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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here is "The Same Man : George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War", by David Lebedoff. It is the 2008 First Edition hardcover, published by Random House in New York. The physical book is now Out of Print. Excerpted from the jacket write-up : |> One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important book reveals, at the heart of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were essentially the same man. |> Orwell is best known for "Animal Farm" and "1984"; Waugh for "Brideshead Revisited" and comic novels like "Scoop" and "Vile Bodies". However different they may seem, these two towering figures of twentieth century literature are linked for the first time in this engaging and unconventional biography. The book goes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core of their beliefs -- a shared vision that was startlingly prescient about our own troubled times.<| TITLE : The Same Man : George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War AUTHOR : David Lebedoff SUBJECTS : George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh IMPRINT : Random House PLACE : New York DATE : (2008) EDITION : First Edition STATUS : Physical Format OP. Only available from the publisher as a PDF (Kindle) DETAILS : Trade hardcover; approx. 5 3/8" x 8 1/4"; quarter-bound, black paper-covered spine and bright pale blue, paper-covered boards; silver -gilt lettering, etc. on spine; 32 photographs are gathered together in a discrete section; ha a frontispiece collage of two photographs (of Orwell and Waugh); contains a Prologue and an Epilogue, has 2 Appendixes, a list of Works, a Bibliography, Notes, and Index, Photo-Credits; [xvi] + [267] pages; photo-pictorial dust-jacket has photo of author on rear flap; front flap still has original printed 2008 price. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD --- JACKET : VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR -- Slight compression to top spine extremity, else cover is clean and attractive, with crisp corner tips; text-block edges are clean and unmarked. BINDING -- There is a slight lean to the front, else binding is solid. INTERIOR -- there is a gift inscription written in thin marker (see picture) else the interior is clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET -- Wrinkling and slight crimping to top spine panel extremity; a small tear and a couple of instances of edge creasing (or crimping) to jacket edges; a small blue ink mark appears on the front panel (hardly egregious); a small tear is at the top of the front flap; else the jacket is clean and presentable. Illustrated by Photographs (ilustrador). …

hardcover. Condición: VeryGood. Former library copy, may have usual markings. Includes clear protective plastic cover on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Good condition. Dust jacket shelf wear. Clean inside.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BUSTER KEATON, ALFRED HITCHCOCK, LORETTA YOUNG, JEAN HARLOW AND MORE.

VG in lightly creased orig. red on white wrapper. A Doubleday Anchor original. x, [1], 463 p.; 18 cm. (Modern studies in philosophy ; AP 6). Binding is Paperbound.

Hardcover. dj. Limited edition, 1055 copies. Quarto, 203 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is pink and red with black print. Dust jacket in mylar. Boards in red cloth, gold print.Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portraits, photographs. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QB (ND-QB). 1416291. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. ***Please Read*** 1st printing - dj is poor has wear around the edges - mylar cover over the dj - pages are turning a light tan - No marks on text - My shelf location 41-c-35.

Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 211 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is orange with white print. Boards in black cloth. Illustrated: 1 b&w plate (portrait). Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1396097. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. B&W PHOTO ILL.

Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 317 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is tan with gold print. Boards in tan cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates (photographs). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K (ND-K). 1415496. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm ISBN 9780847818112, 084781811X OCLC 30109492 LCCN 94014245 LC NA7615.B54 B79 1994 Dewey 728.8/09756/88 ; grey cloth in color photographic dust jacket ; "The Octagon, the museum of the American Architectural Foundation." ; Produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the Octagon, the museum of the American Architectural Foundation. ; In the late 1880s, two supreme talentsarchitect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstedwere brought together by the Vanderbilt fortune. The result was the magnificent Biltmore Estate, explored here in archival and new color photography, sketches, and construction photos that document the entire design, development, and construction. ; "The most distinguished private place" - that is how, in 1893, the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described Biltmore Estate, perhaps the most ambitious private building project of America's Gilded Age. It was only five years earlier that George Washington Vanderbilt purchased the first parcel of what would become his 125,000-acre estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Along with Olmsted, he commissioned the preeminent architect of the day, Richard Morris Hunt, to design the estate. The house, modeled in part on the chateaux of the Loire Valley, has become one of the greatest and most important in American architectural history. Its 255 rooms, with spectacular and finely crafted interiors, opulent furnishings (some designed by Hunt), and furniture and decorative arts objects collected by Vanderbilt from all corners of the world, have made it a rich national treasure. The estate served as the cradle of the profession of forestry in America. With Olmsted's advice and expertise, it became the first working model of a scientifically managed forest and played a critical role in the creation of our national parks. This meticulously researched book accompanies an exhibition organized by The Octagon, the Museum of the American Architectural Foundation; it chronicles Biltmore from inception, development, and construction through its Christmas 1895 opening celebrations, and into the present. Original architectural drawings, sketches, plans, presentation drawings, nineteenth-century photographs, and vibrant new color photography complete this portrait of a great landmark. Today Biltmore Estate belongs to George Washington Vanderbilt's descendants, who have opened the house to the public and have made it one of the most visited in America. ; a few nicks on dustjacket ; FINE/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 340 pages. Published in 2007. Book-length account on subject. One of the most valuable books on American music and culture ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by Random House as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Wilfrid Sheed's "The House That George Built: With A Little Help From Irving, Cole, And A Crew of About Fifty". The Golden Age of American music, not just American Song. Preceded only by Irving Berlin, George more or less created and solidified the House, along with an astonishing gathering of musical genuises, a "high-point" feat never to be repeated in American history. Which "embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. A dazzling, authoritative history of the era that tripled the world's total supply of singable tunes. It all began when immigrants in New York's Lower East Side heard Black jazz and blues, and it surged into an artistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Half a century later, Gershwin love songs like 'Someone To Watch Over Me', 'The Man I Love', and 'Our Love Is Here To Stay' are as tender and moving as ever. Sheed also illuminates the unique gifts of the great jazz songsters Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington, conjuring up the circumstances of their creativity and bringing back the thrill of what it was like to hear 'Georgia On My Mind or 'Mood Indigo' for the first time" (Publisher's blurb). "Far and away, our greatest contribution to the world's art supply during the so-called American Century" (Wilfrid Sheed). An absolute "must-have" title for Wilfrid Sheed and George Gershwin collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in red ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "For Gale - Cheers, Wilfrid Sheed". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Wilfrid Sheed's shaky-looking handwriting has always been like that, idiosyncratic in its own way, and NOT a sign of old age or arthritis. The recipient, who is named, was personally known to the British-born, American immigrant-author. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (slight crimping on the bottom hard board corner, but it's there) is still in especially fine condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws or are in subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO MICHAEL FEINSTEIN "THE GERSHWINS AND ME" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1400061059. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 180 pages. Published in 2017. Retrospective Monograph, presented as a primer. One of the single best books on the transgressive art of Gilbert & George. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. A brilliant production by Gilbert & George: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Gilbert & George. Text by Michael Bracewell. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "What Is Gilbert & George?". The short answer: Resonant layers of meaning engendered by the artists' juxtaposition of traditional British attitudes with iconography drawn from the social and sexual margins. Performance artists who also use the traditional genres and photography, Gilbert & George are transgressive in that they re-value (rather than de-value) their central British-ness and self-imposed marginal status at the same time. "Over the course of 37 short chapters, Bracewell has created an accessible handbook to their work. Provides candid insights into their working practice, East London, sex, Victorian art, nationalism, and male-ness, among many other subjects" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Gilbert & George collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the front free endpaper by the artists: "With love from Gilbert & George". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. This title is a contemporary art classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: There is NO American Edition. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Two of the most important and influential artists of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1912122022. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: CHIPPED AND FRAYED ( GOOD). 1st Edition. B&W PHOTO ILL.

