"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht
Film & Entertainment
![Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt]. Geoffrey HOUSEHOLD](/pictures/thumb/49232.jpg?v=1574440566)
Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt].
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY, with an original 4-page advert/order form. Octavo, pp.[vii]; 271; [1], imprint. Publisher's brown card softcovers, with printed label to upper, handwritten details to spine. Contents clean, some wrinkling and lean to spine, covers lightly handled. A very good..... More
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1976. [Comedy]. SIGNED COPY, the third impression, paperback. Quarto (31 x 24cm), unpaginated. SIGNED by Eric Idle and Neil Innes in blue and black ink to verso of front cover. Full of mad witty nonsense, as expected. Publisher's card covers with false title, 'The Wonderful World of..... More
Deadline at Dawn.
Cleveland, OH and New York, NY: World Publishing Company, 1946. [Noir fiction] FIRST EDITION thus, Tower Motion Picture Edition (film tie-in) Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.220; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth blocked in green, endpapers featuring stills from the RKO film, further stills within, photographic dust-wrapper. Text block toned, discreet..... More
![The Man with the Golden Gun [Film Campaign Brochure, also being a folding Poster]. JAMES BOND...](/pictures/thumb/57868.jpg?v=1604079545)
The Man with the Golden Gun [Film Campaign Brochure, also being a folding Poster].
London: Sackville Publishing, 1974. [James Bond Film] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET with large FOLD-OUT POSTER to one side. (28 x 22cm, folded; 85 x 55cm unfolded). A colour-illustrated movie poster which folds up into a promotional brochure, containing notes on plot, cast and production team. Light handling. Near fine. Published to..... More
LaChapelle Land.
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 29cm), pp.152. Fine art photographs printed on clay paper, with the 'map' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's glossy and very colourful paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers. Presented in the original matching card box. Box lid split to corners..... More
John.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005. [Music autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 404. SIGNED by Cynthia Lennon to publisher's bookplate on title page. Hardback cloth in dust-jacket, with photographic plates. A fine, as-new copy. Cynthia's long-awaited and revealing personal account of her life as the first wife..... More
Stills from 'For a Few Dollars More.'
United Artists, 1965. [Film Stills] SIX ORIGINAL STILLS, each about 20 x 25cm, and mounted ready for framing (total dimensions 28 x 36cm). A fine selection of black and white images from the classic Spaghetti Western sequel to 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964), all featuring Eastwood, and two featuring Van..... More
![MOVIE POSTER] Get Carter. Ted LEWIS, Michael CAINE](/pictures/thumb/59836.jpg?v=1621009872)
[MOVIE POSTER] Get Carter.
UK, 1971. [Film promotion] Original UK quad poster for the 1971 MGM-British Studios film starring Michael Caine, John Osborne and Britt Ekland, based on the novel 'Jack's Return Home'. Approximate dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape format. Date of release; March 1971. This is the 'reviews' style poster with favourable quotes from..... More
The Naked Jungle
Printed in USA [1960]. A colour lobby card (no.5) for the 1953 fantasy adventure from Paramount, starring Charlton Heston. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. This card issued for the 1960 release. Fine example. The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by..... More
Snow Creature.
Printed in USA [1954]. A colour lobby card (no8) for the 1954 B-Movie 'Snow Creature'. Condition A (fresh), dimensions approx. 13x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. Classic disater movie; a Yeti, slightly miffed at being captured, removed from his Himalayan home and shipped to California, goes on a a...... More
Night Creatures (aka Captain Clegg).
No place, [1962]. An original US colour lobby card for the 1962 movie from Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing and Oliver Reed. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13 x 10 inches, in a simple card mount. Ideal for framing. A harrowing tale of 19th century skullduggery and swamp phantoms..... More
Little Britain: The Complete Scripts and Stuff, Series One.
London: HarperEntertainment, 2004. [Comedy Scripts] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.256. Illustrated in colour throughout. SIGNED by both Lucas and Walliams in black marker to half-title. Publisher's glossy paper-covered boards, with matching dust-jacket priced at £14.99. Union flag endpapers. Some light handling. Near fine. More
Modern Sleights.
London: George Johnson, the Magic Wand Office, 1934. [Magic] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.20. With in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue soft covers, stapled twice and priced at 2/6. Black ink ownership of E. Brenton Jennings to title page. Light wear to covers. Very good. From the library of American..... More
The Misfits.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1961. [Cinema-Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm). pp.[xii]; 132. Publisher's oatmeal cloth lettered in black and red to spine, black endpapers, striking dust-wrapper designed by Don Ervin, with printed price of $3.95. Signed by author to title page. Binding lightly handled. Wrapper..... More
Bond On Bond. The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.224. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's black cloth blocked in silver to spine, with colour-illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, as-new copy. More
Bond On Bond. The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.224. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's black cloth blocked in silver to spine, with colour-illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. Jacket shows some handling; near fine. More
Signed Roger Moore Still from the film 'Gold of the Seven Saints' (1961).
[Film] SIGNED STILL. One black and white film still from Gordon Douglas' 1961 film, showing Moore as 'Shaun Garrett', SIGNED in blue marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 31 x 26cm. More
The Shadow of the Cat
Germany (n.p.) [1961]. German A1 (one-sheet) poster for the 1961 supernatural horror movie 'Schatten Einer Katze' from Universal International. Folded, (almost always issued folded!), condition A- (with a couple of discreet tears). 23x 33 inches approx. (Will be despatched rolled, in tube). This continental poster features alternative artwork to the..... More
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
UK, Charles and Read, London. [1957]. FIRST PRINTING. An original UK quad for Rank Organisation's 1957 movie adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous novel, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn. Folded, condition A (small Film board ink stamp to image otherwise fresh). Approx dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape format (will be despatched..... 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
The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide.
London: Souvenir Press in association with Panther Books, 1965. [Doctor Who Fan Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.95 [1]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. Heavily toned, as expected, with light handling. Very good. The creator of the Daleks here provides an illuminating Socratic Dialogue which explains the finer..... More
![MOVIE POSTER] Casino Royale. NON 1](/pictures/thumb/53772.jpg?v=1556210545)
[MOVIE POSTER] Casino Royale.
Litho in USA, 1967. [Film promotion] U.S. one-sheet poster for the 1967 Columbia Pictures film starring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress and David Niven, produced by Charles K Feldman and Jerry Bresler. NSS no. 67/72. Artwork by Robert McGinnis. Approximate dimensions 27 x 40 inches. Folded. National Screen Service stamp to..... 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