Search Results: Titles starting with F from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[JIRI TRNKA, PUPPETEER, SCRIPT FOR U. N. FILM 'A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP', WITH GROUP OF PAPERS; ANIMATED FILM PROJECT 1959] A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP, short animated film for UNESCO, 1959, with related letters on development, 2 copies of script, (A) attached to November 1959 letter TO Tor Gjesdal, Director, Mass Communications, UNESCO [see below for details], 5-pages of original ribbon continuity script-in-progress on carbon weight paper for scenes 12-94 with words for respective scenes, first page for scenes 1-11 missing…; (B) full continuity script scenes 1-94, mimeograph (purple text) 6-pages plus 4 pages inserted between different pages containing verse-like passages mostly handwritten and some typed to go with respective scenes in the continuity script-in-progress, passages written by Gerald Kean for the American audience for the film [see following re: letters], with the continuity scripts are two letters discussing the UNESCO film featuring Jiri Trnka animation, (1) stamped 29 Aout 1959 [August… Read More

FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN, published by the Far Eastern Ceramic Group, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1949, stapled binding, typescript text on right-hand pages/recto only numbered 37-47, followed by 3 original b+w photographs tipped-in inside back cover, 2 articles (i) "So Gen No Toji" by Junsei Ozaki, translated by Robert T. Paine, Jr., (6 pp.), (ii) "Ku Yueh Hsuan [followed by three Chinese characters handwritten in blue ink]" by F. St.G. Spendlove (4 pp.), softcover, 8-1/2" x 11", early issue; CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal light normal age-wear including fading at edges of covers.

FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN, published by the Far Eastern Ceramic Group, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1950, No. 9, stapled binding, typescript text on right-hand pages/recto only numbered 40-63, 2 articles (i) "The Earliest Blue and White Wares of China" by Shinzo Shirea and Warren E. Cox (10 pages, followed by 4 pages of 10 b+w photos with captions, Plates I-IV), (ii) "The White Wares of Fukien and the South China Coast (second half) [first half in Sept.1949 issue], by Malcolm F. Farley (1896-1941) ( 12 pp., followed by 4 pages of b+w photos, 6 per page with captions); CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal light normal age-wear including fading at edges of covers, brief note on front cover by previous owner.

FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN, published by the Far Eastern Ceramic Group, Ann Arbor, MI, January 1949, stapled binding, typescript text on right-hand pages/recto only numbered 28-36 followed by 2 original b+w photographs tipped-in inside back cover, two articles (i) Two Chinese Rectangular Pottery Blocks of the T'ang Dynasty, One with Silver Mounting, Representing miniature Chests Made for the Furnishings of a Tomb" by Robert Paul Dart (2 pp.), (ii) "An Analysis of Three Chun [Chinese character] Type Shards" by Walter Donald Ering (4 pp.), followed by letters, softcover, 8-1/2" x 11", early issue; CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal light normal age-wear including fading at edges of covers.

FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN, published by the Far Eastern Ceramic Group, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1950, No. 1064-93, stapled binding, typescript text on right-hand pages/recto only numbered 40-63, 3 articles (i) "Early Blue and White Wine Pot Excavations in the Philippines by Kamer Aga-Oglu (8 pages followed by 1 page of 2 b+w photos with captions, Plate I; (ii) "An Annotated Bibliography of Ming Blue and White" by John A. Pope (17 pp.); (iii) "Celadon and Chun Type Glazes" by Fong Chow (4 pp, followed by 7 b+w photos on two pages, Plates II and III); CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal light normal age-wear including fading at edges of covers, brief note on front cover by previous owner.

[AIRSHIP AQUATINT, ARIAL TRANSIT COMPANY, AVIATION, est. 1890] "BY PERMISSION OF THE PANTENTEES, THIS ENGRAVING OF THE FIRST CARRIAGE, THE 'ARIEL,' is Respectfully Inscribed to the Directors of The Aerial Transit Company, by their obedient Servants, Ackermann & Co., London" Publisher March 28, 1842, by Ackermann & Co., 90 Strand", aquatint reproduction of original 1842 engraving, estimated 1890 on heavier art paper, 11-1/4 x 13-1/2" to lined borders with about 1" margins, richly colored image with crowd of people in foreground looking up at the airship, and in the background presumably cityscape of London with St. Paul's Cathedral in the middle and at the right faintly possibly Marble Arch; HISTORICAL NOTE: The aerial steam carriage, also named Ariel, was a flying machine patented in 1842 that was supposed to carry passengers into the air. It was, in practice, incapable of flight since it had insufficient power from its heavy steam engine to fly. A more successful model was built in 1848 which was… Read More

