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Espargne-Bois C'Est a Dire, Nouvelle Et Parci-Devant Non Commune, ni mise en lumiere, invention de certains et divers fourneaux artificiels. par François Keslar ... Maintenant publiee en françois pour le bien ... de tous ceux qui usent de ceste langue

Espargne-Bois C'Est a Dire, Nouvelle Et Parci-Devant Non Commune, ni mise en lumiere, invention de certains et divers fourneaux artificiels. par François Keslar ... Maintenant publiee en françois pour le bien ... de tous ceux qui usent de ceste langue by [Stoves]; Keslar, Francois [Franz Kessler]

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Espargne-Bois C'Est a Dire, Nouvelle Et Parci-Devant Non Commune, ni mise en lumiere, invention de certains et divers fourneaux artificiels. par François Keslar ... Maintenant publiee en françois pour le bien ... de tous ceux qui usent de ceste langue
Author
[Stoves]; Keslar, Francois [Franz Kessler]
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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Oppenheim: Par Iean Theodore dé Bry marchant libraire & bourgeois d'Oppenheim qui est sur le Rhin, 1619. Small quarto (19.5 x 14 cm.), [7], 8-72 pages, five plates engraved on copper, one folding. FIRST FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION and FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. The first book on individual heating using stoves. A rare work on improvements in fireplaces and stoves, featuring five plates of ornate examples. It was published by the copper engraver and publisher Jean Theodore de Bry (1561-1623), born in Strasbourg, who settled in Oppenheim in 1609. The text was published by the same publisher the previous year in German as part of a larger work by the author and titled Holzsparkunst. Franz Keslar or Kessler (circa 1580 – circa 1630) a painter from Frankfurt, describes several models of heating previously unrecorded in France. Keslar's innovation was a response to the dwindling supply of wood for heating and cooking throughout the Continent, promoting a transition from the use of hearths to the more efficient and controllable stove. Thus the title Espargne-Bois [Wood Saver]. "The model advocated by Keslar was a wood-burning furnace such as is still used today, several tiers high, and 'magnificently decorated, probably to make up for the loss of decoration due to the disappearance of the fireplace... Keslar expresses satisfaction given him by his device: 'When in winter, I often return home feeling cold, I like to warm myself bedside my furnace (rather than before an open fireplace where one is often almost roasted in front while freezing behind)...[with a glowing and agreeable heat'" (Roche, A History of Everyday Things, the Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800, page 128). The attractive engravings depict the various types of stoves, two of which are richly decorated individual heaters, in the manner of Alsatian kachelofen [plaid stoves]. ~ A bit of edgewear, and some darkening to text block leaves throughout; plates less toned. In later, quarter brown calf with author’s name in gilt to spine; tan paper covered-boards rubbed and abraded at corners. Rare. [OCLC locates six copies (just two in the US); Roche, page 128].
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The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes by De Voe, Thomas F.

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The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes
Author
De Voe, Thomas F.
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867. Thick octavo, 455, 15 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. First edition, second printing. Thomas F. De Voe was a butcher at Jefferson Market in New York's Greenwich Village, and he is depicted as such, top-hat and all, in the handsome frontispiece to the book. De Voe was working as a New York butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to the city's open air food markets. In her book, Kitchen Literacy, food historian Anne Vileisis calls De Voe, “no ordinary butcher. He might more aptly be described as an epicure naturalist, and it is this naturalist inclination that makes him so fascinating.” Internally clean and sound. In publisher's blind-ruled and gilt-lettered brown cloth; slight bit of dampstaining to front cloth panel. Early pencil ownership signature to title page; tissue guard at title page foxed, with a bit of foxing to title page. Overall, near fine. Rare in the marketplace.
Carcer d'Amore

Carcer d'Amore by [SAN PEDRO, Diego de (ca. 1437- ca. 1498)]

