viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1933

FORESTER, C. S.
        The Gun.
      Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1933 - Octavo. Original buff boards, titles to upper board and spine in blue, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. A very nice copy in the very lightly chipped dust jacket. First US edition, first printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the first blank leaf, "J.B. from C. S. Forester". [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

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Eugene O'Neill
        Already the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Eugene O?Neill, who had sent 28-year-old John O?Hara an inscribed copy of ?Strange Interlude,? thanks the future novelist for his book of sonnets
      "Autograph Letter Signed ?Eugene O?Neill,? one page, 5.75? x 7.75?. Casa Genotta, Sea Island, Georgia stationery, October 26, 1933. To [John] O?Hara. Toned at upper and left edges and at vertical fold. Mounting remnant on verso at right edge. Fine condition.In full, ?Don?t thank me for the inscribing of ?Strange Interlude?. I was only too pleased that you wished to have it. And the gift of your book of splendid sonnets gives me all the best of the exchange! All good wishes to you!?Eugene O?Neill?s ?Strange Interlude? won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He also won the Pulitzer for ?Beyond the Horizon? (1920), ?Anna Christie? (1922), and ?Long Day?s Journey Into Night? (1957). In 1936, O?Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature.John O?Hara (1905-1970) began writing short stories in the late 1920s. Over 200 of them appeared in ?The New Yorker.? He published his first novel, ?Appointment in Samarra,? in 1934, after O?Neill wrote this letter. His later books include ?Butterfield 8? (1935) and ?Pal Joey? (1939). Although mostly known for his novels and short stories, O?Hara published ?Pagan Sonnet? in 1923 when he was 18. This is almost certainly the book he sent to Eugene O?Neill."

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Mainwaring, Daniel
        ONE AGAINST THE EARTH
      Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York 1933 - Octavo, cloth. Inscribed presentation copy. "To--/because he is one of us./Dan Mainwaring." Author's first novel. He wrote a series of mysteries under the Geoffrey Homes pseudonym. He later became a Hollywood screenwriter. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket, some light rubbing and soiling, shelf wear to head of spine panel. Small stain to lower front panel. A scarce book signed. (7371) [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Collier, John.
        TOM'S A-COLD .
      London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933 - Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-320, original green cloth, black paper label stamped in gold affixed at head of spine panel, "Macmillan" imprint stamped in gold at tail of spine panel. First edition. Issued later in the U.S. as FULL CIRCLE (1933). ". a mordant story of civilization in a society struggling to rebuild after a catastrophic war. Set in England, this book set the tone for countless post-atomic holocaust stories . Well written and literate, it still retains great interest." - Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-13. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-23 and (2004) II-271. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 175. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 63. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 35. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516- 1985, p. 197. Bleiler (1978), p. 46. Reginald 03192. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light shelf wear at head and tail of spine panel, several minor restorations with colored inks (some bleed through on inner surface), light age-darkening, mostly to spine panel, and clipped price. Much more attractive than it sounds. (#21969) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Flack, Marjorie
        The Story About Ping
      New York, New York: Viking Press, 1933 First Edition, First Printing, in the original first state dust jacket with the proper price of $1.00 intact and all the information printed on the flaps to determine an original issue. The blue pictorial cover boards, with black cloth spine, are clean with little wear. Dust jacket has no tears or stains, intact, in mylar sleeve. Interior pages are clean and unmarked with slight age toning to margins that does not impinge on text or lithographic illustrations. Binding is square and solid. Unpaginated (32 pages). A scarce copy of this classic and much loved Caldecott award winning children's book, in the even scarcer dust jacket.The author gives us the story of Ping, the duck, who gets left behind accidentally when his family sails away on their boat on the Yangtze River. The Story About Ping was one of the first times that a children's picture book had the text written by one person with illustrations by another, according to Bader (American Picturebooks). This is an exceptional copy of a children's classic, appropriate for kids three years and up.

