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1943réf. 156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1949réf. 154500Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actor Cary Grant attempting to sleep in a bathtub. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a date stamp reading JUL 1949. After marrying an American lieutenant in postwar Germany a French captain tries to find a way to immigrate under the War Bride Act in order to join her in the US. Shot on location in Germany and England. 7.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1938réf. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1956réf. 149312Culver City CA: Hemisphere Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph taken on location during production of the 1956 film showing director George Marshall cinematographer Freddie Young and other crew members. With manuscript pencil annotations to the verso. Seeking an explanation for his brother's disappearance an American travels to Kenya where he learns his brother has been killed by members of the mysterious "Leopard Men" cult. Set and shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the top right corner. Hemisphere Productions unknown books
1978réf. 140550N.p.: Charles B. Pierce Film Productions 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. An 11th century Viking prince sails to North America to rescue his father from a Native American tribe. Shot on location in Florida and California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Charles B. Pierce Film Productions unknown books
1955réf. 138056Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film depicting two men and a woman each well dressed and on horseback meeting in front of a large mansion. Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point. Gouache artwork 26.5 x 12 inches within with an unpainted border of roughly 1 inch. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1949réf. 133084Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1949 film noir. A wonderful photograph of the entire crew shooting a scene where Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight are parting at an airport. Sirk is standing on a crane support at the left and cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr. is seated just below. A key American noir from an original screenplay by Samuel Fuller. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles and notably in the Bradbury Building on Broadway now an architectural landmark originally built in 1893 by Los Angeles mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by George Wyman. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 7 x 9 inches borderless with a studio stamp and a mimeograph snipe on the verso. Near Fine. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1955réf. 132424Culver City CA: Waterlow and Sons / RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Collection of 4 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release circa 1955 of the 1954 US film. A potboiler of sexual repression based on screenwriter Hugh Brooke's story "Fear Has Black Wings" about a young woman in a loveless marriage without hope until her sister brings her handsome new boyfriend to town. Produced at the tail end of the film noir era. 8 x 10 inches. Light soil on the verso of one still else Near Fine. Waterlow and Sons / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1963réf. 132541London: Unviersal International Pictures 1963. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1963 UK film. Directed by and starring Cornel Wilde about King Arthur and his attempt to unify Britain. One of the last of the medieval period pieces during the 1950s and early 1960s with well-acted and convincing action sequences. 8 x 10 inches. Several light creases overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1925réf. UB-17848New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good /very good. First Thus. Hardcover. Descend into 7 morbid fairy tales full of enchantment death sacrifice and "the wounds of love" by the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 who once declared these tales "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more here illustrated in 16 striking and otherworldly plates by the Jewish Ukrainian-American artist Ben Kutcher 1895-1967. This is the first edition published with pictorial endpapers gilt-stamped pictorial binding and uncommon dust jacket all designed by Kutcher. 9 5/8" X 6 1/2". Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket with small open tears at all edges and extremities 3" neat tear to rear panel sunning to spine and scattered rubbing and soiling. Publisher's cloth binding by Ben Kutcher with artist's monogram BK to rear board. Bound in black cloth over boards with boards and spine stamped in gilt: rose bush and nightingale to upper board nightingale and heart motif continued to spine with star and candle and starry cloudy night sky scene to rear all bright. Edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine and scattered rubbing to cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Scattered foxing to pages and plates throughout else unmarked. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1894réf. 304822London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1894. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Spine faded cloth at extremities frayed corners bumped some soiling to cloth front flyelaf and first blank torn at gutter. Good. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Mason 365 John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown books
1922réf. 27887Leipzig: Hesse & Becker 1922. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mustard cloth stamped in brown. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. Minor toning of textblock. Fine in glassine dust wrapper. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Poems by the prolific German-born author George Sylvester Viereck 1884-1962 who first gained renown for The House of the Vampire and Nineveh and other Poems both 1907 which showed the strong influence of Oscar Wilde. Viereck became notorious for his pro-German propaganda during the first world war and later for his pro-Nazi propaganda before and during the second world war for which he was imprisoned. This is a German-language selection of his early verse including Nineveh 1907 with some pieces translated by other hands. Viereck's free German translation "frei verdeutscht" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol appears here at pages 151-175; his English translation of the Deutschlandslied "Deutschland Deutschland Land of All Lands" which appears here on p. 176 remained standard for many years. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Hesse & Becker unknown books
