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1961ref. 143272Paris: Cinedis 1961. Three original color transparencies from the 1961 film. Starring actors including Marais and Vlady are seen in lavish period costumes designed for the film by Marie-Claude Fouquet and Jacqueline Guyot. Housed in a light blue mailing envelope with annotations on the recto in manuscript ink noting contact information for Fouquet and Guyot. Based de La Fayette's 1678 anonymously published novel France's first historical novel widely regarded as an early psychological novel. The Princess Vlady marries a much older prince Marais but yearns for a handsome duke Poron. Her fidelity eventually coming into question. Marais also starred in Delannoy's and Cocteau's other collaboration "Love Eternal" 1943. Two transparencies 3.25 x 4.5 inches one slightly larger. Near Fine overall in original transparent sleeves. Cinedis unknown books
1961ref. 144012Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs and various ephemera from the 1961 film here under the original French title. The photographs numbered on the versos in manuscript pencil detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat" costumes displayed at tge shop "Delvaux" and the ephemera consists of a press packet detailing film credits and biographies an invitation for two to the premiere on March 26 at the Marivaux cinema a small slip with annotations in manuscript ink and a carbon typescript from Maryse Martres to "Madame Armon" at Delvaux regarding the costumes. Housed in a large manila folder. Based de La Fayette's 1678 anonymously published novel France's first historical novel widely regarded as an early psychological novel. The Princess marries a much older prince Marais but yearns for a handsome duke Poron. Her fidelity eventually coming into question. Marais also starred in Delannoy's and Cocteau's other collaboration "Love Eternal" 1943. Delannoy directed over 50 films at first well-regarded dissipating at the end of his career with several B-grade films. Costuming for the film was produced by Pierre Cardin and Marcel Escoffier both also worked together on "Beauty and the Beast" 1946 and "Fernandel the Dressmaker" 1956. Martres Martin was a prolific French actress since 1948 notably "Girl on the Third Floor" 1955 and "The Happy Road" 1957 and she was later involved in press relations at Cinedis a notable film agency in operation since the Silent Film era. Kishi was born in 1932 and became a Japanese actress and writer. She married director Ciampi in 1957. Since 1996 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA. The Delvaux shop has been producing leather goods mostly handbags since the 19th century with central locations in Belgium. Photos range from 6.75 x 9 inches to 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Ephemera ranges from 3.5 x 4.75 inches to 8 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with scattered creases and toning. Cinedis unknown books
1931ref. 130961Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcee looking to remarry. She falls for her physician Dr. Karl Bemis but ends up marrying Bill Hanaway. Bill then has an affair with another woman. Tall peach side stapled self wrappers noted as Third Buff Script on the front wrapper dated October 6 1931 with credits for writers Hughes Heath Buchman and Leahy. 205 leaves on peach stock mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1928ref. 140906Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script here under the working title "Southern Skies" four vintage photographs each with a mimeo snipe on the verso one with a press stamp as well and a later 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film signed and dated by Blue with his bookplate on the front pastedown. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie" as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. Carbon typescript draft: Cream colored titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338 dated November 29 1927 with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated November 161927 with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. 1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:" Early The Century edition from 1921 first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good lacking jacket. Front hinge split with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1945ref. 129333Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Selznick studio printing of Clemence Dane's modern stage adaptation of Friedrich Frederick Schiller's 1801 play "Mary Stuart." Issued internally by the studio for consideration as a film adaptation though ultimately unproduced. Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 0103 with credits for Schiller and Dane. Title page present with credits for Schiller and Dane. 79 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. David O. Selznick unknown books
2003ref. 42246Tokyo Japan: Terayama World Co 2003. Very Good. Tokyo Japan: Terayama World Co. 2003. Large slim folio 42.5cm; publisher's pictorial boards; 27pp.; chiefly illus. Light wear and scuffing to boards else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy. Text entirely in Japanese. Uncommon graphic novel based on the erotic 1981 Japanese-French film Fruits of Passion directed by the poet and film maker Shuji Terayama and starring Klaus Kinski. This adaptation not separately catalogued in OCLC as of October 2025. Terayama World Co unknown books
