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200520426New York: Pantheon Books. Fine in Near Fine dj. c.2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0375423826 . beautiful clean copy no discernible wear to book at all; jacket shows only light surface handling wear. B&W photographs The first full-scale biography of the first African-American movie star whose talents were channeled by the narrow and essentially racist world-view of the Hollywood mainstream cinema into comic portrayals of lazy shiftless black men -- stereotypical roles of the worst sort which he filled with such brilliance that his very name became a kind of shorthand for the stereotype itself. Ironically his on-screen subserviance made him an off-screen millionaire "the highest paid and most popular black comedian in America during Hollywood's Golden Age" but his off-screen behavior and extravagant lifestyle eventually drove him into bankruptcy and near-destitution. He fortunately lived long enough to have been "rediscovered" and honored for his achievements but he was a controversial and even by some reviled figure right to the end and even today it's hard for modern audiences to see through the stereotypical characters to the talented man behind them. . Pantheon Books hardcover books
1797185643London: Harrison and Co 1797. Hardcover. VG All covers have wear fading staining cracking corner/edge damage. Bookblocks have age toning and foxing. Interior pages have age toning bending and foxing. Front cover to Vol 8 seperated from binding. Vols 1-8. Brown leather boards. Red title block with gilt lettering on 5 raised band spine. Gilt decorative elements on spine. Each work has a separate letterpress title page and separate pagination. Contents: v. 1. The rambler ; Letters from a Persian in England -- v.2. The adventurer ; The guardian -- v.3. The tatler -- v.4-5. The spectator -- v.6. The connoisseur ; The citizen of the world ; The babler -- v.7. The world ; Dialogues of the dead -- v.8. The idler ; The letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne ; Essays . by William Shenstone ; Sketches . by Launcelot Temple ; The lover. Harrison and Co hardcover books
198212910New York:SOMRIE Press 1982. 1st edition. Fine in wraps. Author’s first book. New York:SOMRIE Press, paperback books
1982158154Chicago IL: The Arts Club of Chicago 1982. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran January 13 through February 24 1982. Essay by Phyllis Tuckham. Includes three black and white illustrations by each James Biederman Don Gummer and Mel Kendrick and lists of awards previous exhibitions bibliography and a checklist. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. The Arts Club of Chicago unknown books
19552669761955. unbound. 9 x 7.25-inch black-and-white photo of Torme posing at a piano -- no place no date circa 1955. Double-matted in black and white and set in a black frame faint scuffs on the edges measuring 17.25 x 15.25 inches. Very good condition.<br/><br/> American musician best known as a singer of jazz standards.<br/><br/> unknown books
6009Actor. Signed check dated April 6 1989 Mel Torme Productions Inc. heading for the total amount of "$141.03" . Signed in blue ink "Mel Torme". In excellent condition. unknown books
198826115New York: Viking. Very Good in Near Fine dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. nice copy with minimal shelfwear very slight bumping to lower corners light remainder stripe across the bottom of the text block; the jacket shows just a trace of surface wear and there's a small L-shaped closed tear at the top front hinge. B&W photographs INSCRIBED briefly "For ____ -- / All the best!" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Memoir by the silky-voiced singer and sometime-actor. NOTE that additional shipping charges will be requested for international shipping of this moderately heavy book or for Priority Mail service to U.S. addresses. If this concerns you please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. Signed by Author . Viking hardcover books
198814695ENew York: Viking 1988. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Mel Torme to actress Anna Lee: “For Anna With love admiration and great gratitude. Always Mel.†Illustrated. About fine with a faint spot on the foreedge in a near fine dust jacket with just a hint of fading to the spine. The jazz singer’s autobiography. Anna Lee was a British born actress who appeared in many films including Seven Sinners with Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne My Life with Caroline opposite Ronald Colman John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley and Fort Apache etc. as well as playing Lila Quartermain on two popular television soap operas General Hospital 1978 to 2004 and Port Charles 1997 to 2003. Viking unknown books
7887Jazz Singer. Signed Check dated June 9 1989. Made payable for the amount of $256.45. Signed in blue "Mel Torme." A great example of an authentic signature on a check. unknown books
1991431716New York: Oxford University Press 1991. Softcover. Fine. First edition wrappered issue. About fine in wrappers. Oxford University Press paperback books
1991017333NY: Oxford. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Light soiling otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Oxford hardcover books
