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199216358New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399137467 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket showing some edgewear. Overall a bright clean copy; Your Blues Ain't Like Mine is a memoir of Bebe Moore Campbell's life and her experiences as a jazz singer. It tells the story of her upbringing in the deep South and her journey to become one of the most popular and influential jazz singers of the 20th century. Moore Campbell's voice is as powerful and soulful as ever and her story is an inspiration to anyone who has ever felt lost or Alone.; 8vo . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1977Q-0806505761Citadel 1977-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Citadel paperback
198652244New York: Random House 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate loosely laid-in dated 7-29-96; Octavo 21.5cm; blue cloth spine over green paper covered boards; dustjacket; 236pp; Fine copy in a Fine unclipped jacket priced $15.95.<br /> <br /> Campbell assesses her own situations and also interviews some one hundred married men and women whose opinions suggest an underlying cause of breakups: male insecurity and inability to accept women's accomplishments as wage earners. Random House unknown
1969162567N.p.: N.p. 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two also with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. <br /> <br /> The True-Vue Motel is a known alternative for wayward couples seeking an afternoon tryst or a private room to do heroin. Unbeknownst to the patrons the motel's manager is filming everything on hidden cameras subsequently blackmailing the patrons. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
193526991Saalfield Publ 1935 HARDBACK NODustjacket 1935 1st Edition 1st printing FAIR Condition shows age with scuff Rub wear to red cover with B/W fotos of child stars RIPS & Tears to spine edge & small piece out at top removes HOLLYFOXING THRUOUT but nice relatively Tight 157 pgs INCLUDES III. FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW.22 IV. JACKIE COOPER.31 V. CORA SUE COLLINS.37 VI. GEORGE SPANKY McFarland.44 VII. VIGINIA WEIDLER.51 Jane Withers XIV. MICKEY ROONEY.104 Carmencita Johnson . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Saalfield Publ, hardcover
190316375New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1903. First Edition First Printing. Very Good Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. <br /> <br /> Publisher's green cloth decorated with white lettering and green white and yellow Arctic Ocean polar bear scene and oval pastedown black-and-white photo of Snow Baby Marie Ahnighito Peary on the front cover. 8vo. 26.5 cm.; 10.5 inches tall 84 black-and-white photographic illustrations with accompanying descriptive captions; 120 pages. <br /> <br /> The bindings are tight and square. Text clean light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Previous owners name on front free endpage. This autobiography of Robert E. Peary's daughter born in Greenland during one of his Arctic expeditions the narrative for children describes life with the Eskimo Inuit delightfully showing the culture and daily life. <br /> <br /> Published five years after the story of her birth in The Snow Baby wow a great big girl of nine years the Snow Baby is able herself to tell the story of her further Arctic experiences and her acquaintance with the little fur-clad children of the ice. <br /> <br /> She has seen the icebergs and the great ice-fields the glaciers the polar bears the walrus the deer the musk-oxen and the birds; but this time she has seen them with eyes that could understand a little. What her life experiences seemed like to her will be told largely in her own way with an occasional word of help or explanation from her mother. <br /> <br /> The illustrations are from photographs taken by Commander and Mrs. Peary and are of the greatest variety but give especial attention to the children. PW <br /> <br /> REF: Crocker: 1903 357; Hayes: 1903 251; PW: 1903 p1 652 Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
1920126251N.p.: N.p. 1920. Original Art-Nouveau style illustration of actress Bebe Daniels painted on pressboard circa early 1920s noted as starring in "Adam and Eve" with Jack Holt. <br /> <br /> There is no record of either Daniels or Holt starring in a film either titled or with the working title of "Adam and Eve" nor could we find any news sources for a proposed production with that title. The only two films starring both Daniels and Holt are "Ducks and Drakes" 1921 and "North of the Rio Grande" 1922. A beautifully executed illustration of the young actress likely as lobby art for a silent film theater.<br /> <br /> Bebe Daniels was a noted actress singer dancer writer and producer who appeared in over 230 films over her 50 year career in film. Daniels began her career as a child actress in silent films and later became a star in musicals such as "Rio Rita" 1929 directed by Luther Reed and co-starring John Boles.<br /> <br /> 17.75 x 25 inches pressboard 1/2 inch thick. Very Good with five screw holes a chip to the lower left corner and a crack to the upper left corner mended on the verso with paper tape and cello tape. N.p. unknown
198746075New York: Random House. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394551494 . INSCRIBED by author on full title page "To Rolland Comstock - Blessings! Bebe Moore Campbell 7/17/95." This "is the first book to look inside today's dual-career marriage and also the first book to offer helpful remedies. Not only does the book make us care about the people whose lives we see it is also extremely helpful." Ships same or next business day. Book has moderate edge wear small bumps on top corners and both ends of spine bumps on bottom corners; overall book is tight bright and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear lightly yellowed. ; 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.7 Inches; 236 pages; Signed by Author . Random House hardcover
1986306003NY: RANDOM HOUSE. Fine. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. REVIEW COPY. 2 pages of publicity material laid-in Fine in a fine dj. Author's FIRST book. . RANDOM HOUSE. hardcover
