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1972ref. 163717N.p.: N.p. 1972. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 film candid images of actors Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd. Loosely based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" and on Bruce Jay Friedman's 1966 short story "A Change of Plan." A self-absorbed sporting goods salesman tires of his new bride on their honeymoon in Miami Beach instead deciding to throw himself at a perilously beautiful college student on vacation with her parents. Groundbreaking director Elaine May's second feature film following "A New Leaf" in 1971 and a classic of twentieth century comedy. Set in New York City and Florida shot on location in Minneapolis and Miami. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 163550Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing actor Gregory Peck. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. A crew of three astronauts are stranded in space with only 42 hours of oxygen remaining. On Earth NASA officials propose a rescue mission using an experimental untested spacecraft. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one. Shot on location at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1977ref. 162266N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film showing actress Amparo Muñoz in the nude. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. 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 beautiful young woman falls in love with her stepbrother and to discourage their relationship from growing her mother sends her to marry a pastor. Shot on location in Madrid. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 164085N.p.: RAF Industries 1969. Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record of radio spot announcements for the 1969 film. Red label variant. Rare. An awkward young man makes a deal with the devil offering his soul for youth beauty and power-but all at a cost. 7 inches. Fine with nominal surface wear housed in a Fine brown paper sleeve. RAF Industries unknown books
1997ref. 9031046London: Folio Society 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Folio Society Edition. Chosen and introduced by Michie wood engravings by various artists selected by Brett. Bound in publisher's original quarter black leather with illustrated cloth boards and spine stamped in gilt. Comes in black board slipcase with sides stamped in gilt and concave edges. Illustrated throughout with beautiful black and white engravings. 7 x 10 3/4 inches. 733 pages plus preface. Folio Society hardcover books
1968ref. 801841968. Nowell-Smith Simon. International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford: University Press 1968. ix 109 pp. illustrations. Hardcover navy boards with gilt stamped spine. Very good in a lightly faded price clipped dust jacket. $25. unknown books
1995ref. 200161New York: Howard Greenberg Gallery 1995. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 10 through December 30 1995. Essays by Michael Simon and Karoly Kincses. Includes 13 black and white illustrations of works by Olga Mate Imre Kinszki Kata Kalman Karoly Escher and others. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very slight sunning to the spine. Internally a clean copy. Howard Greenberg Gallery unknown books
2013ref. 200588Bielefeld Germany: Kerber 2013. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 214 pages. Monograph on Swiss artist and photographer Meret Oppenheim. Features text in English and German with a convesation betwen Oppenheim and Alain Jouffrey from 1973 and essays by Werner Spies Belinda Grace Gardner Christian Walda Simon Bauer Patrick Waldberg and Lisa Wenger. Includes numerous illustrations and biographical information. A clean very near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Kerber unknown books
2005ref. 200770New York: The Vendome Press 2005. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 135 pages. Features an essay by Angus Wilkis and an afterword by Parkes. Includes numerous color illustrations. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. The Vendome Press unknown books
1971ref. 162328N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actor Michael Brandon in the back of a taxi driven by a scruffy-looking bearded Robert De Niro. Based on Roger L. Simon's 1968 novel "Heir" about a wealthy American couple whose relationship is gradually soured by the woman's increasing drug use. Set and shot on location in Oyster Bay and New York City and in Venice. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2015ref. 9031519New York: Other Press 2015. 1st Paperback. Softcover. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 545 pages. Other Press paperback books
2002ref. 201977Nimes: Carre d'Art/Musee d'art contemporain de Nîmes 2002. First edition. Softcover. 135 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran October 11 2002 through January 5 2003 at Carre d'Art and then February through March 2003 at Centro de Arte de Salamanca. Features text in English and French with essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui and Simon Wallis along the text of Wallis's interview of Fiona Rae. Includes numerous illustrations a checklist and biographical and bibliographical information. A fine copy in French style wrappers. Carre d'Art/Musee d'art contemporain de Nîmes unknown books
1986ref. 163245N.p.: N.p. 1986. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a group of coworkers goes on a tropical vacation where two develop feelings for each other and one tries to get over a recent breakup. Green titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1-146 dated 02-06-86 with credits for screenwriters Robert Arnott and Simon Muntner. Title page integral with front wrapper. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 82543Bagnols-sur-Ceze: Guy Chambelland 1975. First Edition. No. 23 of 150 copies on pur fil de Lana signed by Simon and Rougemont of a total edition of 163 copies. Quarto; paper-covered boards with unbound text laid-in as issued; slipcase; 328pp; illus. A fine copy in the original board slipcase gently sunned at extremities else fine. Artist's book comprised of Simon's text set within color-printed abstract designs by Rougemont; serigraphically printed by Michel Caza. Text entirely in French. Guy Chambelland unknown books
ref. 160845Burbank CA: Jerry Bruckheimer Films 1996. Draft script for the 1997 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and throughout noting scenes with special effects. A recently paroled ex-con finds himself traveling home on a prison transport plane also carrying a group of high-risk criminals to a supermax prison. Midway through the flight the prisoners escape their constraints and hijack the plane forcing the ex-con to work with police officers on the ground to lead the plane to safety. Shot on location in Elkhart and Goshen Indiana in Mill Canyon Moab Salt Lake City Ogden and Wendover Utah and in Las Vegas and West Wendover Nevada. Blue wrappers with title noted in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 5/9/96 with credit for screenwriter Scott Rosenberg. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Jerry Bruckheimer Films unknown books