1978175104New York: Stein and Day 1978. First. hardcover. very good-. 347 pages 8vo red cloth spine with cream boards dust wrapper worn and chipped. New York: Stein and Day 1978. First edition. A very good copy in a very good- dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Presentation copy signed on the half-title page: "For Karen - Much love! Mel Torme."<br/><br/> Stein and Day unknown books
19705918NY: Galahad Books 1970. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/VG edgewear. 241 pp illustrated from photographs 8vo. <br/><br/> Galahad Books 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
1995176085Collegeville PA: Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College 1995. Hardcover. VG Signed Copy by author & artist on cover fly-leafs. light edge-wear & creases to spine. pgs clean & bright. small gilt bookseller sticker to back cover pastedown. dustjacket has light edgewear rubbing to corners; scuffs&scratches to back cover. Greyish cloth with gilt embossed title on cover and spine green color-illustrated dustjacket. 91 pp. profusely illustrated with 20 color and many bw plates and photographs. Limited to 3000 Copies. This is Copy 35 of 200 Signed by Mel Toakum and Francoise Gilot. There is NO slipcase or original lithograph to this copy. Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College hardcover books
19718211971. TILLIS Mel. THE MEL TILLIS STORY. Nashville Tennessee: Roger Talent Enterprises 1971. Quarto printed wraps. First Edition. Signed by Tillis on the front cover. Also on the center-fold page is a photograph of Mel's band with six autograph signatures of which the only one I can recognize is Terry Bethel. A scarce Mel Tillis book!! Near fine. $85.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
1990143340Chicago IL: The Chicago Athenaeum The Center for Architecture Art and Urban Studies 1990. First edition. Softcover. 61 pages. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran November 13 through December 14 1990. Statement by Vitaly V. Iljin Commentary by editor Mel Theobald. Includes some color and numerous black and white illustrations. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. The Chicago Athenaeum, The Center for Architecture, Art and Urban Studies unknown books
1971192959Creation House 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a good binding name and date are written on the front endpaper- no other marks or notations. 3rd Printing. Creation House hardcover books
1983266000San Francisco: TD Prods. & Stephen Dubov 1983. 36p 6.75x8.5 inches introductions 9 solo pieces illustrated with production photos very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. William Talen is an actor/writer from Grand Rapids MI who established himself as a street performer in San Francisco in the 1980s and in the late 1990s NYC as Reverend Billy. This collection of monologues is from a much earlier show. Includes "The Church of Eternal Life Through Mutation" with Billy as a preacher on the tube a foreshadowing if ever there was one! One holding located in OCLC as of 5/2021. TD Prods. & Stephen Dubov unknown books
1995JC9521New York: Limelight Editions 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xii 2 146. Book is fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. <br/><br/> Limelight Editions hardcover books
2014USTAABB00FPLion Fiction 2014. Fine. Starr Mel. The Abbot's Agreement: The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton Surgeon. Oxford UK: Lion Fiction 2014. 252pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Lion Fiction paperback books
197105119scsLebanon PA: Applied Arts Publishers 1971. Folio stapled illus. wrappers paperbound 32 pp. Illus. with numerous b&w photos. Very Good with rubbing to covers. Applied Arts Publishers, 1971. unknown books
1978709356Garden City NY: Doubleday. 1978. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Doubleday hardcover books
19601299500Cleveland OH: World Publishing Company 1960. First Edition First Publishing. Hardcover. Quarto picture book unpaginated VG/VG; red DJ yellow lettering: spine faded pink lettering clean and legible; overall mild wear to DJ 2½" closed tear from middle of spine to middle of front cover lettering to spine and illustration to front cover somewhat affected yet legible/clear; "$2.50" to front flap DJ protected by mylar; bright yellow matte paper boards red lettering to spine red illustration to front board: very mild overall wear to boards front board somewhat shaken binding strong; light age-toning to interior text/black-and-white illustrations legible/clear fully illustrated by Silverman; INSCRIBED with unique pen-and-ink drawing to ffep; shelved Case 14. 1299500. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. World Publishing Company hardcover books
1977258521New York: Phillip Allen as PAE Inc 1977. Magazine. 72p. 8.5x11 inches articles news interviews fiction erotic nude male photos fashion ads very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Began as an unnumbered digest-size magazine in Chicago featuring photos and stories of hot men in hot clothing. Lots of bulging blue jeans and silk slacks. After many issues Allen began numbering the issues with the October 1976 issue. The publisher moved to NYC and connected with Modernismo and began to include nudes and full-frontal shots as well as fiction from FirstHand in the now-full-size magazine. Profile of mayor-elect Koch. Photo-shoot of Michael Kearns. Review of "Interview With the Vampire Phillip Allen as PAE, Inc unknown books