[1979 CBS MYSTERY THEATER RADIO PLAY PARTIAL ORIGINAL EDITED SCRIPT, WITH PHOTOCOPY OF COMPLETE SCRIPT] THE CASE OF THE FORCED DIVORCE (The Wedding Ring), no author named/Gerald Kean (see provenance below), Act I 11 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", heavily edited variously with black marker and turquoise ink and slips of paper with text affixed to some pages, with photocopy of three acts 41 pages, dated 1-23-79 at upper right corner of title page (the program was aired on July 18, 1979); NOTES: "A gentleman con man and his American police detective try to assist a British woman who is being hounded by her husband for a divorce. At stake is the custody of their young son.", aired July 18, 1979 (Old Time Radio Downloads); GERALD KEAN (sometimes Keane): 1915-2002, wrote numerous CBS Mystery Theater radio play scripts using different pen names working with Himan Brown; PROVENANCE: this script is from a large archive of work by Gerald Kean in varied fields of media and entertainment from the 1930s to the 1980s ///… Read More

FOUR GENERATIONS – My Life and Memories of New York for Over Eighty Years by Frances Nathan Wolff, second printing 1987, originally published by author, 1939, New York, inscribed by the author's granddaughter on the half-title page, dark blue softcover, 5-1/2" x 8", x+193 pages, photographs and illustrations (all present as listed in front), 3 fold-out genealogical charts (all present) /// CONDITION: near fine, a couple of faint creases to front cover, scuffing to back cover, hinges firm, text block tight, over clean solid copy.

[1938 FREDERIC WARRINER ACTOR SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH; PASADENA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE] FREDERIC WARRINER 9-1/2" x 7-1/2" black-and-white matte photograph by Rex - Pasadena when he was a student at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, probably a yearbook or similar graduating student photograph, ca. 1938 as indicated by other Pasadena Community Playhouse memorabilia the photo was with purchased at an estate sale in Connecticut, inscribed in lower right corner in green ink, "May all sorrows/As you pass,/Politely-/step-/Aside!/Fred", 7-line handwriten poem on back, "Thru thick and thin's [sic] / What we've been in- / Pulling in the traces: / Now we go- / God knows, you know, / And we - thru Him / Will find our places.", photograph comes with a news article with Warriner photo on his appearance in a Pasadena Playhouse play, plastic slip for the photograph and the news articleare affixed to a disbound album leaf; signature authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee of authenticity; FREDERIC WARRINER: 1916-92,… Read More

[1866 LYNCHING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN JOHN TAYLOR IN MICHIGAN; CLEVELAND DAILY PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER] "Full Particulars of the Hanging of John Taylor, the Murderer of the Buck Family — A Horrible Transaction", reprint of article from the Jackson, Michigan, Citizen newspaper on front page of The Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, Volume XXII, Cleveland, Tuesday Evening, September 4, 1866, Number 217, 2-1/2" x 9", first article at top of third column (first two columns are ads), large-format newspaper / 20-1/2" x 26" as folded to 4 pages, 1 vertical and 3 horizontal folds, main article 3 columns on page 2 about president Andrew Johnson's stop in Cleveland during his tour of Northern states to promote his Reconstruction plans, headlines include "Grand Gala Night…Great Reception…Enormous Crowds", but he was greeted at times with heckling for his plans, about three-quarters of the issue is ads, some illustrated, for hoop skirts, Fall Fashions, hardware, home remedies, steam engines, and other consumer… Read More

[ERNEST NAGEL SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY, 1939; MODERN PHILOSOPHY, LOGICAL POSITIVISM] ERNEST NAGEL SIGNED COPY OF "THE FORMATION OF MODERN CONCEPTIONS OF FORMAL LOGIC IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOMETRY" inscribed to I. Bernard Cohen, copy is from the September 1939 issue of the periodical "Osiris - Commentationes de scientiarum et eruditionis historia rationeque, Volumen Septimum 1939", pages 142-224 on the glossy paper with a title page of the Osiris issue featuring Nagel's article, with Ernest Nagel's essay "The formation of modern conceptions of formal logic in the development of geometry" inscribed by Nagel to I. Bernard Cohen; in the upper right corner of the title page of Osiris is the handwritten inscription in pen, "To Mr. I. B. Cohen with the compliments, Ernest Nagel"…at the upper right corner of the blank front endpage in pen is, "I. Bernard Cohen, Cambridge 1939." Cambridge is Cambridge, Massachusetts, the location of Harvard; Nagel's article is bound in marbled boards with cloth spine with… Read More