milton gropper (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [moderate soiling and age-toning to edges of text block, light external wear; binding intact, small tear at bottom hinge of 2nd ffep]. "To save her father who is involved in financial difficulties and on the point of committing suicide, Nita Ralston has but one asset -- her virginal beauty. At a meeting of her father's creditors she brings the treasure of her beauty and puts it in the scales against her father's debt. One man intervenes not only to save her father but to save her from her own self-sacrifice. But she comes to his apartment against his will to make her payment.".

hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 237 clean, unmarked pages with light tanning and soiling on the outer edges; binding is starting to split at front and back hinges; no dust jacket; cover has stains, shelf wear, and bumped corners.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. French's Standard Library Edition. [ex-Library of Congress (stamped "duplicate; exchanged" on the copyright page), with some deterioration to the spine ends, some black smudging at the top of the rear cover, small "Reserve Storage" stamp (lined through) on front cover and title page)]. (3 B&W photographs) An early (and obscure) dramatic effort by Hammerstein, about an idealistic millionaire who wants to use his fortune to help out people in distress, but in a way that disguises the fact that they're receiving charity. (Part of this scheme involves disguising himself as a gypsy, hence the title.) This was Hammerstein's first effort at a straight play after he had contributed to the books and lyrics of a string of moderately successful (but now utterly forgotten) musicals, many years before his hooking up with Richard Rodgers. In fact, his entire career as a non-musical playwright basically consisted of this play and one more, "New Toys," which followed almost immediately: "Gypsy Jim" had an anemic run of 48 performances in January-February 1924, and "New Toys" fared even worse, logging just 24 performances in February and March. Properly discouraged from additional efforts in that vein, he returned to the musical-comedy realm, which was obviously his true metier: his next two shows, "Rose-Marie" and "Sunny," each ran for over a year on Broadway, and he never looked back. (Maybe he just had the wrong collaborator in Mr. Gropper, who also co-authored "New Toys," and whose overall theatrical track record was, in a word, undistinguished.) The Broadway production of "Gypsy Jim," incidentally, was a vehicle for none other than Leo Carrillo, well-remembered for his role as The Cisco Kid's sidekick "Pancho" in the 1950s TV series. This play, for what it's worth, seems t be a bit of a rarity, with no copies detected in the online marketplace in May 2020; this was likely its only printing, and I can't imagine there was too much of a demand for it.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1931. Portion of old dustjacket flap affixed to front free endpaper. Deep wine colored cloth with mustard yellow cover engraving and spine lettering, 255 pages. The book is in generally good condition with some edgewear including a very slightly frayed extreme spine ends, a dozen dates in heavy pencil on the rear pastedown along with a department story library stamp, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages. . Hard Cover. Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. A Travellers Pocket Library Best-Seller. No. 100. 160 p. 17 cm. Paperback. Creases and light soiling in covers. Paper browning. "Scarlet Story of a Woman of Sin." One of six paperbacks published in 1949 by Ward-Hill of New York. Each book is called "A Travellers Pocket Library Best-Seller." The books were numbered 100-104 and 106, the mysterious no. 105 not in existence. While the publisher's address is given as New York, the book states "Printed in Canada." Cover artist unknown.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Bleu cloth gilt. Pencil note "Privately printed" in the hand of Barrett H. Clark. Spine slightly toned, very near fine. *OCLC* locates six copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Bleu cloth gilt. Pencil note "Privately printed" in the hand of Barrett H. Clark. Spine slightly toned, very near fine. *OCLC* locates six copies.