Condición: Very Good. Camillo Benso (1810 - 1861), conte di Cavour. A Prime minister of the Piedmont region, a leading figure in the Italian unification movement who died only 3 months after the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy. No image credit. — Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797 - 1885). Prussian General. Bottom edge trimmed. No image credit. — Major John George Smyly who appears in Hart's Army List (1865) as a Captain in the Londonderry Light Infantry. A hand-colored CDV by F.H. Mares, Dublin. Together, 3 albumen CDVs, very good condition, one hand-colored. Sold together as a lot. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Slightly Frayed and Chipped. 1st Edition. INTRO BY RICHARD RODGERS.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 645 pages. Published in 2010. Book-length account on subject. One of the best books on ballet ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Jennifer Homans' "Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet". Her deeply moving history of ballet. For Homans, ballet is a metaphor for art itself. Ballet is not dance. Anyone can dance, which is about life's vitality. Ballet demands the exact, mediated opposite: Precision, rigor, purity. In a word, art. Ballet - art - is about transcendence: The high leap we identify with ballet is transcendence itself, about a higher and exalted state of being that we often call grace. "Grace" is now undervalued and rarely invoked in both demotic and hieratic discourse. There is no grace, and a lot of vulgarity, for example, in contemporary culture as well as Ivory Tower academe. Like all great histories, "Apollo's Angels" makes a larger point: A culture that does not have a notion of transcendence is an inferior one, and will not have an enduring legacy. Often described as "Dionysian", "Le Sacre du Printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), the sublime Nijinsky/Stravinsky collaboration that radically changed the course of ballet, is instead "Apollonian", the re-presentation of primitive trance-ritual through ballet's highly formalized movements, steps, and gestures. The virgin sacrifice in "Le Sacre du Printemps" is the primal version of the sacrifice in "Swan Lake" (and countless other ballets) that the prima ballerina-heroine makes. An absolute "must-have" title for Jennifer Homans and ballet aficionado/collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Selected as one of the Ten Best Books of 2010 by The New York Times. One of the most brilliant critic/writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1400060605. no.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 250 pages. Published in 2019. Book-length account on subject. One of Adam Gopnik's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run by Basic Books as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Adam Gopnik's "A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism". The best short book on its subject ever written in our time. In three succinct, eloquent essays, here is the distillation of Adam Gopnik's ongoing reflections on liberalism that the liberal pantheon, from John Stuart Mill to Lionel Trilling, would have admired: "What Is Liberalism"; "Why The Right Hates Liberalism"; and "Why The Left Hates Liberalism". We live in a wretched and hapless time because we are caught between two extreme - and truly evil - ideologies: Right-wing fundamentalism and left-wing radicalism, which are, in the end, two sides of the same coin. Whereas liberalism is not "a political theory applied to life but life applied to political theory". Liberalism, in sum, is pragmatic and grounded in reality yet daring and humane. "Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, from 'Middlemarch' to the Civil Rights Movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: The search for radical change by humane measures. In an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Gopnik collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Adam Gopnik 2019". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-year dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM GOPNIK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 154169936X. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 400 pages. Published in 2012. Book-length account on subject, with accompanying materials. The best book on George and Ira Gershwin ever published in our time. Advance Promotional Copy of the Deluxe Clamshell Box Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run whose limitation is not stated. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. An incomparable production by Melcher Media: Oversize-volume format. The Deluxe Edition comes with three special features: a) the Book itself; b) the bonus Compact Disc (CD) of all-new recordings of twelve Gershwin classic songs; and c) the Memorabilia Folder with frame-able reproductions of twelve Gershwin artifacts. In addition, the Promotional Copy comes, laid into the book, with an 8 X 9 inch original silver-gelatin print, a portrait of the author/performer, signed and inscribed by Michael Feinstein. Dazzling blue-and-gold clamshell box. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its Deluxe Edition format, Michael Feinstein's "The Gershwins And Me: A Personal History In Twelve Songs". Nice work if you can get it. For there's nothing left to say: This is THE definitive, absolute best book on the Gershwin genius and legacy of and for our time. "No other writer could give us such an authoritative insider's perspective on these titans of American culture" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for George and Ira Gershwin and Michael Feinstein collectors. This is a Promotional Copy of the Deluxe Clamshell Box Edition. It comes, laid into the book, with an 8 X 9 inch original silver-gelatin print, a portrait of the author/performer, that is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker by him: "Gratefully, Michael Feinstein [heart symbol]". It is signed directly on the print itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only promotional copy (with signed and inscribed print) of the Deluxe Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. Michael Feinstein signed the print, NOT the book. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with archival plates, 1 CD, 1 Memorabilia Folder, 1 original silver-gelatin print. Three of the greatest artists of American music. A fine set. ISBN 1451645309. Signed by Author.…

