress and . represents one of the finest collections of books formed by any individual." Essays cover Manuscripts Early Printing Typography & Writing Books Illustrated Books Eighteenth-Century French Illustrated Books William Blake Modern Illustrated Books Architecture Bindings Geography Herbals and Science. Library of Congress hardcover books
500590<p>"Harriet Beecher Stowe" in black ink on 1/2 length vignette portrait of Stowe. Photograph is by George H. Hastings 147 Tremont St. Boston with his imprint on the verso of the gilt edged mount. 4 1/4" x 6 5/8"; very good fresh; ca 1880. Signed in full on the lower mount: "Harriet Beecher Stowe".</p> unknown books
2221832<p>"Margaret Widdemer Schauffler" in black fountain pen ink on 3/4 length shot of Widdemer wearing a dark coat with turned up collar. Photograph is by Mishkin N.Y. with their logo in the lower right corner and is on heavy weight stock; 8" x 10"; very good minor signs of handling; ca. 1920.</p><p>Signed and inscribed: "For Grace Thompson Hufford from Margaret Widdemer Schauffler with delightful book fair recollection."</p><p>Widdemer 1880-1978 poet and novelist including the "Winona" series for girls. In 1919 she won the Pulitzer Prize. She was married to the poet Robert Haven Schauffler. Three of her novels were made into motion pictures. She claimed friendships with F. Scott Fitzgerald Ezra Pound and other author's of her day.</p> unknown books
1917602122<p>"Kate Douglas Wiggin" in black fountain pen ink on 3/4 length pose seated in an ornate Chinese chair wearing large hat with her hands inside of a fur muff. Photograph is by Aimee Dupont N.Y. with logo in the lower left corner and is on heavy stock and on the original photographer’s mount. Image size 4 3/8" x 6 1/8" on a contemporary beveled edge mount no printing on the back 5 1/4" x 7 1/4"; very good several tiny chips to the emulsion; very good; 1917. Signed and inscribed: "To Louis Raker with sincere regard Kate Douglas Wiggin." Also signed in the upper left corner: "L.R./K.D.W. 1917." Wiggin 1856-1923 American writer and educator; organized in San Francisco the first free kindergarten on Pacific coast in 1878; founded with her sister California Kindergarten Training School in 1880; also wrote the enormously popular "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" 1903 filmed by Fox in 1932 and 1938.</p> unknown books
605131<p>"John Gardner" in blue ink on 3/4 length pose leaning against a tree attired in a turtleneck sweater dark trousers and a black leather motorcycle jacket his right hand resting on his knee with long white hair. Photograph is by Joel Gardner and is on single stock; 8" x 10"; very good ca 1978. Signed in the lower margin: "John Gardner".</p> unknown books
605122<p>not signed on a 3/4 length portrait of William Saroyan wearing a double breasted suit long silk tie white shirt holding a cigarette looking down and to the right of the camera. Photograph is by Henry Flannery San Francisco; matte finish; 8" x 10". Very good-fine old glue stains on verso fresh. ca. mid 1930'a.</p> unknown books
19682221868<p>"George Cukor" 13 pages Hollywood 1968. Together with two Autograph Letters Signed "Mike" from Mike Steen and a typed 2 page manuscript by Steen. Very good.</p><p>This manuscript is published in Steen's 1969 book "A Look at Tennessee Williams" New York Hawthorn Books Inc. pages 40-55. It is preceded by an introduction by Steen discussing his Cukor interview. A copy of the book is included.</p> unknown books
19542221680<p>"Charles Brackett" 1 page 19 August 1954 on Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences letterhead to 20th Century-Fox executive Buddy Adler regarding on Academy Committee. 10 1/2' x 7 1/4". Very good paper clip rust stain.</p><p>Brackett 1892-1969 was an author screenwriter film producer best known for screenplays of "Sunset Boulevard" "Ninotchka" and "Lost Weekend."</p> unknown books
1972605485<p>"Helen" in black ink on her engraved Cosmopolitan letterhead October 27 1972. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" 1 page recto only. Fine. To literary agent Mr. H.N. Swanson H.M. Swanson Inc. 8523 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood Calif. 90069 In part: ". . .Thanks so much for telling me about THE RACE. I doubt it would be right for us - we usually stick either to mysteries and thrillers or something with a Cosmopolitan girl heroine. . ." Provenance: from the estate of H.N. Swanson.</p> unknown books
