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Drake, Nicholas; Hepburn, Audrey (foreword). The Fifties in Vogue. London: Henry Holt & Co, 1987. ISBN: 080500324X

First edition FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1ST PRINTING. 160 pages with index filled with numerous black & white and color photos and illustrations from the pages of Vogue. The book is in FINE condition. The jacket is in NEAR FINE condition with slight fading to spine. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people. Dust jacket cover reads: "The Fifties in Vogue presents a fresh view of one of the most exhilarating decades of this century. As the hardships and privations of the post-war period drew to a close, life became exciting again-there was a whole new world brimming with talent in the arts, films, the theater, in literature and the media. Here is the story of the post-war boom, emerging like a phoenix from austerity and shortages, as it was reflected in Vogue, the most influential and stylish magazine of the time. A blossoming new consumer culture in America and in Europe became 'the affluent society' and with it arrived the age of television, jet travel and satellites in space. There were new movements, new fashions, new labels; jazz discovered Cool, the teenager was invented and with Bill Haley and Elvis Presley in the charts, the world was rock'n'rolling round the clock. Sex symbols Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot and antiheroes Marlon Brando and James Dean molded a new image on the screen, while John Osborne gave the rebel a name and a cause. Vogue was there to chronicle the times in its own inimitable style, through the lenses of such photographers as Irving Penn, Cecil beaton, and Norman Parkinson and the work of such writers as diverse as Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas. Today there is a renewed interest in every aspect of the Fifties-particularly in the arts, literature, and design of the decade which has left its indelible mark on the post-war world. In the pages of The Fifties in Vogue, drawn from the cream of contemporary American, British and French Vogue, the Fifties live again. Includes: The Coronation, Faces in Vogue, Society Abroad, Society At Home, Having a Ball, Theatre Bouquets, Art and Artists, Song & Dance, Rock 'N Jazz, The Big Screen, Vogue's Book Bag, Ballet-Hoo, Music Notes, Design for Living, the Comic Spirit, The Gastronomic Map, Pictures of Christmas, Advertising in Vogue. " SEE ALSO these other related titles: THE THIRTIES IN VOGUE and SOCIETY IN VOGUE Hard Cover condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

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Eyles, Allen. The Marx Brothers: Their World of Comedy. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1969. ISBN: 0498014479

First edition FIRST EDITION. 189 pages with Appendix I, II, and III and over 100 black and white photos. The book is in FINE condition. The jacket is in NEAR FINE condition, is price clipped with a small tear on back upper left and minor tearing and splitting on the top spine end and edge. Slight use marks on top front, flap edge and corner. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo--these are the Marx brothers, the most heroic of all screen comedians. In the era of the silent screen, comic personalities were most often the inno- cent victims of a hostile universe who only through luck or plodding determination occasionally mastered their fate. Not so the Marx brothers. They tackled a world full of hypocrisy, pomposity, pedantry, and patronage and brought it to its knees. They opposed education, culture, and all forms of regulation as destroying the natural life and man's innate dignity. Allen Eyles has done extensive re search and has brought together more than 100 photographs to help us follow the Marx Brothers' hilarious film career.Analyses, accomparied by many stills, are given for all the great films: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup,;, A Ntght at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Room Service, At the Circus, Go West, The Big Store, A Night in Casablanca and Love Happy. You will learn about the early life of these famous brothers-how they started out in vaudeville; how Leonard, Adolph, Julius, Herbert, and Milton got their new names; when Harpo wore his red wig for the first time; and how The Cocoanuts led to their successful film career. You will follow them through the making of all the zany films from The Cocoanuts in 1929 to Love Happy in 1949. Then you will see them .. through the fifties, with Groucho ad-libbing his way through "You Bet Your Life" and Harpo's classic "mirror" pantomime with Lucille Ball in "I Love Lucy." Today most of the brothers are gone, but Groucho is still going strong. That veteran cynic of their times, H. L. Mencken, might well have had the Marx Brothers in mind when he made the following observation: "The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by . . . dunderheads; it has been furthered by the gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe. . . . One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand sy1logisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent." Hard Cover condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

