The lovers were already legends by the 1930 collaboration between a future director and a fashionable illustrator. Distinctive images enhance the play's script, plus 20 variations on the story and song.
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The lovers were already legends by the 1930 collaboration between a future director and a fashionable illustrator. Distinctive images enhance the play's script, plus 20 variations on the story and song.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Illustrated by Covarrubias. Red cloth with black and gilt titling, good with shelf-wear and edgewear, light staining. Spine square. The boards' attachment to textblock is delicate, with both hinges cracked to mull, but the binding is intact through textblock. Prior owner's name penned to verso of FFEP. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked.
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Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small spot of loss at the foot of the spine, closed tear to the top at the front joint, else about very good in publisher's red cloth; lacking the jacket.
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Seller's Description:
Better than very good; cloth a little dust-soiled. 160 pp. With a tipped-in color frontispiece, and numerous black and white illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. 8vo.
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Illustrated by Covarrubias. Very Good. Boards with slight rubbing to extremities. Pages uncut and a bit browning.; The famous blues tune adapted for the stage by the noted director prior to his directing career. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, an acclaimed writer in his own right in addition to being a topnotch artist. While living in Mexico, Huston, not yet embarked on his stellar career as a film director, wrote a play based on the famous ballad 'Frankie and Johnny' and sold it without much trouble. He also sold several magazine articles and stories before finding his destiny in Hollywood. One of the scarcer and more sought after items in the Covarrubias milieu.; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 160 pages.
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Seller's Description:
LAID IN HIS A SMALL INDEX CARD THAT HAS BEEN SIGNED BY JOHN HUSTON. vg+/lacking its dj.1 tiny mend. chip 1 pg. Beautiful book on legendary song by the relatively unknown Huston. Illus. w. 1 color tipped in illus. 6 b&w drawings. Illustrated by many in text illus. 1st edition. Binding is cl. no dj. Laid in is a nice 16pg. program for a retro. of his films that was held recently at Lincoln Center. Notes and photos.
