[Four] Shirley Temple Movie Books
Saalfield Company: Akron, Ohio, 1936. Soft cover. 'Twinkletoes' No. 1730-E; 'On the Movie Lot' No. Cover and some photos crayon-colored; 'Little Playmate' No. 1730-A; In Starring Roles No. 1730-B.
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Saalfield Company: Akron, Ohio, 1936. Soft cover. 'Twinkletoes' No. 1730-E; 'On the Movie Lot' No. Cover and some photos crayon-colored; 'Little Playmate' No. 1730-A; In Starring Roles No. 1730-B.
Branson, Missouri: Self Published, 1968. Illustrated Stapled Wraps. Rose Cecil O'Neill was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published female cartoonist in the United States.
New York: Viking, 1985. Illustrations by John Lawrence. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. This charming diary will appeal to bird watchers, gardeners, walkers and anyone else who enjoys nature. Lawrence's drawings are exquisite.For a full year, Richard Adams (Watership Down) kept a......
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover Hardcover. The author captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people, the animals, the land itself.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The moving and dramatic climax to the story of Elsa and her cubs.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. First Edition with code b.10.61. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several.....
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 - 1947) was a Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer. He is mainly known as a collector of ethnographical objects, and a recruiter of indigenous peoples for the ethnographical shows for a......
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Michele Albion explores an important facet of Edison's life that is largely unknown. In doing so, she presents the full story of his professional and leisure time while on holiday. Particularly interesting.....
New York: Doubleday, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. An intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often-surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with.....
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
England: Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Short Biographies of distinguished ladies of the 16th century.
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover.
New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Though best known as the author of the Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder led a full, rich life that spanned almost a century of American history. All through her life Laura saved mementos of her past, including early writings, letters, drawings.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Ellis Lane Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race.
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1998. Later Printing of the first edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Delving deep into historical archives, the author uncovers the untold narrative of First Lady Florence Harding, a pivotal figure in Warren G. Harding's tumultuous presidency. Revealing her influential role amidst the scandals of.....
New York: Random House USA Inc, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Background Information:'James Atlas is a model biographer. He writes with the conversational ease of a born storyteller, giving us both a richly informed history of one of America's most original and gifted writers and a......
Spain: Dosde, 2018. The Spanish painter Salvador Dali remains one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. Over the last few decades, Salvador Dali has gradually come to be seen, alongside the likes of Picasso and Matisse, as a prodigious figure whose life and work occupies.....
Italy: Florence Art Gallery, 1964. Alfredo Serri was an Italian painter born in Florence, Italy, in 1898. Before focusing on painting, Serri was a music professor who gave violin, guitar, and piano lessons. Serri also played the violin and performed with the orchestra of the Teatro Della Pergola. He died.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. The 1912 United States presidential election was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey unseated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft while defeating former President Theodore Roosevelt and.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Badé was commissioned in 1915 as literary executor of Muir's estate, and he immediately began to collect Muir letters of copies of letters, accumulating nearly two thousand in all. Muir was a prolific letter-writer.According to his daughter, his.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Photography by Edward J. Freeman and John H. Birch Jr. Photo Illustrated Hardcover. Basic Training in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II described and captured in photographs.
Old Fort, NC: Wolfhound Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. In this collection of tales, tied together with the filament of his life, Mart Baldwin hooks us with rollicking fishing and hunting adventures from the Outer Banks in North Carolina to the Coosa River in Alabama.....
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. The author is a creator of pop-up books. This is in the theme with decorated envelopes, illustrated letters, postcards, and very creative artwork. "Impossible to stop until the book's end."
U.S.A. Boydell Press, 1996. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Cambridge, Mass: Privately printed; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1932. Limited Edition. A Very Good Soft cover. Outram Bangs (1863-1932) was an American zoologist, curator of Mammals at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1900. He gained an international reputation in ornithology. He is responsible for making Harvard's.....