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First edition. Limited, signed issue: no. 45 of 135 copies on Japan vellum. Signed at the colophon as called for. Small 8vo: 7-9/16 x 5-1/8", 73pp; grayish-green laid paper over boards with white shelfback; printed paper label at front and spine. Fine. The central character, young Lottie Thompson, yearns for the beautiful and chafes at the strictures of duty preached by her mother and her friends: “A child should be taught obedience, respect, and attention. Lottie just simply acts as if she doesn’t hear what is being said to her”. Lottie defiantly declares: “When I grow up I am never going to do anything that is my duty. All the nice things are naughty. But I am just going to do the things I like. And I shall love all the pretty things, even if they are naughty”. When her attachment to surface rather than substance first seduces and then betrays her, Lottie emerges with an understanding of how purpose renders its own kind of beauty. The play, like others of the period, suggests a feminism which wishes women to question conventional roles and to see possibilities beyond the conventional. Gervé Baronti published a number of books, novels, poetry, a memoir, and nonfiction, from 1917 to 1950. Several titles are set in India where she lived (for how long is obscure) and where she studied with Tagore.
A MODERN PHENIX
Baronti, Gerve [pseud., Mrs. Paul R. Danner].
Boston: The Cornhill Company, (1917).
Price: $95.00
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SERIOUS MONEY
Churchill, Caryl.
(London): Methuen, in association with the Royal Court Theatre, (1987).
Price: $40.00
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Typescript for "CLOUD NINE"
Churchill, Caryl.
[NP]: , [ND, but c. 1979].
Price: $45.00
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First edition. 8vo, xvii, 183pp; dark green linen cloth with MISS LULU BETT / A Play by / ZONA GALE surrounded by a decorative frame in gold-gilt at the front cover; spine stamped in gold; tan dust jacket with still from the Broadway production at the front panel. "December 23, 1923" neatly penned at lower margin of title page. Lettering at spine a trifle dim. Jacket shows overall wear with triangular 3/4" x 1" piece lacking at head of spine, shallow chipping at foot; a triangular notch at join of lower foretip and front flap; a light brown stain at front panel of jacket. Despite these defects, the book is in lovely condition and the rare jacket far more attractive than the enumeration of its flaws would suggest. With Forewords by Robert Benchley (the humorist) and Thomas H. Dickinson. Zona Gale wrote her first bestseller with short, ironic novel LULU BETT in 1920. Gale adapted the novel to the stage in 1921 and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama that year. (Gale was only the second woman to receive this honor).
MISS LULU BETT An American Comedy of Manners
Gale, Zona.
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1921.
Price: $500.00
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Early Typescript for 'NIGHT, MOTHER'
Norman, Marsha.
[New York]: William Morris Agency, October 27, 1982.
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GETTING OUT
Norman, Marsha.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1979).
Price: $35.00
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First edition. Signed "Kate Douglas Wiggin" (underscored) at the front cover and dated "Aug. 31, 1918" at the title page. 7-3/8 x 5-3/8", 45pp; printed brown wrappers (stapled). Short tears to wrappers around edges, including a 1" closed tear at botton edge of the front wrapper near spine. Generally very good. The writer first published her story THE OLD PEABODY PEW subtitled "a Christmas romance of a country church" in 1907. Immediately popular here and in London, Houghton Mifflin reprinted the story separately and in an edition with two other Wiggin tales and authorized a Grosset and Dunlap printing. In 1911 Tauchnitz issued its own edition. Public enthusiasm for the piece and Wiggin's own delight in theater led to this stage adaptation. Remembered today for her children's classic, REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, Wiggin also captured the spirit and character of New England in stories such as THE OLD PEABODY PEW. BAL 22677.
THE OLD PEABODY PEW: Dramatised by Kate Douglas Wiggin: From her Book of the Same Title
Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
New York: Samuel French: Publisher, (1917).
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First edition. 8vo, 264pp; soft beige wrappers stamped in red and black. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Henry James. Among those to whom Edel offers thanks in his preface is Edith Wharton whom he had met in June of that year. Edel signed and dated this copy in 1946, noting that only 400 copies had been printed. Considerable browning to pages; back strip quite worn. Good. Unusual.
