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1938010342NY: Wooly Whale Press 1938. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/Issued Without Dj. Kredel Fritz. Red cloth silver titles front and spine. Lacking slipcase and tiny loss and splity cloth head of spine. Printed insert from publishers Mary and Melbert Cary laid-in explaing how they missed sending a 1937 Christmas book because they spent Christmas Day that year planning this 1938 gift. Internals fine. Wooly Whale Press hardcover books
1933WRCLIT82803New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1933. Large octavo. Quarter calf and Natsume paper over boards t.e.g. Portraits and facsimiles. Some seemingly inevitable rubbing to head and toe of spine else fine. First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies printed for distribution as the press's Christmas offering. LAWSON & PANKOW 28. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
1935WRCLIT82806New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1935. Sq. octavo. Quarter open-sewn silk and boards paper label. Maps and decorations throughout by Warren Chappell. Binding a bit sunned with modest foxing and a few small spots to endsheets and edges; very good. One of "less than 250 copies on Kawara" paper issued as the Press's Christmas book for the year. With the small bookplate on the front pastedown of printer/typographer Carl. P. Rollins. LAWSON & PANKOW 47. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
1930003114Hollywood CA: United Artists 1930. "HELL'S ANGELS" Original studio-stamped 1930 Pre-Code publicity photo of JEAN HARLOW & BEN LYON from Howard Hughes's iconic war film. Vintage gelatin silver single weight glossy roughly 8.25" x 10" Very Good to Fine only the tiniest of blemishes. Reverse with studio promotional info. . First Thus. Near Fine. Photograph. United Artists books
1929144757New York: Henry Miller's Theatre 1929. Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End" which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22 1929 and closed on May 17 1930 for a total of 485 performances. <br/><br/>The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London which starred a young Laurence Olivier and was directed by then-unknown director James Whale. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written about World War I following the plight of a British Army infantry company in 1918. <br/><br/>Whale accompanied the play to America for the production advertised here which by late 1929 was being performed by 14 companies in English and 17 in other languages and he would go on to direct the 1930 film adaptation starring Colin Clive David Manners and Ian Maclaren. His film would be the first of numerous adaptations including: "The Other Side" 1931 "Aces High" 1976 and "Journey's End" 2017. <br/><br/>Whale would go on to even greater Hollywood fame later directing "Frankenstein" "The Invisible Man" "The Bride of Frankenstein" and more and was one of the first openly gay directors.<br/><br/>Two-color single leaf folded once 10 x 8 inches. Bright and Near Fine with a few closed tears and edge creases. Henry Miller's Theatre unknown books