Isabel morse jones (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Blue cloth, lettered in a darker blue. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed by the author on a front blank. Well illustrated. Orignal lithograph frontispiece by Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, Los Angeles artist, muralist, and illustrator. It is #20/150 and signed by the artist. The lithograph is printed by Lynton R. Kistler. Napolitano also designed the endpapers. An excellent copy showing only very minor wear. There is a 1/2" closed tear to the upper edge of the author's signed leaf. Very tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. 8vo. (23 cm.) [10]i-iii[3]1-203p. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos, drawings and one map. Decorative endpapers. Colophon notes limitiation to 1000 copies, designed by Merle Armitage, printing by Lynton R. Kistler, and binding by C. Frank Fox. Blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. Presentation inscription reads as follows: Presented January 31st, 1938,/ to the/ winner of the impromptu/ musical evening held by the/ Mus-Art Club of Los Angeles, at/ the Park-Wilshire Hotel./ by/ Chairman of Musical directorship/ Sylvia S. Rudelson." Also signed by President Jack Kirny[?] beneath the inscription. Written on the front pastedown is a poem entitled "A Symphony Under the Stars" by Sophia Papp in her hand and with the handwritten notation below it "First Prize--1938". Laid in is a 4 x 6" white card on the front of which is written the following: "Dear Miss Pearlman:/ I am sorry I could not send you/ your book before this and I hope you/ will forgive me. I enjoyed the book/ immensely. Thank you very much for/ your kindness./ Yours very sincerely/ Sophia Papp." Rocq #3506. Isabel Morse Jones was Music Editor for the Los Angeles Times and was the press representative for the Hollywood Bowl, where she assisted Hollywood Bowl founder Artie Mason Carter. Sophia Papp was also a member of the American Hungarian Junior League(1940) and Sylvia S. Rudelson was a young Jewish amateur pianist. Very minor wear to extremities, spine slightly darkened, presentation inscription, else very good and better/ No jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited Edition. iii, 203 pp. 8vo. Age toning to the dust jacket with a split halfway down the hinge at the rear panel, losses and chipping at edges, very brittle and now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold blue embossed titling that matches the dust jacket, gold stars across the head of the front and rear boards, blue stars across the foot of the rear board, some age toning at edges of boards. Very clean and tight within. [Purcell 39]. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good +. Limited Edition. Octavo, 203pp., illustrated. Per the colophon, this is one of 1,000 copies. This copy is SIGNED by Jones on a front blank, and contains a frontiepiece illustration of the Hollywood Bowl by Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, this being number 52/150 limited copies SIGNED and hand-numbered by the artist. Boards just a tinge soiled, with a stain on the rear board, but a very good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover in blue cloth boards, general shelf wear and age toning. No dust jacket. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies. SIGNED, dated 1937, and warmly inscribed by Artie Mason Carter, renowned activist known as "the mother of the Hollywood Bowl. " The inscription, "to Emily, " states that the book is "the printed story of all my living, dreaming and doing--. " "Emily is Emily Hardesty Kenagy, a student of Carter's; her name and address appear on a card pasted onto the rear pastedown page. Also pasted in is a magazine article about music and the Bowl by Artie Mason Carter. Laid in is a birthday card signed "Mrs. Carter" and dated 1954. Book designed by Merle Armitage. Decorative endpapers by Giovanni Napolitano. Book firm in binding, full page - no margins - b&w photographs, clean interior. Photo illustrations by, among others, Brett Weston and Will Connell. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages; Signed by Associated. Illustrated by Charles H. Owens (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. HB NODJ, 1st Edition, 1936, blue decorated cloth lettered in Black, spine Sunned, Interior nice, tight clean light wear & some Foxing from acid in newspaper article, NF/NF-, NODJ, 203 pgs, Colophon & Addenda, Binding is Octavo. Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Full-page heartfelt inscription by Artie Mason Carter (1881 - 1967), a key figure in early 20th-century American music and community arts, best known for her foundational role in creating what became the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s, she expanded a local community singing group and helped organize large outdoor musical performances at a natural amphitheater site. As secretary of the Community Park and Art Association, she was instrumental in programming early concerts and bringing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra together with community musicians. She helped establish the venue as a space for democratic, affordable music under the stars, shaping its mission in its formative years. 8vo. 203 pp. Photo-illustrated plates; drawings. One of the photo-illustrated plates is of Artie Mason Carter with title ".master-vuilder and arch-dreamer of Hollywood Bowl." Designed and with a Foreword by Merle Armitage. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering; illustrated endpapers in publisher's tan printed dust jacket. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some wear to extremities with small loss to spine end; light fading to spine). A first hand account of the development of the Hollywood Bowl and its place in Los Angeles's cultural life by Isabel Morse Jones who was more than a journalist: she was part of the early cultural ecosystem around the Hollywood Bowl, helping to publicize and interpret its concerts and history for Los Angeles audiences.…