Abbe Johnny (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition. Jacket is good with tears on comers top and bottom but intact .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket. Ex Libris with all the usual attributes. Front hinge cracked. Erase marks and jacket flap on front end page. Good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Ed. Green cloth binding with light fading around edges and spine, ex-private library with one pocket, otherwise like new. Illustrated with numerous photos.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 233p. A mint-green gilt cloth hardcover book in good condition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Light foxing inside. Spine deeply tanned. Front and back cover lightly soiled. Otherwise clean and tight. The second book by the children of James Abbe and Polly Shorrock. Patience Abbe is the acknowledged primary author. An account of their lives as well-traveled children of celebrities. Contains black and white plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). Precocious children in Hollywood report on their interactions with Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, fellow children Shirley Temple and Elizabeth Taylor, and a bevy of others. Some of the MANY Illustrations: We were always the first at meal-time in the dining-room at Hearst Castle, as you can see . . . . Patience, Richard and Johnny Abbe . . . . The cross marks Harriet Johnson . Jimmie Grant, a valiant boy . Marianne, a girl who loves children . We liked broadcasting for Sears, Roebuck with Admiral Byrd and Helen Gleason . I, Patience, enjoyed sitting on Robert Taylor's lap . The Abbe children with the Ballet Russe . Impresario Behymer and Alexandra Danilova . Irina Baronova and Col. W. de Basil . Philip MacMahon, Cora Sue Collins, Jackie Cooper, Mayor Shaw, Edith Fellowes, George Ernst, Billy Lee, Richard. Patience, Johnny . Johnny, Patience, Billy Lee, Edith Fellowes, Richard, Philip MacMahon, George Ernst, Cora Sue Collins . With the Mexican Players at Padua Hills . . . .The gang that went sixty miles to Richard's Birthday Party at Padua Hills . The Chaplin boys and Fay Gillis Wells with us-and Snooks, who came from Ethiopia . Eddie Cantor with the Abbes . The Chaplin boys, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother . After we played on Tommy and Charlie's Tarzan tree we went to see Tarzan in the movies . Director W. S. Van Dyke, of M-G-M, with the Abbe trio . Abbe children and Harry Lachman . Slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. All orders shipped protected in a box. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. W. S. VON DYKE, ADMIRAL BYRD, CLARK GABLE, HAL ROACH, BING CROSBY, ALFAALFA, SHIRLEY TEMPLE, MANY MORE. BOOK, SPINE EDGES FADED, SLIGHTLY BUMPPED CORNERS, COVER SLIGTHLY SPOTTED. BW PHOTO ILL.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. In green cloth boards with gold titles. Boards slightly discolored around margins from age. Small split in cloth at upper front corner. Front hinge cracked at bottom. 233p. Deckled pages unmarked. Jacket included, protected in brodart, in good condition. Several chips are taken from edges and folds, margins moderately rubbed and creased. A removed sticker has eroded a small rectangle of spine panel.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Stated "Second Printing (before publication)" (earlier date than the first printing), very good in a very good dust jacket. The green cloth has a couple of small spots, and the spine is a touch faded. Gilt on spine and front board is still fairly bright. Small bookplate in upper left corner of front pastedown (behind jacket flap). The jacket has slight loss at the edges of the rear panel and the spine ends. $2.00 price is present on front flap; no names or other writing in the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from photographs. Foxing to the boards, endpapers, and a little in the text, thus very good in very good or a little better dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel, and some other tiny tears. Precocious children in Hollywood report on their interactions with Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, fellow children Shirley Temple and Elizabeth Taylor, and a bevy of others. Scarce.

First Edition. Very good plus copy with a trace of fading to the top and bottom edges of the spine and very minor darkening to the gutters in a very good bright slightly used dust jacket with the front jacket flap detached, a hint of edge wear, and a few shallow chips and tiny tears. Illustrated ÔmemoirsÕ from a young trio of siblings who write of their famous celebrity friends, including Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Myrna Loy, Hal Roach, Marion Davies, Robert Taylor, and others, with a special section about Shirley Temple when she was around eight, and time spent as guests of William Randolph Hearst at Hearst Castle.