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Crevel, René
        Les Pieds dans le plat
      Paris: Éditions Du Sagitaire. État d'usage. Exemplaire jauni. Couverture défraichie et a moitier débroché protégée avec jaquette protective en plastique transparente. Intérieur très propre. Dédicacé sur page de faut titre par l'auteur"Au Professeur Otto Rank Sincére Hommage. René Crevel". / First edition of this late classic of the surrealist period, a politically and sexually charged novel written two years before Crevel committed suicide. A wonderful association copy, inscribed by the author to Otto Rank, the Austrian psychologist and philosopher, "Au Professeur Otto Rank Sincére Hommage. René Crevel". Spine with faded water stains and small tears around the edges, endpapers brittle, front free endpaper detached all in all a quite presentable copy of this title usually found in much worse condition. . Paris, Éditions Du Sagitaire, 1933. 19 x 12 cm. 358 Pages. Broché. État d'usage. Exemplaire jauni. Couverture défraichie et a moitier débroché protégée avec jaquette protective en plastique transparente. Intérieur très propre. Dédicacé sur page de faut titre par l'auteur"Au Professeur Otto Rank Sincére Hommage. René Crevel". / First edition of this late classic of the surrealist period, a politically and sexually charged novel written two years before Crevel committed suicide. A wonderful association copy, inscribed by the author to Otto Rank, the Austrian psychologist and philosopher, "Au Professeur Otto Rank Sincére Hommage. René Crevel". Spine with faded water stains and small tears around the edges, endpapers brittle, front free endpaper detached all in all a quite presentable copy of this title usually found in much worse condition. René Crevel, né le 10 août 1900 à Paris où il est mort le 18 juin 1935, était un écrivain et poète surréaliste français tout en conservant son libre arbitre et son esprit critique. Ses œuvres : 1924 : Détours 1925 : Mon Corps et moi 1926 : La Mort difficile 1927 : Babylone 1928 : L'Esprit contre la raison 1929 : Êtes-vous fous ? 1933 : Les Pieds dans le plat 1934 : Le Roman cassé et derniers écrits, 1934-1935.

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JENSEN, JOHANNES V. - JOHANSEN, FRITS og AAGE MARCUS:
        Johannes V. Jensen. En Bibliografi.
      . Kbhvn. 1933. Med portraetter. 164 s. Oplag 750 eksemplarer. Velholdt eksemplar indbundet med de orig. omslag og guldsnit foroven i smukt privat halvlaeder med guldtryk pa ryggen. Bindet signeret Karen-Aase Cavling. * Daekker perioden til og med 1932, yderligere udkom bind 2 1951..

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Heningway, Ernest
        Winner Take Nothing
      Charles Scribner, New York 1933 - Smooth black cloth book withgold paper labels.This First Edition has the Scribners A on the copyright page . The near Fine book has very minimal wear with clean pages and tight binding. The gold labels are still bright. The fine unclipped dust jacket has benefited from a professional restoration by an expert paper conservationist. The jacket is beautiful. Overall avery nice collectible copy of this early Hemingway novel. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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SPENDER, Stephen
        Poems
      London: Faber & Faber. (1933). First. First edition. Octavo. Cloth. Endpapers foxed, cloth professionally and nearly invisibly repaired at the front joint, light chipping at the spine ends, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Spender to his uncle, a political writer who had considerable influence on the poet: "For J.H. Spender with best love from Stephen." The poet's first regularly published book. A splendid association copy. .

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Elliott, Virginia
        Quiet Drinking: A Book of Beers, Wines and Cocktails and What to Serve them with
      Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933: First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket. Light scuffing to blue ink on front board, slight darkening to spine cloth. Bookplate from previous owner to front paste down. The jacket shows edge wear, with darkening to the spine, chipping to the top of the spine, and a larger chip to the top corner of the front panel. The dust jacket was folded and stored inside the book, leaving vertical creases to the spine, front and rear panels. A rather lovely copy, presents well. Rare in dust jacket.

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        Umberto Boccioni.: Numero speciale di: Dinamo futurista. - Rovereto. - A.1, n.3/4/5 (giu. 1933).
      Rovereto. 1933 - Sopra al titolo si legge: "Mensile illustrato diretto da Depero sotto lalto patronato di S.E. Marinetti". La pubblicazione contiene 11 fotografie fuori testo, su carta patinata, delle opere del pittore, nel testo interventi di: F. Depero, F.T. Marinetti, P. Buzzi, L. Russolo, L. Folgore, U. Boccioni, U. Notari, M. Bontempelli e R. Simoni. Impaginazione del testo in pieno stile futurista con motivi e titoli in arancione. Bello e raro. A richiesta ulteriori fotografie. Formato: [4], 20, [1] p., [8] c. di tav., 35 cm, bross. Buono, strappo alla coperta, visibile in scansione, senza perdite. Altro danno minore tra le lettere U e B, come di oggetto a punta, visibile anche nelle due pagine sottostanti. Non è mai stato piegato.

