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Technique: Gilt
Important Ormolu-Mounted Amaranth, Kingwood and Satine Parquetry Grand Piano
By Henry Dasson
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Henry Dasson (d. 1896)
Origin: French
Date: circa 1885-q890
Dimension: (H) 35 1/4 in x (W) 54 in x (W) 78 in.
Provenance: Acquired by Dr. J. T Nieto-Gomez from fi...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Complete Purdon
s Gilt Leather Bound Library Book Collection Set
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Complete collection set of gilt leather bound library book set of one hundred twenty nine volumes. PURDON'S Pennsylvania Statutes & Consolidated Statutes Annotated. Copyright 2003 by...
Category
Early 2000s Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Leather
Pair of Tall Italian 19th Century Silver Gilt Candlesticks from Italian Church
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of large-sized 19th century Italian candlesticks. This pair of antique candlesticks, circa 1850, were originally displayed in an Italian church and feature silver gilt over exquisite hand-carved wood bodies. Each candlestick is approximately 3 foot tall...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Late Georgian English Gilt Bronze Travelling Candlestick
Match holder
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual antique Late Georgian or Regency gilt bronze travelling candle stick with match holder/striker and with a snuffer dating from ...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Pocket Telescope Gilt Brass And Faux Tortoiseshell Spyglass
Located in Norwich, GB
19th Century pocket telescope gilt brass and faux tortoiseshell spyglass, each friction fitting is tapering and collapsible with millegrain edges.
In good condition, showing some li...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France – Rowlandson
Located in Middletown, NY
Combe, William (uncredited). Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson
Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France Shortly Before the Revolution; Embellished with Seve...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
20th Century Chinese Zhongzheng/Chengren Commemorative Short Sword and Scabbard
Located in North Miami, FL
20th Century chinese Zhongzheng/Chengren military commemorative short sword and scabbard gifted by Chiang Kai-shek
By: unknown
Material: iron, metal, paint, bronze, copper, wood, sh...
Category
1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Copper, Steel, Iron
Decanter Shot Glass Set Gold Nautical Design Barware, Czech, Mid-20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful clear and gold spirits or liquor decanter and shot glass set from Czechoslovakia, circa mid-20th century, Europe. Beautifu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Crystal
$1,480 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large Gilt Bronze Medallion Plate with putti, mythology, nymph - Italy - 19th
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very beautiful italian medallion plaque in gilded and patinated bronze decorated in the style of pieces from the Northern Renaissance period.
The pla...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
$1,195 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique large double singing bird-in-cage, by Bontems
Located in London, GB
Double the fun...
When wound and actuation lever set to continuous position, the pair of full taxidermy perched birds take turns to sing the continuous phrases, by opening and closi...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Vintage Italian Gold Gilt Camel Figures, a Pair
Located in Cordova, SC
A fantastic pair of Italian gold gilt camel figurines. Marked Italy on the felted base. One of the camels has some damage to the lower neck. This is pho...
Category
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
$156 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Letter From Birmingham City Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., Printed Pamphlet
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is one of the most important texts of the American Civil Rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham City Jail.” Printed as a stapled pamphlet, ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
Collection Gilt Leather Bound Library Book Set / Eighteen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Collection of gilt leather bound library book set of eighteen. Army Life In A Black Regiment By Thomas Went Wentworth Higginson "Collector's Library ...
Category
1980s Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Leather
Art Deco Bronze Car Mascot in the from of a Lady Golfer, Jose Dunach
By José Dunach
Located in Bath, GB
A fabulous gilded bronze car mascot modelled as a lady golfer and mounted on a marble base.
Signed on the base J Dunach; Jose Dunach (1886-1957) was bor...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$1,581 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of Six The Works of Sir Wm Stirling Maxwell, Ltd #178/250
Located in valatie, NY
Set of six volumes, full Moroccan leather bindings. Annals of The Artists of Spain by Wm Stirling-Maxwell. London: John Nimmo, 1891. In four volumes. First Edition, thus. Numbered #1...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Spanish American War Commemorative Mirrored Hall Rack
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Spanish American War Commemorative Mirrored Hall Rack
USA, Circa 1900
An uncommon example of American historical memorabilia, This mirrored hall...
Category
Early 20th Century American Victorian Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Spanish Silver Holy Water Font, Baroque Style with Gilt Virgin Mary
Located in Madrid, ES
This highly decorative silver holy water font or stoup, is stamped with hallmarks placing its manufacture in Aspiazu, Bilbao, Spain during the l...
