schnozzola story de fowler gene jimmy durante (4 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).

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.

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 : 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.