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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

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.
Black Doll

Black Doll by GOREY (Edward)

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Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD
Title
Black Doll
Author
GOREY (Edward)
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BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description
GOREY (Edward): Black Doll New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973 A Few Frames from the BLACK DOLL, comprising eight mounted photographs by Tom Parrish, each picture signed by the photographer and dated '75 - '76. Square quarto, [8] ff. + index; original stiff marbled paper with a typed title label on upper cover. Created as a promotional presentation for making the film version of "The Black Doll". Accompanied by: The BLACK DOLL. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Small 8vo, 52pp + colophon; grey paper wrappers with pictorial label designed by the author on the front wrapper. First printing, signed by Edward Gorey on the title-page. . "The Black Doll" is Gorey's screenplay for an unproduced silent film. Like many of his works, the plot is set in a Victorian-esque surrounding. It tells the story of the black doll, a "PRO," or "priceless ritual object", from the ancient Asian city of Glub (or Blug), which is sought after by various groups of people. The black doll figure is a recurring figure in Gorey's books, and makes appearances in The Listing Attic (1954), The Willowdale Handcar (1962), The Tunnel Calamity (1984), and The Raging Tide (1987). Gorey, a film buff particularly inspired by the works of Louis Feuillade, blends his own signature black humor with the traditional elements of silent film, creating a unique screenplay that provides much more insight into the author's thought process than many of his other books, which are hallmarked by their minimal use of text. In 1998, The Black Doll was reprinted along with several color illustrations by Gorey in "Scenario, The Magazine of Screenwriting Art". In 2009, Pomegranate published a new, hardcover edition of The Black Doll with the "Scenario" illustrations, an interview with Gorey, and an introduction by Andreas Brown.
Autograph Note signed ("T. Hardy") to "Dear Mr. Fisher.

Autograph Note signed ("T. Hardy") to "Dear Mr. Fisher. by Hardy, Thomas

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Autograph Note signed ("T. Hardy") to "Dear Mr. Fisher.
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Hardy, Thomas
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Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1895. One page of a bifolium (watermarked "Papyrus Regia"), dated "18.12.95". The text of this note reads: I can only find the enclosed papers [not present], wh. please return, as they do not belong to me. Some details are incorrect. | Photography of Elliott & Fry, Baker St. | Yours truly | [signed] T. Hardy. "Mr Fisher" was almost certainly Frederick Henry Fisher, editor of "Literary World" magazine on Fleet Street; the prior month (3.11.95) Hardy had written a note to him ("F.H. Fisher Esq.") regarding the dearth of advance copies of JUDE THE OBSCURE. (The current note must have been in response to Fisher's request for more information, probably in preparation for an article about JUDE.) Hardy must have enclosed a copy of the portrait of himself that had been taken in 1894 by F.H. Hart for Elliott & Fry -- who at the time were the London photographers of Anybody Who Was Somebody. The letter is in fine condition, other than faint evidence of prior mounting along a back edge.
Social Tales for the Young

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

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

ADVENTURES OF MISS TABBY GRAY by BAYLOR, Adelaide S.

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ADVENTURES OF MISS TABBY GRAY
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BAYLOR, Adelaide S.
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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.
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Here in the Village by Barthelme, Donald

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Here in the Village
Author
Barthelme, Donald
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
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Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This copy is number 39 of 50, signed by the author; one of the special copies on Ingres paper with a collage initialed by the author as the frontispiece. Designed by Richard Bigus and printed by Felicia Rice. An entertaining look at Barthelme’s life in New York City, taken from some of his New Yorker columns. Inscribed upside down on the rear free endpaper to Elaine Lustig Cohen and Arthur Cohen: “For Elaine and Arthur / Love / Don 1979”. This copy also contains an inserted type-written, photocopied note (presumably written by Barthelme) referencing a gumbo recipe and Barthelme’s wife Marion. 8.5x5.75”, 55pp. A fine, hardcover in cloth binding with no dust jacket as issued.
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Die Welt in Bildern

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Die Welt in Bildern
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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

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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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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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.
An Introduction to Celtic Coins
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An Introduction to Celtic Coins by ALLEN, Derek

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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

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