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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good- dj. Illustrated by (photographs) Vandamm (illustrator). 2nd printing. [spine slightly turned, minor shelfwear, a couple of old tape marks on front endpaper; the jacket is browned at edges and spine, with moderate edgewear, little bits of paper loss at most corners]. (B&W photographs) The Kaufman-Hart comedy about an irascible critic (Monty Woolley) whose enforced recuperation from an injury wreaks hilarious havoc upon the family whose hospitality he depends. Woolley repeated his role in the 1942 Warner Bros. film adaptation, opposite Bette Davis.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj photo) Vandamm Studios (illustrator). Later Printing. [minimal shelfwear to book, one-time owner's name in block letters on front endpaper; the jacket shows some wear at the extremities, minor creasing along the top and bottom edges, printed price on front jacket flap blacked out]. A later printing of the hit play about a number of individuals held hostage by gangsters at a remote Arizona filling station and cafe, which ran for 193 performances at New York's Broadhurst Theatre in early 1935; it closed in ____ and by mid-October a filmed adaptation was already in front of the Warner Bros. cameras in Hollywood (well, OK, Burbank). Two of the three stars of the stage version, Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, reprised their roles, with rising Warner Bros. star Bette Davis taking the female lead. (Of the three, the play/movie had the greatest impact on Bogart's career; his portrayal of the gangster Duke Mantee (consciously modeled by both playwright and actor after John Dillinger) was a sensation on stage, and got him a little more respect in Hollywood (although it would be another five years before he emerged as a full-fledged star with HIGH SIERRA and THE MALTESE FALCON). (Ironically, Warner Bros. at first wanted to cast their #1 house gangster, Edward G. Robinson, in the role of Mantee, but Leslie Howard, whose contract gave him some control over such matters, insisted on Bogart.) This printing employed the almost-identical dust jacket design as the 1935 first printing (with "Leslie Howard as Alan Squier" featured alone in the front panel photo), one small change being the addition of Sherwod's 1936 play "Idiot's Delight" to the list of his works on the rear flap. Although the play marked Bogart's last appearance on the stage, he did reprise the role of Duke Mantee for a 1955 television production, with Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall stepping into the Howard and Davis roles.

Zustand: Very Good. Vandamm Studios (photographer) (illustrator). Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) double weight photo, USA. Stamped on verso by photographer Vandamm Studios, also with 1938 date stamp and snipe of printed promotional text. Slight wear at edges, near fine. Portrait of John Garfield, then still under the name of Jules, with his co-star Phoebe Brand, who created their roles in the world premiere of Clifford Odets' groundbreaking play about a working class Jewish family in the Bronx. The affixed text refers to a road trip appearance by the cast for performances in June, 1936 in Cleveland. Garfield would finally yield to Hollywood's entreaties and began a Warner Brothers contract in 1938. Photos from his earlier stage career are very uncommon.

Vintage portrait photograph of actor Otto Kruger by the photography team of Florence and Tommy Vandamm [Vandamm Studio], circa 1930. Photograph with a blind "Vandamm / New York" stamp on the bottom left of the recto, and a "Vandamm Studio" stamp on the verso, and a label on the verso announcing Kruger in the leading role of the Broadway play "The Boundary Line," by playwright Dana Burnet, which premiered at the 48th Street Theatre on February 5, 1930 and ran for 37 performances, closing in March, 1930. The photograph was likely commissioned by the Theatre Guild which contracted Vandamm Studios to photograph all of their productions beginning in 1928. Kruger began his career as a Broadway matinee idol in the 1920s and 1930s before establishing a niche in feature films as the charming villain, such as in Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 film "Saboteur," Joseph M. Newman's "711 Ocean Drive," and Douglas Sirk's 1954 film "Magnificent Obsession." Kruger starred in over 80 films between 1915 and 1964, as well as multiple television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. The husband and wife photography team of Florence and Tommy Vandamm, married in 1918, emigrated from London to New York in the 1920s due to declining business in their portrait studio following World War I. By 1928 Vandamm Studio began to dominate the field in New York after being contracted by the Theatre Guild to photograph all of their productions. Florence took responsibility for most of the portrait work, while Tommy documented the stage work. The studio was closed by Florence in 1961. Vandamm Studio's work was known for their carefully planned lighting and composition, and their attention to detail. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with two vertical folds and three horizontal folds cropping the face.

Zustand: Good. Collection of 5 vintage press photographs for the play Tomorrow & Tomorrow. 8 x 10 inches. Annotated verso.Marie Bruceas Ella. Eileen Byronas Mary; John T. Doyleas Walter Burke; Mary Elizabeth Forbesas Miss Frazer;Zita Johannas Eve Redman;Alice MacIntoshas Miss Blake;Herbert Marshallas Nicholas Hay.Osgood Perkinsas Samuel Gillespie.Drew Priceas Christian Redman; Adele Schuyleras Jane; Harvey Stephensas Gail Redman.

