Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Henry Holt & Co, Ny, 1952
Da: Wabash Museum Books, Mount Carmel, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 277 Pages With Introduction And Dedication In Front. Pages Tight; Moderate Page Wear; Page Edges Slightly Yellowed And Foxed. No Markings; End Pages Are Yellowed With Some Discoloration Areas. Red And Gray Linen-Like Hard Covers With Yellow And Red Lettering On Spine. Moderate Shelf Wear. Faded Black Dust Jacket With White, Orange And Black Lettering And Illustration On Front Dj; Back Dj Has Ads For Other Books By Publisher; Dj Has Rubbing, Fading, Smudges, Discoloration Areas; Corners, Edges Are Somewhat Worn With Few Nicks. Book Contains A Wonderful Grab Bag With With The Best Pieces Gleaned From Variety's Anniversary Issues By Its Editor. Numerous Articles By Such Famous Authors As: Fred Allen; Ethel Barrymore; Jack Benny; Eddie Cantor; Nate Gross; George Jessel Gypsy Rose Lee; Mantle Burns; Groucho Marx; Edward G. Robinson; Phil Silvers; Earl Wilson; Jerome Weidman; Maurice Zolotow, Etc. Very Rare Vintage Copy.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the July 1, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/2" by 16" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article Crucial Summer For Film Biz: H'Wood Future Riding On B.O. by Thomas M. Pryor; Black Talent & Integrated GI Clubs Primed To Ease Army Tensions O'seas by Hazel Guild; West Meets East At 'Myra' [Breckinridge] Bow by Addison Verrill (on the film and Mae West); Berlin's Unfurled Flags: Absences Mark Start, 20th Yr. by Robert F. Hawkins (on the Berlin Film Festival); weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; double-page advertisement for the Mike Nichols' film "Catch-22"; one-page Thank You from Robert E. Gottschalk (recipient of The British Society of Cinematographers Annual Award); 'Mr. Audience' Cancels a Web: NBC's [Paul] Klein in Own CATV Setup by Les Brown; Nixon Three-Network Interview For Cambodia Update Seen As New Pitch To Cool Hot-For-TV-Time Democrats; one-page advertisement from the IMC (International Management Company) for 'The Jackson 5' (with their photograph). Pages lightly age-toned; a few tiny edge chips and closed tears to front cover.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 10, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/2" by 16" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article 'Hands Off Cable Television' [Eugene Rostow]: Bids Webs Quit on Programming; N.Y. Civil Rights Commr. Sounds Off Why No Negroes In Boxoffices, TV, Pix; AIP's [American International Pictures] Status One Year After by A. D. Murphy; three-page advertisement for "Airport" ("$9,510, 729 U.S. GROSS TO DATE! IF YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN OFF WITH 'AIRPORT' NOW IS THE TIME! Come Fly With Us!"); weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" starring Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand (with her picture); full-page advertisement for "The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker" starring Jordan Christopher ("Too young to be Establishment. Too old to be a hippie"); Robert Aldrich Seeks Outside Capital After ABC Pulls Out Of Three Projects; full-page advertisement for the upcoming Atlanta International Film Festival; full-page advertisement for "Dirtymouth" ("The trials and times of Lenny Bruce"); CATV In The Major Leagues by Larry Michie; TV Webs & Today's 'Soft' Sell: All 3 [CBS, ABC, NBC] Drag Feet on '70-'71 Sales by Bob Knight; two-page thank-you advertisement for "Playboy After Dark" from Hugh Hefner ("THANKS FOR A SWINGING SECOND SEASON!" with full-page photo of Hugh Hefner with a bevy of beauties); Academy's Finest Emmycast, But Too Many Awards & Offish 'Presenters' by Bob Knight (with list of Emmy Winners); column 'And Now A Word From' by Carroll Carroll. Pages lightly age-toned; small chip to upper edge of front cover; a few interior corner creases.