1977ref. 160881New York: N.p. 1977. Vintage script for the American run of the 1975 British play. A publisher's quiet afternoon at home is repeatedly interrupted by his tenant his brother his friends and his wife whose disturbances gradually strip away his mild-mannered facade revealing his cruel nature in the process. Playwright Simon Gray is best remembered for his collaborations with director Harold Pinter beginning with the 1971 play "Butley." The play made its Broadway debut at the Plymouth Theatre in February of 1977 after running for two years at the Queen's Theatre in London. Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for playwright Simon Gray. Title page present with credit for Gray. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-33. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 159695London: National Screen Service 1975. Vintage British quad poster for the 1975 American film. Rare in this format. Based on screenwriter Neil Simon's 1971 Broadway play. In the midst of a recession a heat wave and a prolonged garbage strike a middle-aged couple must try to cope with each other after the husband is fired from his advertising job. Set and shot on location in New York City. 40 x 30 inches folded. Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown books
2008ref. 197120Denver CO: Mizel Arts and Culture Center JCC Denver 2008. First edition. Softcover. 71 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 11 through November 9 2008. Features an introduction by Simon Zalkind along with essays by Robert C. Morgan and Lilly Wei. Includes numerous color illustrations of works by this Israeli born artist. Also includes a list of previous exhibitions bibliography and a list of selected public collections. A fine copy in French style wrappers. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, JCC Denver unknown books
2016ref. 66223Canberra AUS: The Univ. of Canberra 2016. First Edition. Stapled black and white wrappers; small 8vo. 22 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. International Poetry Studies Institute chapbook no. 5. A long poem which would be the title poem of his 2017 collection. This issue by the newly installed British Poet Laureate seems to have had little distribution; certainly scarce signed. Fine. The Univ. of Canberra unknown books
1930ref. 789551930. London: HMSO 1930. 3 vols. in 2 books. London: HMSO 1930. 3 vols. in 2 books. The Controversial Simon Commission India. Simon Commission. Report of the Indian Statutory Commission. Volume I-Survey. With Volume II. Recommendations. And Volume III: Reports of the Committees Appointed by the Provincial Legislative Councils to Co-Operate with the Indian Statutory Commission. London: Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office 1930. Three volumes in two books. xxv 409; x 344; 611 pp. 4 maps in Volumes I and II 3 of which are colored. Recent three-quarter morocco over cloth raised bands and gilt titles and volume numbers to spines cloth endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities internally clean small clean tears to maps large clean tear to second map of the "North-West Frontier Province" in Volume I. A handsome set. $250. Also known as the Simon Commission after its chair Sir John Simon the Indian Statutory Commission was a group of seven members of the British parliament tasked with assessing the impact of prior constitutional reforms in British India and making further proposals. Clement Atlee then a Labour MP served on the commission; as Prime Minister he would oversee the Partition of India and the end of the British Raj in 1947. No Indians were appointed. The commission ultimately proposed a limited expansion of representative government in the provinces that would allow British governors to retain most of their existing power. Its report was published in two volumes with an additional 15 volumes of supplementary material. unknown books
1969ref. 161083N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight color reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Sammy Davis Jr. surrounded by groovy dancers. French agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1966 musical which was loosely based in turn on Federico Fellini's 1957 film "Nights of Calabria." A happy-go-lucky taxi dancer dreams of romance but only meets jerks as a result of her sleazy job. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1998ref. 762081998. Smith Greg T. May Allyson N. Devereaux Simon. Criminal Justice in the Old and the New. Toronto: University of Toronto 1998. xviii 311 pp. Softbound. Lightly worn. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. $50. unknown books
1972ref. 762331972. Reckless Walter C. Dinitz Simon. The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: An Experiment. Columbus: Ohio State University Press 1972. xvii 253 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. Presentation inscription by Dinitz to front free endpaper. $30. unknown books
1820ref. 763501820. Ellis Charles. Ellis Charles. Influential English Treatise on Tithes and Tithing Degge Sir Simon 1612-1704. Ellis Charles Editor. The Parson's Counsellor; With the Law of Tithes and Tithing. In Two Books. With Great Additions. London: Printed for Charles Hunter 1820. xix 543 4 pp. With 4 pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5". Later morocco gilt title and date to spine endleaves renewed. Light rubbing to joints front joint just starting at head library bookplate and small circular shelf label to front pastedown. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing ink library stamp to title page and several other leaves. $150. Seventh and final edition. This influential and oft-cited treatise was first published in 1676. It is divided into two books. The first addresses the procedures parson and vicars must follow to obtain a preferment the duties imposed by a preferment and various regulations clergymen must observe. The second outlines various tithes offerings mortuaries and other church duties relevant canon common and statute laws and courts and suits involving tithes. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations 2:97. unknown books
1980ref. 192218London: Creative Camera 1980. First edition. Softcover. Features images by Josef Sudek Simon Marsden Susan Eve Jahoda and Philippe Monnet. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Creative Camera unknown books