Zustand: Good. 2 Vintage press photographs for the play Tomorrow & Tomorrow. 11 x 14 inches. Annotated verso.Marie Bruceas Ella. Eileen Byronas Mary; John T. Doyleas Walter Burke; Mary Elizabeth Forbesas Miss Frazer;Zita Johannas Eve Redman;Alice MacIntoshas Miss Blake;Herbert Marshallas Nicholas Hay.Osgood Perkinsas Samuel Gillespie.Drew Priceas Christian Redman; Adele Schuyleras Jane; Harvey Stephensas Gail Redman.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); oatmeal cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in dark green and gilt, and photographic cover illustration; light green topstain; dustjacket; 184pp; black and white photographic (halftone) frontispiece portrait. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Light tanning and rubbing to spine and board edges, with light offsetting to pp.132-133 from laid in newspaper clipping; Very Good. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with shelf-soil, 0.5" chip to upper rear panel, and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Drama follows an affair during international travel. Its broadway production was directed by Harold Clurman (1952-1953). Its film adaptation, Summertime (1955) was directed by David Lean, and starred Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, and Darren McGavin. [84315]. Signed.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 195pp; portrait frontispiece (halftone), with black and white photographic (haltone) illustrations throughout. Tanning to spine and board edges, with small black mark to upper front cover; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00), with tanning to spine panel and flaps, chip to upper spine panel, small mark to upper front panel, and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Comedy begins in a small town in Ohio. [84257].

Zustand: Good. 1 p. Florence Vandamm, theatrical photographer. From a collection of letters and papers amassed by illustrator and painter Geoffrey Robinson during his years as a publisher with Rockliff, John Baker, Maclaren, et al.

Zustand: Good. Two 8x10 Black & White Glossy Photographs. Very Good.

No binding. Zustand: Near Fine. New York: Vandamm, [ca. 1935]. Vintage original 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 21.5 cm) double weight matte finish black-and-white photo. Irregular trim at bottom, photographer stamp on verso as well as his name in red pencil at bottom margin. Near fine. Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (1888-1960) was an Austrian novelist who emigrated to the United States in 1932, where she worked initially on the screenplay for the adaptation of her most famous novel, Menschen im Hotel (People at a Hotel) into the film classic Grand Hotel. While living in Berlin in the 1920s she took up boxing and was, along with Marlene Dietrich, one of very few women to attempt this traditionally macho sport. Her ninth novel, Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer (Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry), was her first major commercial success, selling over 100,000 copies. Baum is considered one of the first modern bestselling authors, and her books are seen as exemplifying New Objectivity within contemporary mainstream literature. Her protagonists were often strong, independent women caught up in turbulent times. (Wikipedia).

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. New York: Vandamm Studios, White Studios, [ca. 1927, 1931]. Set of two vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white single and double weight glossy silver gelatin photos. Double weight photo is stamped "Vandamm Studios" on verso and features MS notation "Adele Astaire in the super review 'The Band Wagon.'" The other is ink stamped by White Studios on verso and dates to ca. 1927 given Adele's gown and hair style. Most likely a portrait for the 1927 Broadway show FUNNY FACE. Chips at top and bottom left edges and at top right edge. Overall near fine-fine. Adele Astaire, American dancer, stage actress and singer, started her career in vaudeville at age nine, performing with her younger brother, Fred. A big hit on Broadway, after working with Fred for 27 years she married Lord Charles Cavendish in 1932 and left showbiz, leaving Fred to move on to Hollywood and a great film career.

Vintage sepia photograph of Claude Rains by noted theatre photographer Vandamm, from an undocumented production-to our knowledge-of e.e. cummings' absurdist play, "Him" presumably by the Theatre Guild, likely sometime between 1927 (when the play premiered) and 1934 (based on the nature of the Vandamm print). The presumption of the photo being from a Theatre Guild performance is a manuscript ink notation by Vandamm on the verso of the mount, reading: "The Theatre Guild's production of 'Him' / Claude Rains." According to Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno's biography of cummings: "Lawrence Langer, a director at the Theatre Guild, who had been given a copy of the play [Him] by Muriel Draper, was quite enthusiastic, but, because of the obscenities in the play could not get the Guild to take it on." (p. 310) He goes on to note that the Provincetown Players mounted a production in 1928, which is documented as having closed after 27 performances due to budget constraints. There is no record of a production of "Him" by the Theatre Guild in the IBDB, and no record of Rains working with the Provincetown Players-so the date of the production, if indeed it ever went past rehearsals, remains a mystery. Photo 13 x 10.5 inches. Mount 19.5 x 15 inches. Both photo and mount Near Fine.

Zustand: Good. Group of 20 large format original sllver and platinum photographs, on heavy stock both from the film and likley form the New York play venue. 14 x 11 inches.The depressing realities of life in the front-line trenches of WWI provide the impetus for this grim anti-war drama. The story centers on a troop commander when becomes psychologically overwhelmed by the unending spectacle of death around him.Journey's End is a 1930 British-American war film directed by James Whale. Based on the play of the same name by R. C. Sherriff, the film tells the story of several British army officers involved in trench warfare during the First World War. The film, like the play before it, was an enormous critical and commercial success and launched the film careers of Whale and several of its stars.The following year there was a German film version The Other Side directed by Heinz Paul starring Conrad Veidt as Stanhope and Wolfgang Liebeneiner as Raleigh. The film was banned just weeks after the Nazis took power in 1933.Rating: NRGenre: Documentary, DramaDirected By: James WhaleWritten By: R.C. Sherriff, Joseph Moncure March, V. Gareth Gundrey.

Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928, showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo, a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto, shows Lee Tracy (later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen), Osgood Perkins, and Frances Fuller. The second, a oversize 11 x 14, uncredited but by White Studios in New York City, shows the star Walter Baldwin (later played by Cary Grant onscreen), Osgood Perkins, and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede, and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and most famously, the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday," with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940.