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1890London: Museum Press 1956. . 8vo maroon cloth; dust jacket London: Museum Press, 1956. hardcover books
1967WRCLIT54104New York: Da Capo Press 1967. 4xiv140pp. 82 plates 20 in colour. Quarto. Gilt blue-green cloth. Top edge dusty else very good and bright in dust jacket with some soiling to the spine panel. A reprint of the 1926 edition published in the Da Capo Press Graphic Art Series Volume 3. Edited by A. Hyatt Mayor. For its time the standard catalogue of Blake's original engravings. Da Capo Press hardcover books
2018BBO34<p><b>BLAKE</b> William and <b>SENDAK</b> Maurice:<br /></p><p><i><b>SENDAK and BLAKE Illustrating Songs of Innocence</b></i></p><p>New York: Battledore Ltd and the Society of Illustrators 2018.</p><p>Illustrated. Oblong 4to. 40 pp.; pictorial boards.</p><p>ISBN# 978-0-9627110-3-9</p><p>An <b>Exhibition Catalogue </b>which reproduces 7 exquisite ink line drawings by Maurice Sendak and all of his 22 pencil studies for this project. With a brilliant essay by Prof. Robert N. ESSICK Blake scholar and collector comparing Sendak s interpretations to William Blake's original etchings also reproduced in full color. In 1967 Sendak illustrated a Christmas keepsake for his British publishers The Bodley Head containing a selection from William Blake s Songs of Innocence limited to 275 copies. This group of drawings comprises the only remaining manuscript for a published Sendak title still in private hands which was exhibited at the Society of Illustrators 128 East 63rd St. New York City from 23 October to 3 November 2018.</p><p>Limited edition one thousand copies printed. Offered for sale at original publication price</p> Battledore Ltd and the Society of Illustrators hardcover books
1821VBF48<p><b>BLAKE</b> William</p><p><i><b>The Pastorals of Virgil</b></i> With a course of English Reading adapted for Schools . enabling youth to acquire the Latin Language in the shortest period of time. Edited by Robert John <b>Thornton</b>. </p><p>London: F C & J Rivington 1821. </p><p>Two volumes illustrated with engraved frontispieces 230 illustrations: of which William Blake has contributed 17 original woodblock designs for the First Eclogue six copperplates of Classical poets and philosophers all of which he also engraved and with four additional Blake designs engraved by other hands. These are WILLIAM BLAKE's only woodcut designs and have remained amongst the most influential woodcuts in the history of British art. Their influence can be seen in the prints of Edward Calvert and Samuel Palmer. The original blocks survive and are preserved in the British Library London last restruck in 1977 by Iain Bain.</p><p>8vo. xii -vii/viii 12 xxiv -i/iv 214 pp. i 215-592 pp. plates erratic preliminaries nonetheless complete as matching collations in both Keynes and Easson/Essick; matching contemporary sheep leather possibly as published.</p><p>Third edition first thus</p><p>Provenance: George R. Gardner pasted bookplate inside covers</p> F C & J Rivington hardcover books
1980WRCLIT71278San Francisco: Sleeping Gypsy Press 1980. ca. 44 pp. Quarto. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Mechanically reproduced typescript on a variety of colored stocks. Illustrated throughout. Edited by collective. An unindexed assemblage of poetry artwork political satire and commentary invective and enlightenment mimeographed and photoduplicated on a variety of stock. Micheline Aguila Kirby Doyle and others contribute with nods to Emmet Grogan the Diggers Communication Company the Union of Street Poets and others. Sleeping Gypsy Press unknown books
2000109124From 2008 to 2017 there are 10 color illustrated annual programmes. London: The Blake Society 2000 - 2017. From 2008 to 2017 there are 10 color illustrated annual programmes the later versions with several high quality color reproductions of Blake's designs- usually 4 per programme. There are further miscellanea containing details of events and several occasional lecture texts and articles on Blake's work produced by Members. All in very good or as new condition. § The Blake Society unknown books
19951105023 vols. San Francisco: John Windle 1995-98-2001. 3 vols. 8vo 241 221 410 lots illustrated. Original wrappers as issued. § Three of the earliest catalogues devoted to Blake and his circle by Windle -- the latest catalogue available on request is # 65 and contains some 800 entries. John Windle unknown books
1961132495London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Collection of 3 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1961 UK release of the 1960 US film. With British certificate labels on the rectos. <br/><br/>A later Bing Crosby film about a widowed restaurant owner who decides to go back to college where he falls in love with one of the professors. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Brief corner creases else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 370. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1959132443London: Rank Film Distributors 1959. Collection of 7 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Tony Curtis stars as a sex-starved soldier who wins a date with pinup model Linda Cristal. Janet Legih Curtis' real life wife plays an Army shrink tasked with keeping things chaste. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. One still with faint stains and light corner creases to most else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown books
