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1st British edition. Ex library hardback in near very good condition in a very good condition sleeved dust jacket. 271 pages, illustrated. ISBN 049102150X. 50811. eng
Includes fascinating six-page photo-illustrated feature by William P. Hitler, Adolph's nephew "who tells so candidly some things about his uncle that only a relative could know". Other features include: Student Nurses - their work and their uniforms; Stockings - short skirts bring new styles - Willy De Mond (Willy's of Hollywood); Why I Want Roosevelt to Run Again, by Harold L. Ickes; Gatti Pictures - an African Chief takes his 70 wives to the Beauty Parlor; Page of America's 10 most wanted, with photos, by J. Edgar Hoover; Movie Preview - Lady of the Tropics, starring Hedy Lamarr, and Robert Taylor; Roosevelt after 1940; Lowdown on Horse Racing, from 'Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmon; America's Best Jockeys; Hattie Carnegie vs. Elizabeth Hawes; Death Dines - photocrime; Sleep on Top of Your Car; and more. 52 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this extraordinary issue. Book
This is an about very good softcover copy, long ago released from a university library and bearing one mark: their handstamp on the lower front cover, also a small paper label on the upper left of the front cover. Very clean inside. A few creased page corners.This is the Fall Winter Issue No. 50-51, 1970 of this well known film studies journal. This issue guest edited by Gordon Hitchens. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, film stills. 11" high X 8" wide, 83 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Tela c/sovr., cm22x28.5, pp 256; ampiamente illustrato in nero nt e ft. In Inglese.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing and small nick near foot of spine and nick to upper rear edge. 480pp. A lavish chronological work on the story of the Warner Bros studios in Hollywood in incredible detail, from its tentative start in the early twentieth century to the 1980s. With over 1800 photographs plus a definitive record of every feature film the the studio made or distributed, this book is essential reading for every movie fan.
226 pages. Features: Mum deodorant ad shows couple on beach blanket; Listerine ad shows smooching couple; Town of the Month - Trevose, Pennsylvania (PA); Woodbury soap ad features photo of beautiful Metropolitan Opera star Jarmila Novotna with her daughter; Color-photo Ivory Snow ad; Color-photo Avon ad features Teresa Wright with her rep. Mrs. Virginia Stevens; Color Duz detergent ad; Article on arthritis; Assignment in Hollywood; Color photo of Ava Gardner in Lustre-Creme ad; Color Lady Pepperell sheets ad shows ghastly-colored bedroom with lady in pink on bed chatting on copper-colored phone; Nice color Jell-O ad; Roofs that last; Gallery of Gadgets includes knee pads and suitcase with wheels; Color ads for Heinz soups and pickes; Color Tide ad; Keep up with Medicine; The Thrifty Driver; Toni ad features photos of beautiful Eloise Sahlen, Susie Parker, and twins Ann and Roxie Schumaker; Career Girl - Kathleen Boyce of Charlotte, NC; Color Woolworth ad features nothing but dolls; Color Ivory soap ad features photo of Vera Miles; I'm a Homely Woman; The Face in the Mirror - story by Elden La Mar; The Heart Line and the Lucky Star - story by Lucia Mason; Women and the New War; Dover - story by Margaret Cousins; Mrs. Anderson's Daughter Gets Married - story by Faith Baldwin; Fashion Photos of young Constance Adams; Photos of plaid fashions for girls; 42 page article with photos of living room designs; Zozo ad features Curious George; Enrico Caruso - the world's most popular singer; When You Buy a Dog; Make Your Hair behave; Serve it Jellied; Never a better time to buy a refrigerator; Cold Drinks; Shopping for school clothes; Yankee pizza recipe; Dione Lucas photo in Cut-Rite wax paper ad; Charming color McCormick & Co. ad shows lady with her shelves of preserves; Vintage color Sundaettes ad; Campus life fashion illustrations; U.S. Savings Bonds ad features portrait of Master Sergeant Travis Watkins of Gladewater, Texas - a Medal of Honor recipient who sacrified his life in the Korean War to cover his squad after being wounded and paralyzed from the waist down; Color Coke ad on back cover shows sailor taking bottle from fridge; and much, much more. fAverage wear with some openings along spine. A worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine
Previous owner's name and date on ffep and tiny mark to rfep. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright blue cloth boards, slight fading to bottom edge and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with a little fading to spine and rubbing to upper and lower edges. 335pp. In writing the definitive biography of one of the giants of Hollywood, the author had the unqualified cooperation of DeMille's daughter who gave him unprecedented access to a quarter of a million previously unreleased documents - correspondence, notebooks, production notes.
