Lesser Sol (16 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Cover art by Leo Manso (illustrator). First Edition. Avon Novels, Inc. and Stratford Novels, Inc. NY , 1953 First Edition. First Issue 128 page vintage Digest sized Science Fiction and fantasy magazine with stories by Arthur C. Clarke , John Jakes, Alfred J. Coppel Fr. and others , Contents page in Photos.Cover art by Leo Manso A very good copy with light edge wear and light dust soiling, spine with shelf slant . See Photos 324.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows a silhouetted man in the foreground and ballet dancers in the background. No date, circa 1950. 9" x 11 3/4." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light toning and tiny wrinkles. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wrinkling, light age toning, slight wear to extremities, and two tiny stains on front. A Very Good copy. This is a promotional program for Roland Petit's Ballets de Paris, a French ballet company. Roland Petit (1924-2011) was a French ballet company director, dancer, and choreographer. He founded Ballets de Paris in May 1948. The following are some of the contents: introductory statement by Christian Dior (bilingual in French and English; remainder of text is in English); stories of the company's ballets (may be a partial repertory list); black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations (with brief biographical information) of Roland Petit, Renee Jeanmarie, Colette Marchand, Gordon Hamilton, Belinda Wright, Polajenko, and Serge Perrault; brief biographical information for some of the company's other dancers; and a few black-and-white stills from company productions.

[NONE] 1934. (hardcover) Very good. 234pp. 32mo. Big Little Book based on the 1933 movie 'Tarzan the Fearless', which starred Buster Crabbe. Various pages have separated thoughot; that said, all are present. Black and white photo stills. Cover shows wear, but remains bright. The Big Little Books series.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spine is worn with slight chipping at the top and the bottom. Corners of pages a little creased. Pages browned. Includes 'The Forgotten Enemy' by Clarke, 'Mr. Kowtshook by Christopher, 'Come Blow Your Horn' by Lesser, 'The Call of the Black Lagoon' by Harness, 'Checkmate Morning' by Jakes and 'The Short Count' by Cogswell. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

PAPER BACK. Condition: GOOD. CIRCA 1945 wear to cover and spine. wear to endpapers. pages are ripped from binding but are attached with a staple. pages are clean. blue photographic illustrations. DATE PUBLISHED: 1945 EDITION: 10.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 146 pages. Item Type: Magazine. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 026539.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Everett Raymond Kinstler et al (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Avon Book Company, 1952. Volume 1, Number 1; the January, 1953 issue, though as a periodical it was of course copyrighted in 1952. First Edition. Thoroughly illustrated by various genre specialists. Illustrated wraps, 7 5/8" x 5 1/4", 128 pp. Small-scale occasional edgewear, small chip at spine bottom. Very Good or a bit better in wraps; a nice copy. Contents are near fine; no trace of the age-toning of the pages which plagued most pulps of the era, including the two Avon predecessor series which spawned this one. Those predecessors - Donald Wollheim's well-regarded five-year, eighteen-issue Avon Fantasy Reader and his three-issue Avon Science Fiction Reader (1951-52) were combined under Sol Cohen's editorship for this new combined Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader. But, despite the apparently better-quality paper, many more illustrations by a variety of artists than in previous incarnations, and a very impressive array of writers, there would be only two issues under this name. Choosing the appropriate magazine name to appeal to greatest number genre readers seemed to be an ongoing problem from the forties to the sixties; the forest of names in the "Fantastic" series is legendary. The lead story in this first issue is Arthur C. Clarke's ominous "The Forgotten Enemy". Others: "For Humans Only" (Alfred J. Coppel, Jr.); "Like Gods They Came" (Irving Cox, Jr.); "The Agents" (Bryce Walton); "Mr. Kowtshook" (John Christopher); "The Space Ark" (book reviews by Noah Gordon); "The Shed" (E. Everett Evans); "Come Blow Your Horn" (Milton Lesser, one of many aliases of the duo who were also Ellery Queen et al); "The Call of the Black Lagoon" (Charles L. Harness); "Agratha" (Glen Malin); "Checkmate Morning" (John Jakes); "One-Man God" (Frank Owen); and "The Short Count" (Theodore R. Cogswell). Outstanding illustrations by Everett Raymond Kinstler and others. A landmark of the genre, the first issue of two, in superior condition. LT71.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Hinges are a little tender due to massive size of this volume, but not separated. White cloth is dust soiled and there is slight fraying along bottom of spine and minor corner bumps. There are a few checkmarks in the section on theatres. NO missing or cut pages. This volume covers the 3D and widescreen era of the early 1950s and includes an article by Vera Berch Gunzburg on the history of 3D filmmaking. Also articles on 3D by Arch Oboler and Sol Lesser plus an unattributed article on Cinerama and one on CinemaScope by Spyros F. Skouras.

Softcover. 4to. 16 pp. in color pictorial wraps. With duo-tone photographs throughout. Uncommon item. **OCLC** list three [3] copies, one each at the new York Public Library, The trong Library, Rochester, NY and the Arab Public Library in Arab, AL. Near Fine with a tiny bit of handling. In fresh condition.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 136. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1934 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 136.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 84. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1958 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 84.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This 9-reel 1914 release was based on Beach's Alaska Gold Rush novel, set in Nome. Single sheet, folded to form 4 pages measuring 5.75 x 8' (some creases, tears and wear). Extremely rare (Worldcat records no copies). A single copy of another issue, from the Rose Theatre (Santa Rosa, Calif.), is known to survive. Pamphlet advertising screenings of the 1914 film 'The Spoilers' at Oakland's Macdonough Theatre. Includes images and synopsis.B/W Photographs.

Condition: Very good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY SOL LESSER - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover. The contents are bound into dark green plastic wrappers with cream plastic binders. The wraps are lightly rubbed. x, 102 & [1] mechanically reproduced typed pages, printed on one side only. A few front & rear pages are lightly bumped. Very good. "A Thesis Submitted to the Division of Cinema [of the University of Southern California] in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science in Film Education by Sol Lesser. April 1976".Presentation copy inscribed to Arthur Brin[?] on the front endpaper, signed in full by Sol Lesser and dated "June 3rd 1976".Sol Lesser [1890-1980] was a major American film producer and presenter. Lesser signed Jackie Coogan to a movie contract in 1922, making the hit films "Oliver Twist" and "Peck's Bad Boy" and establishing both Coogan and himself as major Hollywood names. He worked with such stars as Bela Lugosi, George O'Brien and Bobby Breen, produced the all-star revue "Stage Door Canteen" and most notably was responsible for a series of Tarzan films starring Johnny Weismuller, Lex Barker and Gordon Scott. Lesser won a 1951 Academy Award for "Kon Tiki". In 1960 he was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitatian Award.Laid in is a four-page leaflet recording "The Life and Times of Sol Lesser" on the occasion of an award to Lesser from the National Association of Theatre Owners.RARE.

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast;the lobby card is in fine condition.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (on second page and fifth page), August 7, 1940; also signed twice by Sol Lesser and M. Silverstone, General Manager of United Artists Corporation (on second page and fifth page); signed, with blindstamped seals of notary publics in both New York and Los Angeles. 8 1/2" x 11", 11 pages, stapled into a blue legal folder. Agreement between Lubitsch, Sol Lesser and United Artists Corporation for their distribution of films produced by Lubitsch and Lesser.