Phone Booth, Signed (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Like New. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by AUTHOR "Richard, you are the most talented man I have ever known. I love you" - Looks almost new, tight and solid. Very clean with no markings or writing. 100% Money Back Guarantee on all Items. We believe in providing accurate grading on used books and excellent customer service. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. When cellular telephones arrive on the scene, a once-popular Manhattan phone booth becomes shabby and lonely until a power outage reminds everyone of how useful it can be. Illustrated by Max Dalton. Measures approximately 10.25 x 8.25 inches. Dust jacket has light edge wear and a tiny puncture on the back spine. Not price-clipped. Boards are near fine with minimal wear. Spine is tight and square. Pages are clean and crisp. Inscribed For Cyrus, Come and make a phone call! Peter Ackerman. Light to minor wear. Very good to excellent condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First printing, trade paperback, inscribed by Daniels with gratitude on the half title page, with numerous related pieces of promotional ephemera laid in, including an additionally signed Certificate of Authenticity. The book has a mild skew to the binding, a shallow wave to the book block with thin stops where the additional materials were laid, as well as bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, rubbing to the covers, and small spots of soiling to the edges of the text block that do not affect any page faces. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy.

Framing: Unframed An original photo measuring approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches in good condition with some indiscreet indentions and scratches. Thanks for looking.Midwives Madame LeGros and Madame LeBelle opened their own souvenir and dining stand.The Dionne quintuplets A Depressionera freak showNovember 19, 1997But their story is tragic their lives a circus.The five sisters, Annette, Cecile, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie, were born from a single egg in 1934. The public seemed to adore them. But, they were abused both by the world and, they claim, by their father.As babies, the quints were taken from their parents by the Ontario government and made wards of the state. Although their health was fine, they lived at a hospital that became a tourist mecca called Quintland.Between 1934 and 1943, about 3 million people visited Quintland, a low, modern building with a garden and a high fence near the village of Corbeil, in Northern Ontario.The government and nearby businesses made an estimated halfbillion dollars off the tourists. The sisters were the nations biggest tourist attraction bigger than Niagara Falls.It wasnt humanBorn May 28, 1934, to poor, Frenchspeaking, Catholic parents, the Dionne quints were at least two months premature, and together they weighed less than 14 pounds. Each of the babies could be held in an adult palm.They were put by an open stove to keep warm, and mothers from surrounding villages brought breast milk for them. Against all expectations, they survived their first weeks.To protect the infants from germs, kidnappers and a father known to have considered exhibiting them for money, they were taken from their family and placed under the governments guardianship. A hospital was built across the road from their familys farmhouse for their exclusive use.The hospital became Quintland and the sisters home for years after. Their parents, made unwelcome, became irregular visitors.Film footage of the young quintuplets shows five pretty girls with dark hair and dark eyes and a crush of tourists waiting in line to see them.It wasnt human, Cecile Dionne told The London Independent in a 1995 interview. It was a circus.In the early days, nurses would take the quints to a nursery balcony and show them, one at a time, to the crowds below. Later, they were viewed three times a day from a gauzecovered corridor. We saw moving. We heard sounds, said Cecile.The quints were studied by scientists, who Xrayed them, catalogued episodes of anger and fear, and recorded things such as food intake and incidents of dissent.Cecile said she learned the word doctor before she learned mother.After nine years and a bitter custody fight, the girls moved back with their parents and their other siblings. They lived at home until they were 18, after which they broke off almost all contact with their parents. In a later book the sisters claimed their father sexually abused them, though they later disputed the allegations of abuse.Two of them, Emilie and Marie, died as young women, one from a seizure and one from a stroke.Now 63 in poor health and with limited financial resources the surviving sisters are negotiating with the Ontario government for their share of some of the profits made at Quintland more than half a century ago.On Jun-12-11 at 15:55:25 PDT, seller added the following information: Sellers: Delight buyers. Get your own map of past buyers. Region of Origin: US Size Type: Small (Up to 7") Color: Color Photo Type: Polaroid.