Correll and Gosden (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl record album, Radiola Release #4, near-mint vinyl in a mint cardboard jacket which has been opened but still wears its original shrink-wrap. Vintage radio theater / spoken word; reduced from $17.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. A fair hardcover. Missing the title page and pages 1 and 2. Page 3 is loose. Otherwise complete and tight. All illustrations are there including the frontis.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Orange boards with title in square with title on spine in black also. Some small marks on front cover; and some rubbing from shelf wear on spine and corners. Pictorial checkerboard endpapers (orange and white), w/a small square on one page of Amos 'n' Andy and the other of a family listening to the radio. The frontispiece is a photo of actors Correll & Gosden. Foreword by an unidentified "friend" who appears to have signed his contribution. Black & White illustrations throughout. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows minor wear and rubbing, pages tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Some rubbing on the boards, near very good lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 12mo, 126 pages, orange cloth, edgeworn; ex libris Florence Shirley. Dialect adventures of two who left Birmingham to find profitable work in Chicago. Originally their characters were named Sam 'n' Henry. One chapter explains how Sam 'n; Henry had to become Amos 'N' Andy. This details how their radio shows and film projects were done. This includes the script to radio show no. 250, and some excerpts of dialogue from thier films. Extensively illustrated with photogravures. photogravures (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1929 Edition. Former library copy, may have usual markings. In rough condition, has tears, stains, writing and markings inside. Still intact with life left.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (red cloth with black lettering; no dust jacket) [a bit of wear to extremities, very slight exposure of boards at lower corners, tiny white stain on rear cover, one-time owner's name in ink at top of front endpaper]. (pen & ink drawings) Racial (OK, let's just say racist) humor by the creators of "Amos 'n' Andy," this volume reproduces 25 short sketches, selected from among the earliest episodes of the "Sam 'n' Henry" radio series, which premiered on the Chicago Tribune-owned station WGN in January 1926. Created and written by two white men (who also performed as the title characters), it presented the misadventures of two natives of Birmingham, Alabama, who have migrated to Chicago. Although not identical, the characters and their milieu are models for A 'n' A in virtually all the ways that matter; the show was an immediate hit; other iterations, besides this book, included the regular publication of some of the show's scripts in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, a number of recordings made by Gosden and Correll, and at least a handful of stage performances in Chicago in early 1927. The radio series itself ran for two-and-a-half years, but by the time it ended its run on WGN in July 1928, its creators had decamped for a competing Chicago station, leaving the "Sam 'n' Henry" name and characters (owned by WGN) behind, and had reworked the basic idea into "Amos 'n' Andy," which thrived on radio (and then television) for another 25+ years. Cringe-worthy to modern sensibilities, this kind of material can only be appreciated within the context of its time, most especially in its employment of the then-common "blackface" entertainment mode, which involved not only white performers in makeup but also an extreme and theatrical form of "Negro dialect," of which I will spare you any examples. (About the only less-condemnatory thing that can be said about the latter is that it was perhaps marginally less offensive on the radio than when Gosden & Correll "blacked up" to play the characters in the only "Amos 'n' Andy" feature film ever made, CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK, produced at RKO in 1930. It made money for the studio, but even Gosden himself, years later, called it "just about the worst movie ever."). Illustrated by Samuel Jay Smith (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a VG, unmarked, hardcover 128 page first edition copy in orange cloth binding with black lettering on the cover and spine. The story, with photos, of how Amos and Andy got their start in Durham, N.C. at the start of radio broadcasting. Laid in are newspaper clippings from 1930 up to Amos' obit in 1982. [Radio, a mechanical contrivance by which, unbelievable as it may seem, it is actually possible for a speaker to make himself heard throughout the length and breadth of the nation. ] Photos on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1930 edition. Orange cloth. Soiling and some moderate wear on the boards, a sound good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near VG. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, publicity photo of Amos 'n' Andy in blackface laid in, photo has small chip on top edge, book has light bumps and some wear-through at corners, spine is somewhat soiled, otherwise a VG copy without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st English ed. vi, 170. Blue cloth, lettered in lavender. 19cm. Gift inscription. Minor soiling and wear. No Jacket. Appears to be an English version of "Here They Are Amos 'n' Andy.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book: Very Good/, $34.81 SAM `N` HENRY; Original Stories of AMOS `n` ANDY. * CORRELL and GOSDEN Samuel Jay SMITH, Illustrated By. Shrewesbury Publishing Company; Chicago Tribune Chicago * * * * * 1926 UnStated 1sT Edition Sun Browning On A Red Cloth Spine With Title In Black Letters, Hard Cover Book: Very Good/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 189 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper, Light Browning On Edges, Clean And Tight To The Spine In Near Fine/ Condition. Spine Cracked By Rear Cover. D/j: None. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = = Corrugated Mailing B0X. * = To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This Item, = ONLY. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *. 1926 Book: Very Good/, (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: good. First. Photo illustrations. 127 pages. Small 8vo, orange cloth, lightly soiled, with pigment damage from insects on spine; ownership inscription. New York: Rand McNally, (1929). First Edition. A good solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No interior markings, pages tanned and a few smudges. Corner of one page is torn, repaired with tape by previous owner. Binding is good, soiling and some wear to the orange cover. Hugh Lofting (illustrator). Book.

