AFTER SUCH PLEASURES
New York: Viking, 1933. First Edition. hardcover. A collection of short stories. Copy #25 of only 250 SIGNED by the author.
New York: Viking, 1933. First Edition. hardcover. A collection of short stories. Copy #25 of only 250 SIGNED by the author.
New York: Viking, 1933. First Edition. hardcover. A collection of short stories. Copy #123 of only 250 SIGNED by the author.
New York: Viking, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #27 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.
New York: Viking, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #203 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. hardcover. A major Algonquin Round Table Association Copy wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to another major figure of the Algonquin Club: "Alexander Woollcott, his book--/Dorothy Parker, her book--/Lake Bomoseen, June 1942."
New York: The Viking Press, 1930. First Edition. hardcover. Collection of short stories. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a front blank: "To Zoila Conan--/with best wishes/and gratitude to her/for wanting this/extremely unimpressive/signature--/Dorothy Parker/Hollywood--." At the bottom of the page, in a different hand, is the date "Oct. 26.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Valenti Angelo. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated salmon paper over boards with black cloth backstrip stamped in gilt. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Copy #36 of 485 copies SIGNED by the author of her Collected Poems containing all of her classic gems including the two-liner.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Valenti Angelo. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated salmon paper over boards with black cloth backstrip stamped in gilt. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Copy #15 of 485 copies SIGNED by the author of her Collected Poems containing all of her classic gems including the two-liner.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Valenti Angelo. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated salmon paper over boards with black cloth backstrip stamped in gilt. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Copy #6 of 485 copies SIGNED by the author of her Collected Poems containing all of her classic gems including the two-liner.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Purple boards with a gilt-lettered white cloth spine. Parker switched titles at the last moment from the rather cheerful SONGS FOR THE NEAREST HARMONICA to the darker SUNSET GUN, a reference to the cannon that is traditionally fired at the end.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Purple boards with a gilt-lettered white cloth spine. Parker switched titles at the last moment from the rather cheerful SONGS FOR THE NEAREST HARMONICA to the darker SUNSET GUN, a reference to the cannon that is traditionally fired at the end.....
[1930 - 1949]. Manuscript. A collection of original working MANUSCRIPTS and partial manuscripts, mostly unproduced screenplays but including unpublished short fiction, on 8-1/2" x 11" and legal-sized sheets, with many corrections and annotations. Includes an unproduced adaptation of Agatha Christie's N OR M; a short story about screenwriting titled "Crazy.....
Photograph. Scarce original 8" x 10" photograph of Parker and her husband Alan Campbell INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the upper left corner by Campbell and SIGNED by Parker as "Dorothy." Parker and Campbell produced over 20 scripts made into movies, most famously the script of the Oscar-winning A STAR IS.....
[1942]. Photograph. A collection of 47 original photographs, nearly all by Jacob Lofman, of Fox House, the Bucks County home of Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, 33 approximately 8" x 10" with 14 smaller images. Sixteen of the 8" x 10" photographs, some featuring Parker and Cambell, are ANNOTATED by.....
[1920s - 1970s]. Photograph. A collection of over 200 original photographs, nearly all black-and-white and ranging in size from 2" x 2" to 9-1/2" x 12-1/2" or so, along with some newspaper clippings and notes. Most are unidentified and require further research, but all come from the Pennsylvania home of.....
[1930s]. Photograph. A collection of 30 mostly formal original photograph portraits of Dorothy Parker, all approximately 8" x 10" with 8 of them including her husband, screenwriter Alan Campbell, and 22 of them of Parker alone or with her dog. None of the photographs is signed by photographer or subjects;.....
The Saturday Review of Literature, 13 June 1931. Wraps. A single sheet (14" x 19") printed on one side and folded into fours of Canby's important review of Parker's book that helped establish her as a serious poet. This is a proof copy of that review in which Canby states.....
[1930s-1940s]. Photograph. Three formal original photograph portraits (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") tipped to an 11" x 14" mat SIGNED in pencil by the photographer, Maurice Goldberg (1881–1949) of Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and both Parker and Campbell together. Parker and Campbell produced over 20 scripts made into movies, most famously the.....
[Los Angeles]: Selznick International Pictures, Inc., 16 October 1936. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-7/8") in stiff yellow wraps with the left margins punch-holed with metal clasps. The archive includes two copies of the Final Shooting Script (one belonging to Director William A. Wellman and the other, a partial.....