1785ref. Dublin1785GILPIN John aka COWPER William -- Adaptation: The life of John Gilpin taken From divers Manuscripts in the Possession of the Family and now published for the first Time by their Permission for the Gratification of the Public Curiousity respecting so extraordinary a Character. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Burnet White Burton H. Whitestone Byrne Cash M'Donnel and Marchbank 1785. 12mo viii 144pp complete but lacking front and rear blank free endleaves; early brown tree-calf scuffed outer hinges and corners worn. Rare first Irish edition of a little known entirely spurious and understandably comedic prose 'life' of the fictional draper from Cheapside John Gilpin star of William Cowper's ballad 'The diverting history of john gilpin'. Cowper's verse which follows Gilpin on an intended journey to the Bell Inn Edmondton during which he became separated from his family and was taken by an out of control horse to a town ten miles distant had first appeared anonymously in the Public Advertiser 1782. The poem's popularity was immortalised in a series of performances at Freemason's Hall by the acclaimed Shakespearean actor John Henderson 1747-1785 and well capitalised upon by the London ballad and print trade as well as by provincial stage-managers. This present attempt in thirteen chapters at telling the earlier and post ballad-journey life of the unfortunate Gilpin is perhaps unsurprisingly given the desire for popularity by association dedicated to Henderson. It includes a narrative re-telling of the abortive trip to the Bell as Chapter X 'How he intended to have dined at Edmondton and was carried Ten Miles beyond it' as well as reprinting the verse original 'as read repeatedly with the greatest applause by Mr. Henderson'. All editions of this fictional work first published by S. Bladon London 1785 and reprinted twice there in the same year are rare; ESTC locates only four copies of this first Irish edition in the British Isles BL Cambridge Dublin and NLI and just three elsewhere Princeton Rutgers and Nebraska-Lincoln. ESTC T99012. Burnet, White, Burton, H. Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, M'Donnel, and Marchbank, hardcover books
1924ref. 28600New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. Very Good. 1937 c.1924. 6th printing. Hardcover. no dust jacket modestly shelfworn light age-toning to edges of text block tiny dent in top edge of front cover gilt lettering rubbed to the point of unreadability on the spine but still fairly bold on the front cover. 3 B&W photographic plates The title page declares this to be "The Theater sic Guild Version with three illustrations from photographs" of that production which famously starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. It was in fact the very first production in which they co-starred after joining the Theatre Guild's company in 1924 and was a key element in establishing their mastery of light comedy. They also headlined the 1931 film version of the play their only co-starring role in a movie; both were nominated for Academy Awards but lost out to Wallace Beery and Helen Hayes respectively. . Liveright Publishing Corp. hardcover books
1922ref. 30610Hollywood Calif.: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation. Near Fine. c.1922. First Edition. Hardcover. dark green buckram with gilt lettering; no dust jacket faint external wear along spine otherwise blemish-free. sepia-tone film stills A "photoplay edition" of sorts this small booklet approx. 75 unnumbered pages presents the story of the 1922 silent film epic ROBIN HOOD which starred Douglas Fairbanks and was produced by him for release through the then-young United Artists. It includes the cast and credits of the film and is illustrated with a generous selection of full-page scene stills. It appears to be a promotional or souvenir item which has been specially bound; after the conclusion of the story proper there are another ten pages or so devoted to background on the conception and production of the film the sort of thing that one might ordinarily find in a studio pressbook of the time. OCLC records several copies of what appears to be a shorter version of this same item published by Prospect Press in New York; at 64 unnumbered pages issued in pictorial wraps which have not been bound with the present version it would seem to be a version that presents the story only without the additional of the additional production-related information. The latter "production" section is also printed on a somewhat different quality paper suggesting that the two sections may have been "married" in this custom binding making this perhaps a unique example. Two notes: 1 "Elton Thomas" was a pseudonym for Douglas Fairbanks himself; and 2 this item comes from the collection of the esteemed film historian Rudy Behlmer 1926-2019 who among his many areas of expertise was known for his comprehensive knowledge of movies about Robin Hood. . Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation hardcover books
1988ref. 25538San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1988. Paperback. 234p. footnotes introductions frontis very good condition first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Stories anecdotes poems. Gay Sunshine Press paperback books
1985ref. 1409132Paris: Grasset Jeunesse 1985. Hardcover. Quarto oblong unpaged. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with black print. Dust jacket is for a different edition English published by David R. Godine. Price unclipped: “$13.95”. Boards in glossy illustrated paper black print. Illustrated: color. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in quarto column. 1409132. FP New Rockville Stock. Grasset Jeunesse hardcover books
