correll and gosden (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, soiling, joints starting. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Some rubbing on the boards, near very good lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. photogravures (illustrator). First edition. 12mo, 126 pages, orange cloth, edgeworn; ex libris Florence Shirley. Dialect adventures of two who left Birmingham to find profitable work in Chicago. Originally their characters were named Sam 'n' Henry. One chapter explains how Sam 'n; Henry had to become Amos 'N' Andy. This details how their radio shows and film projects were done. This includes the script to radio show no. 250, and some excerpts of dialogue from thier films. Extensively illustrated with photogravures.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Illustrated by Samuel Jay Smith (illustrator). First Edition. (red cloth with black lettering; no dust jacket) [a bit of wear to extremities, very slight exposure of boards at lower corners, tiny white stain on rear cover, one-time owner's name in ink at top of front endpaper]. (pen & ink drawings) Racial (OK, let's just say racist) humor by the creators of "Amos 'n' Andy," this volume reproduces 25 short sketches, selected from among the earliest episodes of the "Sam 'n' Henry" radio series, which premiered on the Chicago Tribune-owned station WGN in January 1926. Created and written by two white men (who also performed as the title characters), it presented the misadventures of two natives of Birmingham, Alabama, who have migrated to Chicago. Although not identical, the characters and their milieu are models for A 'n' A in virtually all the ways that matter; the show was an immediate hit; other iterations, besides this book, included the regular publication of some of the show's scripts in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, a number of recordings made by Gosden and Correll, and at least a handful of stage performances in Chicago in early 1927. The radio series itself ran for two-and-a-half years, but by the time it ended its run on WGN in July 1928, its creators had decamped for a competing Chicago station, leaving the "Sam 'n' Henry" name and characters (owned by WGN) behind, and had reworked the basic idea into "Amos 'n' Andy," which thrived on radio (and then television) for another 25+ years. Cringe-worthy to modern sensibilities, this kind of material can only be appreciated within the context of its time, most especially in its employment of the then-common "blackface" entertainment mode, which involved not only white performers in makeup but also an extreme and theatrical form of "Negro dialect," of which I will spare you any examples. (About the only less-condemnatory thing that can be said about the latter is that it was perhaps marginally less offensive on the radio than when Gosden & Correll "blacked up" to play the characters in the only "Amos 'n' Andy" feature film ever made, CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK, produced at RKO in 1930. It made money for the studio, but even Gosden himself, years later, called it "just about the worst movie ever.").

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1930 edition. Orange cloth. Soiling and some moderate wear on the boards, a sound good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

hardcover. Zustand: good. First. Photo illustrations. 127 pages. Small 8vo, orange cloth, lightly soiled, with pigment damage from insects on spine; ownership inscription. New York: Rand McNally, (1929). First Edition. A good solid copy.

Chicago (1929), Photos, 7.5 x 6", cloth, 127 pp outer hinge tearing, extgremities beginning to fray. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: poor. Second edition. Secone edition with "edition of 1930" on the copyright page. . Hardcover in orange cloth lettered in black. Illustrated endpapers. 126 pp. Illustrated with full page photographs of Correll and Gosden in and out of character. Fine. With the front panel and flaps ONLY of the rare dust jacket.The inside story of the creation of one of the most popular radio programs ever, 'Amos n' Andy", told by the two men who created the characters and the show. It answers the questions posed on the jacket flap: "Are the "boys" white or colored? Who writes the material for their episodes? Who takes the part of Amos? Who takes the part of Andy?" The radio program (and later the TV series) was set in Harlem and broadcast beginning in 1928 on Chicago's WMAQ. It was one of the first radio comedy shows and ran first as a nightly and later a weekly program. It was radio's first syndicated program and by 1929 was carried by 70 stations. Correll and Gosden were white and claim to have created the characters after overhearing two old black men conversing in an elevator. By the early 1930s, the progarm was being denounced by many in the African American community, particularly by the Pittsburg Courier which was then the second largest African American newspaper in America. The series was adapted for televison and ran for 52 episodes in 1951-53; the lead characters on the televison series were played by African American actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 1929 First Edition Hardcover Good +/Good Rand McNally & Co, Pub, NY, 1929, 1st edition; good+ condition with a good dust jacket: minor stains to cover, else book is fine; considerable chipping to jacket at edges, mylar protected; Gorrell and Gosden, Amos and Andy, Performing Arts 4/4/2006 0:0.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First edition. First edition. Illustrations by Margery Stocking. Foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth lettered in blue. Very good copy (some minor rubbing to lower cover), in rare Gwyas Williams dust jacket with one large chip from rear of jacket and small one from foot of spine, a few stains and slight rubbing, otherwise very good. Very scarce thus Illustrations by Margery Stocking. Foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. 1 vols. 8vo.