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Film & Entertainment
Shooting Stars.
London: BBC Books, 1996. [Game Show] MULTI-SIGNED COPY, the second printing. Tall octavo (29 x 15cm), pp.120. Illustrated in colour throughout, with audio CD attached to clear plastic pouch on front cover. SIGNED by all five members of the cast in blue marker to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper..... More
Inscribed Print of actress Mae West.
No place, no date. Original glossy colour print, Deco style, measuring 6 x 4.5 inches''. No date, but probably 1970's. INSCRIBED by subject to lower right hand corner To/ Michael/ from/ Mae West/ (flourish). The recipient is theatre/film mogul Michael J. Cooper of Michaelangelo Organisation Inc., 3571 Berry Drive, Studio..... More
Five Screenplays. The Servant; The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between.
London: Methuen & Co., 1971. [Television Screenplays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 367 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket priced at £3.75. Very light handling. A fine copy. Four television dramas adapted by Pinter from novels by other authors..... More
Philippe Halsman A Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection.
London: Pavilion, 1998. [Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos..... More
That Was The Week That Was.
London: W.H. Allen, 1963. [Television Comedy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.156 [4]. With black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED by the photographer Lewis Morley in black ink to half-title: 'For Edward | Thanks to Frost who didn't realise what a hit he would become Lewis.'..... More
Altered States: The Autobiography of Ken Russell.
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1991. [Film Autobiography] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 337 [1]. With occasional in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and cream paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Larry Lurin, priced at $22.50. Lightly..... 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
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
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2015. [Celebrity Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 314. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with white titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to..... 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
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
Birds of Great Britain.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. [Photography/Sixties Culture] FIRST EDITION. Folio (35 x 27cm), unpaginated. With black and white photographs throughout. Bound in crimson half morocco over red cloth sides, gilt-lettered title panel to spine, black endpapers. Leaves had a tidemark (reducing throughout) to top corner else contents fine, in a...... 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
Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite.
London: Blink, 2018. [Rock] SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 346. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red and blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket designed by Richard Evans with printed price of £20. Signed by Roger Daltrey directly to title page (most were signed via a...... More
Selected Articles on Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures. The Handbook Series III, Volume 6.
New York, NY: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1931. [Film and Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.385; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $2.40 to spine. Very light spotting and browning. Jacket browned with some small chips to edges. A remarkably well-preserved..... More
Jack Carter's Law.
London: Michael Joseph, 1974. British gangster novel. Sequel to 'Get Carter'. 8vo. First Edition. Publisher's blue grey cloth with silver titles to spine, pictorial wrapper Minor edgewear. A clean, near fine copy. The second of three gritty crime novels; the first in the series was 'Jack's Return Home', famously filmed..... 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
When the Movies Were Young.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1925. [Early film] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; [2]; 256; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, textured paper covered boards, paper title labels to spine and upper, fore and tail edge untrimmed. With a photographic frontispiece and fifteen further double sided..... More
I, In The Membership of My Days. Poems.
New York, NY: Random House, 1973. [Irish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.135; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, in pictorial dust-wrapper. Dated and inscribed by Richard Harris to flyleaf. Bumped to foot of spine, wrapper a little sunned to spine. Near fine. A collection of poems by..... 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
![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
American Prince: My Autobiography.
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... 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
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
![Diamonds Are Forever. Press Book [Exhibitor's Campaign Book]. Ian FLEMING](/pictures/thumb/54621.jpg?v=1567527115)
Diamonds Are Forever. Press Book [Exhibitor's Campaign Book].
United Artists. Printed In USA, 1971. [Promotional material] ONLY PRINTING. Large-format/small poster sized 12-page stapled booklet providing cast and credits, editorial comment, plus advertising and promotional lists for soundtracks, book sales, toiletries, etc. No cuts or folds, minor handling; fine. More