Connell Will, First Edition (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Will Connell (photos) (illustrator). First Edition. A very classy little volume in salmon pink cloth boards, profusely illustrated with photos of elegant floral arrangements.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 105 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Fine condition. (R7).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover, bound in light brown cloth, with faded blue lettering on front and spine, is in VG condition, having very slight shaking to volume, and overall moderate surface, edge, and handling wear. Beautiful b&w white photographs by author Connell of the missions. Great detail. California history. Architecture. Spanish California. DB.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in brown cloth, sans DW; pictorial end-papers; profusely illustrated in black & white; 105pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book.

Single Issue magazine. Condition: Good. cover art by Earle K. Bergey (illustrator). First Edition. Kokomo, IN / New York, NY: Best Books Inc. Best Books Inc., Kokomo, IN / New York, NY: 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Vintage Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.25"], 146 pages , illustrated. Good copy [spine cocked. damp staining to the lower portion of the spine and to the bottom of the cover, wear to the bottom of the front cover, cheap text paper tanning/tanned as usual].; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 145 pages . whbx 7 . Good. Single Issue magazine. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1951.

Stated 1st Edition. Magnificent book of Japanese flower arrangement; amazing b/w gravure plates. Very nice bright clean copy of HB 1st edition. 9 x 11, 336 pp + vi index, bibliography, appendixes, b/w gravure photos, color plates; cream endpapers, top edge tinted. Near Fine unmarked, some fading to boards. Hardcover in red cloth boards w beige cloth spine; no jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Clarence Sinclair Bull, photograph of Walt Disney and his staff; Will Connell, photograph od Dsiney (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with wear at the base of the spine.

First Edition. The author writes an amusing introduction: "those who need it won't understand it, and those who understand it won't need it." He says this book is about commercial photography, advertising [perhaps some readers will think it is much more]. -- Hardcover, 64 pages, 8x11 inches. Condition: very good minus (spine tips and corners worn; owner name; no jacket).

4to. First edition. First edition. 4to. Spiarl bound black and white boards. VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Spiral bound wrappers. 48 b/w gravure reproductions. 105 pp. Text by Nunnaly Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler, and Grover Jones. Front cover detached, but a very attractive, quite crisp copy. Briefly inscribed on the title page by Connell. Quite scarce. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Edited by Mus White. Essay by Stephen White. Includes 26 black and white images by Connell with plastic dividers for these sections: Hollywood, Industry, Montage, and Intangibles. A fine copy in corrugated plastic binding with a two rings binding. Includes a laid in price list. An attractive but unusual production.

4°. 104 S., 1 Bl. mit 48 Tafeln. OKart. mit Metallring-Bindung. Seltene Foto-Dokumentation aus den 30er Jahren. - "Will Connell is that rarity - a photographer whose sense of humor extends to his own work. "In Pictures" is its own proof of the use to which he has put his gifts. Connell shows how wide the abilities of the camera are when a thorough technician, a penetrating mind, and the all important satirical impulse are blended in one talent capable of dissecting a national institution with its own instruments of torture.ground glass, shutter and lens" (S. 6). - Der amerik. Porträt- und Industriefotograf W. Connell (1898-1961) brachte sich das Fotografieren selbst bei und eröffnete später ein Studio in der Innenstadt von Los Angeles. In den späten 1920er Jahren arbeitete er für verschiedene Zeitschriften (Life, Sunset, Time, US Camera u. Vogue). In den frühen 1930er Jahren arbeitete Connell hauptsächlich als Glamour- und Werbefotograf für verschiedene Filmstudios, darunter Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer und Republic Studios. Während dieser Zeit fotografierte er auch häufig Landschaften in der Umgebung von Los Angeles. Connell war ein enger Freund des Architekten Lloyd Wright, dem Sohn von Frank Lloyd Wright und dokumentierte einen Großteil von dessen Arbeit. Nach dem Krieg arbeitete er als Industrie-Fotograf. - Deckel berieben, gebräunt und zum Teil aus der Metallring-Heftung gelöst, ohne den Schuber, innen gut erhalten. Sprache: englisch.

