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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
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
2017ref. 16037New York: Bloomsbury 2017. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xiii 209pp. Very minor shelf wear to covers corners and edges of paper over boards. Very gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Mild dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity along with Judaism and Islam claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation' Do we mean that the universe is 'designed' Is it the product of an evolutionary process How are creatures related to God and does God act within creation Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's providential action. He examines different understandings of creation including creation out of nothing and the analogy of being with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. This leads to an historical overview of the relationship between theological philosophical and scientific approaches to creation in the modern period. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within and treatment of creation and our environment are also examined. A distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.Publisher. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xiii 209pp. Very minor shelf wear to covers corners and edges of paper over boards. Very gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Mild dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity along with Judaism and Islam claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation' Do we mean that the universe is 'designed' Is it the product of an evolutionary process How are creatures related to God and does God act within creation Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's providential action. He examines different understandings of creation including creation out of nothing and the analogy of being with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. This leads to an historical overview of the relationship between theological philosophical and scientific approaches to creation in the modern period. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within and treatment of creation and our environment are also examined. A distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.Publisher. Bloomsbury hardcover 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
1682ref. 788471682. Impotence And Other Sexual Topics in Roman and Canon Law Simon Johann Georg 1636-1696. Brevis Delineatio Impotentiae Conjugalis. Diu Hactenus Desiderate Nunc Vero Denuo Revisa et Opposita Spuriis Exemplaribus Quae Vulgo Circumferuntur. Cum Indice Locupleto. Jena: Impensis Joh. Theodori Fleischeri 1682. 209 i.e. 208 40 pp. Without the portrait frontispiece or additional title page present in some copies. Quarto 7-3/4" x 5-3/4"; 20 x 14.5 cm. Later nineteenth-century vellum from a manuscript leaf hand-lettered title to spine endpapers renewed. Light soiling to exterior boards somewhat bowed spine ends bumped chip to foot of spine rear joint just starting at head. Title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to interior light foxing faint dampstaining and light soiling in a few places small ink letter to upper right corner of title page. $250. First published as a dissertation in 1665 and expanded in 1672 this interesting treatise discusses impotence of a husband and related sexual topics including sodomy adultery incest and abortion in the canonical texts of Roman and canon law. The final edition appeared in 1718. Some copies of the 1682 edition have a portrait frontispiece of the author and a smaller number have an additional title page dated 1680. All copies we have seen lack this frontispiece suggesting that some were issued that way. Simon was a jurist from Halle who earned his doctorate from the University of Jena and later taught there. OCLC locates 7 copies of the 1682 edition in North America 1 in a law library Harvard. Verzeichnis der im Deutschen Sprachraum Erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts 3:010301K. 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
1973ref. 157613New York: Random House 1973. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket with light toning to the extremities. Random House unknown books
1978ref. 159677Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1978. Vintage studio still photograph of actor Fernando Lamas from the 1978 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. A parody of Humphrey Bogart films. A detective has to prove his innocence in the murder of his partner. He also has to recover a large egg-shaped diamond. Set in San Francisco shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 159803Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film showing screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer visiting director S. Sylvan Simon and actors Lucille Ball and Franchot Tone on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of photographer Irving Lippman. A newly married man is suspected of murdering an inventor who has recently come up with two groundbreaking formulas. The man's wife helps allay suspicions ultimately providing the testimony that will save his life. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1983ref. 159735Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1983. Vintage reference photograph from the 1983 television series. With manuscript ink annotation and mimeo snipe on the verso advertising the series' weekly broadcast on Wednesday nights. The series was very short-lived lasting only four episodes and followed a group of fake news anchors as they satirized weekly stories. 7 x 9 inches. Fine. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1995ref. 305847Glover VT: Bread and Puppet Press 1995. 8pp. illustrations oblong wraps. 2.25 x 4.75 in. Small wordless booklet by Ron Simon of Bread and Puppet Theater. On rear cover: "Our domestic resurrection circus 1994" referring to the annual pageant and circus held in Glover VT by the puppet theater troupe known for distributing freshly baked bread. Bread and Puppet Press unknown books
1982ref. 147593Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1982. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film. Based on the 1979 play following a Hollywood screenwriter who abandoned his family 16 years earlier now pursued by his teenage daughter who desires his help in securing an acting career. Set in Los Angeles. Three 8 x 10.5 inches with one 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 160435N.p.: N.p. 2017. Archive of two Draft scripts for the 2020 film one undated and with the ownership name of screenwriter Christ Zois on the title page-this being from Zois' archive collection-with Zois' extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout the other dated June 27 2017. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. The sixth collaboration between actor Willem Dafoe and director Abel Ferrara a psychological thriller heavily based on the work of Carl Jung about an American living a largely solitary existence in Siberia. Undated script: Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. June 27 2017 script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text dated June 27 2017. 37 leaves with last page of text dated 37. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1934ref. 160349N.p.: Franco-American Film Company 1934. Vintage Spanish magazine advertisement for the 1934 film here under the Spanish title "El lago de las damas." Based on the 1929 novel "Grand Hotel" by Vicki Baum. A young man starts a summer job at a lake resort where he falls in love. Their situation is complicated by the tomboy who lives across the lake and his ex girlfriend showing up. 9.5 x 13 inches. Very Good with creasing along the right edge and at the top right corner as well as four small tears at the right edge presumably from creasing. Franco-American Film Company unknown books
