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201089270Lisbon Portugal: Assírio & Alvim / Fundacao Mario Soares 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto 27cm; photographic white paper wrappers; French flaps; 172pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Inscribed by editor with 2010 date on title page. Light shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Includes notes on de Lacerda's relationships with Edith Sitwell Nathaniel Tarn Christopher Middleton Octavio Paz and many others with photographs throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 and is inscribed to him by de Sousa. 89270. Assírio & Alvim / Fundacao Mario Soares unknown
1965122002N.p.: N.p. 1965. A dazzling collection of ten original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s 60s and 70s. <br /> <br /> Several of the pressbooks defy the conventions of pressbook design with custom shapes to represent items in keeping with the films for which they were made: "Advise and Consent" resembles a briefcase "In Harm's Way" is designed as a dossier with a string tie "The Cardinal" as a parcel and "Bunny Lake is Missing" as a newspaper. Other key titles in the collection include "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "The Man with the Golden Arm."<br /> <br /> For most of the pressbooks in this collection we have never seen another example. A fascinating example of the advertising work done by the premiere title and ad designer of the twentieth century. <br /> <br /> Various sizes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Complete details available on request. N.p. unknown
2081502112302171Azuma Takara N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Azuma Takara paperback
2081502112301586Azuma Takara N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Azuma Takara paperback
183869551London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo 19.5 cm Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 no text is obscured. Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 again text not affected. Stitching visible in inside margins however binding very sturdy.<br /> <br /> Ex-libris James Cowan Smith with his bookplate depicting his beloved dog Callum on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith 1843-1919 was a British civil engineer director of a railway company British Wagon and philanthropist. In his will he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4284000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed the Dandie Dinmont. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co hardcover
18848967Chicago: Breeder's Gazette Print 1884. Staplebound. Fine. 24mo 62pp. A fine fresh copy in the publisher's dark green wraps printed in gold over side-stapled binding. A few tiny nicks to extremities but a very attractive example about fine. A pocket-sized guide to the premiums or prizes awarded to the winning entrants in the livestock events of the 1885 "World Cotton Centennial" one of the earliest World's Fairs held in the southern US. Unrecorded in OCLC and apparently not held at HNOC. Breeder's Gazette, Print unknown
19581249441958. San Francisco: Larry Jordan c. 1958. <br /> <br /> Oblong 12mo with a b/w frontispiece drawing by Eisenstein and 31 black and white photographs of scenes from the film. Original buff printed wrappers browned and with the bottom wrapper trimmed below the imprint possibly removing an inscription or mark of ownership.<br /> <br /> § Limited to 100 copies printed in San Francisco by Larry Jordan born 1934 the renowned California experimental filmmaker known for his use of animation. His most famous film was Our Lady of the Sphere which followed a boy a deep-sea diver and a mystical lady with an orbital head on a surrealist dream-like journey.<br /> <br /> Ivan the Terrible 1944 was a two-part biopic of Ivan IV of Russia starring Nikolay Cherkasov. It was Eisenstein's final film and was said to have been commissioned by Joseph Stalin who admired and identified with Ivan. Part 1 was released in 1944; Part 2 should have been released in 1946 however Stalin was so displeased by the depiction of Ivan that he banned the film and it did not appear until 1958 years after Stalin's death. Part I has the uncommon accolade of have been included in both The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Medved and Lowell and Scheider's 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. This tribute by Larry Jordan is further testament to the film's cult status. unknown
142842N.p.: N.p. 1981. Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film "Energy and How to Get It" circa 1980-1981. <br /> <br /> Includes tipped in ephemera drawings business cards and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer Robert Frank June Leaf and "Lightning" Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included are 4 reference photos all likely unique from the shooting of the film: two showing both Wurlitzer and Frank one showing Wurlitzer and one of the "Enola Gay" aircraft in the film. <br /> <br /> Mead Memo notebook spiral bound. Green wrappers. 4.25 x 6 inches Very Good overall tipped in photos Near Fine. Reference photos 8 x 10 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown
194534251Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1945. Wraps. Fair. Stapled bulletins. 7 issues. Blue paper covers with title on the front. Light to moderate foxing to the covers and text. Name of Hugh D. Brown written at the top of 2 issues. The misc. issues are:<br /> <br /> Volume XVI Number 2 1945. ii pages 73-123;<br /> Volume XVII Number Number 1 1946. ii 76 pages. Some wrinkling to the contents;<br /> Volume XVII Number 2 1946. ii pages 77-128;<br /> Volume XVIII Number 2 1947. ii pages 75-126;<br /> Volume XIX Number 1 1948. ii 72 pages;<br /> Volume XIX Number 2 1948. ii pages 73-124;<br /> Volume XX Number 1 1949. 74 pages. Government Printing Office unknown
