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A Great Moment in Film: The Original Contract for the Film Rights to “The Grapes of Wrath”, One of the Greatest Films Ever Made, Signed by the Book’s Author, John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck

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Title: A Great Moment in Film: The Original Contract for the Film Rights to “The Grapes of Wrath”, One of the Greatest Films Ever Made, Signed by the Book’s Author, John Steinbeck
Author: John Steinbeck
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 24/04/1939. “The undersigned, Viking Press, Inc. and John Steinbeck hereby sells, grants, conveys and assigns to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…talking motion picture rights…that he may have in and to the original composition entitled “The Grapes of Wrath”…” A unique and compelling piece of American cinematic history “The Grapes of Wrath” won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction in 1940 and helped John Steinbeck earn the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1962 (which turned on the “keen social perception” in this book). At the time of the Dust Bowl, when hundreds of thousands of Americans migrated to the West Coast (mainly California) in search of a better life, Steinbeck was writing a series of seven articles about migrant worker communities for the San Francisco Chronicle. He spent a lot of time getting to know families who lived in various migrant worker camps in towns like Bakersfield and Visalia, and was angered and disgusted by the amount of heartbreak and suffering that he witnessed. He channeled those emotions as he wrote his classic - “The Grapes of Wrath”.Published in 1939 by Viking Press, “The Grapes of Wrath” vividly portrays life during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in America as it follows a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. The family traveled westward to California seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. It explores the strength and goodness of the human spirit in the face of gruesome, truly dismal circumstances.This novel had a profound impact in America. Many people applauded Steinbeck for capturing so honestly the lives of migrant farm workers during the Depression, and starkly pointing out conditions they faced. There were calls for social action in response. Eleanor Roosevelt took interest, and as a result she called for congressional hearings on migrant worker camp conditions. Labor laws were changed. Others accused Steinbeck of being a socialist and of championing leftist beliefs.Confident that the book would be a smash hit, Hollywood rushed to make a film on the book even as it first hit the book shops. The film they made, “The Grapes of Wrath”, is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. It was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for Twentieth Century Fox, directed by John Ford, and starred Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Actor (Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. Ford won the Best Director Oscar and actress Darwell won Best Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad. In 1989, “The Grapes of Wrath” was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for its U.S. National Film Registry as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”This is the original contract in which Twentieth Century Fox obtained the rights from John Steinbeck and Viking Press to make the film “The Grapes of Wrath”. It is one of the most important, if not the most important, piece of American film history to ever reach the market.Document signed, on Twentieth Century Fox’s own stationery, one sheet with text on both sides, New York, April 24, 1939, just days after the novel's initial release. It provides: “…the undersigned, Viking Press, Inc. and John Steinbeck hereby sells, grants, conveys and assigns to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…the right, title and interest of the undersigned, throughout the world, in and to the silent, sound, and dialogue, and talking motion picture rights…that he may have in and to the original composition entitled “The Grapes of Wrath”…” It identifies the author as John Steinbeck, the publisher as Viking Press, and gives the copyright date as April 16, 1939. Steinbeck and the president of Viking Press, Harold Guinzberg, have signed at the conclusion on the verso, and the contract has been notarized there, the notary stating that Steinbeck had personally appeared before her.

Social Tales for the Young by SHERWOOD, Mrs. [Mary Martha]

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

Title: Social Tales for the Young
Author: SHERWOOD, Mrs. [Mary Martha]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: William Darton and Son, 1835. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. [ILLUSTRATED]. Stewart and Co., Old Bailey, printers. First edition. 16mo; 230pp; green goat, embossed design within panels, gilt lettering on spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; engraved frontispiece printed in oil colors by George Baxter; some light foxing; near fine. OCLC locates 8 copies for this publisher and year. The frontispiece "carries Baxter's King Square address which he left during 1835, making this probably the first English children's book illustrated by colour-printing." Darton H1430(1). Percy Muir disagrees and names Caroline Mordaunt, also by Sherwood [1835] and printed by the younger Darton on Holborn Hill, to be the first color-illustrated book for children. Muir 179. Mary Sherwood was one of the women writing at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries who were strongly influenced by Puritanism and wrote moralizing tales filled with piety of the young.

ADVENTURES OF MISS TABBY GRAY by BAYLOR, Adelaide S.

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Title: ADVENTURES OF MISS TABBY GRAY
Author: BAYLOR, Adelaide S.
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: W.A. Wilde Company, 1913. BRUCE, Josephine. BAYLOR, Adelaide S. ADVENTURES OF MISS TABBY GRAY. Illustrated by Josephine Bruce. Boston: W.A. Wilde Company, [1913]. 12mo., hole-punched covers & text with cotton cloth ties, with the original pictorial dust jacket folded over the plain covers- as issued. First Edition. A tale told in rhyme about a cat, Miss Tabby Gray, and her friends. Signed inscription by Baylor on the front endpaper: "Faithfully yours, Adelaide Steele Baylor." A very scarce book, especially signed by the author. I believe the author is the same Adelaide Steele Baylor who was the first woman City Superintendent of Schools in the United States and an educational pioneer. Very Good (minor wear with small ink stain to upper portion of the spine on the rear cover; contents clean & tight). Very scarce!! $450.00.

Die Welt in Bildern

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Title: Die Welt in Bildern
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Berlin: Cigarettenfabrik Josetti G.m.b.H., 1928. Wraps. Very Good. A more diverse tobacco card album than most other German tobacco card albums of the era. Categories include Dress at the Berliner Presseball of 1927, child movie stars, famous women, German industry magnates (founders of the largest enterprises), tennis stars, winter sports, German movie stars, German authors, German theatrical stars, etc. Either 1927 or 1928. Oblong, 25 by 28.5 cm. 24 pp. Calling for 144 tobacco cards, of which we have 143, but we also have two additional cards. The missing card is of Balthomen, a panorama, in a category we would consider a less interesting one (Nordfahrtland Motorschiff). The cover has wear and corner chips. A few of the cards are loose. The paste used to mount the cards has over time created a residue that has caused an uneven shaped area of discoloration around the mounted cards. Still Very Good.

Plaza de Toros "El Toreo" Sabado 29 de Diciembre de 1928 ... Gran Corrida de Toros organizada por empleados de los Ferrocarriles nacionales de Mexico, en honor de los senores funcionarios y jefes de los mismos

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Title: Plaza de Toros "El Toreo" Sabado 29 de Diciembre de 1928 ... Gran Corrida de Toros organizada por empleados de los Ferrocarriles nacionales de Mexico, en honor de los senores funcionarios y jefes de los mismos
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [Córdoba, Mexico]: Typ. y Lit de El Buen Tono, S.A., 1928. Broadside, approx. 11½" x 6½", paper a bit toned, else very good.

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An Introduction to Celtic Coins by ALLEN, Derek

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Title: An Introduction to Celtic Coins
Author: ALLEN, Derek
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780714108414
Condition: very good
Description: London: British Museum Publications, 1978. paperback. very good. Many Illus. 80pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. (London): British Museum Publications, (1978). Very good

Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 by ZEGERS, Peter Kort and Douglas Druick, eds

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Title: Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
Author: ZEGERS, Peter Kort and Douglas Druick, eds
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Chicago: Art Institute of Chicag, [2011]. First Edition. Folio (32.75cm.); original white illustrated boards; [2],400pp.; chiefly illus. A touch dust-soiled, else Fine. Lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibit of the same name.

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