1916réf. 264948New York: Printed and Published by the Author 1916. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Qauarter publisher;'s green calf and boards. Fine in half faded green morocco and chemise. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Printed and Published by the Author unknown books
1898réf. 259158London 1898. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. Cinnamon-colored cloth vellum spine. Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling spine a bit soiled otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL 1872-1957 on the front pastedown. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem written while he was imprisoned in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress Lena Ashwell 1872-1957 who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891 later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest and wrote later: ". the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. His plays were so very brilliant and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later during WWI she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France Leask Margaret Lena Ashwell: Actress Patriot Pioneer 2012. An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. Mason 372 unknown books
1879réf. 259339Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1879. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Original wrappers. Fine. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Mason 275 Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1894réf. 256986London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street 1894. First edition one of 50 Large Paper copies. 154 1 pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. Original buckram gilt. Spine and extremities darkened endleaves with some paste darkening else fine in a custom purple half-morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 50 Large Paper copies. 154 1 pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. An attractive large paper copy. Wilde's witty and urbane satire of the English upper class. This was written and produced in 1893 near the height of Wilde's career between Salome 1891 and his masterpiece The Importance of Being Ernest 1895. Mason 365. Provenance: Arthur Chester Rhodes John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street unknown books
1904réf. 259337London: Printed for Private Circulation 1904. First separate edition one of 200 copies printed. 30 pp. Title-page in red green and black. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gray wrappers lightly browned and splitting along spine; slight offset to half-title. Very good copy of a fragile book. First separate edition one of 200 copies printed. 30 pp. Title-page in red green and black. 1 vols. 8vo. Mason 614 Printed for Private Circulation unknown books
1912réf. 259334London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue boards with red label printed in black on upper cover. Exceptionally fine copy IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED DUST JACKET with slight wear. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mason 370 Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books
1907réf. 629171907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Matted and Framed signed in pencil. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Hermann Struck 1876-1944is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe including Herzl Ibsen Nietzsche Freud Einstein Rutenberg et al. He was born into an Orthodox Berlin family and subsequently studied at the Berlin Academy under Max Koner and Hans Meyer. He joined the Zionist movement at an early age and in 1903 after several study trips throughout Europe he visited Palestine and on his way back to Germany stopped in Vienna where he was introduced to Herzl. It was this meeting that inspired the famous portrait etching of the Zionist leader. During World War I Struck served with the German Army in Lithuania where he came in contact with Eastern European Jews and embraced their way of life. In 1923 he returned to Palestine and settled in Haifa. By now a master of the craft of etching Struck taught graphic techniques to such fellow artists as Chagall Liebermann Israels Corinth Ury and Budko. His book Die Kunst des Radierens 1923 a popular guide book for artists and connoisseurs provides both technical explanations and practical instruction. Struck excelled as a portraitist. He also recorded landscapes Jewish and Arab types and scenes from the Jewish diaspora. He spent time in England and became a member of the London Society of Painters Etchers and Engravers. unknown books
1895réf. 215072London: Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Limited 1895. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With 4 poems by Oscar Wilde and poems by Douglas Hyde Aubrey de Vere John Todhunter William Wilde. Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Limited unknown books
1906réf. 212404Sunderland: Keystone Press 1906. First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers stitched. Faded some chipping of corners and edges light browning of leaves else a good copy. First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. The lecture Wilde presented in 1883 shortly after his two American trips of 1882 and 1883. Ransom p. 261 Keystone Press unknown books
1984réf. 86113Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition. 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 of 110 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One. Vancouver: William Hoffer hardcover books
1898réf. 1262071898. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim octavo original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards uncut. $3600.First edition one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned but in the Ballad while ultimately forgiven they are treated vindictively by their fellows who are equally guiltyÉ There is no doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and left his fingerprints on itÉ once read it is never forgotten"" Ellmann 532-34. Mason 371. A few pinholes to two preliminary leaves interior otherwise fine. One tiny inkspot to front cover spine slightly toned. A handsome extremely good copy of this scarce first edition. hardcover books
1932réf. 81512Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press 1932. First edition. 59 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else very near fine in near fine printed dust jacket with light chipping to crown. One of 800 numbered copies. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond a fictional character and Charles Ricketts written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert Sperisen to San Francisco printer Lawton Kennedy. Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press, unknown books
2003réf. 79849Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB 2003. First edition. 12 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. “Compliments of the author” label affixed to the first leaf. Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB unknown books
