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2012ref. 213443Munich Germany and New York: DelMonico Books and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 2012. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 227 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran October 5 2012 through January 23 2013 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and then February 20 through may 28 2013 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Features texts by Carmen Gimenez Richard Shiff Dore Ashton and Olivier Berggruen. Includes numerous illustrations and a checklist. A fine copy in black cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear. An attractive book that focuses on the monochromatic work from Picasso's large oeuvre. DelMonico Books and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum unknown books
2011ref. UDEECHE00fpPeachtree Publishers 2011. Fine. Deedy Carmen Agra. The Cheshire Cheese Cat. Wright Randall. Atlanta GA: Peachtree Publishers 2011. 229pp. Illustrated. Glossary. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Peachtree Publishers hardcover books
ref. 170428Various cities: Various 1970. Eleven vintage publicity photographs of noted jazz vocalist Carmen McRae the balance dating between the 1960s and the 1970s the height of her career. Included are two double weight photographs and seven photographs with manuscript or printed photographer credits on the versos. Born in Harlem Carmen McRae began studying piano as a child later working as a pianist secretary and chorus girl at the legendary Minton's Playhouse. Through her work at Minton's McRae met Dizzy Gillespie and got her first break as a pianist with Benny Carter's big band. She made her recording debut under her then-married name Carmen Clarke with Mercer Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s. In the 1950s McRae's star began to rise having signed her first significant recording contract with Decca in 1954. She released albums with a variety of jazz greats including Dave Brubeck Louis Armstrong George Shearing Betty Carter Cal Tjader and Sammy Davis Jr. and was nominated for seven Grammy Awards over the course of her lengthy 50-year career. McRae was forced to retire due to health issues in 1991 passing away three years later at the age of 74. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus or better. Various unknown books
1980ref. 167948Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1980. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1980 re-release of the 1979 film. An expanded remake of "The Sitter" 1977 a short film developed by screenwriters Fred Walton and Steve Feke. An unseen killer terrorizes a teenage baby-sitter over the telephone returning seven years later to menace her as an adult. Remade in 2006 directed by Simon West and starring Camilla Belle. Set and shot on location throughout Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. United Artists unknown books
1979ref. 161954Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions 1979. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. A film that left an indelible imprint on the horror genre with one of the most terrifying opening acts of cinema history. The film derives its plot from the 1974 classic "Black Christmas" and was the basis for a made-for-television sequel as well as Wes Craven's 1996 film "Scream." Shot on location in Los Angeles and Sacramento California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Weldon 1983. Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions unknown books
2011ref. 16256Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A detailed account of the U.S. government's efforts to cover-up the existence of UFOs with more than 250 accounts of alien encounters. Schiffer Publishing Ltd paperback books
1973ref. 171005N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 film showing Jesús Franco directing Doris Thomas and Britt Nichols. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and ink and the stamp of photographer Mario Lippert on the verso. A group of nuns are possessed by demons and are subsequently subjected to torture and destruction. Hot on the heels of Ken Russell's "The Devils" 1971. Shot on location in Alicante Cascais and Sintra Portugal. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Thrower "The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco: Volume Two. N.p. unknown books
2013ref. 212852New York: Guggenheim 2013. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 127 pages. Published in conjunction exhibition at the The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that ran June 21 through September 25 2013 with concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles CA and Houston. Features a foreword by Richard Armstrong acknowledgements by Carmen Gimenez and Nat Trotman along with essays by Gimenez Trotman and Arthur Zajonc. Inclues numerous illustrations and a checklist. A fine copy in blue cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Guggenheim unknown books
2006ref. 165787New York: Guggenheim Museum 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which ran from February 3 through May 14 2006 at the Guggenheim Museum from June 14 through September 11 2006 at the Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou and from October 25 2006 through January 14 2007 at the Tate Modern. Slight lean else about Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Guggenheim Museum unknown books
2009ref. 206680Birmingham United Kingdom: Ikon Gallery 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 82 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran July 29 through September 13 2009 at the Ikon Gallery and then January 23 through May 2 2010 at Museum Pfalzgalerie. Text in English and German. Features a foreword by Dr. Britta E. Buhlmann and Jonathan Watkins and essays by Carmen Julia and Juan Ledezma. Includes numerous color illustrations. A near fine copy with some bumping to the corners and in a very good dust jacket with some light edge wear and some slight soiling. Internally a clean copy. Ikon Gallery unknown books
1971ref. 162265N.p.: N.p. 1971. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 film. One with a Québec censorship stamp on the verso and stamps noting the same on the recto. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A British sexploitation film about the sexual goings-on at a medical clinic. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 163637Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1980. Seven vintage photographs from the 1980 film including five film still photographs two portrait photographs of Gena Rowlands in character and one photograph of Rowlands and husband and director John Cassavetes on the set. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit a woman goes on the run with their young son who is in possession of a book the gangsters want. One of eleven films star Gena Rowlands made with her husband director John Cassavetes who became attached to the movie after she was cast. Remade in 1999 directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sharon Stone as well as the inspiration for the 2008 French film "Julia" directed by Erick Zonca and starring Tilda Swinton. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Rowlands. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbuam 1000. Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1940ref. 151800Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film. A wealthy young Argentinean visiting the US to sell his father's prize racehorses falls in love with a girl in New York. The first of several films made by Twentieth Century-Fox in accordance with Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy in the hope of strengthening the influence of the US in Latin America. Set in New York and Argentina. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 505 dated JUNE 10 1940. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 5 with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 10 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with two blue revision pages dated 6-10-40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1981ref. 160046Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions 1981. Vintage reference photograph from the 1981 television broadcast of the 1979 film. With mimeo snipe on verso promoting the film's broadcast as part of "NBC Monday Night at the Movies" to be aired January 25 1982. Mimeo snipe dated December 31 1981. A film that left an indelible imprint on the horror genre with one of the most terrifying opening acts of cinema history. The film derives its plot from the 1974 classic "Black Christmas" and was the basis for a made-for-television sequel as well as Wes Craven's 1996 film "Scream." Shot on location in Los Angeles and Sacramento California. 7 x 9 inches. Generally Near Fine. Weldon 1983. Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions unknown books
