luce clare booth (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. THE SCRIPT! ACTING EDITION SCRIPT for your dramatic needs. Some shelf wear to the covers.Former actor name.Good binding. The dialogue flows nicely. Enjoy this ACTING SCRIPT useful for theater performance.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. First edition with dust jacket.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Paperback, lightly bowed, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges lightly soiled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. Color frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; 1952 Sheed & Ward. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in generally sharp and neat pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just superficial shelf rubbing to jacket edges. Essays/profiles of 20 Catholic Saints by a variety of authors including Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh etc. VG++/VG+.

Roma, "United States Information Service", [anni '50 del XX sec.], in-8, br. edit., pp. 41, [3].

Blue Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Dustjacket. Photographs Throughout (illustrator). First Edition (stated). 197 Pp. First Printing, In Dust Jacket. This Copy Inscribed By Lorentz On Title Page To Liberal Ny Attorney And Later Los Angeles Aclu Leader George Slass, With Lorentz's Full Signature And Ny Address On Front Endpaper.A Fine And Plainspoken Photohistory Of The First Year Of Roosevelt's Presidency, From The Liberal Point Of View, Published April 1934. Lorentz Went On To Make Many Films For Roosevelt In The Thirties. (See Pare Lorentz, "Fdr's Moviemaker."). Clare Booth Brokaw Luce Was Coeditor , Later Managing Editor, Of Vanity Fair, And Had Hired Lorentz As Their Movie Critic. " I Was So Impressed With The Use Of Photographs That I Began To Promote The Idea Of Photographing The Great Changes That Were Taking Place In America. Practically All Of The Pictures In My Magazine Were Of People, And Some Of Them Were Used In A Comic Manner. I Never Saw Anything Of The Main Streets Of Little Towns With Big Signs, 'Store For Rent,' And No Shots Of Rusting Coal Cars And Idle Tipples And Smokeless Smokestacks Along The Roads I Drove On My Way Back To West Virginia To Visit My People. I Decided If I Couldn't Make A Movie, I Would Collect News Photographs And Do A Picture Book In The Form Of A Newsreel With Large Captions At The Top And Concise News Photographs Alongside The Big Pictures." Lorentz's First Film Was "The Plow That Broke The Plains", A Classic About The Dust Bowl. There's A Nice Shot Of Lorentz By Dorothea Lange, 1936, Taken On The Rooftop Of The Department Of Agriculture Building. A Nice Copy In The Scarce Dustjacket, With Wear At Edges, Chipping At Corners And At Head And Foot Of Spine. This Copy Inscribed By Lorentz On Title Page To Liberal Ny Attorney And Later Los Angeles Aclu Leader George Slass, With Lorentz's Full Signature And Ny Address On Front Endpaper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Signed lower left "Clare". 9-1/2 x 8 inches (Image size). Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), one of the most celebrated women of her time, had an early career in fashion magazine editing, then went on to write several successful plays, notably The Women (1936) and Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938). She married Time co-founder Henry R. Luce, became active in GOP politics and served as a congresswoman from Connecticut 1943-47. In 1953 she was appointed Ambassador to Italy, the first American woman to hold such a high ranking post; she served till 1957. Framed. Provenance: Shirley Clurman Signed lower left "Clare". 9-1/2 x 8 inches (Image size). Signed.

Zustand: Framed. Inscribed "Top my darling Shirley with love, Clare Rome 53-'56.". Signed.