Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1925
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Moderate soiling and wear to the red covers; pages are discolored with age; one loose illustration; a reading copy of an old novel. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 161907.
Published by Street & Smith, NY, 2025
Magazine / Periodical
Wraps. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. LXXVI. no. 3. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Remington Schuyler. Includes "The Sungazers" (novel) by Henry Herbert Knibbs; "As Tested by Timmett Breed" by Holman Day; "Storm Child" by Harwood Steele; "The Last of the Arenenos" by Ernest Douglas; "Cain" by Frederick F. Van de Water; "You Will Die Sitting Down" by Paul Suter; "All the King's Horses" (pt. 5 of 5) by Charles Neville Buck; "Popular Contest Winners"; "Some Busy Little Guy" by Patterson McNutt; "Tokio" (poem) by Berton Braley; "The Projection of Signor Penell" by Robert H. Rohde; "A Chat with You" (feature). Two losses to front cover (see scan); creasing; standard wear and tear at edges; tanning; some offset to cover from another cover. Magazine.
Published by Samuel French, New York, 1924
Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "Pigs" was produced in New York by John Golden at the "Little Theatre", where it opened September 1, 1924, and ran 312 performances until June, 1925. ; This copy comes from the Twentieth Century-Fox Research Library with its stamp to inside covers and to bottom of title page with a reference number neatly inked to top. Slight age-toning, otherwise Fine. No highlighting. No underlining. An excellent copy. ; Illustrated with four photographs and two drawings. ; 12mo; 87 pages.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. PIGS, Anne Morrison and Patterson McNutt, Samuel French Ltd., 1924, 91p, pb, bumped/scuffed covers, clean/tanning text, solid binding--40.00.
Published by T. J. Maloney, 1937
Seller: Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Upper cover detached. Slipcase torn, lower detached.
Published by T.J. Maloney, 1937
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Spiralbound, in pictorial slipcase.
Published by Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, Springfield, Ohio, 1949
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Lee, Robert J.; Varady, Fredric; Fleischmann, Glen;Sarnoff, Arthur; Darby, Eileen; Reilly, Frank; Darling, Gilbert; Sugarman,Tracy (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages Features: New Rebel Yell in Dixie - the roll of those who battle the South's determined opponents of progress; U.N. Is Doing a Job - author argues the U.N. isn't worthless; Democracy Can't Live in These Houses - the nation's slum problem - article with photos; Tales of Hoffman - play and movie critic - Irving Hoffman; Around the Young World; Indestructible Shortstop - Luke Appling; Culture-Crazy Colorado. Fiction: With Love and Best Wishes; The Iron Butterfly (part 2 of 4); Queen Size; Counterblow; Two Across; The Execution. Nice ads for these products: 'Jeep" Station Wagon; International Trucks; Studebaker Trucks - very colorful full-page ad showing 10 models; Chesterfield cigarettes - nice colour photos of Anne Baxter and Sam McLawhorn of Grifton, H.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, July 9, 1949 New Rebel Yell in Dixie - the roll of those who battle the South's determined opponents of progress; U.N. Is Doing a Job - author argues the U.N. isn't worthless; Democracy Can't Live in These Houses.
Published by T. J. Maloney, Inc, New York, 1937
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.".
Published by T.J. Maloney, Inc, New York, 1937
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by T.J. Maloney, New York, 1937
First Edition
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. 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, housed in a custom clamshell case and matching chemise. Book, slipcase, and chemise all Very Good pluswhich anyone who has before encountered this book knows to be extraordinary condition.
Published by T. J. Maloney, New York, NY, 1937
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED BY ARTIST CONNELL AND PUBLISHER MALONEY; also INCLUDES SIGNED PHOTO OF CONNELL IN SPECIALLY DESIGNED REAR PASTEDOWN HOLDER. First Ed, unstated. Fair: Shows heavy wear; upper three-quarters of backstrip has been removed and laid in ; otherwise the book is about Good, with moderate to heavy wear at corners-upper front corner especially shows fraying; cloth-covered boards show moderate soiling and some light sunning hear hinges; binding remains square and secure; text clean. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 4to. 106 pp. Limited Edition of 500 copies, of which this is No. 64. Printed on special gravure stock paper. The story first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and is here accompanied by Connell's humorous photographs. An irreverent, early look at Hollywood with text by some of the leading screenwriters of the day such as Nunnally Johnson and Gene Fowler. Beautiful, rich photogravures by Will Connell. Hardcover: Lacks slipcase. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR.