Dyke Anthony (18 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1937 film. Based on George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg's 1928 musical of the same name. A young princess and a West Point cadet fall in love. Although the play on which the film is based was also a musical, an entirely new score was written for the film. Gershwin was originally suppose to compose the score for the film as well, but Cole Porter eventually completed the task. Shot on location in California and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Red cloth, spine lettered in black. Old stains to cloth, several ink numbers and rubber stamps on front end papers; otherwise a very good copy, internally clean. A scarce title by Frederick Anthony Edwards, who wrote mysteries and thrillers under the names Julius Van Dyke and Charman Edwards. This looks to be a society novel about British people in China, dealing in part with the illegal sale of antiquities. Not in Hubin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First US Edition; Early Printing. Lending library stamps, peel on front paste-down, front free endpaper removed, light tone, edgewear, otherwise light wear. Still solid hardcover.; English title: Chinese Dust. "In the tangled lives of the beautiful déclassée Russian, Shura Danilova, and of the three men who loved her is all the passion and beauty of a great love story, the tense excitement of high adventure." Novel of life in the China treaty ports, written by "a young Englishman who has been in the British Civil Service and from many years in China has acquired an intimate knowledge of the white man's life in the East." - The Writer; Volume 45; Page 318. This novel triggered Helen Foster Snow, the young American college drop-out who "writing under the alias of "Nym Wales" . built a legacy of activism and fearless journalism reporting from China throughout the 1930s" and married Edgar Snow, the longtime American journalist in China. Her Shanghai experience of racist British imperialism led her to publish an article in the China Weekly Review publicly attacking this attitude. "The trigger of this public "declaration of war on the British" was a 1932 novel by a British author, J Van Dyke, Chinese Dust. The novel described a small European community in Southern China, in which a missionary strangled a rickshaw man to death. . Helen Snow was amazed by such blaring racism in a book published by a "supposedly reputable" press in London. She termed the attitude reflected in the novel as "the Sinophobiac treaty-port 'die-hard' in China," and claimed it moved her to deep contemplation on the subject of the die-hards." - Emory University thesis: Expressions of the Life that is within Us : Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China; Haipeng Zhou; page 212. An early American printing of this uncommon novel of the "exotic orient" that also captures the casual racism of British expatriates in treaty China. ; Ex-Library; 325 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. 12mo Blue cloth covers with black lettering to spine. Bit cocked, unclipt dj slt chipped ow  Very Good/vgdj: 207pp. Novel set in Danangao an upriver port of the Yangzi about a woman with 3 strings to her bow. A scarce title by Frederick Anthony Edwards, who wrote mysteries and thrillers under the names Julius Van Dyke and Charman Edwards. This is a society novel about British people in China.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Reprint Edition or First Photoplay Edition of Doubleday Doran, 1933 1stedn. 12mo black cloth, red spine titles and deco; Corners are bumped and slightly worn; cover is generally scuffed, with small stains on front. Previous owner plate on front free endpaper. Ow VG/ndj: 325 pp. Book is slightly cocked. A story of the "treaty ports" in early 20th century China. A scarce title by Frederick Anthony Edwards, who wrote mysteries and thrillers under the names Julius Van Dyke and Charman Edwards. This is a society novel about British people in China.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A scarce title by Frederick Anthony Edwards, who wrote mysteries and thrillers under the names Julius Van Dyke and Charman Edwards. This is a society novel about British people in China.

Dimensions: 15.5x24 cm. Etching, fine impression (watermark "Foolscap" not in Wibrial), good condition. (76435). Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist and printmaker who became the leading court painter after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.

Condition: Good. Heliogravure of original etching on laid paper. 31 x 22 cm (sheet). Very Good, a few specks of foxing, toning along sheet edges.

Condition: Good. Heliogravure of original etching on laid paper. 31 x 21.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, a few specks of foxing, toning along sheet edges.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Copper engraved portrait of; Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland. [2nd wife of the Earl]. Latin description below image followed by artist and engravers details and the date 1650. Measures 27 x 19 cm. Legend reads; "Illustris. Domina Dna. Maria Stuart Comitissa. Portlandiae Neylandiae". Portrait three-quarter length with hair in curls, pearl earrings, pearls around the neck and chest, wearing a low-cut dress with a fur stole, her left hand holding the stole in front of her right shoulder. Lovely clean condition with no stains, off white laid paper with beautiful large watermark in the paper showing a fleur-de-lys topping a shield. Original and genuine. *NOTE: We think this is the 2nd state (of 3) as the publishers name has been scratched out off the plate. This matches another copy in the Metropolitan Museum in New York & a copy in the Nat Portrait Gallery in London, there is also one less flattering of her facing left. We believe there are no known preparatory sketches or a related painting that survives and the original copper plate no longer exists. W. Hollar. (illustrator).…

Dimensions: 15.5x24.5 cm. Etching, fine impression (watermark #17; c1660-70), good condition. (82305). Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist and printmaker who became the leading court painter after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.

Vintage photographs of director W.S. Van Dyke instructing a bleacher full of young women, including stars Eleanor Powell and Ilona Massey, on the set of the 1937 musical film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 Broadway musical, about a West Point cadet who falls for a Vasser student who just happens to be a princess in disguise, with most of the original songs by George and Ira Gershwin replaced with new material by Cole Porter, including the classic "In the Still of the Night." 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical.…

Photogravures. 1 vols. Folio. Photogravures. 1 vols. Folio. Van Dyke greatly influenced the development of English portrait painting. With Beautiful Plates. Original half parchment binding. Lower half of spine separating, rubbed, some soiling, some spotting of fore-edge and browning of protective tissues but otherwise interior appears clean and sound.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film, showing an elaborate musical sequence, with actress Eleanor Powell perched on an oversized drum at the stage's nexus. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1928 Broadway play by Guy Bolton, about a West Point football star who falls in love with a princess in disguise. Written by Cole Porter, the drum sequence featured in the photograph on offer was one of the largest musical sequences ever set to celluloid at the time of the film's release. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical.…