Blechman Marcus (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Cover photo by Marcus Blechman (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm stereo vocal jazz record album, Atlantic 1228, very-good-plus vinyl bearing white labels with blue and green trim and central "fan" -- recorded 1956 but probably a 1960s re-release, in a very-good-plus glossy cardboard jacket. (though Atlantic Recording Corp. address still "New York 19," -- no post-1962 zip code.) Miss Connor here offers Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" and "I Get A Kick Out of You," "You Make Me Feel So Young," Lerner & Loew's "Almost Like Being In Love," eight others. On four of these tracks, the songstress (nee Mary Jean Loutsenhizer, 1927-2009) is accompanied by a 19-piece orchestra. On another four tracks, the chanteuse is accompanied by a 10-piece band including Zoot Sims, and on "I Get A Kick Out of You," "Where Are You," "Ev'rytime" and "Almost Like Being In Love," she's backed by John Lewis, piano; Barry Galbraith, guitar; Oscar Pettiford, bass, and Connie Kay, drums. She's a jazz singer. Jacket notes by Robert Sylvester. This album catalogs $25, here reduced from $12.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Barbara Singer (Cover design); Marcus Blechman (Title Page Photo); Marie-Hélène Fredericks (Book Design) (illustrator). 1st Quill Edition. 367 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased front cover. Slight bumped cover corners. Light stain on spine and fore-egde.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Woods, Miriam (jacket design); Blechman, Marcus (author photograph) (illustrator). Fine unread condition blue boards, purple spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a good condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Author Dedication and Introduction. Upper front jacket edge chip. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Helen Hayes is one of the few great personalities of this century who has managed to achieve international fame without losing her much-prized "ordinariness." A Gift of Joy is a collection of her thoughts, reminiscences, and anecdotes, as well as selected pieces from her favorite writers. Taken together, they express the very personal philosophy of a woman who has enjoyed self-fulfillment in both her professional and private life. The "gift of joy" Helen Hayes received from life covers a wide range of experiences. She found it in her three most uninhibited performances. She found it in her life with her late husband, Charles MacArthur, and in her relationship with her children. She finds it in exploring new places and in the self-realization that comes through solitude. She finds it while walking in the country, working in her garden, and even in the contemplation of growing old. She tells why she insisted on having an audition before accepting a part in O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet and how she almost neglected to read the script for Victoria Regina, which later became her best-known role. She tells how she read Shakespeare's sonnets for the first time because a producer prescribed them as a way of losing her Southern accent, and she quotes her favorites. She discusses the religious crisis which took place in her own life, and introduces the writings on faith and affirmation which are most meaningful to her. And as her words and ideas remind her of the words of poets, playwrights and pundits, she quotes them. What emerges is a unique reflection of a unique woman, filled to the brim with Helen Hays' enthusiasm for living and her infinite capacity for appreciating the people and encounters that have made up her world. At a time when so much of our literature is filled with cynicism, hostility, and despair, this inspirational and optimistic book is truly A Gift of Joy." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Vintage studio still photograph of noted ballerina and actress Vera Zorina, circa 1940s. Zorina began her dance career at a young age, when she was invited to join the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1933. She enjoyed a brief period in Hollywood, appearing in seven films between 1938 and 1946, but soon returned to the stage, most notably in "The Tempest" at the Alvin Theatre in 1945, and in Arthur Honegger's "Joan of Arc at the Stake" in the play's US debut in 1948. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. First Edition. #96 Of 500 Copies, Numbered And Signed By The Artist Elise [Armitage] On The Frontispiece Lithograph. Grey Printed Wrappers Printed In Black With Plain Flaps, Attached At Spine, With Additional Similar Outer Grey Dj Printed In Red On Outside Panels And Printed In Black On Flaps. 24 Different Photographs. This Copy Inscribed On The Colophon To Artist And Illustrator Pasquale G. Napolitano "Inscribed For Giovanni Napolitano On The 17Th Day Of October 1935 With Luck Merle Armitage Lynton R. Kistler"; Armitage Wrote, And Kisler Printed, A Book On Napolitano That Same Year. On The Following Autographs Page Are Pasted In The Autographs Of Mary Wigman, Paul Love, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, Palucca, Artur Michel, And Hanns Hastings. Near Fine, In Near Fine Dj. Laid In Loosely Are 15 Of The Original Photographs That Armitage Reproduced For The Book; These Are Well Printed On 8 X 10 Paper[Except A Smaller Photograph Of Holm Which Is Signed On The Reverse]; They Show More Detail And Clarity Than The Reproduced Photographs, And The Photographs By Charles Rudolph, Ralph Samuels And Ben Pinchot Are Annotated With Printed Or Written Credits On The Reverse. Near Fine Book And Cover, In Lightly Worn Outer Dj With Some Short Tears At Corners. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very good +. 24 cm b&w photos on 38 cm cardboard. Each photo signed on bottom corner by Blechman. Povla Frijsh 91881-1960) was a Danish classical soprano and voice teacher, chosen by Gustav Mahler to sing in his Second Symphony in Cologne in 1910. Frijsh made her American debut in New York in 1915 and gave annual recitals there until 1947 when she retired from singing after 49 years. Her complete recordings are on CD. Acording to a 1940 New York Evening Sun article, she was "one of the most satisfying singers of song of our time." She was also gorgeous as these photos indicate. Photographer Blechman (1922-2010) took shots of many theatre artists, dancers and society mavens in mid-20th century New York. His archives are at the City Museum of New York.