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Featured items that Broadway Book Mall plans to bring to RMBPF 2012.
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Broadway Book Mall
Nina & Ron Else
200 S. Broadway Denver CO 80209
303-744-Book (2665)
www.BroadwayBookMall.com
info@BroadwayBookMall.com
Wide variety of current & antiquarian books, fiction & nonfiction, used & new, signed & unsigned, plus big assortment of vintage sheet music
Booth Number: 18
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: The Man Who Created Tarzan, by Irwin Porges.
Brigham Young University Press, 1975, hardcover, 1st printing. Personal
copy of Barney Oldfield, a publicist for Warner Bros. Signed and inscribed
by 4 Tarzans - including Johnny Weismuller - and 3 Janes, at the publication
party for the centennial of Burroughs' birth. Includes a description of the
event and an autograph authentication letter from the curator of the ERB
Collection at the University of Kentucky. Barney Oldfield, who died at 93 in
2003, was a retired Air Force colonel who became a Warner Bros. publicist
and a press agent for stars such as Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth
Taylor. Born in Tecumseh, Neb., Oldfield graduated from the University of
Nebraska. He was a newspaper reporter and was a press aide to Allied
commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. A unique piece of
Tarzan memorabilia. $1495.00
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SHANGHAI, Photographed and Depicted by Ellen Thorbecke with Sletches by
Schiff. Published by North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd., Shanghai. 82
pages. Undated, but presumed early 1940's. Latest date of titles listed in
the 2-page Bibliography is 1938. Graphs of trade and China population go
through 1940. Decorative end papers and pastedowns. Interior intact, firm
hinges, no foxing or staining or markings. Toning to pages, but these
thicker pages have held up well. Pictorial boards have slight scuffing to
top and bottom of spine and to bottom of back board; two corners have slight
brown staining. Dust jacket, now protected in acid-free clear cover, shows
some edgewear and chipping, but no large chunks missing. No printed price,
but unclipped. Fascinating snapshot of Shanghai, covering a multitude of
topics and including history leading up to the period. Lots of photos, plus
delightful and colorful little drawings throughout. $750.00
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ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT, AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE NATIONAL CEMETARY
AT GETTYSBURG, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1863, WITH THE DEDICATORY SPEECH OF PRESIDENT
LINCOLN, AND THE OTHER EXERCISES OF THE OCCASION. Published for the
benefit of the Cemetery Monument Fund. 1864; first printing; Little, Brown
and Company. Includes not only Everetts long speech, but also a hymn
composed for the occasion, a dirge, a benediction, and other pieces
including, of course, Lincolns address, which takes up but one of the 88
numbered pages. Provenance: Brief owner inscription on reverse of second
free endpaper indicates owner heard Lincoln give his address. Research
indicates this owner was a member of the Pennsylvania Volunteers between
1861 and 1865. Book came to us from a direct descendant of this original
owner.
No dust jacket. Map on frontispiece plus fold-out cemetery map bound in
between pages 8 and 9. Bit of cemetery map offsetting on the map itself
where folded over; otherwise near-perfect intact condition. A couple of
pages have very tiny nicks and another couple have slight smudging.
Publisher name on full title page circled in ink. No foxing, no water
staining or other damage to interior. Front hinge slightly cracked
following second free endpaper. Corners of boards abraded and top ¾ of top
of spine missing. Gilt lettering on spine (Consecration of the Cemetery at
Gettysburg in all caps) remarkably bright, with only slight wear to the
word Gettysburg. Slight spotting to front boards; latest owner stated she
had scraped off a piece of melted wax with her fingernail. A few tiny
scratches to front and back boards, and a very light 1-1/2 (drink?) circle
on front. These latter defects are mostly only visible when book is tilted
in the light. $2,500.00. Subject to prior sale.
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