189 pp. Illustrated by Samuel Jay Smith. 12mo, original printed yellow wrappers. Wrapper chipped at one corner; light soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 127 pp. Original orange cloth covers w/ title on front cover. Corners bumped. Binding rubbed. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. From radio to the printed page. For the first time, Amos and Andy's own story about how they started from the farm in Georgia, came North to be big businessmen, and organized the famous Fresh Air Taxicab Co. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings. SCARCE.…

Chicago (1929), Photos, 7.5 x 6", cloth, 127 pp outer hinge tearing, extgremities beginning to fray. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 126pp, many photos of the comdeians in black face, etc.a good copy rather heavily rubbed in a heavily taped D.J., interior clean (HB4).

174 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Vertical crease to front board; otherwise a very good copy in a price-clipped jacket with some light overall browning and some chipping to edges.

Second Printing. Racially insensitive biography of the comic duo that performed in black face. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket with wraparound dustjacket art, with shallow chipping to spine ends, flap corners and edges, modest surface wear, few short closed tears.

189 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate; a few areas of browning to endsheets; a few spots to cloth; but a very good copy in a bright jacket with a few small chips (not affecting any lettering or the design).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: poor. Second edition. Secone edition with "edition of 1930" on the copyright page. . Hardcover in orange cloth lettered in black. Illustrated endpapers. 126 pp. Illustrated with full page photographs of Correll and Gosden in and out of character. Fine. With the front panel and flaps ONLY of the rare dust jacket.The inside story of the creation of one of the most popular radio programs ever, 'Amos n' Andy", told by the two men who created the characters and the show. It answers the questions posed on the jacket flap: "Are the "boys" white or colored? Who writes the material for their episodes? Who takes the part of Amos? Who takes the part of Andy?" The radio program (and later the TV series) was set in Harlem and broadcast beginning in 1928 on Chicago's WMAQ. It was one of the first radio comedy shows and ran first as a nightly and later a weekly program. It was radio's first syndicated program and by 1929 was carried by 70 stations. Correll and Gosden were white and claim to have created the characters after overhearing two old black men conversing in an elevator. By the early 1930s, the progarm was being denounced by many in the African American community, particularly by the Pittsburg Courier which was then the second largest African American newspaper in America. The series was adapted for televison and ran for 52 episodes in 1951-53; the lead characters on the televison series were played by African American actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 17p. Stapled mimeo typescript. Printed on one side. 28 cm. A couple lines of dialogue have been crossed out and there is a small red check mark on front page and a few other red or black pencil markings. Last leaf detached from staple. Andy and Kingfish run a parking lot.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 20p. Mimeo typescript, stapled in upper left corner. Printed on one side. 28 cm. Red pencil markings on a few pages. Kingfish tries to trick Andy but gets injured and his trickery causes him to lose out on a winning ticket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 20p. Mimeo typescript, stapled in upper left corner. Printed on one side. 28 cm. A few red pencil marks. Sapphire goes out of town for the summer and Kingfish pretends to be running a rest home to get $750.

Foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. vi, 174 pp. Small 8vo, publisher's red cloth in dust jacket by Gluyas Williams. First edition. Minor use at extremities; a nice copy in a jacket with some light soiling and use at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Copyright date 1929, first edition. Orange cloth over boards with black lettering and design the front and on the spine. Illustrated inside covers front and back. A small corner dent bottom right, light shelfwear to the edges to the head and the toe the spine. No tears bent pages previous owners name written on the inside flyleaf. No dust jacket. This book contains questions and answers to one of the most famous and funniest radio programs of its era by the two stars with an introduction by the radio announcer that introduced of every week. Illustrated throughout the book with black-and-white photographs. Text is bright and clean binding is tight. A solid book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…