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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Signed and limited to 200 copies for sale. This is copy 117. Rebound in full crimson leather. Five raised bands. Gilt tooling to spine. Custom rebind inserting multiple handwritten letters and notes (as well as numerous handwritten letters and notes laid in) from Henry Taylor Parker (HTP) to Robert Sisk. Henry Taylor Parker (29 April 1867 to 30 March 1934), ""known for many years largely by his initials H. T. P."" was an American theater and music critic. Time said Parker's ""reviews were famed"" and for ""29 years he had been Boston's oracle on theatre and music. The magazine also said Parker was a ""great critic."" Parker was ""one of the most distinguished critics of his era, respected for his long, thoughtful, and open-minded reviews.""His biographer said ""This remarkable little man of fine perceptions, with his dark eyes burning quizzically in a head bent forward with a sleuthing thrust and emphatic in its nods, was a giant among critics."" Robert Sisk (March 20, 1903 to February 25, 1964) was an acclaimed American film producer. His credits include Little Women (1933), The Three Musketeers (1935), Annie Oakley (1935), The Plough and the Stars (1936), The Saint Strikes Back (1939), Five Came Back (1939), A Bill of Divorcement (1940), The Forest Rangers (1942), Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946), Courage of Lassie (1946), Master of Lassie (1948), The Sun Comes Up (1949), Challenge to Lassie (1949), and Tension (1949) In the late 1930s, he made a number of movies with Academy Award winning John Farrow. John Farrow was a director, producer, and screenwriter.
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