Minna Powell (3 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A VGF or better 5 1/8" x 8 1/8" card that contains scenes from the film on the front along with film credits, synopsis and a behind the scenes story on the reverse side. These cards were part of a subscription series from Images et Loisirs. They were never available as a retail set; the only way to acquire the cards was through subscription with the company. Printed in France, the English version of these cards are extremely scarce. The French version (know as Mr. Cinema) are also highly collectible. Book.

12mo. 122 pp. Photo frontisp., decorated title page, numerous plates. Gray publisher's cloth, decorated and lettered in blue, blue ruling (slight bumping to lower corners), still NF copy, inscribed by Minna K. Powell to Marion Talley (1906-1983), noted American opera singer. First edition, signed, of this scarce title on exercise and diet for women, ghostwritten for Blair (b. 1863) by her sister, Minna K. Powell, music editor in Kansas City, MO at the time. In 1918, Blair who had been a successful home economics teacher, and instructor in sewing, began suffering serious debilitating disease, and decided to recuperate using diet and exercise. Eventually she began giving lectures, and performing stunts demonstrating her good health, such as when at age 70 she performed by walking on the ledge of the roof of the Waldorf Hotel in New York. Minna K. Powell who was her younger sister, as well as music editor for the Kansas City Star, was friend and one of the biggest proponents and boosters for Marion Talley's opera career.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Limited/Numbered. Small 4to (9-1/2 X 8-3/8"), bound in printed paste paper covered boards, tan paper spine. Printed on watermarked Japan paper. Unpaginated (50 pp), illustrated with frontispiece photograph portrait of Birger Sandzen + 20 b&w lithographic reproductions, printed one per page & titled opposite. #115/120 copies with the original woodcut Toward Evening (Greenough block prints 46, p.23, 1922) 5-1/16 X 6-7/8" bound-in, signed and titled in pencil by Sandzen. VG+ condition (minor wear to heel of spine; hinges starting but holding; clean & tight throughout). RARE.