1982ref. 587063Boston: Little Brown and Company 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 203pp. Illustrated with plates. Libretto by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. Introduction by George R. Marek. Blue cloth gilt. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1969ref. 202330Golden Press 1969. Hardcover. Good. 1969 edition. A Little Golden Book. Glossy paper cover has rubbing and peeling at corners. Gold foiling on spine is partially worn off. Binding is good. Pages are clean and unmarked with toning. LO/ia26 Golden Press hardcover books
1960ref. 293104New York: Hargail Music Press 1960. 20p. lyrics and musical notation on every page not every song Englished softbound as a large pamphlet in 12x9 inch decorated wraps. A bit dim with age & handling entry for "Kuma Echa" has a little pencilling expect some edgewear staples have a touch or rust with no migration a good good-only copy. The Hargail Folk Anthology. Hargail Music Press unknown books
1957ref. 447978Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A free adaptation for the theater by Mary Manning. Ownership signature of actor Michael Clarke-Laurence. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with faint toning on the spine. Letter laid in from director and screenwriter Mary Bute on the stationary of Expanding Cinema to Michael Clarke-Laurence offering him a part in the adaptation. Bute eventually directed the film in 1966; it was awarded as Best Debut at the Cannes Film Festival; Clarke-Laurence did not appear in it. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1956ref. 63610Paris: Gallimard 1956. Softcover. First French edition. Fine in wrappers and fine unprinted tissue dustwrapper. One of 85 numbered copies. Gallimard unknown books
1611ref. 16409London: Robert Barker 1611. A3 bound backwards. Title page the 2 leaves of the engraved map and the final 2 leaves in excellent facsimile. Additional title page from a later edition bound in behind the facsimile. Gothic and Roman types text double column with 59 lines per column and printed within woodcut rule-border calendar and almanac printed in red and black. General title-page within engraved border by Christian Boel and section title for the New Testament dated 1611 within woodcut border. Full-sheet engraved map of the Holy Land by John Speed after Dr John More 17 leaves of genealogical tables incorporating woodcut illustrations of Adam and Eve Noah’s Ark the Tower of Babel and other Biblical subjects numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces historiated and ornamental initials. Contemporary calf boards rebacked spine labels; some staining a few leaves with small holes or edges torn away but generally a very good copy. With a notation on the paste-down that the book was “received of William Biggs for the sum of 5 shillings . by me John Lang. Ford Warminster” dated 1747 and with a small but elaborate bookplate of William Thomas Smedley 1858-1920 the noted collector of Elizabethaniana and Bacon; his library was sold in 1924 to Henry Clay Folger and the Folger library collection today includes nearly 1500 volumes formerly owned by Smedley. First edition second issue/state called the “she” Bible because of the reading of Ruth III 15: “she went into the citie”. In addition because of the small hole in C6 Matthew 26:36 it is impossible to tell whether the word Judas or Jesus is printed. The King James version of the Holy Bible is arguably the most important book ever published in English. Preparation of the Royal Version took more than 5 years and was laboriously attended to by over 50 translators and researchers. The final translations were then exchanged and reviewed reaching a final committee of six. Supervision of the printing was carried out by Miles Smith and Thomas Bilson. Although the Royal Version appropriates much from the Tyndale Coverdale Geneva and Bishops’ Bibles it is unquestionably regarded as the greatest literary translation of the Bible ever produced. Herbert 309; Pforzheimer 62; PMM 114; STC 2217. Robert Barker unknown books
1967ref. 26836New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dj. c.1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. a tight clean copy with no discernible wear to either book or jacket just a touch of tanning to the jacket spine. B&W photographs Musical adaptation of the "Peanuts" comic strip which ran for 1597 performances in its original off-Broadway production and has been re-staged and adapted for other media numerous times since notably as a 1973 TV special and in a 1999 Broadway revival. The original production starred Gary Burghoff as Charlie Brown and Bob Balaban as Linus Van Pelt. . Random House hardcover books
1970ref. 161916Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1970. Paperback. 96p. 8p. black/white photos review slip laid in rear wrap lightly browned otherwise very good. Paperback original. Doubleday & Company paperback books
1983ref. 569462Boston: Little Brown and Company 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Introduction by Gary Schmidgall. Octavo. 202pp. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Issued as part of The Metropolitan Opera Classic Library. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2018ref. 572054London: Titan Comics 2018. Hardcover. Fine. First trade edition. Based on a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Quarto. Heavily illustrated. Fine. Titan Comics hardcover books
