"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
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![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
![Goldfinger [original film press pack with still photos]. James Bond Promotional Material](/pictures/thumb/59296.jpg?v=1616002385)
Goldfinger [original film press pack with still photos].
New York: United Artists, 1964. [James Bond Films] A studio-issued press pack for "Goldfinger", directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Sean Connery as 'James Bond 007', Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman and Shirley Eaton. Comprising nine feature biographies of the key cast and film-makers, four informational sketches, and thirteen original 8..... 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
![MOVIE POSTER] From Russia With Love. Ian Lancaster FLEMING](/pictures/thumb/53773.jpg?v=1556376170)
[MOVIE POSTER] From Russia With Love.
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
Complete Universal Horror Library. The Werewolf of London; Creature from the Black Lagoon; The Wolfman; Dracula's Daughter; The Bride of Frankenstein; The Mummy.
New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1977. [Classic Horror Film Novelisations] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes, all being paperbacks in a uniform cover design. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.xii; 194; pp.xii; 194 [2]; pp.xii; 212; pp.xii; 212; pp.xiv; 210; pp.x; 166. All featuring frequent images from the black..... More
![MOVIE POSTER] Casino Royale. Ian Lancaster FLEMING](/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
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
Screencraft, or the Making of a Photoplay.
New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co., 1916. [Early Film-Making] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.151; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Simple typographic dust-jacket with titles and testimonials from well-wishing readers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Toned and a little dusty to edges. Light wear to..... 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
James Bond, the Spy I Loved.
London: Twenty First Century Publishers, 2006. [James Bond Film Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 178 [6]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue marker 'To Simon' to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic soft covers. A fine, as-new copy. Rare thus. More
The Art of Photoplay Making.
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
![Diamonds Are Forever [LOBBY CARDS]. Guy HAMILTON, director, Richard MAIBAUM, Tom MANKIEWICZ,...](/pictures/thumb/57749.jpg?v=1599755646)
Diamonds Are Forever [LOBBY CARDS].
Beverley Hills, CA: United Artists, 1971. [Movie Memorabilia] ORIGINAL LOBBY CARDS. A set of eight lobby cards from the film 'Diamonds Are Forever', directed by Guy Hamilton, and starring Sean Connery, Jill St. John, and Charles Gray. Colour lithographic images on thin stock measuring 28 x 36cm, with production credits..... More
Time Exposure.
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
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
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
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
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
![L'Espion Qui M'Aimait [LOBBY CARDS]. [The Spy Who Loved Me]. Lewis GILBERT, director, Christopher...](/pictures/thumb/57747.jpg?v=1599755645)
L'Espion Qui M'Aimait [LOBBY CARDS]. [The Spy Who Loved Me].
Paris: Les Productions Artistes Associés, 1977. [Movie Memorabilia] ORIGINAL LOBBY CARDS. A set of twelve lobby cards from the film 'L'Espion Qui M'Aimait' (the French version of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'), directed by Lewis Gilbert, and starring Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, and Richard Kiel. Colour lithographic images on thin..... More
![Moonraker [LOBBY CARDS]. Christopher WOOD, writer, Lewis GILBERT, director, Albert R. BROCCOLI,...](/pictures/thumb/57745.jpg?v=1599755644)
Moonraker [LOBBY CARDS].
Paris: Les Productions Artistes Associés, 1979. [Movie Memorabilia] ORIGINAL LOBBY CARDS. A set of twenty-four French lobby cards from the film 'Moonraker', directed by Lewis Gilbert, and starring Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, and Richard Kiel. Colour lithographic images on thin stock measuring 22 x 28cm, with production credits..... 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
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
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
From Hamburg to Hollywood.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Music / Film Photography] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.130. No 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Jurgen Vollmer. Foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. 140 illustrations from photographs. Quarter bound with gilt-stamped covers, all edges silver, housed in a Kodak-style lid and tray box. With..... 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
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