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Arkhitektura parkov SSSR by KORZHEV, M.P.; korzhev; PROKHOROVA, M.I.; SOVIET P

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Title: Arkhitektura parkov SSSR
Author: KORZHEV, M.P.; korzhev; PROKHOROVA, M.I.; SOVIET P
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1940. KORZHEV, M.P. & M.I. PROKHOROVA. Arkhitektura parkov SSSR. [Architecture of Parks of the USSR]. 140 pp., illustrated throughout with photographs and plans. 4to., 265 x 200 mm., bound in publisher's green cloth. [Moscow]: Izd-vo Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1940. First edition. One of 4000 copies. A rare photographic survey of parks across the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The architects of the parks are named in the captions of the photographs including the compiler of this volume, M.P. Korzhev, along with Iliin, Leontovich, Movchan, Leonidov, Shadr, Suprunov, Karra, Taranov, Vlasov, Buzunov, Kurdiani, Khmel'nitskaya, Kalinina, Velikannov, Baumstein, sculptor Mukhina, Bazhenov and others. Not only Moscow parks are depicted but also Leningrad, Baku, Tbilisi, Kiev, Sochi, Odessa, Crimea, Teberda, Donbass, Voronezh, Chernigov, Tula, Rostov on Don, Kislovodsk and other small towns and distant regions (Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan). One inch portion of the head of the spine and front hinge chipped, however, complete and otherwise free of major condition issues.

Waiting for Godot by BECKETT, Samuel

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Title: Waiting for Godot
Author: BECKETT, Samuel
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956. First Edition of "The Most Significant English-language play of the 20th Century BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot a tragicomedy in two acts... London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1956]. First edition, second impression (without tipped-in publisher's note). Octavo (8 x 4 7/8 inches; 203 x 124 mm.). [1-8], 9-94 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, spine lettered in red, typical toning and light foxing to endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket, slightly chipped at extremities. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett that follows two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), as they engage in conversations and encounters while waiting for the elusive Godot, who never appears. The play is an adaptation of Beckett's original French work, En attendant Godot, and carries the English subtitle "a tragicomedy in two acts." Beckett wrote the original French text between October 9, 1948, and January 29, 1949. It premiered on January 5, 1953, at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris under the direction of Roger Blin. The English-language production debuted in London in 1955. In a 1998-99 poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre, it was voted "the most significant English-language play of the 20th century. Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish-born writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. Beckett is best remembered for his 1953 play Waiting for Godot, and he is considered to be one of the last modernist writers, as well as a key figure in what Martin Esslin called, the "Theatre of the Absurd

Janie by Bentham, Josephine

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Title: Janie
Author: Bentham, Josephine
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. [slight bumping to several corners, tiny stain on bottom of text block, one-time owner's signature on top of front pastedown; jacket is quite nice, with just a bit of wear at the spine ends]. A weirdly "lost" novel about "a real American girl -- her magnificent day-dreams, her jealous boyfriends, her strange enthusiasms, her searing disappointments, her tolerant but puzzled parents." Let me explain the "lost" business. A movie called JANIE was released by Warner Bros. in 1944; it starred Joyce Reynolds, then a 19-year-old ingenue whose career subsequently went nowhere (although, to be fair, she retired from the screen not long after this film, to marry a Marine), Robert Hutton (who at least had a career, albeit in a long string of mostly forgettable movies), and a stellar supporting cast that included Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, and Hattie McDaniel. This movie, as every single source in the universe will tell you, was based on a 1942 stage play, also called "Janie," which ran for 16 months (642 performances) on Broadway; the play was written by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams. But what goes absolutely unmentioned in most reference sources I've consulted (although it's acknowledged in contemporary reviews of the play) is THIS BOOK, which was obviously the original source for all that came after (including a 1946 film sequel, JANIE GETS MARRIED). The first movie's source is credited as the play only; the second movie was "based on characters created in the play..." I've looked at the original Warner Bros. press material for the film -- no mention of the book. I've checked the major references for literary source material for films -- all credit the play only. It's like the original book, for unfathomable reasons, has almost ceased to exist: there are no copies of any description in online commerce as of this writing (January 2020), although I'm relieved (because this was starting to get a little surreal) that there are, at least, eleven copies on the shelves of various U.S. libraries, per OCLC. Was this book banned, suppressed, censored, or otherwise shunned? It was well enough reviewed ("Warm and real and fun reading," said Kirkus Reviews), but its utter lack of an informational afterlife really throws me. Is it possible that what we've got here is the ONLY surviving copy outside the American library system? (Ordinarily I would look severely askance at any such claim made for any book, but this is honestly a case like no other I've ever encountered.) .

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