1726ref. 54199Berlenburg: n.p. 1726. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Six volumes of eight folio published between 1726 and 1737. All volumes with letterpress title page; sectional half titles; woodcut headpieces; engraved frontispiece often not present in first volume. Text in two columns. Contemporary mottled calf rubbed and chafed. Spines with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt gilt morocco and vellum lettering pieces; edges tinted red; marbled endleaves. Spine ends worn. Occasional mild embrowning. A good sturdily bound set with clean crisp text. Vol. 1 1726: 12 804 pp; engraved frontispiece - Vol. 2 1728: 8 880 pp. - Vol. 3 1730: 8; 784 pp. - Vol. 4 1732: 6 858 pp. - Vol. 5 1735: 8 820 pp. - Vol. 6 1737: 8 792 pp. First edition of this rigorous revision of Luther's version in the spirit of mystical Pietism edited by Johann Heinrich Haug d. 1753 and other scholars as is reflected in the main title: Welchem allem noch untermängt Eine Erklärung die den inneren Zustand des geistlichen Lebens oder die Wege und Wirckungen Gottes in der Seelen zu deren Reinigung Erleuchtung und Vereinigung mit Ihm zu erkennen gibt. Underlying everything is an explanation that reveals the inner state of the spiritual life or the ways and effects of God in in souls for their purification enlightenment and union with Him. A theologian and orientalist Haug was expelled from Strasburg for holding an assembly of Philadelphians and other mystic Separatists. He fled to the castle of Casimir Graf von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berlenburg which had become a refuge for radical pietiests. Remaining there until his death Haug directed a Philadelphian organization that extended throughout western Germany. "He is said to have been a man of great piety and charming personality and was regarded by Count Casimer as a prophet of God" Schaff-Herzog. "The new spirit of mystical Pietism. was fully revealed in the Marburg Bible 1712. The interpretation of type and prophecy in this follows the federal theology of Cocceius that of Canticles and Revelation Madame Guyon. It was the forerunner of a larger work in the same spirit the Berleburg Bible of 1726-42. projected and prepared chiefly by Johann Heinrich Haug. The text is a revision of Luther's with comparison of the English and French versions; the commentary reflects the views of the Philadelphian communities and quotes the mystical books current among them especially Madame Guyon's but its teaching goes back beyond Dippel and Petersen to Jakob Böhme or even to Origen in some points. It lacks unity of belief and of treatment; it is the work not of a single mystic giving voice to his inner convictions but of a propagandist sect with radical tendencies. It is not without value however from different points of view; it edifies by its continual application of Scriptural works to the spiritual life and it prepares the way for historical criticism by an appendix containing apocrypha Old and New Testament pseudepigrapha and postapostolic writings." Schaff-Herzog. Christopher Sauer the agent for the sale of the Berlenburg Bible in the United States used the text as a model for the first German-American Bible 1743. Provenance: Bookplates of Library of Union Biblical Seminary Bishop Mills Estate; entries at front endleaf "Bequeathed by Bishop J. S. Mills to Bonebrake Seminary. 1909." References: D&M 4239. Jackson S. M. ed. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge 1908 vol. 2 p. 157; vol. 5 p. 170. Lacks Volume 7 Epistles to the Hebrews; Jacob; Peter 2; John 3; Judah; Revelation; Wisdom of Solomon; Jesus ben Sirach - Volume 8 Appendix Old and New Testament Apocrypha pseudepigrapha and post-apostolic writings. Main title and imprint vol. 1: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments nach dem Grund-Text aufs neue übersehen und übersetzet: Nebst Einiger Erklärung des buchstäblichen Sinnes Wie auch der fürnehmsten Fürbildern und Weissagungen von Christo und seinem Reich und zugleich Einigen Lehren die auf den Zustand der Kirchen in unseren letzten Zeiten gerichtet sind; Welchem allem noch untermängt Eine Erklärung die den inneren Zustand des geistlichen Lebens oder die Wege und Wirckungen GOttes in der Seelen zu deren Reinigung Erleuchtung und Vereinigung mit Ihm zu erkennen gibt. Gedruckt zu Berlenburg im Jahr unsers Erlösers und Ursprungs der heiligen Schrifft JEsu Christi. [n.p.] hardcover books
1968ref. 42784New York: Land's End Press 1968. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/1500. Folio 12 1/2 x 9 1/2". 90 2pp. Original gilt-stamped decorative cloth with gold lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Aristophanes. Title page in orange purple and black lettering. Limitation page numbered and signed by Jack Brussel. Book housed in its original black slipcase with illustrated title to front panel. “Lysistrata” is a bawdy anti-war comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes first staged in 411 BCE. It is the comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War as Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace. Some consider it his greatest work and it is probably the most anthologized. This limited edition is lavishly illustrated throughout with erotic illustrations by Audrey Beardsley and ancient Athenian artists. One of 1500 signed copies of which this is No.340. Slipcase partly rubbed along edges. Binding slightly soiled along joints and spine. Corners slightly rubbed. Slipcase in overall good to good binding in good interior in very good condition. Land's End Press hardcover books
1976ref. 138917Hachette 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later. 157pp. Illustrated in color. Text in French. Near fine. Hachette hardcover books
1898ref. 245882New York: G. Ricordi & co 1898. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback rubbed at spine ends and corners cover and foredges soiled cover browned at spine with tape repair pages browned at edges with some occasional spotting throughout lower front corner slightly torn. G. Ricordi & co unknown books