1957500113<p>"Ray" on light blue personal 6925 Neptune Place letterhead La Jolla June 3 1957. 4to. 2 pages on separate leaves stapled together. To Edgar N. Carter at N.H. Swanson Company in West Hollywood: "Would it make any difference to a TV deal if I agreed to write the dialogue not the story -- only I suppose what you could call a polish job. Of course the writer would loathe me. I must make it clear that any work I should do would on be done in any TV studio since it might be from Tahiti or Tasmania. I understand that changes might be made because some actor might say "This line just isn't me" or some director might like George Marshall have an itching pencil. I ought to have something to say about who is to play the part. I think the actor is more important than the summer radio shot. I think you have the job of convincing these lauatics that if a show is to last it must cost not too much and must have some sort of special quality. Marlowe is a character of some nobility of scorching wit sad but not defeated lonely but never really sure of himself. It is impossible to think that such a man would not have a sex life but so many writers of this sort of story have made it too blatant and too vulgar. Marlowe would get almost any woman into bed with him by a certain obscure technique which depends almost entirely on making a woman feel that you respect her. Some of this has to go into Philip Marlowe if his is to be any good. If it is not possible to achieve this I think we should forget the whole thing. After all a great many writers have been trying to steal him from me for 15 years and they have never done it yet".</p> unknown books
2221705<p>"Hamlin Garland" 1 page June 10 n.y. on Schuyler Arms 307 West 98th St. New York letterhead. 9 1/2" x 6" to Robert Judson Aley President University of Maine. Garland details his travel plans to attend "the exercises" at the University of Maine. Very good mounting traces on verso.</p><p>Garland served on the Board of Charles F. Lummis' Sequoya League.</p><p>Garland 1860-1940 was an American author; winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1921; film credits include "Money Magic" 1917; "Cavanough of the Forest Rangers" 1918 novel Cavanaugh Forest Ranger; "Ranger of the Big Pines" 1925 novel Cavanaugh Forest Ranger.</p> unknown books
1961500438<p>On letterhead La Jolla CA August 2 1961: to Harold Heifetz a long interesting letter regarding a proposed film project in Ensenada. 4to. 1 page.</p> books
19572221676<p>"Sterling and Gladys" 1 page June 7 1957 on his Morristown N. J. letterhead to broadcast executive Carl Haverlin transmitting his manuscript of "The Mark Twain Broadcast." 10 1/2" x 7 1/4". Very good.</p><p>Together with the 7 page typed manuscript signed in full June 5 1957. 11" x 8 1/2". Very good.</p><p>North 1906-1974 was an American author his book "Rascal" won the 1964 Newbery Medal. His novel "So Dear to My Heart" 1948 was filmed by Disney starring Burl Ives Bobby Driscoll and Beulah Bondi.</p> unknown books
1953500494<p>On personal letterhead Crescent Beach St. Augustine Fl. May 11 1953. 4to 1 page. Her letters are scarce; To Mr. Miller: "I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that it will be impossible for me to attend the Luncheon in honor of Fanny Butcher. I am dependent on my husband to drive me with my assorted animal family to my summer home. Fanny Butcher has long been a powerful influence in the field of American Letters. While lesser editors have come and gone she has maintained consistent integrity and the highest standards. Of Fanny Butcher the woman I can only say that to know her is to love her. Her warm heart and completely charming personality are a delight to those of us privileged to call ourselves her friends. To many Moore years of her superb editing and her gilt for friendship!".</p> unknown books
1939603046<p>"Sidney Sheldon" in black fountain pen ink on pictorial Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Studios letterhead Beverly Hills California May 1 1939. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate pages recto only. Very good. To Mr. Robert Lewis H.N. Swanson Beverly Hills Sheldon newly arrived in Hollywood and employed at 20th Century Fox as a reader submits his resume to the Swanson agency. He lists his academic credits at Northwestern University as well as radio work acting and newspaper jobs writings etc. A fascinating look into his life years before he became famous. IMDB lists his first film credit as "South of Panama" 1941. Sheldon b. 1917 - d. 2007 born February 11 1917 Chicago Illinois; died January 30 2007 Rancho Mirage California; American novelist and screenwriter. His screenplays include: "Annie Get Your Gun" 1950; "Bloodline" 1979; "Sands of Time" 1992; "A Stranger in the Mirror" 1993. Hi work for television includes: creator of "I Dream of Jeannie" 1965 and "Hart to Hart" 1979.</p> unknown books