in-8°, 240 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [CA27/7]
50 pages. Great cover photo of Lila Leeds. Features: "Occupation" (fiction); Revolt in the Philippines - author who helped liberate the Philippines returns to learn more about the struggle between President Roxas and rebels - article with many great photos; What the Boys did for Damon - The Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund - article with nice photos; City Girl at a Country Fair - Lorraine Davies at the Mineola Fair; Back on Top; "I'm Tired of My In-Laws" - Harry Harrison lived in a house with ten people as a publicity stunnt; Chicago's Bungling Cops - article on their poor rate of solving crime, with emotional photos; Colonel, We Loved You - true story of an officer whose career should be studied by all West Point grads; Muscles and Magazines - Photo-illustrated story of Bernarr Macfadden, founder of magazine "Physical Culture"; How Women Dress Men; Durable Dobbs - trying to stop passing quarterback Glenn Dobbs of Brooklyn; Canada's Vets Get a Break - article discusses the government benefits they received when they returned home; Sex Grows Up at Cafe Society - Singer Lucienne Boyer; Joltin' Joe DiMaggio is Back on Top; Catfight in Old Vienna - Viennese women put up fight for men with U.S. wives; Archie "Advices" the Lovelorn - Radio's famous bartender, Ed (Archie) Gardner, star of Duffy's Tavern; The King Who had a Diamond Tooth - photo-illustrated article on jazzman Jelly Roll (JellyRoll) Morton; Spam's Brave New World - have ex-GIs kept their word and refused to touch Spam (lunch meat) ever again?; Movie "Crossfire" Defied Hollywood Taboos - article with many photos; Movies of the Month; Country Editor Kicks Up a Fuss - Don Matchan of Valley Center, North Dakota; The South is Fightin' Mad - Forts Sumter and Moultrie go up for sale; Four Way Fight to take Pauline Betz' tennis crown; Two-page photo-section of gorgeous Ohio State University student Toni Bolling who was partially undressed in a Columbus department store window, resulting in jammed traffic for blocks; Lovely beauty contest photos of Virginia Harvester and Pat Geraghty; Fashionable color back cover ad for Hammonton Park clothes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Small bit of peeling to front cover. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
in-8°, 361 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, filmogr., broche, couverture illustree pl. Bel exemplaire. [AB-1]
MAI SFOGLIATO, PERFETTO; LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. Bellissima, famosa e sull'orlo del suicidio. Un'infanzia terribile, la scalata al successo, le luci di Broadway, il sesso, gli applausi... E poi la nevrosi, le sedute psicanalitiche e la lotta appassionata di tre uomini che l'hanno amata per riportarla alla scena e alla normalità. Henry Denker (New York, 25 novembre 1912 – New York, 15 maggio 2012) è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo statunitense. È stato conduttore, fra l'altro, del programma radiofonico The Greatest Story Ever Told, di ispirazione biblica. Collabora con il Reader's Digest e vanta fra i suoi successi alcuni lavori teatrali messi in scena a Broadway. Muore all'età di 99 anni. Fra le sue opere: Processo a un medico, L'esperimento, L'errore del chirurgo dalle mani d'oro, che dimostrano il suo interesse per la medicina, pur non avendo mai effettuato studi specifici. Informazioni bibliografiche Titolo: L'attrice Titolo originale dell'opera: The Actress Collana: I Jet Autore: Henry Denker Traduzione di: Tilde Arcelli Riva Editore: Milano: Sonzogno, 1980 Lunghezza: 375 pagine; 23 cm Soggetti: Letteratura, Narrativa americana, Romanzi, Passione, Sentimentali contemporanei, Hollywood, Anni settanta, Libri Vintage, Cult, Novel, Romance, Thriller, fuori catalogo, Noir
1st edition. Near fine pbk. ix, 223 p., 16 pages of black and white photos. ISBN 0874776252. 23745. eng
