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“CAN'T YOU LET YOURSELF BELIEVE IN PEOPLE LIKE KRIS—IN FUN AND JOY AND LOVE AND ALL THE OTHER INTANGIBLES?" FIRST EDITION OF MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET; SIGNED BY VALENTINE DAVIES
DAVIES, Valentine.
Miracle On 34th Street.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.
First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Valentine Davies on the half-title page. Fine in a very good first-issue dust jacket with "Double Your Enjoyment" on the rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 150449
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“CAN'T YOU LET YOURSELF BELIEVE IN PEOPLE LIKE KRIS—IN FUN AND JOY AND LOVE AND ALL THE OTHER INTANGIBLES?" FIRST EDITION OF MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
DAVIES, Valentine.
Miracle On 34th Street.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.
First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the first edition point of "Double Your Enjoyment" on the rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 149673
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“CAN'T YOU LET YOURSELF BELIEVE IN PEOPLE LIKE KRIS—IN FUN AND JOY AND LOVE AND ALL THE OTHER INTANGIBLES?" FIRST EDITION OF MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET; with a typed letter signed by Valentine Davies
DAVIES, Valentine [Buddy Adler].
Miracle On 34th Street. [with] Valentine Davies Typed Letter Signed.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.
First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Accompanied by a typed letter signed by Valentine Davies and regarding staging that year's Academy Awards presentations. Octavo, one page, on Universal-International Pictures letter head, the letter reads in full, "February 5, 1957 Dear Buddy: Thank you very much for the kind words about me in your letter to George. I am just beginning to tackle the job and it is a big one. I only hope that this year's show lives up to your expectations. With best wishes, Cordially, Valentine Davies." The recipient Buddy Adler (1909–1960) was an American film producer who played a significant role in shaping mid-twentieth-century Hollywood cinema. As head of production at Twentieth Century-Fox during the 1950s, Adler was instrumental in overseeing commercially successful and critically acclaimed films, including Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. With two additional letters, the first dated February 4, 1957 from Buddy Adler to George Seaton and the second dated February 6, 1957 from Buddy Adler to Valentine Davies. In near fine condition with mail folds and staple holes to the top left corner. Near fine in a very good second issue dust jacket. Desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 148982
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“CAN'T YOU LET YOURSELF BELIEVE IN PEOPLE LIKE KRIS—IN FUN AND JOY AND LOVE AND ALL THE OTHER INTANGIBLES?" FIRST EDITION OF MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET; FINELY BOUND BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY
DAVIES, Valentine.
Miracle On 34th. Street.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.
First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143561
