William Charles Root (16 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

HC. 52pp very good, black cloth spine, blue boards (hardcover). B&W frontis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated endpapers, unpaginated, b/w illustrations. Foxing to top edge. Light offset to endpapers else clean and bright. Clipped dustjacket slightly rubbed.(BH) 5/26.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 256 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm ; ISBN: 1555620183; 9781555620189; 1555620175 (pbk.); 9781555620172 (pbk.) LCCN: 87-5510 ; LC: PN1998.A2; Dewey: 812/.03/09 ; OCLC: 15251940 ; stiff photographic paper wrappers ; ex-library, stamps, label ; Contents: Charles Bennett -- A.I. Bezzerides -- Irving Brecher -- John Bright -- Philip Dunne -- William Ludwig -- Nat Perrin -- Allen Rivkin -- Wells Root -- Allan Scott -- Curt Siodmak -- Catherine Turney. ; "The unforgettable stories they tell range from the hilarious to the bitter, from tales of roistering with the Marx Brothers, drunken shootouts with John Huston, and practical joking with itchcock, to murderous run-ins with Al Capone and blacklisting by the right-wing witch hunters of the McCarthy era. Togetherm their remembrances give the reader a unique and thorough look at how the screen classics of their day were conceived and took their final shape.; VG. Book. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Afather.A son.One hundred days that changed everything.In the wake of unimaginable loss, a father turns to poetry and prayer to navigate the descent, the devastation, and the long, hard road through the valley of grief.Raw. Honest. Unfiltered.This is not a story of how grief is fixed.It is the story of how love endures.GOOD MOURNING, SONSHINESOON AND VERY SOON.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, ink stamp on front endpaper of fourth volume. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, endpapers of volume three a bit foxed with top corner of front free endpaper clipped, ink stamp on front endpaper of volume four with small spot on fore edge. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee. …

Hardcover. Condition: New.

The signatures of Sutcliffe and Woolley are on a 16 x 18 cm. piece of grey paper, cut from an album, those of the other three men are crowded onto an L-shaped piece of paper, laid down on the same leaf. At head of page: 'Yorkshire v. Rest of England, The Oval, Sept. 1923.' The odd man out is B. W. Bullock [ Burnett Wedlake Bullock ] (1896-1954), who did not take part in the match. He played for Surrey, and was presumably around when his more illustrious colleagues were giving autographs. According to the report in The Times, the match ended in a draw. …

Hardcover. Condition: Coll - U6 - Very Good. United Fruit Company, 1954. Title page date 1953. Book condition: Very Good. Vol. 1 has scuff marks to front board and a nick to head of the spine. All maps and errata present. Vol. 2 is Very Good Plus; gilt is crisp and bright on both, bindings solid, pages very clean. Slip case is Acceptible, scuffed and stained, with a 3 inch split to bottom board. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 44pp. Stapled wrappers. A touch of sunning at the extremities and a pencil mark on the front wrap, near fine. A literary magazine containing the first print appearance by Larry Eigner, an untitled poem ["In the blackout."], preceded only by his juvenilia. Other contributors include Robert Creeley, Gil Orlovitz, Kenneth L. Beaudoin, James Boyer May, Chris Bjerknes, William Rainer, Dell Skeels, Rick Barrom, Vincent Ferrini, Charles Edward Eaton, Frederick Eckman, Leslie Woolf Hedley, S.E. Moray, Harry Hooten, Richard Wirtz Emerson, Christopher Maclaine, Winston Collingwood, Gibson Paul, Dick Abee, Stephen Alfred, R.A. West, Len Root, Hank Rohert, Dwight Wilson, Walker Williams, and Gene Magner.…

Vintage program for the 1930 film. With the stamp of Beltonian Theatre in Belton, Texas on the verso of the final leaf, along with contemporary manuscript pencil annotations noting showings on two Saturdays in October. Based on the 1919 play by Langdon McCormick, about a love triangle between two adventurers and a woman who is stranded in their cabin during a blizzard. One of John Huston's first jobs in film, as a screenwriter and an extra. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus, with light wear and creasing.…

Vintage reference photograph of actress Lupe Vélez on the set of the 1930 film, wearing a fur coat and playfully posing with a large sno-cone made with director William Wyler's megaphone. Stamp of still photographer Bert Anderson on the verso, along with a printed mimeo snipe. Based on the 1919 play by Langdon McCormick, about a love triangle between two adventurers and a woman who is stranded in their cabin during a blizzard. 8 x 10 inches. Lightly faded on the edges, else Near Fine.…