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Florida: The Norman Film Studios, 1928. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. BLACK GOLD WAS AN "ALL COLORED CAST" SILENT FILM PRODUCED IN 1928. First edition. 14 x 22 inches opened flat, (folded size 11 inches long and 3-1/2 inches wide and will be mailed folded size). 4 page multi-panel promotional brochure meant for mailing . With orange, blue, and black poster cover with photographs showing scenes from the movie with text as follows: Coming To This Theater. (This Is An Exact Reproduction Of Window Card). The Norman Film Studios . Presents Black Gold. Thrilling Epic Of The Oil Fields With All Colored Cast. One Of The True Stories Of Living Colored Examples. A Smashing Photo-Play Co-Starring Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd, Original Lafayette Players. Steve Reynolds, "Peg" [,] Alfred Norcom, United States Marshal, L.B. Tatums and The Entire City Of Tatums, Okla. The other three pages have many photographs from the film, tips on promoting the film, a letter from R.E. Norman to the cinema owner, and… Read More

[Florida]: Norman Studios, 1928. 1st Edition. No binding. Good. & TATUM, Lee B., (1861-1933). QUITE SCARCE LARGE EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY EPHEMERA POSTER First edition. Norman Studios bright graphics film large stone litho poster for the movie called "Black Gold" with an all coloured cast. Nice stone litho promotional theatre and promotional poster of 3 sheet poster printed in three sections, flat not folded. Multi colours one size (yellow, red, green & black) and verso blank. Printed by the Richey Litho Co. Final full size approximately 41 x 81 inches flat once assembled with the three sheets rolled poster sections. Quite scarce to rare.Condition: Given the number of folds in each of the three poster sections, some fold tears in each, with wear to fold lines with some edge wear and some archival tape reinforcement to a few fold lines on reverse. These are fairly typical of old vintage poster sheets, even unused copies like this. All three folded poster sections otherwise are in good… Read More

London: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies, 2004. No binding. Fine. Photograph of poets Derek Walcott and Ben Okri Large silver gelatin photograph of Derek Walcott and Ben Okri by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies, three-quarter length, both seated, smiling at one another. Douglas-Menzies' label on verso with details of the shoot, 128 Kensington Church Street, 2004.Paper size: 15 x 13-1/2 inchesImage size: 10 x 10-1/2 inchesFine condition. Provenance: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies. The Roy Davids Collection (Bonhams).Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucia poet and playwright. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 was awarded to Derek Walcott. Some of his other honours also include a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. He is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He was recently named Knight Commander of the Order of St. Lucia.Ben Okri is a Nigerian novelist, poet, and essayist.His honors include an OBE, Italy's… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 1st Oxford Press Paperback. 5 x 7-3/4 inches. 256pp. Near Fine condition.Signed by author on the title page plus signed piece of ephemera (Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada reading series June 1990 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 flat folded to 5-3/8 x 3-1/4 inches) Four plays ( 'Master Harold'. And The Boys; Blood Knot; Hello And Goodbye; Boesman And Lena ) in this New Selection of Athol Fugard's best work are set among the people and in the place he knows most intimately - Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Each explores a close and tense family situation or relationship against the background of the wider suffering and tensions, engaging our sympathies for South Africans of all races in their struggle to retain dignity and hope.Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard was born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa. Dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the… Read More