1962132191London: Warner-Pathe 1962. A collection of 7 vintage vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Distributor rubber-stamps and mimeograph snipes on the versos. <br/><br/>Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women whom he convinces to start drinking leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral of addiction. Henry Mancini composed the score and along with Johnny Mercer won an Academy Award for the for the title song. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1962132163London: Warner-Pathe 1962. Two vintage vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. <br/><br/>Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women whom he convinces to start drinking leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral of addiction. Henry Mancini composed the score and along with Johnny Mercer won an Academy Award for the for the title song. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light corner creases to one and a closed tear to one of the mimeograph snipes. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1965132873London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1965. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1965 UK release of the 1965 US film. <br/><br/>A professional daredevil convinces auto makers that a race from New York to Paris will help to promote automobile sales. A rival vows to win the race in a car of his own invention. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Austria and throughout California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
1984140554Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. With a few annotations in holograph ink throughout. <br/><br/>Rob Salinger Moore works as a television reporter and his wife Micki Reinking is a lawyer who is having difficulty getting pregnant to the chagrin of Rob. While working Rob meets a cellist Maude Irving who he begins dating without mentioning his wife. She soon becomes pregnant as well as his current wife and he ends up marrying Maude as well. To hide his bigamy he uses work as an excuse to spend days with one woman and nights with another. The women eventually find out about each other as they go into labor at the same time and are at the same hospital on the same floor. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper is present dated March 7 1984 with a credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Later generation photocopy with revision pages throughout dated variously between March 6 1984 and March 22 1984. Pages Very Good plus wrapper missing bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1969151541London: United Artists 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers on the set of the 1968 film from the 1969 UK release of the film. British United Artists snipe and provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso.<br/><br/>Edwards' most outrageous collaboration with Sellers the only one that wasn't a "Pink Panther" film. Sellers in a role that today would be considered racially insensitive plays Hrundi V. Bakshi an Indian actor who inadvertently and ever-so courteously causes chaos and mayhem at a Hollywood party. Sellers' legendary and hilariously painful performance is assisted by an increasingly drunk waiter a wonderful performance by Steve Franken an adorable psychedelic-painted baby elephant and much more. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Faint creasing else Near Fine.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
1964135474Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1964. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The second of the "Pink Panther" films based on the 1962 book by Harry Kurnitz which in turn was adapted from Marcel Achard's play "L'Idiote." <br/><br/>Probably one of five funniest films of the 1960s and the defining installment in the well-loved Pink Panther series. While "A Shot in the Dark" was ably preceded by "The Pink Panther" in 1963 it was the first to feature the series' underrated maestro Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1985148722Los Angeles: Blake Edwards Entertainment 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film here under the working title "The Music Box." <br/><br/>The second page of the script is a statement from Blake Edwards expressing his intent of utilizing "broad improvisation" and leaving the concise script with relatively minimal dialogue. Noted in the AFI Catalog.<br/><br/>Inspired by the classic and Academy Award winning Laurel & Hardy short "The Music Box" 1932 directed by James Parrott. Originally intended by Edwards to be a vehicle for Richard Pryor and Burt Reynolds.<br/><br/>Actor and gambler Spencer Holden Ted Danson overhears gangsters Binky and Turnip Stuart Margolin and Richard Mulligan at the racetrack talking about doping a horse to win the race. When the thugs find out they trail him and his restauranteur buddy Dennis Powel Howie Mandel to make sure they don't go to the authorities. <br/><br/>Untitled Blake Edwards Entertainment wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Blake Edwards. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Blake Edwards Entertainment unknown books
