Cecil Swanson (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with some browning to spine and edges of covers, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 141 Pages Illus. Book.

No Binding. Condition: VG. A VG or better 6-page pressbook with no cuts or missing pages. Poster.

paperback. Condition: Very good. 1984. Pacific Northwest, Washington State, Bellingham, Whatcom, Poetry, History. Signed by Swanson along with a personal letter and card. 130. signed by the author.

1977. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 141pp. Frontispiece, illus., ports. The author was with the Anglican Church in the north and in Alberta, and worked among the Indians for much of his career.

photo's (illustrator). very good in wearing dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 149 pp, Includes dust jacket - white with b&w illustration and black lettering on front and spine - some rubbing and edge wear (see photos provided). Grey cloth cover with gilt lettering on front and spine - no visible wear (photos). Grey front and back endpapers. Signed by author on Title page. Crisp, clean and intact. No notations, highlighting or underlining. Prompt shipping includes tracking. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Numbered 12 of a limited run of signed copies. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. 141 pages - includes INDEX. Six pieces of related ephemera laid in. `Swanny' was ordained in Toronto in 1912. His first assignments were in the north - think Carmacks. By 1932 he was in Calgary. Learn more about : Little Fingers, Lynn Canal, Bishop Charles Schofield, Calgary East, mace-bearer, Hogan's Alley, and C.J.O.R. . B/W photographs at center. Lots of western Canadian history. Author has autographed the photo opposite the title page. Cond : Boards are grey with gilt lettering. End-papers are grey. D.J. is white with dark brown lettering. Portrait of Cecil Swanson on d.j. D.J. not price-clipped. P/O bookplate on ffep.Very light general wear - esp, of d.j. edges. Tight, bright, collectible ! Quote (p. 51) : " George Walker and I watched as one huge iceberg forced its inexorable way up ther bank. The Indians had taken to the safety of the hills, but we stared in desperation as the great block forced itself closer and closer to our little buildings at ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 141, b/w photographs. "The Days of my Sojourning is a collection of stories and anecdotes--some light-hearted, some momentous. An array of character portraits, ranging from famous figures to little known individuals in the cities and the frontiers of Canada.". book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong 48mo. Embossed leatherette wrappers with "Autographs" on the front wrap and gilt edges. Very good or better with the string-tied binding a bit tender, general wear to the wrappers and a few internal pages neatly removed. An autograph album kept by a man named John R. "Jack" Finnay who likely worked at the film production company Famous Players-Lasky, which later became Paramount Pictures. The most well-known Signatures include those of Jesse L. Lasky, co-founder of both Famous Players and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Oscar-winning director Cecil B. DeMille, and silent films star Gloria Swanson. It was during this time at Famous Players-Lasky that DeMille and Swanson were first paired for a series of films that made Swanson a star. That relationship was the inspiration for the legendary final line of *Sunset Boulevard*, when a Swanson, playing a former silent-film star turned murder, is enticed to surrender to authority by newsreel camera saying: "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." The remainder of the autograph album is filled with Famous Players-Lasky actors and behind the scene players, who appeared with Swanson or were directed by DeMille. Most notable among them are Jeannie MacPherson, actress, screenwriter and DeMille paramour; Mary Miles Minter, an actress later involved in the William Desmond Taylor scandal; Eilnor Glyn, English novelist and screenwriter who popularized the phrase "It-girl"; screenwriters Olga Printzlau, Julia Crawford, and Mary H. O'Connor; and numerous other supporting players, as well as Sid Grauman, founder of the famous Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. A wonderful album from the heydey of silent films. A list of autographs is avaiable upon request.

Vintage reference photograph shot on location for the 1947 film, showing a camera crew at the center of Snake River in Idaho. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Two men vie for ownership of a woman sentenced to fourteen years of indentured servitude in the colony of Virginia. The winner gallantly frees the woman, but the loser tears up her contract of freedom, kidnapping the woman and taking her west for life on the frontier. Shot on location in California, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with small spots of fading on the center of the image, and darkening on the mimeo snipe on the verso.

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1947 film, showing actress Paulette Goddard being assisted by a number of crew members during a bubble bath scene. Stamp of Movie Stars Parade on the verso. Two men vie for ownership of a woman sentenced to fourteen years of indentured servitude in the colony of Virginia. The winner gallantly frees the woman, but the loser tears up her contract of freedom, kidnapping the woman and taking her west for life on the frontier. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.