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 15, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article TV Haven for Film Stars by Les Brown; [Walter] Winchell Memoir Fusing Into Biog by Abel Green; Salute to Moss Hart, Star-Studded, Sentimental - And Best in USC Series by A. D. Murphy; Oracles Edgy, Buffs Scoff: As Old Format Films Big B.O. [Box Office] by Addison Verrill; Saving Nitrate Prints Beyond 'Archives' - Fox Sees Profit-Yielding Buff Playoff by Eric Spilker; weekly list of 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for "Bloody Mama" starring Shelley Winters; full-page advertisement for "The Light at the Edge of the World" starring Kirk Douglas; Blunders with Blunderbuss: NAB [National Association of Broadcasters] Builds Case Against Itself by Les Brown; Five CBS Newsmen File Affidavits On Subpoena Threat to Profession; full-page advertisement for "Norman Rockwell's America"; full-page advertisement from Endorsements International, Ltd. ("Happy anniversary Jules Alberti" with photo of Woody Allen); TV-Radio Production Centres in the U.S. and Abroad; Nudity and Flag 'Desecration' Figure In Appeal Against 'Hair' Foldo in Hub by Guy Livingston; rear cover advertisement from International Management Company ("All New York is saying it's STEVIE WONDER-ful THE MAN"). Condition: pages lightly age-toned.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 24, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-3/8" by 16" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article TV Makes Like The Big Board: Rush For Shows As 'Securities' by Les Brown; Underground Media End Romance With Disk Cos.: Rap 'Exploitation' by Jeff Samuels (on the Alternative Media Project); Catholic Office [National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP)] Not So Tough On Black Angled-Pix; CBS-Holt's $2,500,000 Guarantees For Mr. & Mrs. L. B. [Lyndon B. and Lady Bird] Johnson's 2 Books by Abel Green; Majors Staff Up For Youth [Market]: Assign Contacts to Cover Field by Eric Spilker; Cracow [Film Festival] - No Lunatic Fringe: Poles' Film Fest Aims Protected by Robert J. Landry; weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; two-page advertisement for "Atlas of Sexual Education"; Democrats Get Own 'Series': Webs 'Balance' Nixon Vidcasts by Steve Knoll; [Mike] Dann Vs. Demographic Era: Quits While He's Ahead in Ratings by Les Brown; two-page advertisement for television series "Arnie" starring Herschel Bernardi; 'Guerrilla' Radio In U.S.A.: Underground FM Network? by Jeff Samuels (on the Alternative Media Project); one-page Thank-You advertisement from Sullivan Productions, Inc. ("Wishes To Thank Everyone Who Contributed To The Success Of 'The 5th Dimension Special: An Odyssey In The Cosmic Universe Of Peter Max'"); half-page advertisement for Richman's Follies Burlesque 1970 (with photo); 'Hair' Ruffles Officials In Ind'p'ls: South Bend Nix, Evansville Maybe. Pages lightly age-toned; small light spot to front cover.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 3, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article Legit's Third [Broadway] $100-Mil Season by Hobe Morrison; Nixon, Nixing The Telethon Format, Mulls A 3-Network 'News' Interview by Bill Greeley; Despite Dow Jones, Nevada Casinos Rake In Record $132-Mil In 3 Months; A Film Co. For All Audiences - Not Just 'Youth' Market: L. [Leo] Jaffe by Gene Arneel (on Columbia Pictures); No Matter How Far 'Sex' In Pix Has Gone, 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' by Addison Verrill; weekly list of 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' ("NOW AMERICA KNOWS WHAT LIES 'BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES' - MONEY!"); full-page advertisement for 'The Out-of-Towners'; full-page advertisement for 'Cotton Comes to Harlem'; full-page advertisement from Eastman Kodak Company ("HOLLYWOOD WANTS TO KNOW - 'Will good prints lead to footprints?'"); TV Softpedal on Pentagon: Networks Duck Touchy Stories by Steve Knoll; Standing of U.S. [Television] Stations: Critics Rate 'Em on 'Fulfillment' by Leonard Traube; WMAQ-TV's High-Profile Editorials - Calls for Viet Pullout, Names Polluters, Etc.; full-page advertisement for "A Little Bit of Irish" starring Bing Crosby. Pages lightly age-toned.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the July 8, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: 'New' Film Biz Brushes B'way: Legit Sales Dip to 40-Year Low by Frank Segers; Blame It On Wall St. - Vegas Casinos Drop $8,000,000 On Bad Credit Risks; Yanks As Fests' Fair Game: Berlin's 'O.K.' Threatens K.O. by Robert F. Hawkins (on the Berlin Film Festival showing of 'O.K.' - "'O.K.' is about five U.S. soldiers who raped and killed a 15-year-old Vietnamese girl, as detailed in the New York Magazine. This film is reviewed elsewhere in this edition"); Producers Versus Directors: Film Challenge In Poland, Too by Robert J. Landry; weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; Fear Strike Wreck Of Writers Guild - Prompts Okay For 'Disappointing' Pact by Dave Kaufman; Berlin Fest Films (reviews of films shown at the Berlin Film Festival); two-page advertisement for "Cotton Comes To Harlem"; full-page advertisement from the Eastman Kodak Company ("film - Show your stuff"); Print Pirates Vex Majors: $2-Mil Booty in U.K. Alone by Jack Pitman; Radio Nation Vs. TV Nation: Two Approaches to July Fourth by Bill Greeley; Image Is Right, And ABC's Sure Now That The [Dick] Cavett Appeal Is For Real by Bob Knight; two-page advertisement from CBS on the upcoming television series "Headmaster" starring Andy Griffith and Jerry Van Dyke; Upstaging TViolence Report: 'Unbiased' Panel to Publish Last by Larry Michie (on the report of the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior); full-page advertiement for "The [Steve] Allen Show." Pages lightly age-toned.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 22, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: Fresh Capital for U.S. Films: Old Firms in Inventory Glut by A. D. Murphy; Times Worst Since McCarthy Era For Investigative News: CBS' [Jay] McMullen by Steve Knoll; Ringling [Bros. and Barnum & Bailey] Circus Shut Out 19 Times By N.Y. Knicks, Rangers: Cost $1,615,000; Porno: An Unknown Payoff: Debate Morals, Cash Fact Blur by Robert J. Landry; Fear U.S. Sexplicit Films Made Tame, Biz Hurt Via 'Pornography in Denmark' by Addison Verrill; MGM Write-Downs & Burn-Ups: 'Zabriskie' [Point] Okay, Not Its Budget; weekly list of 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for "The Sicilian Clan"; full-page advertisement for "Norwood" ("Introducing Joe Namath"); full-page advertisement for Reeves Production Services ("Reeves Mixed it. 'Midnight Cowboy' - Winner of three Academy Awards"); full-page advertisement for "Black is Beautiful: Africanus Sexualis" ("Rated XXX"); FCC's [Federal Communications Commission] Primetime Pipe Dream: Stations Have 'A Better Idea' by Les Brown; MIP-TV's 'Cannes You Top This?': 1,875 Miles of Film Unspooled by Harold Myers; 'Liberation' Women Explode at CBS Meet in Frisco, Finally Get Bounced; full-page advertisement for 'The Flying Nun' starring Sally Field; British Disk Biz's New Trend: Studio Groups Invade Charts by Andrew Bailey; Ringling [Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus] on Int'l High Wire: Four Shows - One for O'Seas Tour by Joe Cohen; The Circus on a 5-Foot Shelf by Leonard Traube ("Turning back in time for a reappraisal of Significant Circus Books from a personal collection, presented in eight displays ranging from Barnum's 'Struggles and Triumphs' to Cooper's 'Circus Day'"); numerous advertising spots commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Condition: pages lightly age-toned; light front cover soil; clear tape repair to front cover tear; the lower edges of several interior pages show periodic tiny chips and tiny closed tears (all to blank margins only).
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: cover headline article Lauren [Bacall] & Kate [Katharine Hepburn] Reap Big Loot: 'Applause' Like 'Coco,' N.Y. Hypo by Abel Green; Sexpix Simplified: They Pay - Wilsons Hate All But Profit by Addison Verrill (on Rex and Chelly Wilson); Theatre Theft Constant: M. [Mickey] Gitlin [of Continental Protective Services] - Don't Trust Relatives by Gene Arneel; full-page "50 Top-Grossing Films [Week Ending March 25]"; double-page ad for "Airport: A Ross Hunter Production" ("Radio City Music Hall - $939,391 First 25 Days!"); Jack Vizzard's 'See No Evil': Or, Inside Hollywood's Own Censorship by Thomas M. Pryor; full-page ad for motion picture "Loving"; Charge Webs Censor Dissent: Double Standard for Free Speech by Bill Greeley; double-page photo advertisement for "The Flying Nun" starring Sally Field ("The only way to fly"); full-page advertisement for television's "Here Comes The Brides"; full-page ad for television's "Get Smart"; full-page advertisement for the upcoming ABC-TV special "The MAD MAD MAD COMEDIANS"; full-page advertisement for Jeanne Steel (with photo of Jeanne Steel and Ed Sullivan). Condition: pages lightly age-toned.
