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The Abysmal Brute

The Abysmal Brute by London, Jack

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Abysmal Brute
Author
London, Jack
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in the scarce dust jacket. [4], 169, [1, ads] pp. Complete with the frontispiece by Gordon Grant. Publisher's olive green cloth titled in yellow and stamped in black. Slight foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, with just a bit of chipping at head and tail of spine and at corners. A Near Fine copy, overall bright and fresh, in like dust jacket. London's novel about a young man who is lifted from his life in a log cabin by a boxing manager to pursue a career in the big city. In the boxing world, he finds corruption running rampant, and falls for a journalist who draws him into her cosmopolitan social life. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1923, as The Abysmal Brute, and again in 1936, as Conflict. The second adaptation starred John Wayne, Jean Rogers, and Frank Sheridan. BAL 11945. Woodbridge, London, & Tweney, 109. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
[Radio script]: Promise by Henri Bernstein Adapted for Radio

[Radio script]: Promise by Henri Bernstein Adapted for Radio by ANDERSON, Robert (Henri Bernstein)

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
[Radio script]: Promise by Henri Bernstein Adapted for Radio
Author
ANDERSON, Robert (Henri Bernstein)
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[No place]: United States Steel Corporation presents The Theatre Guild on the Air, 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. Marked "Final Rehearsal." Quarto. Stapled mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. 76pp. Some foxing and moderate wear on the first leaf, else near fine. An adaptation of a French play that stars Gloria Swanson and Hume Cronyn. The play displays extensive textual corrections (as well as a drawing of a man) in pencil by the director of the play Homer Fickett. Robert Anderson, who did the adaptation is best known for his own Broadway successes including *Tea and Sympathy* (1953), *You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running* (1967), and *I Never Sang for My Father* (1968). The Theatre Guild on the Air began as an hour long dramatic series on radio and later for television from 1953 to 1963 sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation. In 1963 it went off the air, the last surviving live anthology series from the Golden Age of Television. The program utilized both adaptations of traditional plays along with original scripts by writers such as Rod Serling. The series featured many notable actors included Martin Balsam, Tallulah Bankhead, James Dean, Keir Dullea, Andy Griffith, Rex Harrison, Celeste Holm, Jack Klugman, Peter Lorre, Walter Matthau, Paul Newman, George Peppard, Johnny Carson, and many more, some in their on-screen debuts. *OCLC* locates no copies of this script.
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Improvement Era, vol 23, # 1, Nov 1919

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Improvement Era, vol 23, # 1, Nov 1919
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
YMMIA, 1919. Very Good. Improvement Era, vol 23, # 1, Nov 1919. Salt Lake City: YMMIA, 1919. 8vo. Wraps. Book condition: Very good.