1940153773New York: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1940 film noir generally considered to be the first in the American film noir cycle.<br /> <br /> An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a cafe owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. Widely regarded as the first film noir. Author and occasional screenwriter Nathanael West who is credited with revisions on the front wrapper was not credited on the finished film. <br /> <br /> Purple titled card wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated MAY 24 1940 with credits for screenwriter Frank Partos and revision credits to Nathanael West. Title page integral with the title page as issued. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication on yellow onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1949137478Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1949. Final shooting script for the 1950 film. Copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed who here plays the role of the villain with his name in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> A ruthless man attempts to rekindle a settled feud between two rancher families in order to take both their lands when they kill each other off. Luckily the town has a good sheriff and a standup rancher gal to help save the day. An odd short musical western with a good crop of the genre's favorite themes bar brawls ambushes sharpshooters to help round out the plot. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper production No. A7 dated November 2 1949. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph O'Donnell. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fair wrapper Fair bound with three gold brads. Foxing and dampstaining to much of the wrappers and extremities. Universal Pictures unknown
132794Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1986. Archive of three title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1963 film. Also included are two fascinating autograph letters both elaborately designed and executed in a calligraphic style from Adler to author illustrator and editor Fridolf Johnson relating to Adler's work with Hitchcock. <br /> <br /> Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Birds" 1963 his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Justine" 1969. <br /> <br /> In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. <br /> <br /> In the first letter dated May 16 1986 Adler describes after touching on other topics meeting Hitchcock and then presenting him with layout ideas for the titles. He then goes into detail regarding his answer to a question about the techniques of artist Eric Gill stating that Hitchcock "was amazed" by this answer and after that would "request 'to be sure to bring that nice young man along" meaning Adler whenever he had a job for Adler's firm. <br /> <br /> The second letter dated June 10th 1986 focuses almost exclusively on Adler's work on "The Birds" going into some detail regarding both the creative and technical processes of producing hand lettered titles for films. He also describes Hitchcock as "an unusual person to work with. He was a master at what he did knew what he wanted and smoked the finest cigars." He then concludes the letter with some brief remarks on how his approach to title lettering evolved over the course of his career. <br /> <br /> The letters themselves are works of art executed in a variety of inks in Adler's detailed penmanship with Johnson's name on each in particular receiving full calligraphic treatment. <br /> <br /> Also included are draft title cards for the film stylistically similar to each other but much different from the titles used in the finished film. Two of the cards are marked as "camera ready" in manuscript colored pencil with titles executed in white paint on black board. The third card photo stat on black paper which accompanied the June 10th letter has been annotated by Adler on both the recto and verso explaining the in more detail the technical process of putting the lettering on film. <br /> <br /> Overall a significant collection of material illuminating a little explored aspect of film design with a direct and significant connection to a seminal work by a director known for personally overseeing all aspects of production. <br /> <br /> Each letter 19 x 24 inches single leaf rectos only. May 16th letter folded twice for mailing June 10th letter folded. Two long diagonal creases to the May 16th letter else both are Fine. Original mailing envelope for the May 16th letter included. <br /> <br /> "Camera ready" title cards 22 x 14 inches. Lightly rubbed and about Near Fine. Third card 18 x 4 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
194053482Kingston upon Hull UK: Needler Ltd. ca. 1940. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 in. 14 leaves unnumbered. with 14 hand-coloured silver gelatin photographs sized 10 x 11.75 in. mounted on thick card stock leaves hinged with black cloth printed sales information on facing leaves each photo w/ War Restrictions Notice printed in upper fore-edge and supplementary product information in negative below each product. Original black pebbled cloth spine stiffened w/ wood spacers covered in black cloth minor bowing to leaves very minor wear to corners front outer hinge just starting still a VG copy w/ pencil date of 1940 on front pastedown. First edition of this scarce and exceptional photographic sample catalogue filled with the styles of Needler chocolate box assortment and chocolate packaging in the first years of World War II. Initially chocolates had been packed as unwrapped bars in the Victorian era with paper labels displayed on the counter. Later gold printing and metal foils repeated the luxury message of chocolate. Inspired by the innovations of Cadbury the designs for many British fancy chocolate boxes were prized by the British as special gifts to be used as trinket or button boxes and even cut out and saved in scrapbooks. The chocolate boxes in this catalogue include mixed assortments in faux 3-drawer cabinets decorated with fancy ribbons chromolithograph and colour-printed covers featuring historic scenes pets flowersArt Deco designs gold foil and more. Of special interest are the wonderful Needler’s figurine bowls and boxes featuring porcelain figurines dressed in silk fabrics atop bowls or boxes as well as a splendid pair of porcelain bookends “Sweet & Twenty†to hold up the customer’s chocolate boxes. Needler’s began as Fred Needler Ltd. in 1902 when established in Hull by Fred Needler 1865-1932 who began as a confectioner’s assistant in the 1880s. The company was a pioneer in fair treatment of his workforce incorporated profit-sharing for the staff from the beginning and covered sick pay retirement benefits and even established holiday homes in British seaside resort towns. By 1940 the company was one of the largest businesses in Hull with over 2000 employees. The company continued to operate until acquired through multiple buyouts by several different corporations until the label was acquired by Ashbury Confectionary and the factory was closed in Hull in 2002. