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Twentieth Century FoxBiblio.com

CANADA LEE LIFEBOAT 1944 Photo

1944WALTER-FILM006411Twentieth Century Fox. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox 1944. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo fine. A portrait of the distinguished African American actor. He was discovered by Orson Welles who cast him in his famous WPA "Voodoo Macbeth" and subsequently cast Lee in the lead role of Bigger Thomas in the successful production of Richard Wright's Native Son on Broadway. In 1945 he appeared in an acclaimed production on Broadway as Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. His career and life were cut short at the age of 45 in 1952.Lee was an early influence on physician and human rights activist H. Jack Geiger. They met in 1940 when Geiger a 14-year-old middle-class Jewish runaway was backstage at a Broadway production of Native Son. Lee agreed to take Geiger in when he showed up at his door in Harlem asking for a place to stay. With the consent of his parents Geiger stayed with Lee for over a year. Lee took on the role of surrogate father and introduced Geiger to Langston Hughes Billy Strayhorn Richard Wright and Adam Clayton Powell. Geiger eventually became a journalist then a doctor who co-founded the first community health center in the United States Columbia Point Health Center in Dorchester Massachusetts. He became a founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights and established community health centers in Mississippi and South Africa. Geiger says he would never have moved so deeply in these worlds so quickly if not for his experiences with Canada Lee.By the late 1940s the rising tide of anti-communism had made many of Lee's earlier contacts politically dangerous. In 1949 the trade journal Variety stated that under no circumstance was Lee to be used in American Tobacco's televised production of a radio play he had recently starred in because he was "too controversial". The same year the FBI offered to clear Lee's name if he would publicly call Paul Robeson a communist. Lee refused and responded by saying "All you're trying to do is split my race." According to newspaper columnist Walter Winchell Lee stated that he intended to come out and "publicly blast Paul Robeson." However the fact that the friendship between the two actors remained until Lee's death suggests that Robeson put no faith in Winchell's claim.At the height of the Hollywood blacklist Lee managed to find work in 1950 as the star of the British film Cry the Beloved Country for which both he and Sidney Poitier were smuggled into South Africa as indentured servants in order to play their roles as African ministers. During filming Lee had his first heart attack and he never fully recovered his health. The film's message of universal brotherhood stands as Lee's final work towards this aim.This portrait is of Lee in the role of Joe Spencer in Alfred Hitchcock's film Lifeboat in which the survivors of a U-boat torpedoing their ship attempt to survive in a lifeboat. Twentieth Century Fox

Walterfilm, Inc. · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €

Swem, E G (editor)Biblio.com

THE JAMESTOWN 350th ANNIVERSARY HISTORICAL BOOKLETS

1957W2502Williamsburg Virginia: Williamsburg Virginia Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation 1957. 8vo. "Twenty-three authoritative booklets of exact and scholarly information on the history of Virginia during the Jamestown era. Each book is written by a specialist in its field." All 23 books still housed in the original box. The titles and authors are: 1. A Selected Bibliography of Virginia 1607-1699 by E. G. Swem John M. Jennings and James A. Servies; 2. A Virginia Chronology by William W. Abbott; 3. John Smith's Map of Virginia with a Brief Account of its History by Ben C. McCary; 4. The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London with Seven Related Documents: 1606-1621. Introduction by Samuel M. Bemiss; 5. The Virginia Company of London by Wesley F. Craven; 6. The First Seventeen Years Virginia 1607-1624 by Charles E. Hatch Jr.; 7. Virginia under Charles I and Cromwell 1625-1660 by Wilcomb E. Washburn.; 8. Bacon's Rebellion 1676 by Thomas J. Wertenbaker; 9. Struggle Against Tyranny and the Beginning of a New Era Virginia 1677-1699 by R.L. Morton; 10. Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by George MacLaren Brydon; 11. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman; 12. Mother Earth--Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 by W. Stitt Robinson Jr.; 13. The Bounty of the Chesapeake; Fishing in Colonial Virginia by James Wharton; 14. Agriculture in Virginia 1607-1699 by Lyman Carrier; 15. Reading Writing and Arithmetic in Virginia 1607-1699 by Susie M. Ames; 16. The Government of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Thomas J. Wertenbaker; 17. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester; 18. Indians in Seventeenth Century Virginia by Ben C. McCary; 19. How Justice Grew Virginia Counties by Martha W. Hiden; 20. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia; "The Sovereign Remedy" by Melvin Herndon; 21. Medicine in Virginia 1607-1699 by Thomas P. Hughes; 22. Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia by Cerinda W. Evans; 23. A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries by J. Paul Hudson. The books are in near fine condition with some relatively minor rusting of staples on the 14 saddle-stitched books the other 10 are perfect bound. The box is in very good condition: clean and bright with minimal edgewear and some faint toning of the title labels. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Williamsburg, Virginia, Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation paperback

Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

Century HutchinsonBiblio.com

The Book of Common Prayer

1992232This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover board and his seal is affixed on the contents page. "It hath been the wisdom of the Church of England ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in refusing and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it. For as on one side common experience sheweth that where a change hath been made of things advisedly established no evident necessity so requiring sundry inconveniences have thereupon ensued; and those many times more and greater than the evils that were intended to be remedied by such change: So on the other side the particular Forms of Divine worship and the Rites and Ceremonies appointed to be used therein being things in their own nature indifferent and alterable and so acknowledged; it is but reasonable that upon weighty and important considerations according to the various exigency of times and occasions such changes and alterations should be made therein as to those that are in place of Authority should from time to time seem either necessary or expedient. Accordingly we find that in the Reigns of several Princes of blessed memory since the Reformation the Church upon just and weighty considerations her thereunto moving hath yielded to make such alterations in some particulars as in their responsive times were thought convenient: Yet so as that the main Body and Essentials of it as well in the chiefest materials as in the frame and order thereof have still continued the same unto this day and do yet stand firm and unshaken notwithstanding all the vain attempts and impetuous assaults made against it by such men as are given to change and have always discovered a greater regard to their own private fancies and interests than to that duty they owe to the publick." - The Preface from The Book of Common Prayer Henry Holt & Company hardcover

Revue & Revalued Books · États-Unis249,06 $US≈ 210,73 €

Pedro de Aguado (1513 or 1538-late 16th or early 17th century)Biblio.com

Historia de Santa Marta y Neuvo Reina de Granada

1916BOOKS0059952 volumes. 867 pages; 826 pages. Octavo 8 3/4" x 6 1/2" bound in quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Edited by Jeranimo Becker. Second edition. Pedro de Aguado was a Spanish Franciscan friar who spent around 15 years in the New Kingdom of Granada preaching to the Indians. During this time he collected source material for a history of the region and began a manuscript Recopilacion historial which he completed in Spain between 1576 and 1583 but was unable to publish. The manuscript was used by other historians but was not published until the twentieth century.De Aguado's date of birth is uncertain. He is believed by Juan Friede to have been baptized in Valdemoro on 26 January 1513 whilst Guillermo MorÃ³n argues for 16 February 1538. Arriving in the New World in 1560 or 1561 in Cartagena his movements are uncertain until his arrival in Bogota in 1571 although it is likely he soon left Cartagena to minister to the Muisca people. By around 1564 he was a pastor to the Muisca at Cogua and he was able to build two churches there. Cogua was considered the first Indian town in New Granada where all the Indians were converted to Christianity an achievement of Aguado's recognized by King Philip II. In 1571 de Aguado moved to Bogota and became a "minister provincial" of the local Franciscan Province. In 1575 de Aguado was sent by the Province on a mission to Spain to answer charges that the local monks were greedy and abusive. He was not able to leave Spain to return to Bogota¡ until 1583. During this time he developed a manuscript on the history of the region Recopilacion historial begun during his "idle hours" in Bogota¡ It is likely that Part I on Santa Marta and the New Kingdom of Granada was written in Bogota and Part II on Venezuela and Cartagena in Spain. De Aguado tried unsuccessfully to secure publication over a number of years. A series of bureaucratic hurdles around censorship were complicated by a change in the rules invalidating the royal license to print which de Aguado obtained in 1581 while a second license in 1582 was complicated by a new requirement to have the printed copy checked against the original manuscript signed off by the king's secretary. Financial difficulties also played a role but a definitive reason for publication failing to materialize is not known. A planned Part III appears to have been abandoned possibly in frustration at the difficulties with publication with the witness statements that would have been the source material left in Spain on his return to Bogota in 1583. Dates for de Aguado's death are even less certain than those for his birth; dates vary from 1589 1595 to 1608. After his death his work was used directly and indirectly by other authors notably by Fray Pedro de Simon who appears to have had access to a copy of Part II of the manuscript which de Aguado took with him on his return to BogotaThe manuscript de Aguado left in Spain was obtained in the late eighteenth century by the historian Juan Bautista Munoz; his collection became part of the University of Valencia on his death and was transferred to the Real Academia de la Historia after the university was partly destroyed in 1812 during a French siege of Valencia. There the manuscript was discovered in 1845 by Joaquin Acosta and it was consulted by some historians in the latter part of the nineteenth century. However it was not published until 1906 Part I Historia de Santa Marta y Nuevo Reino de Granada and 1913 Part II Historia de Venezuela. Condition: Shelf wear with some rubbing to extremities spine gilt dulled else a very good copy. Real Academia de la Historia 1916-17 Madrid hardcover

The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 211,52 €