spiral bound boards, slipcase. 4to. spiral bound boards, slipcase. 104 pages. First edition. Slipcase worn and separated along hinges, crude tape repairs else a near fine copy. Illustrated with b&w photographs. "Will Connell is that rarity - a photographer whose sense of humor extends to his own work. "In Pictures" is its own proof of the use to which he has put his gifts. Connell shows how wide the abilities of the camera are when a thorough technician, a penetrating mind, and the all important satirical impulse are blended in one talent capable of dissecting a national institution with its own instruments of torture.ground glass, shutter and lens" (S. 6).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 64pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Modest rubbing and marker bleed-through on the half-title, else fine in a rubbed, very good dust jacket, with chips and a few small tears along the edges, and a tiny stain on the front cover near the spine. Inscribed by Will Connell on the title page: "For Naomi- I think you're kinda nice too. Will Connell.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 48 b/w gravure photographs by Will Connell. Text by Nunnally Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler and Grover Jones. Original spiral bound stiff printed wrappers (edge wear; rubbing). Good. 105 pages. No bookplates.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Text by Nunnally Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler, and Grover Jones. A beautifully printed collection of classic Hollywood images. An about very good copy in spiral bound wrappers with some splitting to the edges near the spiral, some minor wear to the front free endpaper but otherwise a very nice copy in a poor example of the slipcase that is broken with edges missing and some chips as well.

Coil bound in slip case. Condition: Very Good. Will Connell (photography) (illustrator). First Edition. Folio. Pp. 104. Illustrated with full-page black & white fine gravure photo reproductions recto, text verso, on Collins special gravure stock. Stiff printed wraps with titles in black, wire coil bound. Edges minimally rubbed, toning to the covers near the spine, a few small scars and creases in the cover black area. In the chipboard slipcase covered in red cloth with b&w photo reproduction and superimposed die-cut round title cartouche printed in reversed red mounted to the front: spine head chipped, short closed tears to the open end, chips and scuffs to the mounted illustration. Self-taught photographer Connell's experience in Hollywood publicity led to this, his first book, where each recto page is an energetic photomontage satirizing the dream factory, faced with a caption (Producer, Yes-Men, Sex Appeal, Censorship, Clinch.) The four eminent screenwriters' story "Hollywood Conference" runs independently, verso, in large Bodoni type with generous margins. Each slipcase was illustrated with an image from the volume, in this case "Cartoon.".

Softcover. Condition: fair. First edition. Large quarto. 104pp. Black and tan wrappers in spiral binding with original illustrated slipcase. Back wrapper detached but present. Some creasing, chipping, wear and discoloration to wrappers. Heavy chipping and tearing to slipcase. Spine split on slipcase. "Will Connell is that rarity - a photographer whose sense of humor extends to his own work. "In Pictures" is its own proof of the use to which he has put his gifts. Connell shows how wide the abilities of the camera are when a thorough technician, a penetrating mind, and the all important satirical impulse are blended in one talent capable of dissecting a national institution with its own instruments of torture.ground glass, shutter and lens." Illustrated with full page b/w photographs. Slipcase in poor, wrappers in fair, interior in very good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Bound in spiral bound backed wrappers. 4to. Published by T. J. Maloney, Inc, New York. 1937. 104 pgs. Illustrated with 48 black and white gravure plates. Signed and inscribed by Will Connell on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. Lacks the slipcase. Wrappers worn with shelf-wear to the extremities present (bit of loss along the spiral bound wrappers, scuffing present to the edges of the wrappers) ; wrappers still attached. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Illustrated with 48 gravure images of 1930s Hollywood, incorporating innovative design, photomontage, and exceptional gravure printing. "Will Connell is that rarity - a photographer whose sense of humor extends to his own work. "In Pictures" is its own proof of the use to which he has put his gifts. Connell shows how wide the abilities of the camera are when a thorough technician, a penetrating mind, and the all important satirical impulse are blended in one talent capable of dissecting a national institution with its own instruments of torture, ground glass, shutter and lens." E-42; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 104 pages; Signed by Author.

First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED and dated 1949 by co-author Gene Fowler on the front endpaper, with brief, additional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page and page nine. Lacking the original illustrated paper slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box and matching chemise. A penetrating, satirical take on the film industry, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Gene Fowler was an American author, dramatist, and screenwriter who enjoyed a long and varied career. Fowler found early prestige as a journalist in New York, most notably a lengthy tenure as a managing editor of The Morning Telegraph, where his staff included a number of luminaries of the period, including Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner, Charles MacArthur, Westbrook Pegler, Martha Ostenso, Walter Winchell, Nellie Revell, among others. Fowler also worked as a screenwriter for several years, penning a dozen screenplays in the 1930s and early 1940s, including "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), "The Call of the Wild" (1935), and "Billy the Kid" (1941), and also collaborated with Ben Hecht on the 1932 Broadway play "The Great Magoo." Spiral bound wrappers Very Good plus-which anyone who has before encountered this book knows to be extraordinary condition. Custom clamshell box and chemise Very Good plus, with leather lightly faded and some light soil to the extremities.

Original Two-tone Cloth. Condition: About Good. First Edition. Number 59 of an editin of 500 copies. Signed by Connell. Spine and adjacent portions of cover stained; spine ends and cover corners slightly worn; small smudge on title page. Lacking the photograph from rear pocket. Signed by Author.