1992306376NY: PUTNAM. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0399137467 . FIirst edition. NSCRIBED & dated by Bebe Moore Campbell in year of publication on half-title page. Significant inscription to the owner of a Los Angeles independent bookstore which did much to promote interest in the author's FIRST novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. . PUTNAM. hardcover
199430497Philippines: Viva Productions Inc 1994. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. photographic tribute to the actors crew and executives of Viva Films of the Philippines; near fine in black boards with gold lettering no dust jacket presumably as issued; lite creasing/scratching/bumping to boards else a tight square unmarked copy in sound binding; very scarce Viva Productions Inc hardcover
19939780345383952-2025Random House Publishing Group 1993. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Bebe Moore Campbell</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Random House Publishing Group</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780345383952</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1993</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 332</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> "Intriguing.A thoughtful intelligent work.The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s from Eisenhower to George Bush.She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement.Campbell has a strong creative voice."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDChicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen black and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman Armstrong is killed. And the precariously balanced world and its determined people--white and black--are changed then and forever by the horror of poverty the legacy of justice and the singular gift of love's power to heal.</p> Random House Publishing Group hardcover
1950571592London: Cassell and Company 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 206pp. Owner name and small bookstore label on front pastedown a couple of spots of foxing else fine in an attractiveabout fine dust jacket. Anthology of recipes compiled by film star Bebe Daniels and Jill Allgood a radio writer and producer with contributors who include Frank Sinatra Laurence Oilvier and Vivien Leigh Lionel Barrymore Jean Simmons Van Johnson Bob Hope Greer Garson Yvonne de Carlo Ray Milland Veronica Lake Lauren Bacall Victor Mature Barry Fitzgerald Richard Widmark Judy Garland Bing Crosby Linda Darnell Michael Wilding John Mills Betty Hutton Joan Crawford Betty Grable Humphrey Bogart Mary Pickford Vyvyan Holland Maureen O'Hara Susan Hayward Gene Tierney Deanna Durbin Dorothy Lamour Robert Donat William Bendix Tyrone Power Cornel Wilde and Walter Pidgeon. Cassell and Company hardcover
192416727JNew York: M.A. Shortle 1924. First Edition. A little 12 page paperbound book biography. Measures 3 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches tall. Illustrated. Very good. Rare little book which we have never encountered before in our decades of selling cinema material. Bebe Daniels was a silent film actress who appeared in many Harold Lloyd comedies before moving on to noted features playing with Rudolph Valentino 1924 in Monsieur Beaucaire. She was directed several times by Cecil B. DeMille and made a successful transition to sound films starring among others in the first film version of The Maltese Falcon. M.A. Shortle unknown
1984000089Publications Development Company of Texas 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Inscribed by Authors. This is a First Edition. This copy is Fine in original boards. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Publications Development Company of Texas hardcover
1934141211934. November 30 1934 edition of the "Boston Evening Transcript" with front page article on the shootout that killed George "Baby Face" Nelson real name was Lester Joseph Gillis. Nelson was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s known as Baby Face due to his youthful appearance and small stature. Nelson was a part of the notorious Dillinger gang. After a massive police hunt had resulted in the killing of John Dillinger only a few months ago Nelson and the rest of the gang were labeled "Public Enemy Number One." As an outlaw Nelson was responsible for the murder of several people and has the dubious distinction of having killed more FBI agents in the line of duty than any other person. Nelson was shot by FBI agents and died after a shootout called "The Battle of Barrington" which is the subject of this article. The title of this article "No Quarter to Young Widow of "Baby Face" comes from the wording of an order from J. Edgar Hoover ".find the woman and give her no quarter" which was widely interpreted to mean that the FBI had issued a "death order" for Nelson's widow who wandered the streets of Chicago as a fugitive for several days described in print as America's first female "public enemy". <br /> <br /> This front page newspaper article which is so long it continues onto page two reads in part ".Federal agents today as they hunted Mr.s Helen Gillis diminuative widow of George "Baby Face" Nelson leader of the rapidly diminishing remnants of the gang of the late John Dillinger.County and city police hoped to bring to justice John Hamilton believed to have been with her and Nelson when a machine-gun battle at Barrington in which Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Special Agent Herman E. Hollis perished in the Government's drive against the nation's public enemies." And "Government agents stood guard at the morgue where Nelson's body lay on the same slab that recently held John Dillinger." And "Federal Agents believe Mrs. Nelson loaded guns for the outlaws in the fight with Cowley and Hollis." Scattered foxing and tears with minor paper loss around the edges. Overall in very good condition. unknown