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Harbord, General James G
        Original Typescript of AMERICA IN THE WORLD WAR
      n.p., 1933 - A lecture at the Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation, May 26, 1932. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "This final copy, in the rough, of my Memorial address at the Milton Academy, delivered on May 26, 1932, is inscribed to my friend Leroy M. Norr, to whom my obligations for wise counsel, in more than one field, are great. J.G. Harbord Major General, USA, Retired New York City, July 28, 1932." General Harbord served as Chief of Staff to Pershing, as commander of the Marine Brigade at Chëteau Thierry, as Commander of the Second Division in the Soissons Offensive, and as commander of the Service of Supply. "In this book he presents a concise and brilliant summary of America's part in the conflict, including a spirited description of the battles in which we participated, and sums up the lessons that the War taught us." - dust jacket blurb 4to. With numerous deletions and corrections. 64pp. Bound in three quarter blue morocco. Front board detached [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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BYRD, Richard Evelyn (1888 - 1957)
        Framed Typed Letter Signed about an expedition to the South Polar region
      Boston, 1933. unbound. 1 page, 10.75 x 8.25 inches, Boston, September 23, 1933. In this letter, Byrd solicits funds from a New York firm for his upcoming South Pole expedition, in part: "...You helped make my last expedition possible...In that connection, thanks to our geographers, some superb maps of hitherto unknown areas have been made. Five scientific books are in the process of completion, covering Geology, Geography, Glaciology, Oceanography, Meteorology, Magnetism, Biology and Radio...Would you this time be willing to supply me with some Eskimo Parkas (or coats) which would, of course, help insure the safety of some of my crew. The cost of these parkas are $75.00 each. If you are not able to do this, could you supply a sleeping bag at $50.00, or a pair of Eskimo boots at a cost of $10.00..." Signed "RE Byrd." Double-matted in brown and white with a 6.5 x 4.5-inch photo of Byrd in his military uniform, looking to the side. Set in brown and gold wooden frame measuring 20.5 x 23.5 inches. Slight tearing in the margins of the letter, but still in very good condition.

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HÉMON, Louis. (GAGNON, Clarence, ill.).
        Maria Chapdelaine. Illustrations de Clarence Gagnon.
      Paris: Editions Mornay, 1933 - Tirage limité à 2080 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci sur Rives à la forme (n°1167), petit in-4; [iv: faux-titre, justification, page de titre illustrée], 205p., [1p.]; 54 illustrations en couleur de Clarence Gagnon. Broché, couvertures rempliées illustrées, non rogné. Bel exemplaire. Louis Hémon, né à Brest en 1880, écrivit au Québec ce roman directement inspiré d'un séjour dans la région de Péribonka, avant sa mort accidentelle au Canada en 1912. Mise en chantier en janvier 1929, annoncée pour parution courant 1931, cette édition illustrée ne parut qu'en 1933. Trois années furent en effet nécessaires au peintre québécois Clarence Gagnon pour achever la composition des 54 superbes illustrations de ce chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature canadienne. Après des études à Paris, Clarence Gagnon, qui de retour au Canada en 1909 se consacra à la peinture des paysages et des gens du Québec, fournit dans cet ouvrage un exemple admirable de ses compositions claires et animées. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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HURST, Fannie
        Imitation of Life
      New York: Harper & Brothers. 1933. First. First edition. Fine in red cloth boards with especially fresh paper labels on the spine and front board in very good dust jacket with a few scattered spot on the front wrap, some sunning to the spine, and light wear at the edges with a few nicks. A novel about two single mothers, one white and one black, who create a successful restaurant franchise but through their daughters suffer at the hands racial prejudice and tragic choices. The novel was filmed twice, first in 1934 with Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers and again in 1959 with Lana Turner and Juanita Moore. The first film was nomination for Best Picture and named to the National Film Registry in 2005, while the Douglas Sirk remake is now considered a classic of 1950s cinema and one of the German director's masterpieces. Hurst, while popular in her day, has largely been forgotten, despite her championing of women's rights and racial equality, particularly during the Harlem Renaissance and through her friendship with Zora Neale Hurston. A remarkably scarce title and particularly so in jacket. .

