Miracle Bells, Signed (13 results)

Hardcover. Signed, inscribed and dated by author on front endpaper. Sixth printing. HC published in 1946. DJ is taped along spine and front, and worn and scraped along side edges. DJ is in acceptable condition. Covers have some scuffing and edgewear. Corners of covers are worn. Pages are tanned at top and along side edges. Not ex-library.; 7.80 X 5 X 0.60 inches; 497 pages.

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . No Dust Jacket Signed by author on front endpage. Reading Copy. Covers soiled. Page edges foxd and slightly dampstained. Bookplate on half title page. Slight tear to page 487, without loss of text. (immigrants, men, conduct of life, pennsylvania, motion picture actors and actresses ).

Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. This work is the classic story of the Miracle of the Bells The story begins as Hollywood press agent Bill Dunnigan, who works for a movie studio, arrives by train with the body of actress Olga Treskovna in her home town of "Coal Town," to honor her deathbed request to be buried there. He encounters hostility from the local funeral director who resents her because she never finished paying for her father's burial. This copy is clean and solid. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, flat signed on the FFEP. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed on free front end paper. A well read copy. Shelf wear and edging to dust jacket with a few small tears throughout. Foxing to dust jacket on spine (Discoloration). 1st ed/2nd printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Later Printing. **First edition, second printing. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. The hinges are broken. The netting is showing in the back inner gutter. There are several cracks in the spine throughout the book. Binding is still tight and pages are secure. Dust jacket has heavy wear, chipping, tears, missing pieces, and soiling. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The dust jacket is light blue and white, with an illustration of an old town with bells. Chipping to ends and corners. Rubbing along spine, edges. Price clipped. Blue hardboards, gold lettering on spine. Rubbing to ends and corners. Clean pages. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cirlin (illustrator). 1st Edition. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1946. First edition, first printing. 1946 date printed to the title page, $3.00 to the jacket's flap, no printing promotions to the rear panel. SIGNED to the front end-paper by Janney, a veteran film and theater press agent and producer, who in this debut novel draws on his own experiences and bases character Olga Treskoff on the real actress he knew. Adapted to the 1948 Irving Pichel directed film starring Alida Valli, Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra. An inspirational novel of an actress from Pennsylvania who dies from coal dust after playing Joan of Arc in a film production, and a man who unspokenly loves her, arranges for all church bells in her home coal town to ring for four days, with miracle results. A vintage SIGNED first printing, film association collectible. Age-toning to the inner hinge area and end-papers as usual, a touch of rubbing to the lower spine edge and corner tips, a few minor small soil spots to the rear cover and spine, else square, firm and very good in blue linen with gilt embossed titles and bells to the spine; in a first printing, about very good dust jacket with evocative art by Cirlin, with tears and rubs to the edges, chips to the upper and lower spine edges, age-toning and an upper edge chip to the rear panel, a small stain drop and age-toning to the spine panel; a small tan round shadow to the upper corner of the front inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after scanning for this entry. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This edition limited to 1000 copies. Signed by author. Journalist's account of his arduous travels in wartime Asia. Inspired by the ordeals of his journey, he studied for and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1952. 220 pages. Strong binding. A front page seems to have been clipped at the top. Some slight yellowing of page edges. Some wear on corners, edges of spine and covers. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Second printing on jacket. A signed, well read copy. Blue cloth very deteriorated, worn at spine ends. The jacket is foxed, mostly on the spine, stamped " Mennonite Home ." on endpaper above authors signature. Basis for the wonderful movie of the same title. Signed by the author. Poor condition but signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 497pp. Very good/poor. Text block is tight and bright, with front/rear boards nice but spine quite sunned; later state jacket is rubbed and edgeworn and bears chips galore (ca. 3" paper loss at spine head), with numerous old mends on verso -- yet despite many flaws its fetching front panel illustration makes it appealing in a homely way. Tight and decent first edition of this bestseller so popular that by 1948 the Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra film version was released. On the front flyleaf, the author signs huge and bold in blue ballpoint in the year of publication: "Russell Janney / Oct 11th 1946 / Washington D.C." Married up with a fourth state dust jacket. Janney (1884-1963) was a theatrical produced who penned a few titles. "Miracle of the Bells" was his first novel, which the jacket front panel describes as "a joyous novel about the four days when the church bells rang day and night in a small Pennsylvania town. It is an astounding chronicle of the transformation of a mining community from spiritual poverty yo gladness and brotherhood.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., 497pp. Sharp First Edition with no other printings listed as called for. Beautiful story made into the 1948 film starring Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra. Bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout save bookplate on the front paste-down. Mild wear to spine ends, edges and tips. Very pretty unclipped dust-jacket, ($3.00), has wear to edges and extremities. Several small, closed tears with adjacent creases. Still fresh and bright. Signed boldly by the author on the front end-paper. A solid collectable copy at a great price. Signed by Author(s).

497 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition; presentation copy. Very good; in a price-clipped jacket with a closed tear mended with tape on verso and some light use at extremities. With a full page inscription signed by Russell Janney, Los Angeles, Nov. 7th 1946: "I hope you also like my little story of brotherhood." This best-selling novel ws the basis for the 1948 film starring Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine copy in like jacket.$3.00 on flap.Large Author Signature.Quite Rare.Excellent Copy. Signed by Author(s).