1999ref. 2912Rio DE Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil. As New. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Glossy yellow pictorial wraps sharp and bright. Book is firm in binding unread crisp interior profusely illustrated with color photographs. As New. Catalogue that accompanied the mycity project. The first world city web design exhibition which took place from December 1999 to March 2000 in the Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro. Free of any markings not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 140 pages . Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil paperback
1929ref. 151442Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 comedy short film. Stan and Ollie mistakenly think a reward for a stolen painting is for a horse with the same name leading to a series of slapstick misadventures when they return the horse instead of the painting. Shot as a silent but issued with synchronized music and sound effects to theatres equipped for sound. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light curling and the occasional light crease. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1929ref. 151442Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 comedy short film. Stan and Ollie mistakenly think a reward for a stolen painting is for a horse with the same name leading to a series of slapstick misadventures when they return the horse instead of the painting. Shot as a silent but issued with synchronized music and sound effects to theatres equipped for sound. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light curling and the occasional light crease. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1956ref. 159137Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Three reference photographs from the 1956 film. Two with Universal-International stamps and printed mimeo snipes on the verso and one with a National Film Archive stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 145758Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Douglas Sirk and Lauren Bacall on the set of the 1956 film standing in the middle of stairway that endures much use in the course of the narrative. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy Robert Stack impulsively marries a secretary Bacall at his father's office unaware that his best friend Rock Hudson is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 140927Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoirs du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
ref. 1901200714Helsinki: Universal International. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Good. An original Finnish first-screening poster for Written on the Wind 1956 the Universal Pictures melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk now widely regarded as one of the defining works of Hollywood's golden age of melodrama. Starring Rock Hudson Lauren Bacall Robert Stack Academy Award nominated and Dorothy Malone who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance. Printed by Piirtopaino Oy. Artist-signed in the plate. Standard Finnish A2 approximately 60.5 × 40 cm. Condition: Good. Cinema-used with several faults folding crease to centre. Dismounting chip to top right corner with a half-inch tear below. Single staple holes at the remaining corners. Half-inch tear and two nicks to the left edge. Two further half-inch tears to the right edge. Half-inch tear at the bottom edge. Faint but clearly visible print-marked date and time just above the cast list at the bottom. Corners creased. Notwithstanding these faults it remains a very attractive and genuinely scarce poster. Universal International unknown
1956ref. 145758Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Douglas Sirk and Lauren Bacall on the set of the 1956 film standing in the middle of stairway that endures much use in the course of the narrative. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy Robert Stack impulsively marries a secretary Bacall at his father's office unaware that his best friend Rock Hudson is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 140927Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoirs du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 159137Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Three reference photographs from the 1956 film. Two with Universal-International stamps and printed mimeo snipes on the verso and one with a National Film Archive stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
2018ref. x-0190649496Oxford University Press USA 2018. Paperback. New. 12 wkb edition. 160 pages. 8.50x11.00x0.34 inches. Oxford University Press, USA paperback
ref. 426875Ward Lock/Schools Council Publications. Hardcover. Good. The writing Across the Curriculum Project was set up in 1971 and builds on the Development of Writing Abilities 11 - 18 project at the London Institute of Education. One of the aims is to encourage teachers to initiate discussions and set up working groups to explore language use in schools. The Bullock Report gave a boost to the work and to the idea of 'language across the curriculum'. Foreword by James Britton. The project director was Nancy Martin. Examples of pupils' creative writing throughout. An influential project and still relevant. Hardback with green boards. Binding firm. No dust jacket. All pages clean and unmarked. Ward Lock/Schools Council Publications hardcover
ref. 1410757854.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2008ref. 330756TLA Releasing 2008. DVD. Good used DVD in original clamshell case no booklet. TLAD206. 86 minute documentary about the gay porn star including interviews with him and many other performers. TLA Releasing unknown books
1979ref. 132250New York: New Yorker Films 1979. Original US promotional window poster for the 1979 German film issued in small numbers by New Yorker Films who distributed Herzog's film in the US. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 11 x 17 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. New Yorker Films unknown books
1979ref. 132250New York: New Yorker Films 1979. Original US promotional window poster for the 1979 German film issued in small numbers by New Yorker Films who distributed Herzog's film in the US. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 11 x 17 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. New Yorker Films unknown
1993ref. 2090202120407361cable hog 1993. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 cable hog paperback