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[CHIKANOBU, Toyohara [Yoshu.]. A PAIR OF COLOR SHUNGA EROTIC PRINTS..
A LOVELY PAIR OF HIGHLY DECORATIVE EROTIC PRINTS This pair of matching prints were likely extracted from an book. The first print shows a decadent [merchant?] young Japanese man in an elaborate and lush Kimono, fully sexually engaged in love-making with a Joro or prostitute. She is also in a very elaborate and gorgeous Kimono, with many hair decorations in her coiffeur. While being fully clothed,their connecting genitals are fully exposed, thus revealing the erotic theme in Japanese art, while they are seated on a honeycomb patterned Futon [blanket]. The background of a beautiful folded screen shows cranes flying over water with waves foaming, another tangent sexual allusion. * The second print shows another rogue or rake on a Futon, with his woman sitting on his legs facing him, while he holds her left knee high as he penetrates her, by guiding & injecting his penis into her vulva. She holds his neck with both arms locked in an embrace as they both display flushed & pinkish faces. The background is nicely done, with a folding screen showing a peony flower & what is likely the artist's secret signature. * Suitable for gallery & library display, nicely executed art work & design. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: L. Roberts: A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS p.185-6. * R. Lane: IMAGES FROM THE FLOATING WORLD p.214. * Toyohara 1838-1912 studied Kano style painting, studied under Toyohara Kunichika, who's surname he adopted. A skillful painter of women & historical subjects. Chikanobu did not do many Shunga or erotic prints, but his style is strong, clear & solid, with considerable skill in composition and design. * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

[Japan nd. ca. 1887]. A pair of Oban prints, sheet size, 34x 25 cm., print size 31.5 x 21 cm., very good, center fold, matted, faint stain in background images not affected as is. Color printed woodblock prints. S C A R C E

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Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David. The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty. New York, NY, U.S.A.: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1991. ISBN: 0399135928

FIRST EDITION. The book is in FINE/AS NEW (unread) condition. 336 pages with index plus 32 black & white photos. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "Charismatic, enigmatic, and larger than life, the Fonda family-Henry, Jane, and Peter- has long captured the attention and imagination of movie audiences. Yet the real story of the Fondas is one not only of public triumphs but also of hidden scars and sorrows. Now, for the first time, a biographer probes the private world of the Fondas and creates an astonishing, psychologically complex portrait of an aloof, uncommunicative patriarch and his two headstrong, rudderless children. Peter Collier, who has demonstrated his mastery of family dynamics in his biographies of the Rockefellers and Kennedys, begins his story with Henry. The handsome, laconic young actor from Nebraska arrived in Hollywood in 1935, just as the golden era of the talkies was creating a new breed of hero. With his slate-blue eyes, chiseled features, and tall, lanky frame, Fonda became an instant film legend as Abe Lincoln, Tom Joad, and Wyatt Earp. Off screen Fonda was a prickly, highly demanding man fated to a series of fractured relationships. His marriage to actress Margaret Sullavan ended when she invited other men to their apartment. Henry's second wife, the socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, was a deeply troubled woman whose illnesses and hospitalizations alienated her from her husband and from their two children, Jane and Peter. After Frances committed suicide in 1950, Henry, instead of drawing closer to his children, shunted them aside and sought comfort in his work and in a succession of three more wives. His children never seemed to forgive Henry for their troubled youth. They subconsciously battled for love and attention in the way they knew best: by seeking public acclaim. Playing out their internal dramas on the big screen of the public imagination, they remade the Fonda image-Peter with his landmark film, Easy Rider; Jane with flamboyant political activism during the Vietnam War and later as a major film star. As the story moves from Henry to his offspring, Collier tells with gripping detail of Peter Fonda's downward spiral after Easy Rider. In a drug-induced haze, Peter struggled with a broken marriage and a faltering film career. After his fleeting moment as the family's box-office star, he once again watched as his sister eclipsed him. The rivalries, smoldering since childhood, resurfaced. Jane, for her part, struggled to transform her image from that of Roger Vadim's sex kitten to that of a serious revolutionary. She then became the archetypal Hollywood figure and shrewd businesswoman. Yet after spending millions of dollars helping her second husband, Tom Hayden, carve out a political career, she suffered a humiliating divorce. Cast against a sweeping backdrop, Collier's portrait of the Fondas is filled with poignant details of their private world. No ordinary Hollywood biography, this is a moving tale of three powerful personalities struggling with each other-and with themselves." Hard Back condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

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