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

[1944 PHANTOM LADY/LA FEMME FANTOME, IN FRENCH, WWII RADIO PLAY SCRIPT, ALLIED HOME FRONT] PHANTOM LADY, LA FEMME FANTOME, United States Government, Office of War Information (Overseas), Hollywood, Cal. U.S.A. For: N. Y. Radio Program Bureau, French Hollywood Unit, "LA FEMME FANTOME" From the Universal Picture "THE PHANTOM LADY", TIME: 30 [min.], Production: Gerald Kean, DATE: 11-24-44 [Nov. 24, 1944], JEAN GEIRINGER, JACQUES SURMAGNE [unidentified, but presumably having something to do with the production, possibly recording and/or sound], script 30 pages, original ribbon, right-hand pages only, held by clips in legal-size manila folder, director/producer Gerald Kean working script with annotations on every page including timing, stage directions, some text editing, before script are 5 pages with character list with respective actors in pencil, pencil signatures of actors with Social Security numbers (for payment), Auditions 11/17/44, Actors' Time for Phantom Lady [with] Rates to be Paid, Recorder -… Read More

[1931 PICASSO COSTUMES 6 PHOTOS Cocteau 1917 ballet Parade RARE] 1 page, Picasso costumes 6 black-and-white photographs limited edition 600 copies, 4-1/2" x 2-1/4" on heavier paper/light board, for the 1917 ballet PARADE, Ballet de Jean Cocteau, Decor et Costumes de Pablo Picasso, Musique d'Eric Satie…Theatre du Chatelet, Paris 1917, plate #1 is a preserved page from a mostly deteriorated copy of the rare theater book TENDANCES NOUVELLES DU THEATRE – CHOIX DE DECORS, COSTUMES, etc. [rest of long subtitle omitted], by Leon Moussinac, published by Les Editions Albert Levy, Paris, 1931, limited edition 600 copies /// CONDITION: generally lightly age-toned somewhat more at edge, small chip at top page edge, small dark spot in left margin.

[ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, LONDON; 'HAMLET' PLAYED BY CHARLES KEAN PLAY BILL BROADSIDE] Play Bill notice MR. & MRS. CHARLES KEAN, POSITIVELY THE LAST 7 NIGHTS IN THE ENGAGEMENT OF...at the Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street [London], appearing in performances of Hamlet with Charles Kean as Hamlet and Mrs. Charles Kean as Gertrude, and on Wednesday, June 20 [1866] The Merchant of Venice with Mr. Charles Kean as Shylock and Mrs. Charles Kean as Portia and the Jealous Wife with the Keans as Mr. and Mrs. Oakley, "being most positively the LAST NIGHT of their APPEARANCE…," , the 5" x 10-1/2" tombstone ad/small broadside taking up the two middle columns (of four) of the front page of the theater periodical THE PLAY BILL, Wednesday Evening, June 13, 1866, No. 85, some previous owner has written vertically in pen "June 15, 1866" in left margin, issue size 8-1/2" x 15", 4 pages (complete), first and last pages are mostly classified-type ads with middle two pages miscellaneous news items, one ad in the… Read More

[PLAYTIME LIBRARY, COMPLETE SET IN BOX; CHILDREN'S 1937] PLAYTIME LIBRARY - 4 BOOKS IN THIS BOX [Fun-Time Stunts, Dot Pictures, Questions, and Mazes in illustrated box], illustrated by George Carlson, published by Platt & Munk, 1937 (in Roman numerals), books and box illustrated by George Carlson, each of the four 12-page color illustrated booklets is 7-1/4" x 8-1/2", the Dot Pictures are lightly traced in in pencil by a previous owner, a rare complete set of these vintage Playtime/Fun-Time booklets in the original box /// CONDITION: overall condition of the booklets is near fine with negligible wear, colors bright as new, box with color illustration is very good-plus condition with small loss of illustration at upper left corner and some minor edgewear and light creases, box colors bright as new.

