Film & Entertainment
[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
Film Stills for 'What's Up Tiger Lily?'
American International Pictures, 1966. [Film Stills] 21 ORIGINAL STILLS. Black and white stills, with production notes printed to lower margin. Also with one duplicate still, and seven reproduction stills, including two not in the collection of originals. Some light toning, with adhesive marks to lower margin of several stills. Very..... More
Cabaret [Film Campaign Brochure].
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
Close Encounters of the third Kind [Film Campaign Brochure].
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
Kiss of the Vampire — Publicity Services [Film Campaign Brochure].
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
[Movie Wrap-Party Invitation for "The Krays"].
November 1989. [Wrap-Party Invite] ORIGINAL INVITATION and PROMOTIONAL POSTCARD. Presented as a montage within a simple glass frame. Hand-addressed to Rodney Pincott, standby propman for the film. Postcard well-thumbed with a few creases. Light toning and handling to invitation. Very good. Released in April 1990, 'The Krays' was a well-received..... More
Princes Theatre Christmas Season 1956: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. [The Gondoliers].
London: Printed by G.J. Parris, 1956. [Theatre Programme] ORIGINAL PROGRAMME. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[16]. A programme for Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Gondoliers', with a programme for a whole season of other G&S productions a the Princes Theatre. Publisher's red covers, stapled once with a 6d price label. A...... More
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London and Glasgow: Collins, no date [circa 1940's]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.80. With black and white, and occasional colour illustrations reproducing scenes from the famous Disney film of the same name. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the blue cloth spine. Illustrated..... More
The Young Ones [Exhibitor's Campaign Brochure].
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors, no date [1961]. [Musical Film] ORIGINAL PUBLICITY SERVICES BROCHURE. Large oblong booklet (29 x 44cm), pp.[8]. Including 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. Also with a loose sheet..... 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
Nobody Lives Forever.
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. [Crime thriller] FIRST MOTION PICTURE EDITION. Octavo (21x 15cm), pp.243; [3], blank. Two black and white photos as frontis plate. Publisher's red cloth blocked in grey, endpapers feature ten b & w stills from the movie, photographic dust-wrapper. Cheap paper toned..... More
My Life in Pieces. An Alternative Autobiography.
London: Nick Hern Books, 2010. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 436. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Hi, Hayley! | All the very best | Simon Callow'. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Ned..... More
[Signed Photograph of Earl Cameron].
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH, 18 x 13cm. A black and white image of the actor in his later years, SIGNED in blue marker. Printed on Fujicolour Crystal Archive Paper. Fine. Cameron was a pioneering Bermudian actor who played some of the first leading roles for black actors in the UK film industry..... More
[Signed Photograph of Earl Cameron].
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH, 18 x 13cm. A colour montage of the actor in the role of Supervisor in 'The Schizoid Man', Episode 5 of 'The Prisoner' (October 1967), SIGNED in black marker. Printed on Fujifilm Professional Paper. Fine. Cameron was a pioneering Bermudian actor who played some of the first leading..... More
Michael Crawford. Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String. My Autobiography.
London: Century, 1999. [Performing Arts Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 330. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at..... 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 Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl.
London: Collins, [1944]. [Childrens classic] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[52], with 13 colour plates (one double-page), and many in-text illustrations throughout. In the publisher's red pictorial paper-covered boards, cream cloth spine, pictorial end-papers. Gift inscription (31/10/44) to half title, contents clean, staples rusted and showing, light wear..... 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 (in our presence) by Roger Daltrey directly to title page (most were..... More
Roger Moore.
London: W.H. Allen, 1983. [Film Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, ex libris Peter Cotes, with associated material relating to a Dorothy Squires legal action, including letters to and from the author. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.224. Generously illustrated with many black and white photographs. SIGNED in black ink by Roger Moore..... More
Signed Karin Dor and Mie Hama Title Card for the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED TITLE CARD. One colour title card for Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) and Mie Hama (Kissy) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Signed Karin Dor and Burt Kwouk Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) in blue marker, and by Burt Kwouk (Spectre 3) in black ink. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Signed Karin Dor Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
[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
Murder Off Broadway.
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