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News digest topics include - dark influences at work, the anti-Russian case, An Alternative Pact, A policy of wreckage, One's own business, the plight of German churches, 90% heroic, and the problem of Palestine; Baseball's Centenary? - argument over whether or not baseball's centenary actually occured in June - article with photos of Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Joe Vosmik, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, and others; Vernight Stop - photo-illustrated article of a trip to Wake Island; A Penny In Her Shoe (short story); The Genuine Tabard (short story); The Perdu (short story); Fairyland of the Boy-King Peter II of Yugoslavia - photo-illustrated article on his picturesque nation; If I Die Before I Wake (mystery); Half-page photo ad for the Canadian National Exhibition (C.N.E.) which offers 'a thousand thrilling things to see'; Hollywood news, with photos of Frank Lloyd, Cecil B. De Mille, N.S. Van Dyke, Arthur Nornblow Jr., Lubitsch, Anatole Litvak, Eugene Forde, Edward H. Griffith and William Wellman; Photo and bried write-up on Ellen Drew; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Miss Nadine Beardmore; Dare to Smile - article for ladies; Pond's cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Robert W. Armstorng of Toronto, and Blanche Brewer of Clarksdale, Mississippi; Small photo ad for Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ontario shows girls on horseback with school in background; Sayings from around the world; Back cover colour Coke ad features man in white double-breasted suite with lady, and inset black and white photo of soda jerk; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour cover New Year illistration by Russell Sambrook; Gorgeous colour ad inside front cover celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Stovel Company Limited, the publisher of this magazine; News digest includes these headings "A Coming Year of Peace?", "American Isolationism", "Economic Appeasement", "Scared into Sanity", "Ambition or Hardship", "A Moral for Canada", and "Significant Books"; Tragedy and Glamor in Hockey - photo-illustrated article mentions many contemporary stars and teams, and explains the big challenges faced by professional and amateur hockey; Arabia's Warrior-King - magnificent photo-illustrated article on the Saudi Arabia's leader; Gluskap's Showshoes (short story); The Jig-Saw (short story); County Clean Up (short story); Recording the Wars in Europe - article with seven photos, including Hitler crossing the Wildenau frontier; The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 3 of 5) by Agatha Christie; Hollywood news with photos of Deanna Durbin, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Fonda, Margaret Tallichet, Alland Jones, Robert Young, Barbara Stanwyck, Hedy Lamarr, Sally Eilers, and more; Half-page Italian tourism ad sponsored by E.N.I.T.; The Song of the Dental Demon (short verse); Colour one-page photo-ad for Swift's Premium Ham; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Uncle Dan comic; Personal Finance article; I'm Telling You- self-help article for ladies; Sweet Caporal cigarette ad features photo of Mikky and Pete, two Samoyedes owned by Miss L. Lileda Dodds of Westmount, Quebec; Great Two-page colour-photo-illustrated article entitled "Household Allies" includes photos of 17 vintage home products; World Quotes; Nice back cover ad for the 1939 Pontiac Arrow Coach; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy peeking through hole in fence; Nice one-page ad for Willys cars for 1940; News Digest touches on congress of revolt in Washington, counting our blessings, a lesson from France, why French Cabinets are so short-lived, Japan's "New Order", and denouncing a new treaty; Lovely one-page colour-photo ad for Singer sewing machines; The Yearling (part 1); The Little Mystery; Cave Men of the Kalahari - great photo-illustrated article; One of the Family (short story); Science to the Rescue - National dividends from new experiments in many fields of empire industry; If I Die Before I Wake (short story); Anyone Can Shoot - photo-illustrated article on target shooting, with photos of Lieutenant Desmond Burke and members of the Calgary Rifle Club, including Lieutenant S. Johnson, a member of Canada's 1939 Bisley Team; Ponds ad includes photos of Mrs. John Roosevelt (the former Anne Clark), and Muriel Wright; Wonderful colour two-page ad for the 1940 Dodge Kingsway (orange); Nice half-page ad for Stewart-Warner radios shows the models 4565, 4471 and 4541; Great colour centrefold ad for the new 1940 Plymouth (blue); Movie news and photos; Brief write-up and photo of Linda Darnell; Hollywood Juveniles - article with photos of Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Rooney; Fashion illustrations; Kellog's All-Bran cereal ad includes half-page Mutt and Jeff comic; Nice two-colour half-page RCA Victor radio ad shows their models A-6, A-1 and Victrola attachment; Let's Turn Back the Clock and See the Girl Your Husband Married; Walking on Air - shoe article; Are You a Blind Shopper? - article on how housewives make buying decisions; Quotes of the World; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows lady in yellow dress reclining in chair after vacuuming; Colour Old Dutch cleanser ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