Category
Late 18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
1910s Art Nouveau Lemaire-Like Brass Binoculars/Glasses and Leather Case, France
Located in North Miami, FL
1910s Art Nouveau Lemaire-like gilt brass expandable sportier binoculars/opera glasses with leather case, France
By: LeMaire Paris (in the style of)
Material: brass, copper, metal, ...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Brass, Copper, Zinc
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Gilded Heart Hammered Cuff Bracelet, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
This eye-catching vintage fashion bracelet by Yves Saint Laurent is a true collector’s piece from the bold and glamorous 1980s era. Crafted in France, this wide hammered cuff bracele...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Alice
s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Octavo. Rebound in full red leathe...
Category
1920s American Edwardian Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
America
s Cup. Clothbound, Limited Edition Book, Designed by Marc Newson
By Marc Newson, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
America's Cup.
Edition of 825.
Hardcover bound in a cotton sailcloth, with metal closure manufactured by Louis Vuitton, book block with silver edges, 12.1 x 16.1 in, 16.86 lb, 564 pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
The Battles of America by Sea and Land by Robert Tomes and John Laird Wilson
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Tomes, Robert and John Laird Wilson. The Battles of America by Sea and Land. New York: Patterson & Neilson, 1878. Thick quarto three volume set. Original full leather boards, embosse...
Category
1870s American Victorian Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
19th Century French Leather and Gilt Devotional Book on the Virgin Mary
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a shelf, console, or library with this elegant 19th-century French devotional volume. Crafted in Paris circa 1877, this refined antique book, titled La Sainte Vierge...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Silver Monstrance c. 1797–1799 Augsburg Neoclassical Gilt Lüders
Located in Epfach, DE
Augsburg silver sunburst monstrance, c. 1797–1799.
Master: Jakob Hermann David Lüders
This impressive late 18th century sunburst monstrance was crafted in Augsburg between 1797 and...
Category
1790s German Neoclassical Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne, Illustrated by Ernest Shepard, First Ed., 1927
By A.A. Milne
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co., 1927. First Edition. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard. Octavo. In the publisher's original red leatherette boards, stamped in gilt, with new joints and linings, and presented with a new archival ¼ cloth slipcase.
Presented is the first edition of A. A. Milne’s iconic children’s poems, Now We Are Six. This collection of verses was published by Methuen & Co, in London in 1927. It is presented here in the publisher’s original gilt-stamped red leatherette boards, with new joints and linings, and filled with E. H. Shepard’s charming illustrations. The book is now protected in a custom, archival red cloth slipcase with gilt stamped inlays...
Category
1920s English Edwardian Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
17th Century Italian Massive Silver Crucifix with Golden Wood Frame, circa 1900s
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Very rare and precious 1600s Italian massive silver crucifix in bulletin board golden wood frame
Measures cm: H 40, W 26, D 6
About:
On an iconogr...
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Pair of 18th Century Temple Elephants Carved in Sandstone from Burma
Located in Kastrup, DK
Pair of rare 18th century temple elephants carved in sandstone with chalk and leftovers of gold leaf.
Chalking is used as a surface to bind gold leaf. Originally fully covered with g...
Category
18th Century Burmese Other Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sandstone
AUSTRIAN 1910-1915 Sculptural Enameled Racehorse With Jockey Desk Touch Striker
Located in Miami, FL
Austrian desk striker of a race horse with a jockey.
Fabulous art deco desk smoker's touch-tip striker, created in Vienna Austria during the Edwardian period, back in the 1915. The ...
Category
1910s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Enamel, Bronze, Spelter
The Gentleman
s Magazine, with 1777 Flag Resolution, June 1783
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an June 1783 issue of London's "The Gentleman's Magazine," containing significant historical content relating to the end of the Revolutionary War, the 1777 Flag Resoluti...
Category
1780s English American Colonial Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
South American Presentation Sword
Located in New Orleans, LA
Believed to have originated from the collection of a South American diplomat, the exquisiteness of this presentation sword conveys its ownership by ...
Category
19th Century South American Other Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Brass, Bronze
$48,500 / set
19th Century Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible with Brass Clasps
Located in Dallas, TX
Preserve a piece of devotional history with this exquisite antique edition of Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible, published circa 1880 and richly decorated in the Gothic Revival ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Early 20th Century Grandma
s Brooches, Art Nouveau, Zircons, Hard Stones, Pearls
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Refined collection of original Art Nouveau brooches, crafted between the late 19th and early 20th century. Each piece is unique, finely hand-worked in gilt metal, and adorned with g...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Belle Époque Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stone, Crystal, Metal
$788 Sale Price / item
22% Off
McClellan
s Own Story by George B. McClellan, First Edition, in Original Boards
By George B. McClellan 1
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
McClellan, George B. McClellan’s Own Story: The war for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to it and them. New York: Charles Webs...