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Carcer d'Amore
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[SAN PEDRO, Diego de (ca. 1437- ca. 1498)]
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, compagni, 1537. 8vo (145 x 94 mm). 48 leaves. Italic types. Large title woodcut of the prison of love in flames, 19 woodcut text illustrations printed from 13 blocks, most showing two scenes; initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). 19th-century green straight-grained morocco, sides with double fillet border enclosing central gold-blocked arms of Gómez de la Cortina, his gilt crowned ciphers in the corners, gilt edges. Provenance: Joaquin Gómez de La Cortina, 1st Marquis de Morante (1808-1868), supralibros & bookplate; with Quaritch, their collation note at end; sold in 1996 to Kenneth Rapoport (bookplate). *** Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation of the Carcel de amor (1st ed. 1492) was among the most popular sentimental romances of its time. Many wept over the thwarted love of the noble Leriano and Laureola, heir to the throne of Macedonia. Captive in an allegorical tower of love, communicating with his beloved only through mediators, the hero eventually renounces her in order to preserve her honor, threatened by a rival’s false aspersions. There are duels and battles, Leriano stops eating, and finally dies, after shredding and swallowing her letters. The tragedy touched a nerve and dozens of editions appeared in Spain, as well as translations into Italian, French, English, Catalan, and, in the 17th century, German.  Few remembered the true author, whose name is omitted from most of these editions. One of several Castilian romances that were widely adapted and translated into other western European languages, the Carcel de amor was the only one to appear first in print, and to be consistently illustrated. It permeated the European reading public. The tale is told through letters and monologues rather than dialogue, and much has been written about its hybrid forms and elaborate rhetoric (“a reflection of vernacular humanism and a fictional tour de force of rhetorical precepts” [Francomano, p. 10]), and about its literary sources and later influence (or lack of it): While many scholars note its influence on the development of later European Renaissance fiction through its use of epistolary exchanges and of a narrative voice (L’autore, who acts as intermediary), as well as its tragic ending and exploration of class differences between the lovers, one commentator has called it “a dead-end in the history of literature” (A. West: “In general, the Prison of Love is a book of vestiges: of ways of believing that no longer obtain, of customs that already were dying out, of a manner of writing soon to be eclipsed by the realism of the picaresque novel.”) The humanist Lelio Manfredi (d. 1528) translated the work into Italian at the request of Isabella d’Este, to whom the printed editions are dedicated, the first appearing in Venice in 1514. Eight more editions of his translation are recorded by USTC, all but one Venetian, the last in 1546. This edition is the third of four recorded editions by the partners Fr. Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, who specialized in vernacular literature and devotional works. The title woodcut used in the Bindoni and Pasini editions is a close copy of woodcuts from earlier Venetian editions (see, for example, an anonymously published Spanish edition from 1523, Sander 6729 (not in USTC), whose title is reproduced in the Heredia catalogue, vol. 2, no. 2468). Its iconography dates to the earliest Spanish editions, as does that of the small, primitive text woodcuts, which relate to the text and are based on the more elaborate cuts from the Spanish incunable editions (cf. Deyermond). Blind copying was the order of the day: note the anachronism of a cheaply printed edition of the 1530s retaining blank initial spaces with guide letters, to be filled by nonexistent rubricators or illuminators (who by this late date would only have been hired to embellish costly imprints or luxury manuscripts).  I locate two US holdings of this edition (UCLA and Folger), and six holdings of other editions of Manfredi’s translation. USTC 854438; EDIT-16 CNCE 66994; Sander 6732 note; Palau 293388; Brunet V, 112. Not in Essling. Cf. Alan Deyermond, “The Woodcuts of Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de Amor, 1492-1496,” Bulletin hispanique (2002) 104-2: 511-528; Emily Francomano, The Prison of Love: Romance, Translation and the Book in the Sixteenth Century (Toronto, 2018); Adrian West, “On Translating Diego de San Pedro's The Prison of Love,” Asymptote, Oct. 2012, online.
[ABOLITIONIST MEDAL 1834]. "I Advocate this Bill as a Measure of Humanity" / "Slavery Abolished by Great Britain 1834

[ABOLITIONIST MEDAL 1834]. "I Advocate this Bill as a Measure of Humanity" / "Slavery Abolished by Great Britain 1834 by Halliday, Thomas