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[China] Kwok, K. W
        The Splendours of Historic Nanking: Eighty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of Ancient and Modern Nanking
      Shanghai:: Kelly & Walsh,. 1933.. Hardcover. Good + overall. A scarce work with many b&w photographic plates taken of the then Chinese capital, before the massive destruction wrought by the Japanese troops in the rape of Nanking (Nanking Massacre) of 1937. Striking photographs of landscapes, temples, tombs (Ming Tombs and others), lakes, terraces, towers, the Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, caves, statues of Buddha and pagodas. Tall 8vo, [15] pp, [80] leaves of plates. Text in English and Chinese. Yellow gilt patterned traditional binding, with gilt title in English and Chinese at front board. Silk binding cord & binding loose, damp mark at front board. Internally, very good. OCLC: 3832961.

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BUTTS, MARY
        Ashe of Rings
      London: Whishart & Co. , 1933. Revised English edition, preceded by the Contact edition. Some discolouration to cloth along edges, spine slightly cocked, foxing to outside edges of pages; former owner's signature and date to front pastedown. Dust-jacket browning slightly with spine darkened and some foxing to edge rear flap; 4 cm closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, some paper loss at head and heel of spine and corners; light scratch to rear and overall light dust soil.. First English Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

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JONAS, Lucien
        Les internes de 1932 - 1933
      Compagnie des Eaux de Pougues, Laboratoire des Produits Scientia, Presses de Marcel Seheur 1933 - Un des 300 exemplaires numérotés, 1 vol. in-4 rel. pleine toile illustrée, Compagnie des Eaux de Pougues, Laboratoire des Produits Scientia, Presses de Marcel Seheur, 1933, XXX pp. Rare et étonnant recueil, illustré en couverture dans le plus pur style carabin, présentant les portraits, dessinés par Lucien Jonas, de lintégralité des internes parisiens (présentés par hôpital) de la période 1932 - 1933. On reconnaît notamment Jean Bernard à Cochin et Jean Hamburger à Saint Antoine. Etat très satisfaisant (reliure un peu faible et lég. frottée) pour cet étonnant trombinoscope. Rare. Langue: Français [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Cadík, Jindrich; J. Drahhonovsky;
        Dílo Josefa Drahhonovsky [SIGNED BY ARTIST]
      Vladimir Zikes, Praha 1933 - 1/500. 4to. 310,[4]pp. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Rare publication on the work and life of Josefa Drahhonovsky, who was the outstanding figure in glass art in the 20th century. He specialized in glass sculpture and his designs, many of them engraved in exquisite detail, are unequaled to this day. Includes full-page photographic reproduction in duo tone of Drahhonovsky at work, signed by him below image in blue ink. Illustrated with 64 full-page photographic reproductions in duo tone of the artists work. Decorative initials throughout. Plates with captions in Czech, French, English, and German. Main text in Czech. Foreword by Jean Babelon in French and Czech. Printed on letterpress. Minor rubbing to parts of leather and corners. Tight copy with binding in very good, interior in fine condition. Scarce. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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STEINBECK, John
        To A God Unknown
      New York, Covici-Friede,, 1933 [1935]. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, titles and box design to spine gilt, raised bands, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine copy. First Edition, second issue with cancel title, one of 900 copies issued thus in the wake of the success of his subsequent novel, Tortilla Flat.

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William Butler Yeats
        1933 THE WINDING STAIR W.B. YEATS 1ST EDITION ORIGINAL DUST JACKET & OTHER POEMS VERY RARE $$
      THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS1933; William Butler Yeats; First English Edition; London, Macmillan and Co.; Original Dust Jacket; 101 Pages; w5.5"xh7.8"; Very Rare!!!Great For any Fan of the Famous Author or Collector. Great Gift Idea; I believe one of only 2,000 Copies Produced!!Attributes:Comes with the Very Rare Original Paper Dust Jacket in grey/green pictorial to front/spine (price clipped), over a nice original green cloth cover design with pretty matching stamped front and ornate gold binding, and some Great Poetical Classics from the Famed Poet; Errata tipped in pg.85!!!Some Contents Included:DEATH, BLOOD AND THE MOON, SYMBOLS, SPILT MILK, SEVEN SAGES, COOLE PARK, THE CHOICE, MOHINI CHATTERJEE, VERONICA'S NAPKIN, TOM THE LUNATIC, MOTHER OF GOD, RESULTS OF THOUGHT, WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS, LULLABY, A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD, ETC.!!!Background: William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 ?" 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was a very good friend of American expatriate poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for Tagore's Gitanjali, which was about to be published by the India Society.Condition:Condition is Very Good/Excellent. Small wear to edges of jacket, faint spotting to lower back of jacket, pages/hinges/text block are very good/excellent for over 80 years old!!!