1958ref. 143902Paris: Comedie-Francaise 1958. Collection of 19 original studio still color transparencies from the 1958 French film here under the original French title. Starring actors Meyer Seigner Marie Sabouret and Micheline Boudet figure prominently in the images in lavish period costumes. A few have layout annotations either on the glassine sleeve or on an affixed glassine slip. Laid in is a signed typescript letter from "Y. Guillot" addressed to Gay Lussac at Cinedis the film's distribution company and dated 1960. Guillot was "Le Chef du Service des Editions" and he thanks Lussac for sending him "ektachromes" from the film promising to include images in upcoming issues of his publication. Housed in an original French Crumiere paper photo box with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the lid. Based on Moliere's 1670 five-act play "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" about social climbing and the bourgeois personality. Seigner plays Jourdain middle-aged and aspiring to aristocracy. He learns fencing dancing music and philosophy constantly making a fool of himself. The second adaptation of Moliere's play after Humberto Gómez Landero's "El gran Makakikus 1944 and preceding Roger Coggio's "Le bourgeois gentilhomme" 1982. 18 transparencies 3.25 x 4.5 inches 1 two-frame transparency 2.25 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine glassine sleeves with light soil. Letter Very Good plus folded twice. Box Very Good overall. Comedie-Francaise unknown books
1958ref. 143902Paris: Comedie-Francaise 1958. Collection of 19 original studio still color transparencies from the 1958 French film here under the original French title. Starring actors Meyer Seigner Marie Sabouret and Micheline Boudet figure prominently in the images in lavish period costumes. A few have layout annotations either on the glassine sleeve or on an affixed glassine slip. Laid in is a signed typescript letter from "Y. Guillot" addressed to Gay Lussac at Cinedis the film's distribution company and dated 1960. Guillot was "Le Chef du Service des Editions" and he thanks Lussac for sending him "ektachromes" from the film promising to include images in upcoming issues of his publication. Housed in an original French Crumiere paper photo box with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the lid. Based on Moliere's 1670 five-act play "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" about social climbing and the bourgeois personality. Seigner plays Jourdain middle-aged and aspiring to aristocracy. He learns fencing dancing music and philosophy constantly making a fool of himself. The second adaptation of Moliere's play after Humberto Gómez Landero's "El gran Makakikus 1944 and preceding Roger Coggio's "Le bourgeois gentilhomme" 1982. 18 transparencies 3.25 x 4.5 inches 1 two-frame transparency 2.25 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine glassine sleeves with light soil. Letter Very Good plus folded twice. Box Very Good overall. Comedie-Francaise unknown
1988ref. 169014Burbank CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Draft script for the 1989 film. A handsome cocky television weatherman accepts a bet from his best friend agreeing to propose marriage and be accepted by three different women of his friend's choosing: a sexy football fan a wealthy but unhappily married woman and an intellectual classical pianist. Set and shot on location in Philadelphia. White titled wrappers dated March 1 1998. Title page present dated 3.1.88 with credits for screenwriters Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4/18/88. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1988ref. 169014Burbank CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Draft script for the 1989 film. A handsome cocky television weatherman accepts a bet from his best friend agreeing to propose marriage and be accepted by three different women of his friend's choosing: a sexy football fan a wealthy but unhappily married woman and an intellectual classical pianist. Set and shot on location in Philadelphia. White titled wrappers dated March 1 1998. Title page present dated 3.1.88 with credits for screenwriters Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4/18/88. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
ref. 170395East Hampton NY: Vogel Bindery 2009. Shooting script for the 2009 film. Presentation copy on thick high-quality stock with a tipped-in color photograph of Robin Williams in character SIGNED "All my best / Robin Williams." In a decorative red cloth binding with titles and design in stamped gilt on the front board and spine the front board depicting the mascot from the film's high school "The Fighting Pugs." Page edges gilt yellow endpapers and with a credit for the Vogel bindery in East Hampton NY at the bottom of the last page of narrative text. Laid in is a form letter and a self-addressed stamped envelope never used confirming that the book is a donation for charity. Bob Goldthwait's masterpiece a brave deep-black comedy-drama that embraces both humanity and satire with no regard whatsoever for who is going to like it. One of the most underrated and ambitious films of the 2000s. Shot on location in Seattle. Red titled boards noted as Shooting Script on the title page undated with a screenwriter credit for Goldthwait and a WGA number at the bottom left corner. 64 leaves rectos and versos with last page of text numbered 121. Lithographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages in Fine condition faint oxidization to the boards else Fine unread. Vogel Bindery unknown books
ref. 170395East Hampton NY: Vogel Bindery 2009. Shooting script for the 2009 film. Presentation copy on thick high-quality stock with a tipped-in color photograph of Robin Williams in character SIGNED "All my best / Robin Williams." In a decorative red cloth binding with titles and design in stamped gilt on the front board and spine the front board depicting the mascot from the film's high school "The Fighting Pugs." Page edges gilt yellow endpapers and with a credit for the Vogel bindery in East Hampton NY at the bottom of the last page of narrative text. Laid in is a form letter and a self-addressed stamped envelope never used confirming that the book is a donation for charity. Bob Goldthwait's masterpiece a brave deep-black comedy-drama that embraces both humanity and satire with no regard whatsoever for who is going to like it. One of the most underrated and ambitious films of the 2000s. Shot on location in Seattle. Red titled boards noted as Shooting Script on the title page undated with a screenwriter credit for Goldthwait and a WGA number at the bottom left corner. 64 leaves rectos and versos with last page of text numbered 121. Lithographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages in Fine condition faint oxidization to the boards else Fine unread. Vogel Bindery unknown
ref. 63-9429Malibu CA: World Wheel ca. 1979. Stapled Letter Sized Pages 5 pp. Very Good. B&W photos. Photocopy of press release on World Wheel.From the collection of UC Berkeley art historian Peter Selz 1919 - 2019. Malibu, CA: World Wheel, [ca. 1979]. unknown
ref. 166296N.p.: N.p. 2012. Draft script for the 2013 film. Early draft script with a generic untitled undated and uncredited title page as issued. Copy belonging to weapons master Simon Atherton with his name watermarked on every page and his manuscript annotations on multiple leaves relating to weapon props. Based on the 2006 novel by Max Brooks set in a post-apocalyptic world in which humans have largely succumbed to a zombie plague about a former United Nations investigator tasked with protecting scientists while they search for a cure. Shot on location in Philadelphia in the US in Gwynedd Wales in Strathclyde Scotland in Malta in Budapest Hungary and in Kent Hampshire London and Dorset England. Self wrappers. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books