44 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of clown by Russell Sambrook; News briefs include - the Roosevelt telegram and its sequel, the 'Halt-Hitler' bloc, Enigmatic Russia, the Perplexities of Poland, French 'Rightists', and British Conscription; Davis Cup Review - Tennis article with photos of Adrian Quist, Jack Bromwich, Gene Mako, and Bobby Riggs; I Visit Those Other Canada's - photo-illustrated article of a trip to Scandinavia; Did I Remember to Tell You I Adore You? (short story); Vrechan, a Man's Dog (short story); Girl Alone (short story); The Eyes of the Navy - photo-illustrated article on Britain's Naval Air Arm; If I Die Before I Wake (short story); Palmolive Soap ad includes illustration of the Dionne Quints; Hollywood news and photo of Richard Carlson; Lux soap ad includes photos of Barbara Stanwyck; Five photos from film "The Wizard of Oz"; Get Ready for the Tennis Season; Your Place in the Sun - the sun and your skin; The Bride, The Food and the Man - cooking advice; Photo of Fanny Brice in Maxwell House coffee ad; Pond's Cold Cream ad features two photos of the Lady Ursula Stewart and the Lady Betty Bourke; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Brief news items - The Dominion's 71st Birthday, No Province Can Live to Itself, Unwholesome Periodicals, Women Under Fascism and Communism, Dominion Day, The South African Election, and Franco-Italian Conversations; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); Air Linger (short story); Just Beginning (short story); Man the Lifeboat - interesting photo-illustrated article on lifeboats and their need; Smooth Joe (short story); The Autobiography of Sir Herbert Barker (part II); Salvage (conclusion); Golf's Grand Old Man - photo-illustrated article on George S. Lyon; Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Hollywood news, with photos of Edna May Oliver, Spencer Tracy, Alice Brady, Cora Witherspoon, John Barrymore, and others; The Dead Letter (short story); Dr. Robert H. Coats, Keeper of the Domesday Book, Custodian of the Censuses of Canada; Sweet Caporal cigarette ad features photo of dog "Bob", an Alsatian owned by Miss Elizabeth Brice of Westmount, Quebec; Business News/Personal Finance article; Summer cookery article; Glammour Girl in the Making - illustrated fashion article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cute colour cover illustration by Joachim Gauthier; Dignified colour ad inside front cover presents the new 1939 Ford cars, showing a dark green De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and a blue V-8 Tudor Sedan; News digest includes these headings - For a Cool Head, What Happened at Munich, Two Different Problems, The Belgian Parallel, Keep the Home Fires Burning, and Books of the Season; One-page ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; "The Bells of Bethlehem" - Photo-illustrated Christmas article on the Holy Land; Before St. Mihiel and All That (short story); Mrs. Scodger's Husband (short story); Letters to a Former Husband (short story); Britain's Army Road Scouts - great photo-illustrated article on the British Automobile Association (A.A.); The Man Who Was Lucky (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 2 of 5) by Agatha Christie; Salute to Winter Sport - article with photos of ski jumper, bob-sledders and the honourable rite of 'bouncing' (in front of the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec); Nice Kodak one-page ad; Hollywood news includes photos of Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Jane Withers, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Edward G. Robertson with his wife; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Personal Finance article; Christmas dinner suggestions and recipes; Gorgeous colour ad inside back cover for this magazine features formal couple and many front cover images on jet black background; Handsome colour Nash car ad on back cover features an orange 1939 four-door; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
IN-16°, PP. 335 (1), CART. EDIT., SOVR. ILL. B.N. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO), LEGGERISSIME BRUNITURE AI MARGINI DELLE CARTE, OTTIMO STATO (F/F).<BR>PRIMA EDIZIONE EUROCLUB. PT5A 102