1685ref. 782761685. London 1685. Only English edition. London 1685. Only English edition. A Critical Examination of Tithes and Other Forms of Ecclesiastical Revenue Simon Richard 1638-1712. The History of the Original and Progress of Ecclesiastical Revenues. Wherein is Handled According to the Laws Both Ancient and Modern Whatsoever Concerns Matters Beneficial The Regale Investitures Nominations And Other Rights Attributed to Princes. Written in French by a Learned Priest. And Now Done into English. London: Printed for Henry Faithorne and John Kersey 1685. xvi 271 1 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/2"; 17.78 x 11.43 cm. Contemporary sheep blind rules and corner fleurons to boards rebacked in period style with blind fillets to spine blind tooling to board edges edges of text block rouged marbled pastedowns free endpapers clipped. Rubbing and some shallow scratches to boards light rubbing to extremities corners bumped and worn hinges cracked later armorial bookplate of John Percival Earl of Egmont 1736 to front pastedown shelfmarks in ink and pencil to front endleaf light edgewear to rear endleaf. Light toning to interior later faint ink owner stamp "Rev'd A.L. Green/ Library" and early ink annotation to title page light foxing to a few leaves. $350. Only English edition. This critical work was originally published in Frankfurt in 1684 as Histoire de l'Origine & Du Progres des Revenues Ecclesiastiques. This anonymous translation was clearly intended to criticize laws concerning tithes to support the Church of England. According to the preface "this work" is worth reading because it "plainly discovers what good Use the Ecclesiastics have made of the Pious Inclinations of the Laity to their own Advantage." The owner is very likely the pioneering Jewish preacher and bibliophile Aaron Levy Green 1821-1883 of London. Green was "eminent as minister of the Central Synagogue London" The Jewish Encyclopedia 1907 III: 388. Much of his impressive library went to the London School of Jewish Studies Karen Attar A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland 2016 p. 204. English Short-Title Catalogue R19448. unknown books
1681ref. 783291681. London: Richard and Edward Atkins 1681. 3rd ed. London: Richard and Edward Atkins 1681. 3rd ed. A Working 17th-Century Law Library Copy: Degge's Parson's Counsellor 1681 with Continuous Adlington Family Provenance Degge Sir Simon 1612-1704. The Parson's Counsellor With the Law of Tithes or Tithing. In Two Books. London: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires 1681. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4"; 165 x 101 mm xxxii 421 35 pp. Two parts each with title page. Pagination continuous. Contemporary calf boards ruled in blind with corner fleurons spine with raised bands and blind fillets gilt-edged boards. Rubbing to boards and extremities; spine ends chipped and corners worn. Rear joint starting; hinges cracked but holding. Ownership inscriptions of Thomas Adlington dated 1765 and 1795 to endpapers and leaf Ee2v. Interior with light toning and occasional soiling; minor dampstaining and foxing. Small tears to fore-edges of first few leaves; larger tear to A5 no loss. Small holes to bottom margin of A8. Partial crack to text block between Ee8 and Ff; binding remains secure. Brief later annotation to p. 227. A very good copy. $450. Third Edition. First published in 1676 Degge's Counsellor remained the preeminent practical manual for the English clergy and their legal advisors for nearly 150 years. Written by a prominent barrister and Royalist judge rather than a theologian the work is celebrated for its pragmatic secular approach to church law. It was instrumental in redefining tithes-originally a religious offering-as a strictly enforceable legal property right under common and statute law. This 1681 edition was published during a period of intense legal refinement following the Restoration. It includes substantial additions over the first edition reflecting the evolving court precedents that sought to stabilize the Church of England's financial footing. A critical feature of this edition is the "Catalogue of Dissolved Monasteries" which identified lands exempt from tithe payments-a vital reference tool for 17th and 18th-century land disputes. This copy features a notable generational provenance within a documented London legal family. The rear endleaf contains the inscription of Thomas Adlington fl. 1765 an attorney active in the mid-18th century. The front free endpaper and leaf Ee2v bear the signatures of his successor Thomas Adlington fl. 1795 a partner in the prom. unknown books
1995ref. 160500Los Angeles: The Fountain Theatre 1995. Vintage program for the 1995 play. Simon Levy's adaptation of Fitzgerald's 1934 novel which premiered at The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles on March 2 1995 directed by Heidi Helen Davis and starring Larry Poindexter and Tracy Middendorf. Previously made as the 1962 film directed by Henry King starring Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones and the 1985 television mini-series produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television directed by Robert Knights and starring Peter Strauss Mary Steenburgen and Sean Young. Tri-fold 5.75 x 11 inches. Near Fine. The Fountain Theatre unknown books
1977ref. 158139Universal City: Universal Studios 1977. Final Shooting Draft for the 1978 film. A New Hollywood neo-noir based on Simon's 1973 novel. Moses Wine Dreyfuss is a 1960s radical-turned-private eye who is hired by Lila Anspach to investigate a smear campaign against a popular political candidate. The investigation soon becomes a murder case involving a hippie leader whose values like Wine's have been compromised over the years. Set in California shot on location in southern California. Red titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 02111 dated October 19 1977. Title page present noted as Final Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Roger L. Simon. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US. Universal Studios unknown books
1989ref. 13661New York: Continuum Publishing 1989. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/fine. Inscribed to Senator Pete Domenici first edition of Winners and Losers by Senator Paul Simon. Octavo x 209pp. Blue cloth title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed. Solid text block a touch of wear to tips a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket $17.95 retail price on front flap touch of wear to spine a fine example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Pete Domenici - Who I hope can survive my reference to him - Paul Simon / 2-9-89." Domenici is referenced on page 84 where Simon compliments the Senator's work to combat homelessness. Paul Simon 1928-2003 was an Illinois Democrat who served in the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and in the Senate from 1985 to 1997. Simon wrote twenty-two books throughout his career and was known for his traditional horn-rimmed glasses and bow tie. In a tribute to Simon former President Bill Clinton said he was "beyond question one of the most remarkable public servants I ever knew." Pete Domenici 1932-2017 was the longest-serving Senator from New Mexico to date holding office from 1973-2009. Continuum Publishing unknown books
