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Richard Wright (playwright), Louis Sapin (source) DADDY GOODNESS A Comedy in Three Acts (1985) Theatre script by Richard Wright, Louis Sapin

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Title: Richard Wright (playwright), Louis Sapin (source) DADDY GOODNESS A Comedy in Three Acts (1985) Theatre script
Author: Richard Wright, Louis Sapin
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Just About Fine
Description: New York, 1985. Vintage original theatre script. Quarto, stenciled titled wrappers, cloth tape at spine, 145 pp., just about fine. Laid in is a photocopy of a letter from Ellen Wright to the previous owner of the script. This copy of the script is bound in with what was the original printed wrapper for the 1962 printing. A significant find: a 1962 draft of this play, which Richard Wright was working on at the time of his death. His widow had this draft typed up in 1962. No 1962 printings of that draft appear to have ever surfaced. This is one of two photocopies printed at Wright's suggestion by a writer with whom she was working on another project. A photocopy from Wright to him is laid in. Richard Wright's final creation, a play which was very much a work-in-progress at the time of his death (this copy of the play bears a date of August 18, 1961, which was several months after his death on November 28, 1960). In 1956, Wright saw and enjoyed a performance of the Louis Sapin play entitled Papa Bon Dieu. Roles were played by actors from the Théâtre Populaire Africain. Sapin asked Wright to adapt the play for a US audience, which Wright readily agreed to do. He rewrote the script, moving the setting to the American South. In 1957 there was interest in staging an off-Broadway production. But Wright did not agree with the changes the financers wanted him to make in the plot, so he declined the offer. He subsequently found a woman in London who was willing to underwrite the production of Daddy Goodness as a musical comedy, but this did not come to fruition, either. An English-language reading of the play was organized for February 19, 1959, at the USIS Theater on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Among the performers reading parts were American restaurant owner and professional actor Leroy Haynes, artist Larry Potter, and singer and restaurant/night club owner Inez Cavanaugh. Fred Hare, who was the director of the American Theatre Association of Paris, liked the play and decided to have the association produce it. He selected Leroy Haynes to play the lead role in the production. Rehearsals with a cast of professional actors began on April 12 but finding adequate funding was problematic. A bare bones performance without sets or costumes held at the American Embassy Theater on May 4 did not raise significant interest in the project and several cast members left the play for better paying roles elsewhere. Fred Hare intended to raise funds by selling stock in the play but his efforts failed. Wright decided to abandon the project out of fear that the remaining actors would not be able to be paid. On May 27, 1959, a reading at the Récamier Theater--with sets and costumes--was the last time Daddy Goodness was performed in Paris. Wright gave the script to Langston Hughes during Hughes' visit to Paris in November 1960, just days before Wright died. The Negro Ensemble Company in New York finally staged Daddy Goodness during its first repertory season in 1967-68. Of the different drafts which once existed of this play, very few have survived. CLC lists one copy at the Morgan Library of a 1956 typescript, which is a five-act version and 155 pp. This script is a photocopy done with Ellen Wright's permission of a 1962 typescript, which is thought to still exist in Wright's archive in Paris. The New York Public Library has a typescript of the 1968 version, as adapted for the American stage for the Negro Ensemble Company. It includes a letter of provenance from the script's previous owner.

The Burger Court Signed Photograph by Burger, Warren

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Title: The Burger Court Signed Photograph
Author: Burger, Warren
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: [Washington DC]: The Supreme Court, 1977. Signed Photograph. Framed. Near fine. 1977 Burger Court portrait, signed by all nine Supreme Court justices.. Color photograph, white bottom edge border with signatures. Framed piece measures 22" x 20," brown cherry wood frame, brown matte, archival glass. Brown paper backing, with "U.S. Rep. R.L. Mazzoli" label on back panel. Slight tear to the backing on the left side. This piece is signed by all nine Supreme Court justices, including: Chief Justice Warren Burger, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, William Rehnquist and John Paul Stevens. This unique portrait of the 1977 United States Supreme Court justices is believed to be the first time a casual photograph was taken of all nine together. The photograph was taken on January 10, 1977 and first appeared in the January 1977 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Provenance: From the estate of Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli (1932 - 2022), a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 3rd district from 1971 to 1995. Mazzoli co-authored the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, also known as the Simpson-Mazzoli Act. This legislation aimed to curb illegal immigration by strengthening border security and establishing penalties for employers who hire undocumented workers. Mazzoli earned his law degree from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1960 and practiced law before entering politics.

Peter Kleetman. Bewegung und Struktur by Sachsse, Rolf

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Title: Peter Kleetman. Bewegung und Struktur
Author: Sachsse, Rolf
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Cinubia, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. 160pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over blue clothe with blind-stamped lettering on cover. Cream endpapers. Collection of fascinating b/w photographs contrasting movement and structure. Keetman presents a variety of motifs, e.g tracks in the snow, waves in various settings, ravens in a field, bubble structures, long player on turntable, jumping Ping-Pong ball, and some of the photographs he is best known for, his 1953 documentation "One Week in the Volkswagen Manufacturing Plant." Text by Rolf Sachsse in German. DJ, binding and interior in overall fine condition.

Mr. Punch's Pageant

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Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA

Title: Mr. Punch's Pageant
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Ernest Brown & Phllips. 1909. Light edge wear and foxing to text block; near fine in wrappers. Softcover. Near Fine.

Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [SIGNED] by Birchard, Robert S.

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Title: Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [*SIGNED*]
Author: Birchard, Robert S.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing. (c.2007). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new but for an unfortunate patch of laminate-peeling at the bottom corner of the rear cover, which has been somewhat crudely "patched" with a strip of clear tape]. (Images of America) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. Primarily a history of the American Film Company (known colloquially as the "Flying A," based on its winged logo), which was founded in Chicago in 1910 and from 1912 located its primary production facility in Santa Barbara, California. Like other volumes in this excellent series, it's primarily a photographic chronicle -- but its author, the late Robert Birchard, devoted many years of research into the company's history and supplied uncommonly erudite and well-documented photo captions (which make up most of the book's text). Author . Signed by Author .

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