Autographed Photo of Actress May Allison by Allison, May

Toronto: Musson [no date]. (4to) xxxiv, 144pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with lettering and cover illustration in gilt. Illustrated title page, 36 mounted color illustrations with printed tissue guards. The front hinge has a 2-inch tear at the top and the corners are lightly worn. In a custom mylar jacket. Illustrations by James D. Linton. Introduction by A.T. Quiller-Couch. (Drama, Illustrated Books).

A very good+ paperback, ex-library with stamps, stickers & markings, cover as in image, text near fine.Vous avez la phobie des dictées? Vous écrivez en langage sms? Vous êtes arrivés récemment en France? Ou au contraire vous êtes le prince de l'orthographe? Ce spectacle est pour vous. Il est dédié à tous les zilétré,analfabèt, conpleksé, étranjé, imigré que nous sommes un jour face au français : cette langue que nous mettons parfois toute une vie à maîtriser. Une conférencière Hongroise a décidé d'en finir avec la vieille grammaire, celle du vieux lion qui mordait le nez de l'éléphant. Vous connaissez l'histoire? L'éléphant, c'est nous face au français : un gros lard dans un magasin de porcelaine. Tout ça c'est fini, Katalin Molnàr - la conférencière Hongroise - a décidé de s'immoler avec la vieille grammaire, le dictionnaire et toutes les exceptions après avoir enfin proposé une méthode de français simplifié. Elle ne reculera devant aucun sacrifice, aidée d'une… Read More

Fawcett, 1973. Paperback. Used- Very good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very slight scuffing along the bottom of front cover. Discoloration on edges of back cover. Spine has a few light creases. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Small Quarto (9 x 6 1/8 inches; 228 x 155 mm), 92 pages, bound in grayish-green leather, with gold-stamped boards, all edges gilt, and ribbon page marker. SIGNED by Harold Pinter on the front end paper. Pinter's tragicomedy about a professor who brings his wife home to meet his working-class family. The play opened at the Aldwych Theatre in London on June 3, 1965, and was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Peter Hall director. It opened on Broadway in 1967 and won four Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics Award. An Easton Press "Collector's Edition." Laid in is an Easton Press "certificate of authenticity" as well as a note about the play and author. CONDITION: A Fine copy.

1951. Very good +. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (241 x 190 mm) from the Roland Butler Collection, Press Agent, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930s-1960s) Roland Butler Collection hand stamp on verso. [On the website of the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center (The World's Source for American Circus History), the woman in this photograph is identified as her circus colleague Cilly Feindt (Photograph CWi 3182). Friedel Luciana Paster's obituary in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on Tuesday, July 23, 2002 page 6B, entitled "Horse Trainer was a star of Royal Lipizzan Show," provided several biographical detail: "Friedel's entire life revolved around her beloved horses," said former circus performer and friend Rebecca Nock Brodeur of Bradenton. "She trained at the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna and was in her first horse show when she was 12. She later trained her three stallions and toured in shows all over the world with her parents, Otto and Luciana," Brodeur… Read More

Toronto: Musson [no date]. (4to) xxxiv, 144pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with lettering and cover illustration in gilt. Illustrated title page, 36 mounted color illustrations with printed tissue guards. The front hinge has a 2-inch tear at the top and the corners are lightly worn. In a custom mylar jacket. Illustrations by James D. Linton. Introduction by A.T. Quiller-Couch. (Drama, Illustrated Books).

A very good+ paperback, ex-library with stamps, stickers & markings, cover as in image, text near fine.Vous avez la phobie des dictées? Vous écrivez en langage sms? Vous êtes arrivés récemment en France? Ou au contraire vous êtes le prince de l'orthographe? Ce spectacle est pour vous. Il est dédié à tous les zilétré,analfabèt, conpleksé, étranjé, imigré que nous sommes un jour face au français : cette langue que nous mettons parfois toute une vie à maîtriser. Une conférencière Hongroise a décidé d'en finir avec la vieille grammaire, celle du vieux lion qui mordait le nez de l'éléphant. Vous connaissez l'histoire? L'éléphant, c'est nous face au français : un gros lard dans un magasin de porcelaine. Tout ça c'est fini, Katalin Molnàr - la conférencière Hongroise - a décidé de s'immoler avec la vieille grammaire, le dictionnaire et toutes les exceptions après avoir enfin proposé une méthode de français simplifié. Elle ne reculera devant aucun sacrifice, aidée d'une… Read More

Fawcett, 1973. Paperback. Used- Very good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very slight scuffing along the bottom of front cover. Discoloration on edges of back cover. Spine has a few light creases. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Small Quarto (9 x 6 1/8 inches; 228 x 155 mm), 92 pages, bound in grayish-green leather, with gold-stamped boards, all edges gilt, and ribbon page marker. SIGNED by Harold Pinter on the front end paper. Pinter's tragicomedy about a professor who brings his wife home to meet his working-class family. The play opened at the Aldwych Theatre in London on June 3, 1965, and was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Peter Hall director. It opened on Broadway in 1967 and won four Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics Award. An Easton Press "Collector's Edition." Laid in is an Easton Press "certificate of authenticity" as well as a note about the play and author. CONDITION: A Fine copy.

1951. Very good +. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (241 x 190 mm) from the Roland Butler Collection, Press Agent, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930s-1960s) Roland Butler Collection hand stamp on verso. [On the website of the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center (The World's Source for American Circus History), the woman in this photograph is identified as her circus colleague Cilly Feindt (Photograph CWi 3182). Friedel Luciana Paster's obituary in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on Tuesday, July 23, 2002 page 6B, entitled "Horse Trainer was a star of Royal Lipizzan Show," provided several biographical detail: "Friedel's entire life revolved around her beloved horses," said former circus performer and friend Rebecca Nock Brodeur of Bradenton. "She trained at the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna and was in her first horse show when she was 12. She later trained her three stallions and toured in shows all over the world with her parents, Otto and Luciana," Brodeur… Read More