gene fowler jimmy durante (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nice copy in the original red cloth over yellow boards. Signed by auhtor Gene Fowler on endpaper. First major biographical study of the venerable American entertainer (1893-1980) with the most famous nasal appendage since Cyrano de Bergerac; star of vaudeville, night club, radio, television and film. [8], 261 pages + plates22 b/w Photographs / Plates (chiefly portraits).

1951. (Hardcover) Very good in very good plus dust jacket. 261pp. Top edge stained red. Photographs. A previous owner's name, the dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn. "In one of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Gene Fowler tells the story of Jimmy 'Schnozzola' Durante, the son of Bortolomeo, the barber of Salerno. The author of Good Night, Sweet Prince writes of a magnificently talented clown, an unwavering friend, and a great gentleman, from the days when Jimmy was the newsboy with the most penetrating voice in the whole City Hall area". Biography of Jimmy Durante. Time Period 1920's & 1930's. Locale: Coney Island. (Entertainment, Biography, Comedians, Entertainers, Entertainment, Television).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. inscribed and signed by Durante, no dj, spine tape a little loose but attached, book is otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First Edition. Octavo, 261pp., illustrated. A good copy in the publisher's yellow and blue printed boards with red cloth spine. Ex-institutional library, with de-accesison stamps to the three edges, and the rmains of a torn out bookplate to the half title page (as well as another bookplate present on the front paste-down), else clean and sound. In a very good dust jacket with mild rubbing. A presentation copy, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Durante on the front free endpaper: To Laurence, this is a pleasure, Jimmy Durante." The book is also signed below by Durante's longtime showbiz partner Eddie Jackson (signing as "Ed" or maybe "Edi," as he often did), and the book's author Gene Fowler. Uncommon signed by these three related figures. Laid in are two photographs, one of which depicts Durante and friends at the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs in 1932 (per the ink handwriting to recto and verso). The other is an amateurishly trimmed photo of Durante.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed presentation copy from Jimmy Durante to accomplished director and producer Joseph Santley. ÒFor Joe Santley, Working with you is a pleasure and I hope we work together till the end. I loveÕs ya, Jimmy Durante.Ó JimmyÊDurante (1893Ð1980), the legendary American comedian, actor, singer, vaudevillian, and pianist whose distinctive gravely speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s and who often referred to his nose as the schnozzola (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), making the word became his nickname. Joseph Santley (1890Ð1971), the noted American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays motion pictures and television shows who staged or produced network television shows starring Jimmy Durante, Patti Page, Mickey Rooney and Pat Boone among others and directed more than 50 motion pictures including the Marx Brothers The Cocoanuts (1929) and the 1940 classic Melody Ranch with Gene Autry authored by Gene Fowler (1890Ð1960), the noted American journalist, author, screenwriter, and dramatist. Bound in the publisher's red and yellow cloth covered boards. Contents lightly toning. The bottom edge of the pages are lightly warped. Top edge of boards lightly bumped and the bottom edge of the boards slightly stained.ÊIn the dust jacket, which is price-clipped and lightly rubbed and worn, with a few small chips and a small tape reinforcement to the verso.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by both the author, Gene Fowler, and the subject, Jimmy Durante. Privately leather bound by Jimmy Durante. Covers are slightly scuffed but book is in fine condition. BW PHOTO ILL. Inscribed and Signed By Author.