194817720<p>Denver: Colorado: Denver Public Schools Board of Education 1948-52 A fascinating look at education in America during the early years of the Baby Boom. Seven brochures 9 x 6 in. folded. The brochures are as follows: Where Will I Go to School September 1952; O.J. Goldrick Would Be Surprised May 1952; Some Very Important People April 1952; There's More to Reading Than Meets the Eye April 1949; two copies of Schools Must Follow the Moving Vans April 1948; They're Already Knocking at Our Doors! April 1948. Printed in black and one color each with vignettes and maps of the Denver area. The text of There's More to Reading Than Meets the Eye is attributed to A. Helen Anderson and the illustrations to Hero L. Conesny. Some toning to a couple brochures. Contemporary ink signature of Carol Weale a lifelong Denver resident and educator in each brochure. Contemporary ink marking to one brochure. Still a near-fine set of rare brochures. These brochures were issued as the postwar baby boom hit Denver and the rest of the country. Twice as many children were born in the city in 1950 than in 1940 10440 children compared to 5462 according to the Where Will I Go to School brochure. The population of Denver also increased by nearly a third between 1940 and 1950 going from about 322000 people to almost 416000. The population increase strained Denver infrastructure requiring the installation of "thousands of new water taps and miles of new water mains" as well as "thousands of new telephones gas and electric meters…and thousands of new homes on the tax rolls" Where Will I Go to School. Denver public schools were pushed to capacity by the flood of new students and these brochures address the efforts of the Denver school board to increase school capacity and keep schools staffed. The brochures also address literacy and changing educational standards between generations see There's More to Reading Than Meets the Eye. The O.J. Goldrick brochure refers to a Denver folk hero who was the city's first schoolteacher and helped establish early infrastructure like the first library Sunday school and newspaper and wonders whether he would be surprised by Denver's recent growth.</p> Colorado: Denver Public Schools Board of Education,
1952533967New York: Prentice-Hall 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 206pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and short tears. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip addressed to author Sterling North laid in. Includes favorite salad recipes by Vivien Leigh Laurence Olivier Humphrey Bogart. and Lauren Becall among others. Prentice-Hall hardcover
1992182245New York: Cross-Cultural Communications 1992. Signed and numbered. Softcover. Near Fine scuffs to covers; lower corner rubbed. textured wrappers w/ maroon illustration & blue printing. approx 48 unpaginated pgs w/ bw plates. original signed print. Contains Van Loen's line drawings of various nudes. Includes a signed hand-numbered original print of an endless-line drawing. The drawing is handprinted by letterpress from an engraving by Tom Tolnay of Birch Book Press. Tightly bound; appears unread. Cross-Cultural Communications paperback
19939780345383952-2025Random House Publishing Group 1993. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Bebe Moore Campbell</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Random House Publishing Group</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780345383952</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1993</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 332</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> "Intriguing.A thoughtful intelligent work.The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s from Eisenhower to George Bush.She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement.Campbell has a strong creative voice."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDChicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen black and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman Armstrong is killed. And the precariously balanced world and its determined people--white and black--are changed then and forever by the horror of poverty the legacy of justice and the singular gift of love's power to heal.</p> Random House Publishing Group hardcover
1901010133<p>Syracuse NY: Just's Food Co 1901 Embossed cream-color card covers bound with silk cord a hint of edge wear else fine and nurse's name filled in otherwise unused original glassine wrapper is present though worn with losses and tears. An advertising specialty baby record book with endearing artwork throughout by Jessie Willcox Smith full- and partial-page plus decorations. This is the only appearance of these illustrations. Nudelman A14. First Edition. Pictorial Card Covers. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Jessie Willcox Smith. Square 12mo.</p> Just's Food Co paperback
1903020409New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1903. Book. VG-. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. Book has cover wear with much of the white coloring rubbed clear slightly bumped corners and cover wear. What makes this copy special is that it is signed by Snow Baby her mother and father - Admiral Peary. It includes the announce of Marie's coming out Ball. . Frederick A. Stokes Hardcover
1990167769New York: The Green Card Production Company 1990. Sixth Final Draft script for the 1990 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with annotations in manuscript ink throughout highlighting filming locations.<br /> <br /> An American woman and a French man enter into a marriage of convenience-the man hoping to gain American citizenship the woman needing to be married to land her dream apartment. Actor Gérard Depardieu's American film debut. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 1990 noted as FINAL DRAFT #6 with credit for screenwriter Peter Weir. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated March 20 1990. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. The Green Card Production Company unknown
1933871221933. TRADE CATALOG - BABY PRAMS AND FURNITURE. COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE DE CONSTRUCTION DE VOITUES ET JOUETS D'ENFANTS; Lyon. Les Voitures d'Enfants - Les Meuble Lacques. Album No. 1. Lyon: The Company 1933. Oblong quarto printed wrappers; 68 pp. illustrated throughout. Art deco prams weighty looking "landaus" and smaller "cabs" in a range of high modern styles followed by strollers fabricated of either metal some of which are collapsible or wood some cribs and cradles and suites of decorated lacquer furniture for children. unknown
19991738140903002Orchard.Com 1999-06-08. Audio CD. New. Brand-new unused unopened in perfect condition. Orchard.Com unknown