Minna Powell (3 results)
More imagesThe Thin Man Movie Minutes 5 x 8 Film Card 1934 France, ultra rare!
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke / Starring William Powell (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as the alcoholic ex-crook detective Nick Charles), Myrna Loy (as Nick's rich socialite wife Nora Charles, who helped solve crimes), Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Asta (their dog, who became very popular!), Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis (as Clyde Wynant, the actual "thin man"!), and Henry Wadsworth
Published by Images et Loisirs 1980
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.AcornBooksNH
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A VGF or better 5 1/8" x 8 1/8" card that contains scenes from the film on the front along with film credits, synopsis and a behind the scenes story on the reverse side. These cards were part of a subscription series from Images et Loisirs. They were never available as a retail set; the only way… to acquire the cards was through subscription with the company. Printed in France, the English version of these cards are extremely scarce. The French version (know as Mr. Cinema) are also highly collectible. Book.
Health & beauty for women. . . .
[HEALTH - WOMEN]. BLAIR, Margaret Josephine. [ghost written by POWELL, Minna K.]
Published by Arts & Crafts Press, Printers and Binders,, San Diego: 1923
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller12mo. 122 pp. Photo frontisp., decorated title page, numerous plates. Gray publisher's cloth, decorated and lettered in blue, blue ruling (slight bumping to lower corners), still NF copy, inscribed by Minna K. Powell to Marion Talley (1906-1983), noted American opera singer. First edition, signed, of this scarce title on exercis…e and diet for women, ghostwritten for Blair (b. 1863) by her sister, Minna K. Powell, music editor in Kansas City, MO at the time. In 1918, Blair who had been a successful home economics teacher, and instructor in sewing, began suffering serious debilitating disease, and decided to recuperate using diet and exercise. Eventually she began giving lectures, and performing stunts demonstrating her good health, such as when at age 70 she performed by walking on the ledge of the roof of the Waldorf Hotel in New York. Minna K. Powell who was her younger sister, as well as music editor for the Kansas City Star, was friend and one of the biggest proponents and boosters for Marion Talley's opera career.
More imagesPublished by Carl J. Smalley, Kansas City 1922
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Edward Ripp: Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.Edward Ripp: Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Limited/Numbered. Small 4to (9-1/2 X 8-3/8"), bound in printed paste paper covered boards, tan paper spine. Printed on watermarked Japan paper. Unpaginated (50 pp), illustrated with frontispiece photograph portrait of Birger Sandzen + 20 b&w lithographic reproductions, printed one per page & ti…tled opposite. #115/120 copies with the original woodcut Toward Evening (Greenough block prints 46, p.23, 1922) 5-1/16 X 6-7/8" bound-in, signed and titled in pencil by Sandzen. VG+ condition (minor wear to heel of spine; hinges starting but holding; clean & tight throughout). RARE.