HENRY JAMES: Les Annees Dramatiques
[James, Henry] Leon Edel.
Paris: Jouve & Cie, 1931.
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Advertising card: 3-3/16 x 4-3/4", chromolithograph of Lawyer Marks, in top hat and carrying an umbrella, with his donkey, against a backdrop of small town buildings; advertisement printed in black at reverse for a performance at Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre, May 28, 1883. Reverse shows some mild offsetting; card likely trimmed. About very good. The verso reads: "HAVERLY'S / Brooklyn Theatre. / Monday Evening, May 28, 1883. / Matinees / Decoration Day, Wednesday & Saturday / JAY RIAL'S / special revival of / UNCLE TOM'S CABIN / Powerful Company. / GREAT PLANTATION SCENE / Introducing America's Greatest Song and Dance Artist. / BOBBY NEWCOMB / Assisted by / 100 - Jubilee and Camp-Meeting Shouters - 100 / 8 BLOODHOUNDS - 8 / The Celebrated Trick Donkey! / REDUCTION IN PRICES. / Best Reserved Seat, 75 Cents. / Admission, - 25 and 50 cents. / Eagle Print". Within the small compass of the card there is an exuberant array of display types and decorative devices. The available of color lithography spurred an astonishing demand for trade cards in the 1880s. They became the most widely used medium for advertising during the decade and spawned a fad for collecting these bright, colorful pieces. One trade card for a glue company, in fact, depicts a young girl carefully gluing a new addition to her collection into a scrapbook. For traveling theatrical troupes, of course, trade cards provided a ready, easy and flexible way of promoting a troupe's performances from town to town. Here, Jay Rial, one of the decade's busiest UTC theatrical managers, advertises an upcoming performance of his "IDEAL UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" company. Rial set his mark on the era's 'Uncle Tommers" by bringing real dogs (and a real donkey) on-stage during performances. Hitherto, actors stood in the wings and 'barked' to simulate the bloodhounds pursuing Eliza across the ice. At least six troupes performed under Rial's management throughout the 1880s, from San Francisco to London; he himself advertised that he had given the play over 1600 times. A web site developed by Stephen Railton and the University of Virginia, "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture", has an example the same card. We also have had this card with the verso blank. Likely Rial distributed printed cards when time permitted and unprinted cards when it did not. Birdoff, Harry, THE WORLD'S GREATEST HIT UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, pp. 270, 288, 292-297. "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture" web site, http://www.iath.virginia.educ/utc/sitemap.html.
Trade Card: "JAY RIAL'S IDEAL UNCLE TOM'S CABIN LAWYER MARKS & HIS TRAINED DONKEY JERRY"
[UNCLE TOM'S CABIN],
[Buffalo, NY: The Courier Lith. Co., ca. 1883].
Price: $75.00
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First edition. Crown 8vo, 188pp; navy blue cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pictorial dust jacket with a still from the New York production with Judith Anderson and Helen Mencken at the front panel and an extended quote from a review by Stark Young at the back. Lettering a trifle dimmed at the spine; small bookseller’s ticket at rear pastedown. Dust jacket’s front flap price clipped; two small chips at head of spine (at either side) and crinkling to head; 1/2” closed tear at join of front cover and front flap; 1/2” closed lower edge of front cover. These flaws enumerated, this copy is attractive, in generally very good condition. Zoë Akins received a Pulitzer for her adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novella later made into a film with Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins and George Brent.
THE OLD MAID Dramatized by Zoë Akins from the Novel by Edith Wharton
[Wharton, Edith] Akins, Zoë.
New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1935.
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First edition. Second printing. Crown 8vo, 188pp; navy blue cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pictorial dust jacket with a still from the New York production with Judith Anderson and Helen Mencken at the front panel and an extended quote from a review by Stark Young at the back. Light wear to tips and ends; ownership stamp front pastedown; offsetting to front free endpaper (from something laid in); owner's ticket rear pastedown. Jacket worn (as usual) with shallow chipping at the spinal ends and along front flap fold. About very good. Zoe Akins received a Pulitzer for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's novella. The play was later made into a film with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins.
THE OLD MAID Dramatized by Zoe Akins from the Novel by Edith Wharton
[Wharton, Edith] Akins, Zoe.
New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1935.
Price: $50.00
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