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[ABOLITIONIST MEDAL 1834]. "I Advocate this Bill as a Measure of Humanity" / "Slavery Abolished by Great Britain 1834
Author
Halliday, Thomas
Seller
Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
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London, 1834. Very good. Commemorative medal, silvered white metal (41 mm diameter). Not formally "graded" but in very good condition and NOT a reproduction! SERVITUS NUMISMATICA! A VERY LITTLE KNOWN ABOLITIONIST COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL, CELEBRATING THE EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN WHICH COLONIAL SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND ROYAL ASCENT IN 1833, AND SUBSEQUENTLY BECOMING LAW IN 1834. Commemorative medals such as ours would have been distributed at Abolitionist meetings, or sold with the proceeds going to fund the Abolitionist campaign. We have found that the tactile experience of handling an actual Abolitionist medal, as here, is immensely gratifying for students and "civilians" alike; certainly its unbreakability lends itself well in classroom settings and coursework involving the study of material culture. It is believed that our medal was produced in London by the medallist Thomas Halliday (1771-1844) who is considered one of the foremost medallic engravers of the first half of the nineteenth century. It was made in silvered white metal and commemorates the abolition of colonial slavery throughout the British colonies in 1834. The obverse depicts a seated King William IV (1765-1837) attended by four standing statesmen (or advisors). The reverse of the medal depicts a group of freed male and female slaves dancing in a circle around a palm tree. In 1833 the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolitionist Act (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73), outlawing the owning, buying, and selling of humans as property throughout its colonies around the world. While this did not free enslaved people in the United States (which of course was no longer a British colony), it was a source of inspiration and hope for abolitionists. Our medal commemorates the exact day that the Slavery Abolitionist Act received William IV's royal ascent, on April 28, 1833, which made the Act become law, and which came into effect the following year on August 1, 1834. Brown (in his unsurpassable "British Historical Medals") states that the design for the obverse of this medal is taken from the medal struck for the Reform Bill of 1832, the legend in the exergue being altered to suit the occasion. Two versions of the present medal exist: one in copper (examples of which are held by the Royal Museums Greenwich and the Schomburg Center NYPL); and one in silvered white metal (British Museum), as here. Literature: Naomi Gardner, Embroidering Emancipation: Female Abolitionists and Material Culture in Britain and the USA, c.1780-1865 (PhD thesis, University of London, 2016, p. 93). Benjamin Weiss, Medallic History of Slavery: Racial Oppression as Chronicled by Historical and Commemorative Medals, 2020. References: Eimer 1276. BHM 1673. Brown, Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960, vol. I (Accession of George III to the Death of William IV), pp. 383 (no. 1596), 398 (1665) and 400 (1673).
Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work

Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work by BAYER, Herbert; Arthur A. COHEN

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Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work
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BAYER, Herbert; Arthur A. COHEN
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
As-new, fresh and bright
Description
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. As-new, fresh and bright. 4to (11 3/4 x 10 in.). 429, [2] pages. Original cloth; French-folded pictorial dust jacket; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, number 26 of 100 copies signed by Cohen, with an original signed photograph "Desert Flower, Greece, 1934," laid-in.
Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception

Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception by VARSANO, Paula

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Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception
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VARSANO, Paula
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9780824825737
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In fine, very well preserved condition
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Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. In fine, very well preserved condition. 8vo. 381 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "The poet Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the Banished Immortal, he continues to spark imaginations and challenge passionately held convictions about poetic values. In this lucidly and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception. Persuaded that the essence of his poetry lay well beyond the reach of the usual modes of study and description, readers from the ninth to the twentieth century developed a particularly dynamic critical language. Varsano shows how this language answered the need to conceptualize shifting parameters of poetic creativity over hundreds of years. At the same time, she offers an account of Li Bo's entry into the canon and asks how this in turn transformed both the reception of his work and the transmission of his poetic persona. This story of Li Bo's critical reception and canonization is propelled by the malleable and elusive ideal of the ancient" (the publisher).
Gerald Ford Signs A Mint White House Engraving

Gerald Ford Signs A Mint White House Engraving by GERALD FORD

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Gerald Ford Signs A Mint White House Engraving
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GERALD FORD
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
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GERALD R. FORD (1913-2006). Ford was the Thirty-Eighth President. Signed White House engraving. 8 x 6. No date. No place. An engraving of the White House signed Gerald Ford on the lower margin. It is in mint condition.
WHITTIKER'S ANATOMICAL MODEL

WHITTIKER'S ANATOMICAL MODEL by (MEDICAL) WHITTIKER

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WHITTIKER'S ANATOMICAL MODEL
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(MEDICAL) WHITTIKER
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L'Estampe Originale (United States)
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New York, Thos. Whittaker. Illustrated with anatomical engravings throughout and a complete color model. 16 pages. 10½ x 7 ½.
Little Charley's Games and Sports Embellished With Engravings

Little Charley's Games and Sports Embellished With Engravings

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Little Charley's Games and Sports Embellished With Engravings
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Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson & Co, 1865. Paper wraps. 32 pp. Paper covers with a 16 page book catalogue.
The Book Thief.
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The Book Thief. by ZUSAK, Markus.