1973131474London: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue pink and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. <br/><br/>Bob Willoughby 1927-2009 studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles worked as a photographer for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" and as a set photographer for every major studio documenting some of most important films of the era and creating intimate portraits of some of Hollywood's greatest celebrities. <br/><br/>Willoughby moved his family to County Cork Ireland in 1972 working on only a handful of films through the late 1970s and early 1980s this was one of his final films though he would continue to photograph exhibit and publish books for the remainder of his life. <br/><br/>Based on Evelyn Anthony's 1971 novel about a woman on holiday in the Caribbean who meets a handsome Russian. Judith Farrow Andrews meets Feodor Sverdlov Sharif and together they visit all the beautiful spots on the island but Judith's ties to the British government and Feodor's to the Russian government cause problems for their romance. An underrated but serious look at espionage in the Cold War. <br/><br/>Set in Barbardos and shot on location there and in London and Paris. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers marked copy No. 122. Title page present dated April 1973 with credits for screenwriter Edwards. 127 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two silver brads. Stills Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1983147795Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1983. Two vintage studio still photographs one color one black and white from the 1983 film. <br/><br/>Blake Edwards remake of Francois Truffaut's 1977 film about a sculptor whose obsessive love of women leads to his eventual death told from the perspective of his analyst and eventual lover. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1958132722London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Based on a play by F. Hugh Herbert about a young woman who asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss. When her rescuer suggests that she get out of her wet clothes she escapes and finds safety in the home of a retired actor. <br/><br/>A story set in Connecticut shot at Universal Studios in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1957143037Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design with Hunter's name on the front board. <br/><br/>Veteran actor Curd Jurgens begins to have feelings for a young woman Debbie Reynolds much to the chagrin of his romantic partner Alexis Smith. Ultimately Reynolds chooses his younger neighbor John Saxon and Jurgens happily returns to Smith. Winner of a Golden Globe. <br/><br/>Set in Connecticut. <br/><br/>Title page present noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Blake Edwards. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered "135-A and 136." Mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/12/57 and 9/24/57. Pages Fine presentation binding about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1965150160N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film showing actor Jack Lemmon in costume as Professor Fate in turn in disguise as Crown Prince Fredrich Hapnick covered in cake and pie. With the stamp of Globe Photos dated 14 April 1965 two Italian agency stamps and a stamp noting No. 7053 on the verso. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1908 race from New York to Paris billed as the "Greatest Auto Race" of its time. An homage to slapstick farces and silent film comedies following two competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century: handsome courteous hero The Great Leslie Tony Curtis and his nemesis the dastardly Professor Fate Lemmon.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Austria Paris and Kentucky Oregon and California in the United States. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1961119435London 1961. hardcover. Illus. Thin 8vo. London 1961.<br/><br/> unknown books
101547hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated with color plates. 8vo cloth d.w. London 1955. Near fine in very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> unknown books
107967London: Herbert & Daniel c. 1920. 8vo xvii 49pp. 12 illustrations. Green cloth with color illustration label on cover. Gilt decorated. Some wear on spine. Mild spotting to pages. Inscribed Betty Spaight in ink at front. Good condition. § Undated reprint from the 1911 edition. Bentley BB 153: “the illustrations are distressingâ€. A less critical eye might find them quite charming and sweet and the whole book prettily printed and designed. Herbert & Daniel hardcover books
19111014968vo. London: Herbert & Daniel 1911. 8vo xvii 49pp. 12 illustrations. Full white cloth soiled. Gilt decorated. Pages deckled. Some foxing. Some splittinig to inner hinges both front and rear. Very good. § First edition. Bentley BB 153: “the illustrations are distressingâ€. A less critical eye might find them quite charming and sweet and the whole book prettily printed and designed. Herbert & Daniel hardcover books