Jenney Shirley Carson (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor shelf wear. No jacket, if issued. Pages/boards clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ as Issued. A beautiful clean crisp hardcover copy in very good condition, bumped upper corners and slight bump at spine tail. Former owner's name written neatly in ink on front endpaper. Signed by author on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Foreword by Shelley and a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. 98 pages. Printed by Bishop & Sons, Edinburgh.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in tan wraps; 124 pages. Clean, square copy; uncreased, appears unread; short note in ink on ffep. Condition: VG+.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shirley Carson Jenney inscribed to previous owner and signed on the flyleaf. 1950 Stockwell UK third printing in lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. End papers exhibit light fox. No marks other than inscription.F36 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; 12mo; pp. 55, [1]. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP, "To Lauren Bacall -- with compliments and every best wish, from Shirley Carson Jenney." Shirley Carson Jenney (d. 1953), American psychic and clairaudient medium, produced several volumes which she claimed to have been communicated to her by the spirit of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including this volume and one previous, "The Great War-Cloud" (1938). Some light bumping at spine tips and along edges of boards. Lauren Bacall (born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, 1924-2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. Howard Hawks (director, producer, screenwriter) changed her first name to Lauren, and Perske adopted "Bacall," a variant of her mother's maiden name (of Romanian Jewish descent), as her screen surname. The young Lauren Bacall, worked as an usher at the St. James Theatre, and as a fashion model. She made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942, at age 17, as a walk-on in "Johnny 2x4." By then, she lived with her mother on Bank Street, Greenwich Village, and in 1942 she was crowned Miss Greenwich Village. Though Diana Vreeland is often credited with "discovering" Bacall, putting her on the cover of "Vogue" in 1943, much of the iconography surrounding Bacall she cultivated herself with the help of Nancy Hawks, Howard Hawks's wife, who advised Bacall on clothing, elegance, manners, and taste. Even Bacall's trademark voice required arduous training -- at Hawks's suggestion, Bacall worked with a voice coach to make her voice lower and deeper. Her screen debut as the leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film "To Have and Have Not" (1944) made her an instant star. She married Bogart in 1945, and continued in the film noir genre alongside him in "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), and "Key Largo" (1948). She starred in the romantic comedies "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953) with Marilyn Monroe, and "Designing Woman" (1957) with Gregory Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film, "The Shootist" (1976). Bacall worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for "Applause" (1970) and "Woman of the Year" (1981). …