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The Book Thief.
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ZUSAK, Markus.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780375831003
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: Knopf,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0375831002 . Made into the 2013 film. First American printing. Spot of light soiling on front board, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 552 pages .
Live Long and Be Happy. How to Prolong Your Life and Enjoy It

Live Long and Be Happy. How to Prolong Your Life and Enjoy It by Barker, Lewellys F.

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Live Long and Be Happy. How to Prolong Your Life and Enjoy It
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Barker, Lewellys F.
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New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1936. First edition. MONOGRPH ON LONGEVITY THROUGH DISEASE PREVENTION BY SUCCESSOR TO OSLER AT JOHNS HOPKINS. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, ink signature front free endpaper, Morris J. Rosenblum M.D. March 26, 1937, i-viii, [1], 224 pp. Spine faded, browning to endpapers. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. LEWELLYS FRANKLIN BARKER (1867 - 1943) received his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1890 from the University of Toronto Medical School. After interning at Toronto General Hospital, he came to Johns Hopkins in 1892 to join the staff of William Osler's Clinic. He later held a fellowship and served a residency in pathology. In 1897, he was appointed associate professor of anatomy. While at Johns Hopkins, Barker made several trips abroad to further his studies. He studied in Germany in Karl Ludwig's physiological laboratory and toured the South Pacific, Asia, and India to study hospital diseases. In 1900, Barker was appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago. Shortly after arriving in Chicago, he was appointed to the 1901 Federal Commission on Plague in San Francisco. In 1905, Barker was appointed director of medicine and physician-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, succeeding William Osler. He established laboratories at Johns Hopkins for the study of infectious diseases, physiology, and chemistry. Barker specialized in the study of neurology, endocrinology, and internal medicine.
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Lipogenesis in the animal body by Benedict, Francis G. and Robert C. Lee

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Lipogenesis in the animal body
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Benedict, Francis G. and Robert C. Lee
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1937. Ex-library with stamps on the 3-sides of the text-block, title page, toc, ix, 1, 232, fep. Original printed wrappers. Bound in paper boards and cloth spine with handwritten label. 232pp. (175 x 250 mm).
The Hoods Ride In

The Hoods Ride In by Brown, Wenzell

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The Hoods Ride In
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Brown, Wenzell
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: Pyramid Books, 1959. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. G439. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, some scuffs at the corners. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. A pulp crime novel that kicks off with the murder of a Mafia man.
Very Special Intelligence.

Very Special Intelligence. by Beesley, Patrick.

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Very Special Intelligence.
Author
Beesley, Patrick.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
First edition. Bound in publisher's red and black papered boards w/ silver lettering on spine in d/j. Very good condition.
Description
Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Bound in publisher's red and black papered boards w/ silver lettering on spine in d/j. Very good condition. "The story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945.. 20.5 cm. xxv, 282 pp. b/w photos in text
Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox

Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox by Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

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Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox
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Behlmer, Rudy, ed.
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ReadInk (United States)
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Fine in Near Fine dj
Description
New York: Grover Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket shows only some extremely light wear along the top edge (effectively concealed inside a new mylar protector)]. (B&W photographs) In this brilliantly-edited and annotated selection of Hollywood studio memos, film historian Rudy Behlmer does for 20th Century-Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck what he had done for the equally legendary producer David O. Selznick more than twenty years earlier. Zanuck, although not as prodigiously wordy as Selznick had been, was also a helluva memo-writer, and among all the studio heads of Hollywood's Golden Age was probably the most perspicacious and insightful when it came to matters of story and structure -- no doubt due, at least in part, to the fact that he had started out as a writer himself. His memos and letters, which span the years 1936-1955, provide the reader with a "front-the-top, at-the-moment, insider's look at the myriad elements that went into the production of a feature film during the colorful days of the old studio system." The introduction is by screenwriter/producer Philip Dunne, who had worked for Zanuck on many pictures and remembered him as a boss who "treated his writers with the same respect as all other professionals -- perhaps even more so because, unlike star-rich M-G-M, Zanuck's new and relatively star-poor studio depended upon good screenplays." (xx) .
1859 Albany, New York First Baptist Sabbath School Church Service Program

1859 Albany, New York First Baptist Sabbath School Church Service Program

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1859 Albany, New York First Baptist Sabbath School Church Service Program
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Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, 1859. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet. 9" X 6". Toning, creasing, and chipping to covers corners, and edges. Faint penciled notation to front cover. Paper feels tender but remains sound. An 1859 Church program entitled "Anniversary and Offerings by the Infant Department of the First Baptist Sabbath School, Albany, Sabbath Afternoon, June 19th, 1859.

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