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Chocs away: Needler of Hull History of Needlers Confectionary Let’s Look Again: A History of Branded Britain 2015. Needler Ltd., hardcover
1964170747N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing Frank A. Coe as Frankenstein's monster holding a nude woman. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. <br /> <br /> An alien lands on Earth in order to kidnap the perfect human woman to use to create a race of servants for his home world. He finds the answer in the laboratory of mad scientist Dr. Breedlove. Originally titled "Dr. Breedlove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love" then retitled "Kiss Me Quick" in order to exploit Billy Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid."<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
193147311Carmel Valley CA: Carmel Valley Ranch School 1931. Near Fine. Carmel Valley CA: Carmel Valley Ranch School 1931. Original theater program single leaf of brown handmade paper folded twice pictorial upper panel. Just About Fine. <br /> <br /> Program to a school production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" directed by Mary Lindsay-Oliver and starring Richard Burns of Ridgewood New Jersey in the titular role. A second performance was repeated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Wheeler of Pebble Beach on April 16 1931.<br /> <br /> The Carmel Valley Ranch School was a relatively short-lived experiment an east coast prep school on California ranch land founded by two New England school teachers in the 1920s. Carmel Valley Ranch School unknown
38079Melbourne Mal Gilmour 1982. Two volumes. Oblong 4to unpagninated XXV plates each volume. Original cloth in maroon and off-white framed dustwrapper respectively dustwrapper of first volume slightly rubbed. A curated selection of 25 plates presenting full colour full-page reprodcutions of Mal Gilnour's landscape paintings. Number 651 of 1000 copies Vol. I; 235 of 1000 copies Vol. II signed by Mal Gilmour. Front endpapers hold a loose slightly silverfished letter from Balmoral Galleries pertaining to the sale of one of Gilmour's paintings. Front endpapers of second volume hold a loose handwritten note from the Mal Gilmour Studio Gallery to book's original reciptient. A beautiful pair of editions in near-fine condition. Two Volumes. First edition. Signed and limited addition. Melbourne, Mal Gilmour, 1982. hardcover
1934000049New York: Hendrickson Publishing Company 1934. First Edition . Original Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. New York: Hendrickson Publishing Company 1934. First Edition. January 1934 issue of World Convention dates. Large quarto illustrated staple-bound wraps 56 pp. Very Good. Moderate soiling and rubbing to covers mild centerline fold some curvature to covers and a crease at top right corner of front cover. See scans. Firmly bound contents are crisp and clean. Very Good. Hard-to-find publication containing a wealth of art-deco-y hotel ads mostly in larger cities with b&w illustrations followed by a few articles and series of convention calendar / hotel directories throughout the US and abroad. Nice historical research source. Despite having been published monthly World Convention Dates is a hard to find periodical. See scans. Lph2 <br/> <br/> Hendrickson Publishing Company paperback
1985135071Washington DC: The Film Company / Public Broadcasting Service PBS 1985. Original Press Kit for the 1985 documentary. With a transcript of the program and a 32-page companion guide featuring facts about Herman Melville's life and work articles on Melville and a selected bibliography. <br /> <br /> This documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated by John Huston the film includes readings and commentary by F. Murray Abraham Robert Penn Warren Alfred Kazan and other notable writers and critics. <br /> <br /> Arthur Unger with The Christian Science Monitor reviewed the film in 1985: <br /> <br /> "Directed written produced and photographed mostly by Robert Squier a unique and dedicated artist himself. Mr. Squier has accomplished an inspired film about a writer and his writing which manages to combine the song of poetry and the zing of adventure with the shock of psychological recognition. not merely a labor of love; it is a probing and incisive study of how a man and his work interact with the environment physical and emotional. Utilizing real locations top literary scholars and a delicate sense of time and place with a minimal amount of reenactment Mr. Squier's film records the paradoxes in Melville's life his sense of hopelessness his disgust with brutality his agonizing search for religion his intellectual resolve his determination to survive personal disasters."not afraid of deep questions.''<br /> <br /> Companion guide 32 pages transcript 36 pages and promotional letter from the publishers advertising a videocassette of the film rental $75 purchase $350 house in a dark green folder with silver titles and blind-stamped design. Near Fine overall. The Film Company / Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] unknown
