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602044on a 3/4 length seated pose in costume for "Show Boat" with director James Whale in a behind the camera shot going over the script. Photograph is on single stock; 8" x 10"; very good; 1936. "Showboat" was released in 1936 directed by James Whale and starring Irene Dunne Allan Jones Helen Morgan Paul Robeson Charles Winninger Hattie McDaniel Donald Cook and Sammy White with music by Jerome Kern and words by Oscar Hammerstein II. Robeson 1898-1976 born April 9 1898 Princeton New Jersey; died January 23 1976 Philadelphia Pennsylvania; Black American singer and actor; Jerome Kern wrote the song "Ol' Man River" for Robeson which he sang in the play 1928 and the movie 1936. Whale 1896-1957 born July 22 1896 Dudley England; died May 29 1957 Hollywood California; English actor set designer and then director; imported to Hollywood in 1930 to direct the screen version of his state success "Journey's End"; best remembered for his four stylish horror films "Frankenstein"; "The Old Dark House"; "The Invisible Man" and "The Bride of Frankenstein"; retired from film in early 1940's to pursue painting; drowned in his swimming pool under mysterious circumstances. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. paperback books
1936WRCLIT35462New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1936. Sewn printed wrappers. One of an unspecified limited edition reprinting extracts from the Quaker meeting at Millbrook. As new. LAWSON & PANKOW 56. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
1930WRCLIT35464New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1930. Printed broadside 30 x 22cm. Decorative borders. Set in Eve Heavy with Erbar Initials and printed in black and red. Fine. A quotation relating to the corruption of youth by schools books and printing distributed both separately and as an insert into THE AMERICAN PRINTER March 1930. LAWSON & PANKOW 13. Press of the Woolly Whale books
2012260801Afton Minnesota: White Pine Prints 2012. First edition one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black cloth. As new in dust jacket. First edition one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Lavishly illustrated work on the Whale River Salmon Camp founded in 1967 by Stan Karbowski 1917-2010 the people the flora and the surrounding landscape of northern Quebec. The photographer Chuck Koosman first visited the Whale in 2001. David Ledie has fished the river for 18 years and chronicles the history of the camp and the changes in the salmon runs over the decades noting that the numbers of fish seen and caught came back dramatically when the Greenland and Newfoundland commercial salmon fisheries were bought out. <br/><br/>A beautiful production. White Pine Prints unknown books
1955003233Cambridge: University Press 1955. xv 359 1p. original cloth. University Press unknown books
36417WOOLY WHALE PRESS THE PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. Buffalo; Phoenix Press 1939. Small 8vo. Wrappers. 24 pages. First edition "Catalogue of an exhibition of books and printed pieces from the private pres of Melbert B. Cary Jr." Limited to three hundred copies. Very good. unknown books
1939WRCLIT35444New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1939. Cloth printed label. Fine. First edition of this discussion of the history of the first item known to have been printed in English-speaking North America: the 1639 Oath of a Freeman. Although a version was reprinted in 1647 in NEW ENGLANDS JONAS no authentic copy of the original is known to exist. A forgery played a central role in the Mark Hoffman murder/forgery scandal. LAWSON & PANKOW 88. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
1940WRCLIT80690New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1940. Small quarto. Gilt cloth and boards. Illustrations. Boards faintly rubbed else near fine. First edition. An elaborate spoof perpetrated by Melbert B. Cary Jr. recording the alleged discovery of a sequence of woodblocks depicting the life of Gutenberg from nativity to the advent of his printing shop. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
3289New York: Privately Printed Press of the Woolly Whale 1937. . 8vo stiff black card stock with blind embossed title at top left; stitched with white cotton string. MINT condition A printing of a chapter from Melbert Cary's "A Bibliography of the Village Press" 1938. New York: Privately Printed, Press of the Woolly Whale, 1937. unknown 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
1933WRCLIT35452London: House of Lords Press" but New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1933. 12mo. Sewn printed wrappers. Fine. One of an unspecified number of copies on handmade paper. A bit of facetious verse accompanied by a disclaimer asserting that Kipling had nothing to do with its composition. LAWSON & PANKOW 34. House of Lords Press," [but New York: Press of the Woolly Whale unknown 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
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
WRCLIT76173New York: Mary & Melbert Cary 29 July ny. Printed illustrated broadsheet 34 x 21 cm. Printed in black with red handcoloring on pale blue hosho paper. Folded to quarters as issued. An idiosyncratic and amusing invitation from the Carys to a social event under the "red banner." A scarce ephemeron. Mary & Melbert Cary unknown books
193018303.1New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1930. Self-wrappers. Fine. One folded sheet. Illustrated. 21 x 9 cm. <br/><br/>The front cover reads 'Presenting Some Goudy Pulications of interest to Book-Lovers Collectors Historian Typogrpahers and Librarians'. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
13039CAMBRIDGE UNIVER 1955. FIRST EDITION FINE. F. CAMBRIDGE, UNIVER, 1955 unknown books
194018300New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1940. Self-wrappers. Fine. One folded sheet. Features a woodcut on the front. 15 x 9 cm. <br/><br/>Contains an extract from teh News Letter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
193918302New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1939. Self-wrappers. Fine. One folded sheet w/insert pg. 23 x 10.5 cm. <br/><br/>A miscellany comprising those books from this Press from 1928 - 1939. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
1933WRCLIT45571New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1933. Cloth and boards. First separate edition with a foreword by Melbert B. Carey Jr. the printer. One of an unspecified limited edition for private distribution. Very fine. LAWSON & PANKOW 26. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
1939WRCLIT35463New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1939. Oblong octavo. Pictorial parchment wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations by Warren A. Chappell. The adhesive affixing the wrapper flaps has darkened and caused a slight bow to the wrappers else fine. First edition printed for private distribution. The first use in America of a music type designed by Paul Koch. A meditation on Dachshund micturition and at one point highly sought by aficionados of the process. LAWSON & PANKOW 86. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
1931WRCLIT35449New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1931. Half blue morocco t.e.g. First limited edition of the author's first novel first published in 1910. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed for private distribution as the press's Christmas book. A fine copy. LAWSON & PANKOW 15. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
187240164Washington DC: GPO 1872. 272 pp. <br /><br />Printing for the edification of the members of Congress of two classic works on the American fisheries. Jeffersons work first appeared in 1791 when he was Secretary of State and is considered the best work on whaling before the American Revolution. Sabines work was originally published in 1853. It is still an important work on the fisheries. Sabines book is difficult to find in the original printing Jeffersons work of course much more so. Fine condition in modern red cloth binding GPO hardcover books
WRCLIT35467New York: Press of the Woolly Whale nd. Sewn octavo French fold. An unattributed bit of facetious verse in dialect. Fine and unopened. Not in LAWSON & PANKOW. Press of the Woolly Whale unknown books
1931WRCLIT82802New York: Privately printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale 1931. Octavo. Gilt parchment boards t.e.g. Title illumined in gold and silver. First edition. One of 140 copies printed by hand by Cary. A few faint smudges to boards otherwise fine in slipcase. LAWSON & PANKOW 14. Privately printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover 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