Saddle-stitched. Limited edition, 173/200. Octavo, 15 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is staple bound. Cover is yellow with black print; light shelf wear. Text block has vendor label inside front cover. Illustrated: portrait of Merrill (drawing). "Reprinted from the English Westerners's Brand Book for July and October 1970, Vol. 12, No. 4 and Vol. 13, No. 1" - inside front cover. Signed in ink by the author on inside front cover. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #6. 1409312. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.…

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original gilt illustrated aqua green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover, all page edges gilt. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains frontispiece, [xvi] 199 printed pages of text with 36 wonderful full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Light foxing to the end papers and in Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. COVERS EDGES SLIGHTLY DISCOLORED, TOP RIGHT SLIGHTLY BUMPED.BW PHOTO ILLUSTRATED, W. CHURCHILL, ELIOT GETTING THE NOBEL.

Condición: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 6½'' x 4¼''. Contains 12 pp text in French, English and German followed by 60 full-page monochrome plates. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [French].…

Three vintage photographs from the 1980 film, two film still photographs, and a photograph of director Akira Kurosawa on the set with executive producers, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy (or kagemusha) of a dying feudal lord, based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen, and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film, Coppola and Lucas convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights, receiving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film, and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Sengoku period, shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle, Himeji Castle, Kumamoto Castle, Yuhara Plain, Hokkaido, Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 267.…

Vintage oversize borderless color photograph of Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, and Gerald Ford standing together at the dedication of Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 19, 1990. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 13.5 x 10.75 inches, mounted on cardboard, archivally mounted in a white mat measuring 20 x 16 inches. About Fine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 100 page black photo album of candid photos, initially of schoolmates, mostly girls, who attended St. Patrick's School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, beginning with Class of 1919, 1920 on through 1924; Photos include friends and relatives of Marie Catherine Getz Maher up to the 1960's. Photos of Camp Claiborn, Louisiana and Jefferson Barracks on May 14, 1941 and in summer of 1941 show the base prior to Pearl Harbor, particularly with Lt. John D. Getz, a member of the 136 Medical Regiment, which was deployed in Jan 26, 1941 to Northern Ireland. Getz was In service since May 7, 1940. Lt. Getz was stationed at Camp Clairborne, LA, prior to going overseas with the first expeditionary force. He landed in Ireland in1941, and later was transferred to England where he was stationed at a base hospital in northern Ireland after Jan 1942 ; also includes photos of Cathedral of St. Paul, Aug 15th 1931, The Little Brown Church in the Dale, Built 1860, a 1941 Ford, Auto repair shop of Jos. B. Morgavi, a photo of a US Army Air Corps Bell YFM-1, "Latest type of twin engine fighter", Town Hill Hotel, Wedding trip in 1930, photos and articles of Gladyce Getz Shaffer, wife of Van Vechten Shaffer, 1st woman to serve as a director of a Cedar Rapids bank, Woman of the Year 1969, member of St. Matthew's church. Born in Stone City, lived in Cedar Rapids. Married to Mr. Shaffer, March 16, 1972 ; other photos include Lester Benech, Sister Mary Renota, Aunt Annabelle, photo labels showing The Camera Shop, opposite post office, 220 3rd Ave E, Cedar Rapids, Ia and Baldridge Studio and Camera Shop, 218 3rd st, Cedar Rapids, Ia ; View of home, Aug 16, 1939, views on the way from Prairie Creek, Decoration Day in Sherlitt, 1923, Summer vacation in Preston, Ia 1923, Races at Anamora, John Hayeh, Sister Metz, Ralph Stark, Lesto Stark, Ki Chiverton, Maid Maher ; Reuter's Garage, Camp Fire [Girls] Units: Oki-Wanka group, Iowakinunka group ; also views of Mackinac Island, boat on Lake Erie, Fort Hughes Mackinac Island, Clarence William Maher Aug 21, 1942, classified as 3-A on original notification card from Selection Service, All original, majority are mounted photographs or newspaper clippings ; also includes Football game ticket, East grand Stand, Minnesota vs. Iowa, October 25, 1924, Iowa City, Ia. ; VG. Scrapbook.…

