sidney cobb (2 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine. First edition. Quarto. 134pp. Ty Cobb cigarette card tipped in, illustrations by Feliks Topolski including a lard fold out poster, photographs and paintings by Thomas Eakins, ten photographs by Harry Callahan. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers mildly soiled and toned, short tears on spine ends, else a very good copy. Containing Loren Eisley's *Big Eyes and Small Eyes*, Ring Lardner Writes a Letter, "The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley", Jan Juta *To King Solomon's Mines*, "Lewis Carroll Writes to Some Young Friends", "Vater und Sohn", Larry Koller *The American Gun*, Rudyard Kipling *The Finest Story in the World*, "Mr. Lincoln Writes a Short Short Story" with a manuscript facsimile written in Abraham Lincoln's hand inserted, and more. Scarce.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. New York: Samuel French, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, black topstain, in grey printed dust jacket; xvii,[5],174pp. Jacket spine panel a bit toned, cloth lightly faded at margins, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Laid in theatre program for the production at the Northwestern University Theatre directed by Garrett H. Leverton which opened on Veteran's Day, 1935. "The uniforms and equipment are those which were used in Arthur Hopkins' presentation in New York York earlier this season.Fire hazards require that smoking be confined to the smoking room off of the lobby. *Please Use the Ashtrays*." Adaptation for the stage of Humphrey Cobb's pacifist novel of the same title inspired by the Souain corporals affair of World War I, during which four corporals were randomly shot by firing squad as an example for their companies. The work was adapted by Stanley Kubrick in 1957 into the film starring Kirk Douglas.