19140000874Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office GPO 1914. 217 pages. Maps and diagrams printed with the text. Contemporary half red morocco over beveled boards with gilt spine lettering raised bands and marbled endpapers. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Ex-library with modest signs: faint impression of tiny removed call number at the base of the spine small discard stamp on the front endpaper and stamp of Franklin Public Library at base of the title and one other page. Else good plus. Moderate wear to the extremities front joint started at ends still quite sound. Several small stains on the rear cover. A little marginal damping to endpapers barely evident on the inner margin of the title page. FIRST EDITION. A report on the second of two special censuses of mental institutions in the United States the first having been conducted in 1904. Previously the Census Bureau had tracked rates of insanity among the general population only as part of the regular decennial censuses. The 1910 special census surveyed 366 institutions collectively holding 248560 inmates. Joseph A. Hill's report analyzes a multitude of demographics including sex age race literacy marital status state region urban vs. rural etc. Another factor considered was nativity. The inclusion of this question on the survey reflected in part contemporary nativist fears that immigrants were increasing the percentage of mentally ill in the United States although Hill's report refutes this supposition. Mary F. Griffin and Louis C. Taylor contribute a "Summary of Laws Relative to the Care of the Insane" pp. 64-105. The census of 1910 reflected a growing sophistication in analyzing statistical data. The claim that insanity was increasing rapidly Hill noted was dubious. A variety of determinants shaped the statistics of insanity he insisted including the growing practices of institutionalizing the insane; the increasing average length of life; new diagnostic methods in psychiatry leading to the detection of mental factors in physical cases; the establishment of dispensaries; provision for voluntary and emergency commitment; and better modes of transportation i.e. automobiles that made it possible to bring individuals in poor physical condition to mental hospitals. By correcting for the age distribution of the entire native and foreign-born population Hill also demonstrated that the allegation that immigrants had far higher rates of mental illness was in error. --Gerald N. Grob The Origins of American Psychiatric Epidemiology p. 232 in A.J.P.H. 1985. The general statistical tables for this volume were published separately the previous year without any of the explanatory text illustrations or additional tables present here. Government Printing Office (GPO) hardcover
1980141121Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1980. Collection of five lobby cards for the 1980 film. <br /> <br /> Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady Carolyn and Jack Kerouac with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the earliest feature films about central Beat figures. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in San Francisco. Orion Pictures unknown
1965167078N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing Sean Connery in a helmet. French "Associated Artists" stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1961 novel by Ian Fleming. The fourth film in the James Bond franchise preceded by "Goldfinger" 1964 and followed by "You Only Live Twice" 1967. In this entry Bond must recover two stolen warheads held by the evil SPECTRE organization.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in the Bahamas Switzerland Portugal France England and the US.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good lightly age toned with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
1991167974N.p.: N.p. 1991. Draft script for the 1993 American-German-Dutch film. Single numeric annotation in manuscript pencil on the title page. Text in English.<br /> <br /> A struggling jazz musician provides music lessons to make ends meet although his students are ambivalent at best while maintaining a romance with a bartender at a local Irish bar. One of two feature films directed by Sara Driver known for producing the first two films of her longtime partner director Jim Jarmusch. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Hamburg.<br /> <br /> Mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1991 with credits for screenwriter Ray Dobbins and story writer Sara Driver. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1996165023Japan: Shochiku Home Video SHV 1996. Laserdisc collection consisting of Kenji Mizoguchi's filmography with Daiei Studios 1935-1944. Complete with 9 films on 10 discs. Includes a 44-page oversize booklet.<br /> <br /> Films with Japanese audio no subtitles. Booklet text and titles in Japanese. Catalog No. PILD-7030.<br /> <br /> Discs and sleeves Fine. Housed in publisher's decorative clamshell box .Near Fine.<br /> <br /> LaserDisc Database link: https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/41815/LSK-0003/Kenji-Mizoguchi:-Collection-vol.1---1935-44<br /> <br /> Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Shochiku Home Video [SHV] unknown
1991166046Twentieth Century-Fox 1991. Laserdisc. As New in original packaging still in shrinkwrap. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1994159660Santa Monica: NuWilshire Theater 1994. Vintage flyer advertising two screenings of the US release of the 1992 British film Thursday July 7 and Monday July 11 1994 at the NuWilshire Theater in Santa Monica California.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1985 novel "Geraldine For the Love of a Transvestite" by Monica Jay. Gerald an American banker who is secretly a cross-dresser is thrown out of his house when is wife discovers women's undergarments in their bedroom. Gerald takes up lodgings with Monica a 50-year old recently divorced housewife smitten with Gerald who slowly discovers Gerald's secret his alter-ego Geraldine and learns to accept and appreciate and support Gerald.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in London.<br /> <br /> 8.5 x 11 inches on lilac paper. Some light edgewear else Near Fine. NuWilshire Theater unknown