Vintage borderless satin finish photograph of actress Diana Rigg being held aloft by British weightlifter George Manners, taken during "Dressed to Kill," a 1965 charity fashion show inspired by "The Avengers." Mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the printed label of PIX agency and the stamp of St. Cross Features. The fashion show featured creations by noted English fashion designer Jean Varon. Varon's designs for Rigg's character in "The Avengers," Emma Peel, were particularly influential on the mod craze of the decade. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 7 x 11 inches. Near Fine. …

Three vintage gatherings of the periodical "Film Music Notes" (FMN), comprising all 26 issues published in 1942 through 1944, bound in three volumes, each with titled wrappers, "Film Music Notes / 1942," "Film Music Notes / 1943," and "Film Music Notes / 1944," with manuscript graphite, red, and blue pencil annotations on 39 pages of fourteen issues. The three gatherings found here comprise the first full three years of the periodical's publication, beginning with "Volume I / January, 1942 / Number IV" and ending with "Volume IV / December, 1944 / Number III." Detailed inventory available upon request. The three bound gatherings are: "Film Music Notes / 1942," comprised of all eight issues published in 1942, from Vol. 1 No. IV through Vol. II No. III, with each issue ranging from seven to nine pages. (In 1942 FMN published only eight issues, rather than the nine found in 1943 and 1944, combining the May and June issues into one "May-June 1942" issue, Vol. II No. III.) "Film Music Notes / 1943," comprised of all nine issues published in 1943, from Vol. II No. IV through Vol. III No. III, with each issue ranging from eight to twelve pages. "Film Music Notes / 1944," comprised of all nine issues published in 1944, from Vol. III No. IV through Vol. IV No. III, with each issue ranging from eleven to twenty three pages. The first issue of FMN, Vol. 1, No. 1 (not included in the bound volumes here), was published in October 1941, and was spearheaded largely by the efforts of a group of Hollywood women on behalf of the National Federation of Music Clubs (the Federation). On June 1, 1941, as part of the "Festival of Motion Pictures" at the Federation's biennial American Music Festival, the Federation, feeling the Academy Awards were not adequately recognizing musicians and composers, held their first film music awards night. The overwhelming success of the awards night, as well as growing requests from music educators for resources and advise on how to teach about film music, lead Federation members, headed by chairperson Grace Widney Mabee, to begin the publication of the groundbreaking periodical four months later, which, during its inception, was largely built upon the Federation's existing structures and resources. In 1943, FMN was integral to the formation of the National Film Music Council (NFMC), created largely by Federation members and FMN contributors and editors, Mabee, Sigmund Spaeth (FMN Advisory Chairman), Constance Purdy (FMN editor), and others, and was announced in the "Foreword" of FMN, Vol. 2, No.1, October, 1943, found in the volumes offered here. FMN continued publication for seventeen years, ending in 1958. Issues of FMN are generally comprised of a "Foreword," followed by "Comments and Open Forum" (which by the November 1942 issue, Vol. II, No. II, had transitioned to "News Items"), film reviews (which focus on the use