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[Annotated Vernacular Album Kept by Miss Peggy Williams, Who Worked as a Clown in the Bates Brothers Musical Follies]

[Annotated Vernacular Album Kept by Miss Peggy Williams, Who Worked as a Clown in the Bates Brothers Musical Follies] by [Bates Brothers Musical Follies]. Williams, Peggy

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Title
[Annotated Vernacular Album Kept by Miss Peggy Williams, Who Worked as a Clown in the Bates Brothers Musical Follies]
Author
[Bates Brothers Musical Follies]. Williams, Peggy
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[Various locations, 1920. Very good.. [51] leaves, illustrated with 205 sepia-toned photographs in mounting corners, and another handful loose in the album or stored behind other images, about a third captioned in white pencil on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth. Moderate soiling and edge wear. Minor occasional wear to photographs. Manuscript inscription on inside front cover reads, "Miss Peggy Williams. Bates Bro. Musical Follies." A personal vernacular photograph album kept by Miss Peggy Williams of the Bates Brothers Musical Follies, a popular touring circus in the first half of the 20th century. Williams performed as a clown for the Bates Brothers, some of which she documents in the present album. Williams likely worked mainly in the 1920s, although the range of time represented by the present album runs from roughly 1920 to the late 1960s. The album captures Williams and other members of the Bates Brothers Musical Follies, otherwise known as the Bates Brothers Musical Comedy Company while on tour through Nova Scotia and New England with stops in Halifax and Truro, as well as Keen, New Hampshire; Poughkeepsie, New York; Bennington, Vermont; Orchard Beach, Maine; and other locations. The photographs depict the company taking to the road, standing beside advertisements dressed in circus attire with white face paint, practicing splits, and forming human pyramids in their down time. The images capture the troupe largely during recreation times, with no images of the performances themselves. Some of the images are studio portraits of the performers. Much of the album captures Williams in slightly later times, largely in a domestic capacity. These images include family portraits, casual family settings, Williams' mother, her dog, her husband, school portraits of unidentified children, and other images of babies and friends. A pasted advertising sign visible in the background of a few photos touts the Bates company as "A jingling laugh show of mirth, melody, and dance." These signs indicate the main performers as Kimmie Evans and Dora Davis, which should help researchers more accurately date the pictures here. Peggy Williams must have acted in a supporting role, as she does not appear to be featured on the company's posters at the time of these photos. Bill Bates is pictured and named as the manager of the eponymous Bates Brothers Musical Follies in which Miss Williams got her start. Two pages refer to the set of the film Arctic City in which Williams played a small role. This set was located in Port Henry, New York. A wonderful primary source record of one woman's work as a clown during the Roaring Twenties.
Matthew Flinders Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis

Matthew Flinders Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis by Flinders, Matthew

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Matthew Flinders Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis
Author
Flinders, Matthew
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. First Thus. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being 547). Folio (12 1/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 310 x 189 mm.). Publisher's full green buckram. Front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a schooner designed by John Buckland Wright, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small red ink stamp on front free endpaper. Collating 100, [2], [2, blank]. Nine wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright (including frontispiece, title vignette, six head-piece vignettes, and printer's device). Map. Printed in black and green. A Near Fine copy. "Matthew Flinders' Narrative has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, on Arnold's mould-made paper in 16pt. Aldine Bembo type, with Centaur initials, designed by Bruce Rogers, and Lyons capitals, designed by Louis Perrin, upon the model Latin inscriptions in 1846" (Colophon). "This is another book of daring exploration in our Sea Series. I tried to produce these stories of high adventure in an exciting way, and planned to make the book a symphony in green. I even thought of scenting the paper with seaweed, and imagined clients commenting to each other... 'Strange thing about this book-it seems to bring a breath of the sea!'" (Cockolorum). Cave & Manson 170. Cockalorum 170. Hill I, pp. 106-107.
Family Portrait (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Family Portrait (Original screenplay for an unproduced film) by William Joyce Cowen, Leonore Coffee (play); John Gay (screenwriter)

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Family Portrait (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
Author
William Joyce Cowen, Leonore Coffee (play); John Gay (screenwriter)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: N.p., 1981. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1939 play by William Joyce Cowen and Leonore Coffee, which debuted at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Margaret Webster and starring Judith Anderson. The plot follows the story of Jesus' crucifixion, as told through the eyes of his family. Set in Jerusalem. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated August 17, 1981, with credits for screenwriter John Gay and playwrights Leonore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated 9/9. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, lightly soiled overall, bound internally with three gold brads.
Upper California

Upper California by Künzel, Heinrich

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Upper California
Author
Künzel, Heinrich
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Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, pp. [2], 61, [1]. Illustrated by Mallette Dean, facsimiles, endpaper maps; fine in original rust cloth, pictorial paper cover label, printed paper spine label. The plain dustwrapper is present. worn at the spine tips and fold edges. Written to encourage German emigrants to California, the Künzel pamphlet was likely the first of its time and place to concentrate on California. One of 450 copies. Cowan, p. 337, where it is listed in its original German title, "Obercalifornien". .

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