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London: Walt Disney Productions, 1971. [Children's Animated Musical Film] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET (28 x 21cm), pp.[20]. Notes on the plot, leading actors, producer, director, animator, and music, with colour photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Some light rubbing to spine. Near fine. A booklet published to accompany the popular..... More
London: National Publishers Inc., 1972. [Musical Film] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET (30 x 19cm), pp.[28]. Notes on the plot, leading actors, producer and director, with colour photographs. Publisher's black soft covers, stapled twice. Rubbing and a few marks to covers. Very good. A booklet published to accompany the hit musical film..... More
New York, NY: Encounter Enterprises, 1977. [Science-Fiction Film] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 23cm), pp.[20]. Notes on the production, plot, leading actors, producer, director, and key production team, with colour photographs. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Moderate rubbing to spine; light handling otherwise. Very good. A...... More
London: Rank Film Distributors, 1963. [Horror Film] ORIGINAL PUBLICITY SERVICES BROCHURE. A4 magazine format (28 x 22cm), pp.[8]. Including notes on the plot, specs for posters and lobby cards, and suggestions cinema owners for publicising the film and extracting maximum financial benefit from showing it at their venue. Printed in..... More
London: Sackville Publishing, 1974. [James Bond Film] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET AND FOLD-OUT POSTER. (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 accompany the hit James..... More
London: Century 21 Publishing / City Magazines, 1966. [Supermarionation Film] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET. Magazine format (29 x 22cm), pp.[52]. Notes on the plot, film-making process, and production team, with mixture of colour and black and white photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Quite heavy wear to spine, with light..... More
London: Rank Film Distributors, 1978. [Action Film] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET. Magazine format (32 x 24cm), pp.[16]. Notes on the plot, leading actors, and key production team, with colour photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Some rubbing and creasing to spine, with light general handling. Very good. A booklet published..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1946. INSCRIBED COPY. Second edition. Octavo, pp. viii, 136. A collection of photographs produced between 1923 and 1945. Association copy, inscribed by Beaton to actress Harriette Johns, who had starred in Alexander Korda's 1947 movie 'An Ideal Husband' for which beaton designed the costumes. Red..... More
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
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
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
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1893. FIRST US EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp.[iv]; 218 [2], advertisements, in the second state. In publisher's oatmeal-coloured cloth, blocked in red to spine and upper board. A very good used copy with a few marks and bumps plus some age-related toning. 'The Great Shadow'..... More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. [Music] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17 cm), pp. [10]; 310. With sixteen pages of photographs. Publisher's quarter grey cloth over black boards with silver titles to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Steve Snider. Pages are clean, light spotting to top edge, slight pushing..... More
London, John Hamilton Ltd. c 1930. 8vo. Publisher's bright orange cloth, lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to extremities with slight fading to spine, trivial spotting to page edges, dust to top edge, very good. Attractive, rather fragile dust jacket with some chips and small losses, including..... More
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
Litho in USA, 1964. [Film promotion] U.S. style 'A' one-sheet poster for the 1964 United Artists film starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming's James Bond, produced by Harry Salzman and Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions. Design by David Chasman. Approximate dimensions 27 x 40 inches. Folded. National Screen Service stamp..... More
Litho in USA, 2012. [Film promotion] ADVANCE-style U.S. one-sheet poster for the 2012 MGM/Columbia Pictures film starring Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli's EON Productions. DOUBLE-SIDED, approximate dimensions 27 x 40 inches. Never folded. Some creasing to edges; fine condition (Poster..... More
Litho in USA, 2012. [Film promotion] U.S. one-sheet poster for the 2012 MGM/Columbia Pictures film starring Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli's EON Productions. Single-sided, approximate dimensions 27 x 40 inches. Never folded. A little creasing to right hand side; fine..... More
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
United Artists. Printed In USA, 1967. [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. One cut-out to p.4, folded once, minor wear to spine fold. Very good. More
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1918. [Filmmaking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 283; [11]. With 10 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece of the Venus de Milo. Publisher's brown cloth. gilt titles to spine and in dark brown to upper board, dust-jacket title with printed price of $2.00..... More
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
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
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
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