of music in film, and range from five to 28 reviews per issue), as well as various articles, essays, and biographies. Regular contributing authors found in the three bound volumes here include: Gail Kubik (composer), Margery Morrison (FMN Associate Editor), Purdy (actress, musician, and FMN Editor), Naomi Reynolds (of The Musician's Congress), and Spaeth (musicologist, author, and FMN Advisory Chairman). Contributing authors found in the volumes on offer here, include: Composers: Scott Bradley, Rudy De Saxe, Adolph Deutsch, Nat W. Finston, Arthur Kleiner, William Lava, Vernon Leftwich, Alfred Newman, Miklós Rózsa, David Rudhyar, Jack Schaindlin, Max Steiner, Herbert Stothart, Franz Waxman, Roy Webb, and Charles Wolcott. As well as: Alice Evans Field (MPPDA studio liason), Chauncey Haines, Jr. (musician), Hal Hall ("The American Cinematographer" editor), John Huntley (British film historian), Isabel Morse Jones (LA Times critic and musician), Jay Leyda (experimental filmmaker), Louis Lipstone (head of Paramount Pictures music department), Harry Mines (LA Daily News critic), Ivan Narodny (Russian revolutionary and émigré), Mildred Norton (LA Daily News critic), Cecil Stokes (creator of the Auroratone), and Dr. Bruno David Ussher (musicologist and LA music critic). Articles found in the volumes on offer here, include: "Cartoon Music of the Future," "[George Pal's] Puppetoons," "The Auroratone," "Scoring the Jungle Book," "Russian Music," "The Importance of Motion Picture Music," "Music in Government Films," a "Special Article" on Constantin Bakaleinikoff (composer and Director of Music Department of RKO-Radio), "Music of the Americas," "Screen Music Assumes New Stature," "Procedure of Preparing a Musical Score for a Picture," "José Iturbi Comes to the Screen," "[Dmitri] Shostakovich - Film Composer," "A Visit to the Music Recording Stage at Warner Bros.," "What Music Arranging Does for the Pictures," "An Afternoon in the Home of Erich Wolfgang Korngold," "New Russian Music Born of War," "The Sixth Sense in Film Mechanics," "Notes on the Life and Works of Aaron Copland," "Rhapsody in Blue: A Day on the Gershwin Set," "British Film Music," "Mexican Films in Hollywood," and "An Institute of Music in Contemporary Life," among many others. All three volumes Very Good or better, pages supple, mimeograph duplication, each bound with two gold brads. "Film Music Notes / 1942:" Tan titled wrappers, eight issues, 61 pages total. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with light soiling and edgewear, bound with two gold brads. "Film Music Notes / 1943:" Blue titled wrappers, nine issues, 85 pages total. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with light soiling and edgewear, bound with two gold brads. "Film Music Notes / 1944:" Tan titled wrappers, nine issues. 132 pages total. Pages Near Fine, with five paperclips on five different articles, wrapper Very Good plus, with light soiling, edgewear, and light dampstaining to the bottom left corner, bound with two gold brads.…

Other. Octavo, 30 pages. In Good condition. Spine is white plastic clip. In clear binder with white plastic spine clip. Cover is yellow with black print; edition note in ink on front panel. Price unclipped: $1.00". Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and 1 plate (photograph portraits). Signed in ink by the editor on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #6. 1409309. FP New Rockville Stock. Second Printing; Limited edition, 229/300. Signed.…