Category
1880s American Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Paper
Large Rare Antique French Porcelain Giltwood Judaica Menorah Samson et Cie
By Samson
Cie
Located in London, GB
Large Rare Antique French Porcelain Giltwood Judaica Menorah Samson et Cie
French, Late 19th Century
Height 91cm, width 70cm, depth 9cm
Of remarkable...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
The Pennsylvania Journal and The Weekly Advertiser, Issued June 16, 1787
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an June 16, 1787 issue of Philadelphia's "The Pennsylvania Journal, and The Weekly Advertiser," containing coverage of the Constitutional Convention. The magazine period...
Category
1780s American Federal Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
Italian Liturgical Pax Brede Or Osculatorium From The 16th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Italy
16th century
A liturgical Pax Brede or Osculatorium. The carved wooden board “Kiss of Peace” representing Christ as a man of sorrows. The pax has the shape of an ancient templ...
Category
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Heroes of the Plains by J. W. Buel, Illustrated, circa 1880s
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Buel, James W. Heroes of the Plains, or Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, “White Beaver,” Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, an...
Category
1880s American Late Victorian Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Paper
Set Eight Italian Miniature Silver Gilt Malachite Musical Instrument Figures
Located in London, GB
Set Eight Italian Miniature Silver Gilt Malachite Musical Instrument Figures
Italian, 20th Century
Largest (guitar): Height 6.5cm, diameter 3.3cm
A delightful example of Italian c...
Category
20th Century Italian Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Malachite, Vermeil, Silver
Pair of 1880s Carved Gilt Crosses On A Wood Step Base
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Pair of 1880s Carved Gilt Crosses On A Wood Step Base
Loss of gilt on crosses
PRICE PER ITEM (each)
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Wonderful Turn of the Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Six-Leg Grand Erard Piano
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful turn of the century gilt bronze mounted Louis XVI style six-leg Grand Erard piano
Beautiful satinwood veneer, bronze mounts, standing on six legs centered by a stretcher.
The movement stamped with Erard serial number 93712 and patent stamps, the interior of the case further stamped F. TURBEC/A LEMOINE, and M. BECKER.
Erard is the oldest and most prestigious French piano manufacturer. The firm was founded by Sebastian Erard...
Category
Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Silver Gilt Presentation Casket Awarded to Alderman Abel Heywood
Located in London, GB
An Elkington & Company Silver Gilt Presentation Casket
Hall Marked for Birmingham, 1891 and the maker; the casket, in the Victorian Gothic manner, with cluster columns at the angles...
Category
1890s English Gothic Revival Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Vermeil
William Wordsworth a Biography by Edwin Paxton Hood, 1856, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
William Wordsworth a Biography by Edwin Paxton Hood, 1856. London: W. & F. G. Cash, 1856. Red Calf leather and cloth bound gilt hardcover with gilt ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Leather
A very fine 19th century Grand Piano by Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Dallas, TX
A magnificent French 19th century Louis XV designed marquetry kingwood Grand Piano . Signed in the bronze by Joseph Zwiener. The finest gilt bronze mounts. 6 legs . The piano works b...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Monumental Gothic Parcel Gilt
Polychromed Carved Oak Cross 19thC
Located in Big Flats, NY
A monumental antique Gothic cross offers gilt highlighted foliate carved and polychromed cross, 19th century
Measures - 57"h x 55.5"w x 1.5"d
This monumental Gothic cross is intricat...
Category
19th Century Gothic Revival Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
17th/ 18th Century Italian Carved Giltwood Baroque Tabernacle with Sunburst
Located in Buisson, FR
Unique tabernacle with its original gilding. Great piece to display a small private collection. Beautiful decorated with a sunbusrt and acanthus leaves, Italy, circa 1650-1750.
Weath...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
$2,241 Sale Price
55% Off
The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi, Illustrated by F. Richardson, 1927
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Collodi, Carlo. The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Marionette. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1927. Illustrated by Frederick Richardson. First edition thus. Octa...
Category
1920s American Art Nouveau Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Paper
Pair of Large French Gilt Bronze Church Two-Arm Candle Sconces, Mid-19th Century
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
A pair of french church two-arm wall candle sconces, gilt bronze decorated with leaf motifs, beautiful aged patina, France, mid-19th century. For indoor and outdoor use.
Category
Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, First UK Edition, Original Boards, 1883
By Mark Twain
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. With over 300 illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First UK Edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth boards, embossed in black and le...
Category
1880s English High Victorian Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Paper
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Edition, 1922
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition, first state. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt titles, and tooling to the spine. Gilded edges. New archival cloth slipcase.
Presented is a first edition, first state of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned. The book was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York in 1922. It is presented here, rebound, in gorgeous blue ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt tooling to the spine, and a new archival slipcase.
