02-14-201302-14-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
February 14, 2013 10:00 AMCalender
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Film and Theater, Eight Pieces:

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$125$125
Auction: Discovery - 2637MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: February 14, 2013 10:00AM

Description:

Film and Theater, Eight Pieces:The Story of United Artists Product 1937-38, large format, simulated white morocco cover, blocked in gold, illustrated throughout with black and white promotional art for the year's films; Columbia Pictures 1932-33, large format, silver paper printed boards, rubbed and scratched, with loss of surface, illustrated throughout with bold color film advertisements; four promotional pamphlets for, Quo Vadis, the film, with Peter Ustinov; As You Like It, stage production, with Katharine Hepburn; The King and I, stage musical, with Yul Brenner; and Stanley Kramer's film, Judgment at Nuremburg; a sammelband of more than a dozen plays, printed in the U.S., c. 1879, with notes of an amateur actor; both boards missing; and Peter Quinn's Sin Actor, Saturn Line Novel, 1967, paperback pulp novel, pages browned, detached from binding, cover art and graphics with minor crease, a remainder, with a saw cut into the top edge of all pages and both covers. (8)
Estimate $75-100


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Keywords

Peter Ustinov, As You Like It, Katharine Hepburn, The King and I, Stanley Kramer, amateur actor, United States, Peter Quinn