Larry fleming (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1957 film. An imaginative and inaccurate biography of the famed comedian. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.

42pp., 12mo. In cream printed illustrated wraps printed in green. The body of the magazine is paginated 53-85, with additional pages of advertisements at the front and back, and on the inside and back of the wraps. Aged, and with a little damp damage and rust to staples. From the Lynd archive, and with a full-page photographic portrait of 'Mrs. ROBERT LYND' on p.66. For the purposes of reproduction her daughter Maire Gaster has altered 'Mrs. ROBERT' to 'Sylvia' in pencil, and written 'Courtesy of MAIRE GASTER' at the head of the page. The conjugate leaf (carrying pp.71-72) is lacking, and the bifolium carrying pp.67-70 is loose. Editorial on 'The Record Breaking Banquet', with articles on 'The Irish National Banquet' (lacking the last two pages on the missing leaf described above) and ' The Banquet from a Woman's Point of View' by 'Una'. On p.61 'Mr. Robert Lynd and Mrs. Lynd' are reported to have dined 'at the principal table', and on p.74 'Una' writes: 'Mrs. Robert Lynd's dress I am unable to describe as my fleeting glimpse of her only left with me the impression of her expressive face, its individual charm heightened by seed-pearl ear-rings of quaint and beautiful design.' No other copy traced.…

hardcover. Zustand: Befriedigend. 135 Seiten; 9783950039412.4 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Rockwell, Norman (cover); Whitmore, Coby; Fleming, Bill; Ludekens, Fred; Kritcher, Larry; Meyers, Robert; George, Edwin; (illustrator).…

First edition of this anthology introduced by Ian Fleming. Octavo, bound in three quarters green morocco over green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, title page vignette, illustrated decorations for each chapter. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ian Fleming to Margaret Hughes on the second free endpaper, "To Mrs John Hughes Whose son Larry Is certainly innocent of all of them! from IanÂFleming." Additionally signed by Larry Hughes beneath Fleming's inscription. The recipient, Margaret Hughes, is the mother of Larry Hughes, President of the publishing company William Morrow (and son-in-law of Hugo Pitman, Fleming's lifelong friend). From the collection of Larry Hughes with a small circular orange sticker at bottom of the rear panel, applied by Hughes denoting importance. In near fine condition. Special foreword by Ian Fleming. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. We have never seen another example signed and inscribed by Fleming. The Seven Deadly Sins (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962) is a distinguished mid-century anthology conceived and introduced by Ian Fleming, who commissioned leading British writers to produce literary essays on each of the traditional vices. The volume gathers contributions by W. H. Auden (Anger), Cyril Connolly (Covetousness), Patrick Leigh Fermor (Gluttony), Edith Sitwell (Pride), Christopher Sykes (Lust), Evelyn Waugh (Sloth), and Angus Wilson (Envy). Originating in essays first published in The Sunday Times and then issued together for an international readership, the book turns a medieval moral framework into a lively postwar exploration of human behavior and cultural change. …