The Beautiful and the Damned was Fitzgerald’s second novel, following his debut This Side of Paradise. The book is an exploration of the nouveau riche, New York City nightlife in the 1920s, and the inner dynamics of two young and reckless newlyweds. Semi-autobigraphical, Fitzgerald modeled the characters of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert on himself and his new spouse Zelda Fitzgerald and the story draws circumstantially upon the early years of Fitzgeralds' tempestuous marriage.
Fitzgerald started writing The Beautiful and the Damned in August of 1920, while in Westport Connecticut. Having reflected upon the criticisms of his debut novel This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald sought to improve upon the form and construction of his prose in this second book. He relied heavily on editorial suggestions from his friend Edmund Wilson...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale, by Doctor Goldsmith – Th. Rowlandson illustrator
Located in Middletown, NY
London: R. Ackermann, 1823. Thomas Rowlandson. Second Edition.
Tall 8vo. 9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches (228 x 174 mm); 8 + 254 pp.; with 24 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson, includin...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
Franklin Mint - The Royal Geographical Society, Tripod World Globe Circa 1993
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare standing globe manufactured by the Franklin Mint, to a designed as was issued by the Royal Geographic Society. The globe is mounted on a tripod mahogany base accented by gi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Other Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Antique French Gilt Bronze Gothic Altar Jesus Statue Griffin Candlestick
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & large 33" tall antique French Gothic ecclesiastical gilt bronze "Vive Jesus" candlestick, circa 1890.
The candlestick is very finely cast of heavy gilt bronze, the top havin...
Category
1890s French Gothic Revival Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
The Virgin and child with little St-John, after Raphaël (1483-1520)
Located in Paris, FR
Miniature depicting The Virgin and Child with Little Saint John, known as the Virgin with Veil or the Virgin with Blue Tiara (Louvre), after Raphael (1483-1520), signed lower left J....
Category
1850s French Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Pair of 32" Terrestrial and Celestial Globes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes
G & T London
20th Century
This extraordinary pair of 32-inch terrestrial and celestial globes, crafted by G & T London, pays homage to the m...
Category
20th Century English Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
19th century American Southern Portrait by Benoni Irwin
By Benoni Irwin
Located in Savannah, GA
Oil on canvas portrait entitled:Mr. Bowles of Kentucky, painted by Benoni Irwin (1840-1896) an American portraitist born in new market, Ontario, Canada. He moved to New York as a you...
Category
Late 19th Century American American Classical Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
$5,995 Sale Price
50% Off
King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace, First Photoplay Edition, 1932
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Lovelace, Delos W. King Kong. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. 8vo. Rebound in 1/4 green leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt stamps, and gilt titles to spine. New matching archival slipcase.
Presented is a first edition of Delos W. Lovelace’s adaptation of King Kong. This printing was published by Grosset & Dunlap, in New York, in December of 1932, just months before the March 1933 film premiere of King Kong. The book has been beautifully rebound in handsome ¼ green leather and cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt stamps and tiles to the spine, and a matching green archival slipcase.
RKO producer Merian Cooper and writer Edgar Wallace originally conceived of the story about a remote island inhabited by a huge silverback gorilla, among other creatures. After Wallace’s untimely death, the thrilling screenplay was finished by James A. Creelman and Ruth Rose. Just as the RKO film of King Kong was finishing production, Cooper asked his friend Delos Lovelace to adapt the film's screenplay into a novelization. On the novel’s cover, Lovelace’s name was overshadowed by the phrase, “conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.” The Grosset & Dunlap book was published later that month, on December 27, and served as part of the film’s advance marketing campaign. The book would go on to see numerous reprints, furthering King Kong's status as a cultural phenomenon.
Alexander Grosset and George T...
Category
1930s American Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Dunhill 18ct Gold Plated Rollagas Cigarette Lighter With Box
Papers Serviced
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Elegant Dunhill 18ct Gold Plated Engine Turned Cigarette Lighter With Grey Dunhill Box
Lighter Made in Switzerland With Dunhill Box.
In great working condition, has recently been ...
Category
Late 20th Century Swiss Art Deco Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate
The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, with His Life, Written by Himself, 1835
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Franklin, Benjamin. The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself. Exeter: J & B Williams, 1835. In origi...
Category
1830s American Federal Antique Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, First Edition, 1938
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. First edition. 8to. Rebound in full green leather with gilt tooling, ...
Category
1930s American Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, First Edition, Later Printing, 1937
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition, thirty-third printing. Octavo. Handsomely rebound in full navy Moroccan leather with gi...
Category
1930s American Vintage Gilt Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
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