Autographed Photo of Brigitte Bardot de Bardot, Brigitte

1940. 5 X 7 inches, SIGNATURE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, Fine Condition, SIGNED B/W PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by Author. Unbound. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hollywood, California, 1923; Antique 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" b&w silver gelatin photograph of Mary Pickford as "Rosita" in the 1923 silent film of the same name directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Long tired of being type-cast as a child, even in maturity, "Rosita" was Pickford’s personal project, designed as a breakout vehicle for her first appearance in an adult role. Multitalented Knute Olaf Rahmn (1876-1957) served in early Hollywood as actor, cinematographer, and photographer, with over forty films to his credit. It was while working at Kalem Studios in Glendale, California that he first collaborated with Mary Pickford, and subsequently became her preferred still photographer, shooting her publicity stills and documenting much of her career and personal life. A beautiful photograph of perhaps the most important film actress of all time, whose prodigious talent and business acumen were pivotal in the formation of the new order in Hollywood which created the star system and the… Leer más

Handwritten letter, in the original envelope, franked Foreign Office. 6.45pm 21 August 23. 19cm x 12.5cm. 4pp.
Foreign Office 1 Carlton House Terrace S.W.1. August 19 1923 to The Editor, Bengal Past and Present, Calcutta Historical Society, Town Hall, Calcutta.
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), politician, traveller, and viceroy of India. At the time of writing, he was Foreign Secretary. In January 1924, Curzon vacated the Foreign Office and he was able to devote much of 1924 to completing one of his finest books, a study of Calcutta and the viceroys which was posthumously published under the title British Government in India; the work mentioned in this letter.
Sir Evan Cotton
(1868-1939) Liberal politician, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer. His Calcutta Old and New, first published in 1909, remains unsurpassed to this day. He was the son of Henry Cotton (Liberal MP) the author of 'New India, or India in Transition' who opposed Curzon's… Leer más

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press 1912, 1913, numbered copy from a limited edition of 760. (Hardcover set) 265, 261pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Two volumes. Frontispiece, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. There is a previous owner's bookplate and name on the front endpaper of both volumes. "Within the span of Shakespeare's birth and death there took place a vital melioration of the conditions of English acting and playgoing, together with some slight improvement in the status of the player. It is true that, subject to certain reservations, the stage still remained, as it had been constituted by Act of Parliament, a banned vocation". Book about Elizabethan Playhouse. Locale: London--England. (Drama, Acting, Shakespeare, Theater).

Athena, Typographeia "Kyklos", Athens, 1935; 8vo (5 1/2" x 8"), 723 pages; leather bound. The tragedies of Euripides, translated from the classic Greek into modern demotic, plus interpretive prefaces and semiotic analyses by distinguished Greek scholar and philologist, Demetrios Sarros. Two volumes: 372-page Volume II (1935), containing Medea, Hecuba, Elektra, and Andromache, and 351-page Volume III (1938) with Phoinissai, Iketides, Erakleidai, and Kyklos, beautifully bound together in custom quarter calf with textured green cloth, raised bands, gilt rules, gilt spine decorations, gilt morocco title labels, and decorative end papers. Fine condition. A most handsome volume.

This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.

1940. 5 X 7 inches, SIGNATURE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, Fine Condition, SIGNED B/W PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by Author. Unbound. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hollywood, California, 1923; Antique 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" b&w silver gelatin photograph of Mary Pickford as "Rosita" in the 1923 silent film of the same name directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Long tired of being type-cast as a child, even in maturity, "Rosita" was Pickford’s personal project, designed as a breakout vehicle for her first appearance in an adult role. Multitalented Knute Olaf Rahmn (1876-1957) served in early Hollywood as actor, cinematographer, and photographer, with over forty films to his credit. It was while working at Kalem Studios in Glendale, California that he first collaborated with Mary Pickford, and subsequently became her preferred still photographer, shooting her publicity stills and documenting much of her career and personal life. A beautiful photograph of perhaps the most important film actress of all time, whose prodigious talent and business acumen were pivotal in the formation of the new order in Hollywood which created the star system and the… Leer más

Handwritten letter, in the original envelope, franked Foreign Office. 6.45pm 21 August 23. 19cm x 12.5cm. 4pp.
Foreign Office 1 Carlton House Terrace S.W.1. August 19 1923 to The Editor, Bengal Past and Present, Calcutta Historical Society, Town Hall, Calcutta.
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), politician, traveller, and viceroy of India. At the time of writing, he was Foreign Secretary. In January 1924, Curzon vacated the Foreign Office and he was able to devote much of 1924 to completing one of his finest books, a study of Calcutta and the viceroys which was posthumously published under the title British Government in India; the work mentioned in this letter.
Sir Evan Cotton
(1868-1939) Liberal politician, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer. His Calcutta Old and New, first published in 1909, remains unsurpassed to this day. He was the son of Henry Cotton (Liberal MP) the author of 'New India, or India in Transition' who opposed Curzon's… Leer más

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press 1912, 1913, numbered copy from a limited edition of 760. (Hardcover set) 265, 261pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Two volumes. Frontispiece, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. There is a previous owner's bookplate and name on the front endpaper of both volumes. "Within the span of Shakespeare's birth and death there took place a vital melioration of the conditions of English acting and playgoing, together with some slight improvement in the status of the player. It is true that, subject to certain reservations, the stage still remained, as it had been constituted by Act of Parliament, a banned vocation". Book about Elizabethan Playhouse. Locale: London--England. (Drama, Acting, Shakespeare, Theater).