1979ref. 158775Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions 1979. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1979 film. A film that left an indelible imprint on the horror genre with one of the most terrifying opening acts of cinema history. The film derives its plot from the 1974 classic "Black Christmas" and was the basis for a made-for-television sequel as well as Wes Craven's 1996 film "Scream." Shot on location in Los Angeles and Sacramento California. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches five photographs 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Weldon 1983. Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions unknown books
2013ref. 185230Tucson AZ: The University of Arizona Press 2013. Second printing. Softcover. Well received collection of poems that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Smith on the title page. Uncommon signed. The University of Arizona Press unknown books
1990ref. 154135Valencia: Institut Valencia d'Art Modern IVAM 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst on September 15 1990 and closed at the Musee des Beaux-Arts on September 8 1991. Text in Spanish. Near Fine in illustrated card wrappers. Small faint creases on bottom wrapper edge and a light tap to the crown. Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM) unknown books
1943ref. 152846N.p.: N.p. 1943. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film. Specially bound copy belonging to William Bendix with his name in gilt on front board and title in gilt on spine. Bound in before the title page is a handwritten note not in Bendix's hand reading "Bendix Played 'Danny' / Blaine " Bonnie." Laid in is a small typescript note titled "Tentative Schedule for Week beginning 11/22" providing a brief shooting schedule. William Bendix was an American stage film radio and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life of Riley" first on the 1944-1951 ABC and NBC radio serial then in the 1949 film directed by Irving Brecher then finally in the 1953-1958 NBC television series. Bendix was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for his supporting role in the WWII drama "Wake Island" directed by John Farrow. A vivacious speakeasy entertainer befriends an aspiring composer whom she mistakenly believes to be wealthy drawing him into-what else-the financing of a musical production. Set in Greenwich Village New York City. Maroon three quarter leather binding over brown leather boards with title in gilt on spine and William Bendix in gilt on lower right of front board with endpapers crediting BooKraft Hollywood. Title page present dated October 19 1943 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Earl Baldwin and Walter Bullock. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 10/30/43. Pages Near Fine leather binding Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 140863N.p.: Melvin Simon Productions 1979. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1979 film. A film which left an indelible imprint on the horror genre and with one of the most terrifying opening acts of cinema history. The film derives its plot from the 1974 classic "Black Christmas" and was the basis for a made-for-television sequel as well as Wes Craven's 1996 film "Scream." Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Melvin Simon Productions unknown books
1972ref. 141306San Francisco CA: Bush Press 1972. First edition. Softcover. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Bush Press unknown books
1942ref. 116171N.p.: N.p. 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film. Two blue revision pages dated 8/8/42 paper clipped to the rear wrapper of the script. One the greatest Technicolor musicals produced by Fox in the 1940s employing Harry James and his orchestra at their peak and pulling out all the stops on the musical numbers. Featuring Carmen Miranda's version of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and the debut of the classic song "I Had the Craziest Dream." Red titled wrappers noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 47 and production No. 763 dated June 11 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 11 1942 noted as Revised Final. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/13/42 and 7/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1999ref. 125028New York: Museum of Modern Art 1999. First edition. Softcover. A profusely illustrated catalog. Introduction by John Elderfield. A fine copy in wrappers. Museum of Modern Art unknown books
2018ref. 16315New York: Oxford University press 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Good /Good . First Edition. Hardcover. 10" X 7 1/4". x 533pp. First edition with full number line indicating first printing. Mild rubbing creasing and shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Creasing to tail of jacket spine. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Gentle bump to tail of spine. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds free to go to college free to move about; we can be cancer-free debt-free worry-free or free from doubt. The concept of freedom and relatedly the notion of liberty is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal cultural religious economic political and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers as well some historians and political theorists in order to reflect the breadth of the topic. This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames framing the overall debates about freedom historical frames freedom in key historical periods from the ancients onward institutional frames freedom and the law cultural frames mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free economic frames freedom and the market and lastly psychological frames free will in philosophy and psychology.Publisher. 10" X 7 1/4". x 533pp. First edition with full number line indicating first printing. Mild rubbing creasing and shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Creasing to tail of jacket spine. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Gentle bump to tail of spine. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds free to go to college free to move about; we can be cancer-free debt-free worry-free or free from doubt. The concept of freedom and relatedly the notion of liberty is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal cultural religious economic political and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers as well some historians and political theorists in order to reflect the breadth of the topic. This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames framing the overall debates about freedom historical frames freedom in key historical periods from the ancients onward institutional frames freedom and the law cultural frames mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free economic frames freedom and the market and lastly psychological frames free will in philosophy and psychology.Publisher. Oxford University press hardcover books
1954ref. 70020Madrid: Dirección General de Archivos y Bibliotecas Servicio de Publicaciones 1954. First edition 8vo pp. 282; 15 pages of illustration at the back; original cream wrappers printed in red and black; a few spots at the bottom of the upper cover else generally near fine sound and clean. Laid in as issued is the Indice General. Dirección General de Archivos y Bibliotecas, Servicio de Publicaciones unknown books
1920ref. 49221Boston: The Bibliophile Society 1920. 8vo 2 vols pp. 222; 222; frontispieces 2 facsimile letters tipped in title page in red black and blue; quarter vellum over brown paper-covered boards gilt title on spine t.e.g.; near fine with some rubbing to corners. The Bibliophile Society unknown books