In 8 (19,5x13) Legatura editoriale con sovracopertina illustrata a colori; pp. 132; buono
86 pages. Articles: The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, part 1 - he wanted to be President; God's Underground in Russia - Priests work in secret to keep Christian faith alive; Open Letter to Jimmie Fidler - spotlighting the man who tells Hollywood how it should behave; Teen-age talent - winners of Collier's fourth annual high-school art contest; Flying High - the role the kite has played in sport and aviation; Go to Sleep - unusual theories about somnolence and insomnia. Fiction: Custom of the Country; Rich Girl, Poor Man; The Far-off Bugle; Shakespeare should drop dead; Ham and cheese on Rye; Shadow of Fu Man Chu - part 4 of 6. Ads include; Douglas shoes; Ocean City Reels / Montague Rods; De Beers Diamonds - portrait of Miss Caroline B. Johnston of Baltimore, MD; Philco phonographs; Dodge trucks; Pennsylvania Railroad; Chevrolet (color centerfold); Canada tourism; Fortune shoes; "Homecoming" movie staring Clark Gable and Lana Turner; Great Northern Railway; Holland-Racine Shoes; Buick cars; City Club shoes; Wilson Brothers; Black Flag insect spray (very nostalgic); Fox Head beer; Winthrop shoes; Clark's Tendermint Chewing Gum; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows young ladies with soda jerk. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
312 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
88 pages. Features: Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle features the Black Diamond Lighthouse at the eastern entrance to Canso Strait, with Lloyd Grant tending the beacon; Can-Car one-page colour ad features their Jet Mentor Trainer; Divorce does more harm than good; Burroughs colour-photo one-page adding machine add features two of their chunky blue machines; London Letter - How Canadians are taking over in Britain i.e. Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly; Vintage one-page RCA Victor ad shows several of their Hi-Fi units; Nine pages of colour photos by John deVisser intended to argue against "Toronto the Dull"; What I Remember of Hitler - fascinating photo-illustrated article by Putzi Hanfstaengl, who introduced Hitler to polite society, played the piano when the fuhrer was troubled, and saw him battle his private demons; I Like Being Fat - and here are my reasons; Nobody's Too Big for Ted Lindsay - hockey's scrappy little all-star leftwinger has battled the largest and toughest men on the ice, and now, as President of the new player's union, he may be taking on his toughest opponents of all - the NHL owners - photo-illustrated article; Florencia Bay (part 2 of this novel); How to Live with a Neurotic; Bill (William) Shatner's Adventures in Hollywood - photo-illustrated article on his early days on the west coast; Labatt's 50 colour ad shows 'modern' Canadians; Rexall centrefold features dozens of their products and their 1957 prices; Molson's Crown & Anchor colour beer ad features older folk enjoying slike show; Mavor Moore recalls his most memorable meal; Nice one-page A.V. Roe ad entitled "Ingenious Devices That Challenge the Imagination" includes several illustrations of their products; Nice colour Dow beer ad shows man presenting box of beer to man watching TV football; Vintage half-page Long-Distance telephone ad features young college lady and several of their price rates; What art lost when Hitler took up politics; One-page colour ad for Sunbeam brand automatic frypans, and saucepan/deep fryer; Back cover colour Coke ad features illustration of scene at Maharaja's Palace in India; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Terror in a Penthouse; The Man They All Hated; Racing Eights; The Sniper; Glergyman in Khaki; Too Much Talent; Tigers in Paradise; Hocus Focus; Styling a Car; Power Training for Rugby Clubs; Brother Goose; Bloodier Bridge; Olympic Athletes Show You How; Hollywood Horse Race; David Langdon's Sketch Book - Starnewstanard; The Gorilla Hit Low; plus photos of Adele Collins, Julie Newmar (the girl in the moon), and Janice Van Ayre; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 224pp. The story of the movie star who, even in his twenties, was better known than any other man or woman had ever been in the world's history. This book goes behind the legend that was Charlie Chaplin with a revealing collection of articles and essays written by those who knew him intimately and worked with him.