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Master of The World.
UK, Electric Modern Printing, Limited, Manchester, [1961]. FIRST PRINTING. An original UK quad for the science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan, Folded, condition A (fresh). Approx dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape format, (will be despatched rolled, in tube)..... More
The Angry Red Planet.
Stafford and Co. Ltd, Nottingham and London [1956]. An original and scarce UK quad for the 1959 sci-fi horror 'The Angry Red Planet', an 'Invasion of Mars' film concerning the first manned flight to and exploration of planet Mars. Folded, condition B (fresh, corners clipped). Approx dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape..... More
The War of the Worlds
UK; United International Pictures 2005. Movie teaser print /mini poster for the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, starring Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins. Poster is landscape format, with title and globe image, promotional version showing release date july 1 [2005]. Overall dimensions approx. 11 x 16 inches, portrait. Fine condition, archivally..... More
Complete Diaries: The Python Years, 1968-1979: Halfway to Hollywood, 1980-1988; Travelling to Work, 1988-98.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006, 2009, 2014. [Comedy/travel] FIRST EDITION, three volumes, octavo (24 x 16 x 15cm), SIGNED by the author to final volume. First book includes a talking CD. Publisher's cloth hardcovers titled to spines, in pictorial dust-jackets. Each with photographic sections. A lovely fine, unread set... More
Spectacles: a Memoir.
London: Michael Joseph, 2015. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[14] 377 [11]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' preliminary leaf. Publisher's black cloth with titles in blind to spine, and pink bespectacled endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Kate Barsby, priced at..... More
Jazz 1955-1959. 61
Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1991. First Dutch Edition, having previously published in Japan. Square octavo, with 190 photographic plates. Bound in publisher's printed softcovers with striking pictorial jacket. A clean, fine copy, with a signature to half-title 'Joost Divend'. Ed van der Elsken was a prolific Dutch artist, photographer, and filmmaker..... More
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
A concise history of Photography.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. [Film] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY KEN RUSSELL. Octavo (22 x cm), pp; 314; [2]. Illustrated throughout. Beautifully bound for Asprey, likely by Zaehnsdorf, in green half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Inscribed..... More
The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories.
London: Heinemann, 1968. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi. SIGNED and INSCRIBED to the flyleaf by both Salih and Johnson-Davies. Octavo, pp.120. Publisher's original blue cloth binding in pictorial dustwrapper. Book is fine. Some toning to white areas of jacket; price-clipped. Near..... More
Sybil Thorndike.
London; Thornton Butterworth. 1929. First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's tremendously flashy orange and red cloth titled in black (using a bizarre pseudo Spartan typeface) to spine and front boards. A fine copy in a very good example indeed of the dustwrapper with some light marginal wear and a little scuffing..... More
The Turbulent Thirties. A Further Decade of the Theatre.
London: Macdonald, 1960. [Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp. 144. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Sherriffs with printed price of 35s. net to flap. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates throughout. Internally fine, some spotting to endpapers. Wrapper and cloth lightly..... More
A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. Illustrated by Dan Beard.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1889. [Humorous fiction] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[xvi]; 525; [32] publisher's advertisements, dated October 1889. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, decorated in black to boards and spine, patterned endpapers. Pictorial frontispiece and 220 in-text illustrations. With..... More
Twiggy. A Life in Photographs.
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2009. [Fashion Photography / Sixties Culture] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.144. Publisher's glossy printed boards, dust-jacket. Signed by Twiggy to the title page. A fine copy. More
Master of The World.
Printed in USA [1961]. An original colour lobby card (no.5) for the 1961 science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. Fine example. A fantasy adventure;..... More
Master of The World.
Printed in USA [1961]. An original colour lobby card (no.7) for the 1961 science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. Fine example. A fantasy adventure;..... More
Master of The World.
Printed in USA, [1961]. An original colour lobby card (no.8) for the 1961 science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13 x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. Fine example. A fantasy..... More
Screening History. The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilisation.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.96; [1]. Publisher's black paper boards over a red paper spine. Pictorial dust-jacket shows image of Vidal in a movie theatre, titles in red and white. Signed by Vidal, actor Cliff Robertson, and one other. With two..... More
King Kong. Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace. Illustrated with scenes from the Radion Picture.
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. [Gorilla adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 249;[1], advertisement. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark brown, photographic endpapers, coloured top edge. Contents very clean, spine sunned, frayed at tips. A used yet respectable copy. The ultimate monster story, giant apes, dinosaurs..... More
The Graduate.
London: Constable, 1963. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.238. Publisher's hardcover in striking original dust-wrapper. Page edges spotted, jacket near fine. An attractive copy of a reasonably scarce printing. Webb's first and most famous novel, documenting the sexual awakening of Benjamin the graduate, with Mrs Robinson..... More
The Prince and the Pauper / Crossed Swords. Official film still.
Twentieth Century Fox 1977. [Movie Memorabilia] Original press photo of Raquel Welch as Lady Edith in the 1977 film adapted from Mark Twain's classic novel by George MacDonald Fraser and starring Oliver Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Raquel Welch, George C. Scott, Charlton Heston, Sir Rex Harrison and Mark Lester, playing the..... More
Garden District. Two plays: "Something Unspoken" and "Suddenly Last Summer"
London: Secker and Warburg, 1959. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (225mm x 145mm), pp.72. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in silver to spine. Green and white dust-jacket with titles in white and black to front cover and spine, and publisher's advertisements for other plays by Williams to..... More
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
London: John Lehmann, 1950. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 126; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to an orange panel to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Cecil Beaton with printed price of 7s 6d crossed out and repriced by hand at 3/6. Contents clean, edges..... More
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