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STARRETT, VINCENT
        THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
      New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933., 1933. First edition. Near fine in dust jacket, lightly darkened on the spine. Within the pages of this book, Starrett attempts to expound upon information about which Holmes and Watson were somewhat closed-mouthed. He attempts to answer questions about the origin of Holmes, his methods, his daily life, etc., that Watson, with his preoccupation with deductive reasoning and notoriously bad memory, often forgot to explain.

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Keene, Carolyn
        The Password to Larkspur Lane
      Grosset & Dunlap 1933 - First edition. A true first printing in a first printing dust jacket of one of the rarer Nancy Drew first editions. Matches all points of 1933A-1 in Farah's Guide, including the unusual copyright information on the copyright page. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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RABELAIS François.JEANJEAN Marcel.
        Oeuvres, précédées de Rabelais, sa vie, son oeuvre.
      Union Latine Editions, Paris 1933 - 5 volumes petit in-4 ( 230x175 mm ). Demi chagrin bordeaux à coins, dos à 4 nerfs se prolongeant sur les plats par des filets à froid, titre doré, tête dorée.Avec les étuis cartonnés recouverts de papier cuve marbré.Nombreuses compositions originales à pleine page vivement coloriées au pochoir et vignettes dans le texte tirées en bistre de Marcel JEANJEAN.Avec des reproductions en fac similé de documents de l'époque dans le tome I.Edition en vieux français et adaptation en français moderne par Raoul Mortier.Exemplaire numéroté sur vergé chiffon.- Tome I. 349 pages. 1494( ? ) - 1553. Rabelais sa vie son oeuvre. Gargantua. - Tome II. 284 pages. Pantagruel.- Tome III. 415 pages. Le Tiers Livre.- Tome IV. 464 pages. Le Quart Livre.- Tome V. 394 pages. Le Cinquiesme et dernier Livre.Bel exemplaire modernes. Oeuvres. Illustrés

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Van Vechten, Carl
        Portrait photograph of Jascha Heifetz
      New York, 3 april, 1933. (HEIFETZ, JASCHA) Variant of the portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. 35 x 27.7 cm. (approximately 13-5/8 x 10-7/8 inches). Half-length portrait. Gelatin silver print. Fine. Docketed in ink on verso, giving the name of the sitter, the date of the session, and a reference to negative and print ("XIV - c - 3")

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MARX, "Harpo" (1893-1964)
        Autograph Letter Signed
      Silent member of the legendary Marx Brothers comedy team, whose films include "Duck Soup" (1933) and "A Night at the Opera" (1935). Autograph Letter Signed ("Harpo"), 1p, 7Â¼" X 10Â½", Cathedral City, CA, n.y. [probably summer 1961]. Addressed to Don (Woolf). Near fine. In this rare example of a Harpo ALS, written on "El Rancho Harpo" letterhead, Harpo writes to an executive with a greeting card publisher, California Artists, which published a series of Christmas cards featuring artwork by movie stars. "Here is my Xmas painting," he writes. "Hope it is not too late for your market. If you use it I would like to send them out as my own personal cards also." Harpo had long been interested in civil rights and the African-American cause, so the closing of this letter is quite appropo: "Would like to stick to my original choice of N.A.A.C.P. to receive royalties, if any." Full letters in Harpo's hand are quite scarce, and one with choice, unusual content such as this doubly so. Accompanied by a modern matte finish printed 8" X 10" photograph depicting the four Marx Brothers at the height of their fame.

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O'NEILL, Eugene (New York, 1888 - Boston, 1953)
        Ah, Wilderness!
      New York: Random House, 1933. Edizione originale di 325 es. numerati e firmati. ril in piena pekke con tasseli al dorso (Full blue leather with red and white title panels binding). Molto buono (Very Good). 8vo. Esemplare N. 55 Dorso con lievi abrasioni (Minor damage to spine) [Galati, 1980]

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Wodehouse, P G
        Heavy Weather
      London Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1933. VG: in very good condition with heavily rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Cover slightly faded. Some bumping. Previous owner inscription to fep (1933). Prelims and page edges lightly foxed First Edition Blue hardback cloth cover 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 311pp + ads. Later jacket priced at 5/- (1940).

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