Editore: Variety, Inc, 1967
Da: Bookshop Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: Fair. Vol 245, No. 7. 242 pages. Inside is clean, binding is intact, cover has heavy creases, and edge tears, spine tears and soiling. Some of the articles include "Our War Was Worse Than Your War" by Charles Isaacs; "When I Was 7 1/2 It Was A Very Good Year (Or, Elmo Lincoln Was Jewish? ) " by Louis Lasco; All-Time Boxoff Champs; Big Rental Pictures of 1966; Free Speech: The Right To Offend by Harriet Pilpel; Pianos I Have Known by Victor Borge; Full page ads for movies such as Tobruk featuring Rock Hudson, George Peppard; Doctor Zhivago; Alfie with Michael Caine; Sean Connery in James Bond 007 You Only Live Twice; Full page photo of Harry Belafonte; France Is Dead? Long Live France by David Schoenbrun; Demillle: man and Myth by Art Arthur; Full page drawing of nancy wilson; Happy New Year full page by Sammy Davis, Jr; S. Goldwyn Jr Option - Harlem Negro Sleuths - Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones; From a Concentration Camp: The Show On New Year's Eve by Herbert G. Luft; Carol Channing, full page caricature by Hirschfield of "Dolly". Back cover - Phyllis Diller starring in "The Pruitts of Southampton".
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Variety, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 8, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 128 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: cover headline article Swap Talk as TV Shop-Talk: Also the Usual D.C. Double-Talk by Les Brown (on the recent National Association of Broadcasters convention); Unlike JFK or LBJ, Pres. Nixon Pays No Expenses for 'Command' Shows by Addison Verrill; Black Artists Do Own Disk Thing by Jeff Samuels; MGM Thinks Young and Big: 18-25 Features a Year as Goal by Addison Verrill; weekly "50 Top-Grossing Films"; Justice Backed Down On 'Race': Film Colony Sees Experience Roster Untouched After Brief Acceptance of Minority 'Trainees'; two-page advertisement for the film "Borsalino"; one-page advertisement for "MASH"; Angles on Going Public for Film Star [Steve] McQueen, Who Lives 'Dangerously' by A. D. Murphy; one-page "An Open Letter to the Film Industry" from Alfred Nichtenhauser of Cinetex Industries, Ltd. ("[W]e feel that any attack upon the MPAA cannot serve the industry, but merely weaken it"); Nixon's [Herbert] Klein 'Reviews' Webs by Larry Michie; full-page ad for "Something Else" starring John Byner; Global TV's Spring Offensive by Harold Myers ("From Chicago to Cannes, Broadcasters and Producers Are On the Move - An Overview of The Trends and Problems With the Emphasis on Programming as the '70s Decade Unfolds"); Politics Buffeting RAI-TV: B'Cast Monopoly is Threatened by Hank Werba (on Radio Telvisione Italiana); four-page advertisement for RAI-TV (Italian Broadcasting Corporation); full-page advertisement for "The Adventures of Pinocchio"; Whither Television In Britain by Jack Pitman; full-page advertisement for Polytel International Ltd.; full-page ad from intertel ("We British want to see the colour of your money"); Radio & TV Major Concerns In USSR: May Be No. 1 Operation In The World by Vladimir Pozner; full-page advertisement for Telesistema Mexicano; full-page advertisement for The 1969-1970 Tony Awards Telecast (with Hosts Julie Andrews, Walter Matthau, and Shirley MacLaine); full-page advertisement for Judy Carne ("Opening on Broadway - April 14th, in 'The Boyfriend'"). Condition: pages lightly age-toned; short closed edge tear to lower edge of front cover; lower right corners of several pages lightly creased.