[1970s FLORENCE VATY NATIONAL ENQUIRER PSYCHIC ON PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON FAMILY ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN NOTES WITH REPORTER ARTICLE BASED ON THEM] FLORENCE VATY, PSYCHIC FOR THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, 7 pages stapled together of handwritten notes in blue pen with "Vaty" note in red marker at upper right corner of first page on profiles and predictions of members of the president Nixon family based on astrological signs of respective birth months with 4-1/2 page original ribbon article in progress "Our [Nixon] Family Was Born Under an Unlucky Star Says Julie Eisenhower Nixon. Not So Says Astrologer [Florence Vaty]"…[by] Hal Jacques, with much handwritten editing and questions for amplification of the article content in pencil by Vaty, pages stapled at upper left corner with news clipping of short National Enquirer article "Enquirer Psychic's Recent Prediction For Jackie and Ari Onassis Came True", prediction was that Jackie and Ari Onassis would experience a tragedy in 1973, and in that year Onassis's… Read More

[OCCULT; INSCRIBED COPY; JAPON PAPER LIMITED EDITION; RARE CHARLES FILIGER BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION AT THE REQUEST OF THE AUTHOR] PRIERE - poème (1885-1893) by Jules Bois, Librairie de l'art indépendant, 1895, cover designed by Charles Filiger, signed by author with inscription, "A Monseur/Leon Chailley/Ton reconnaissant ami/Jules Bois," at the top of a front page listing other works by the author, published by Paris: Librarie de l'Art Independant, Rue de la Chaussee-D'Antin, 1895, publisher's insignia of female sphinx with wings and serpent's tail in oval at middle of title page, 4-1/4" x 8", 122 pages, Japon paper (limited edition; unnumbered, the publisher typically published books with only 5 copies on Japon paper as first printing limited editions before following with other limited editions, sometimes another 5-10 on Chine paper, and then larger limited editions on other high-quality paper), 122 pages, board cover with paste-on illustration, paste-on front cover illustration by the French… Read More

[THEATER / ENTERTAINMENT, COMPLETE PRODUCTION BOOK FOR STURBRIDGE VILLAGE PERFORMANCE] PRODUCTION BOOK FOR 'THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER' produced at Old Sturbridge Village, Mass., July - August 1953, submitted by James Karr, stage manager; the publications and papers collected in a 8-1/2" x 11" black spring binder with "The Devil and Daniel Webster" in pen on a paste-on label on the spine, about 225 pages of production-related material including handwritten pages, typed pages, annotated pages of 2 copies of scarce 1943 Boosey & Hawkes printing of popular opera, and 2 detailed blueprints, different types of material are in sections identifying the type of material with a typescript front page, sections in order: cover page: [title page/cover sheet] PRODUCTION BOOK for THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER produced at OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE, MASS., July - August 1953, submitted by: James Karr, stage manager; THE PROGRAM: Old Sturbridge Festival, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, presents a music play / THE DEVIL AND… Read More

[1897 FATHER OF BALLISTICS J. M. INGALLS CIVIL WAR US ARMY SIGNATURE] PROJECTILES DE CAMPAGNE DE SIEGE ET DE PLACE, FUSEES par E. Vallier, Chef d'escadron d'Artillerie, Correspondant de l'Institut, published by Gauthier-Vallers et Fils, Paris, undated (but 1897, WorldCat/OCLC record), text in French, quarter-leather marbled board cover (loss of spine), 4-3/4" x 7-1/2", 178 pages, illustrations, charts, diagrams, mathematical formulas (ballistics), Providence Athenaeum discard with library and discard notations and stampings, James M. Ingalls, Capt. 1st Arty (artillery) ownership signature in ink on front blank endpage facing inside front cover with plate with type print "Presented to the Providence Athenaeum by Col. James M. Ingalls, U.S.A (U. S. Army), Ingalls has been called the "Father of Ballistics" (see below), association/presentation copy from book's author Frédéric Marie Emmanuel Vallier (E. Vallier) in French in pen at top right of half title page, "To Capt. James Ingalls, Compliments of… Read More

[PROMETHEUS IN NEW YORK; UNPUBLISHED POEM 1940s; JAMES N. MOSEL] JAMES NORMAN MOSEL, psychology professor at George Washington U. in the 1960s, and author of books on Thai society based on research there funded partly by the FordFoundation, a 4-page original ribbon typed poem titled "Prometheus on New York" written in the 1940s when he was a student at Columbia University, with two other, 1-page poems, one with the note "At Columbia May 1941", the cover page to the 4-page poem is, "Prolegomena for the Uninitiated…James Norman Mosel, who believes that all New Yorkers, like Prometheus, are eternally bound to the cliff of adversity, has given expression to this in: PROMETHEUS IN NEW YORK – AN IMPRESSIONISTIC FORM IN WHICH Prometheus, the character of Greek mythology, is transplanted to New York, and thereby permitted to experience the infinite and multifarious aspects of cosmopolitan complexity, and to compare these with the equally disturbing eventuality of having one's liver devoured eternally by… Read More