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1829183936London: printed by S. G. Fairbrother 1829. A playbill from the Theatre Royal English Opera House advertising a performance on 14 July 1829 of Richard Brinsley Peake's famous stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. The play debuted at the Theatre Royal on 28 July 1823. Shelley attended a performance on 29 August 1823 and wrote to Leigh Hunt shortly afterwards: "But lo & behold! I found myself famous! - Frankenstein has prodigious success as a drama. The play bill amused me extremely for in the list of dramatis personae came --- by Mr T. Cooke: this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good". The current playbill maintains this naming convention for the Creature this time acted by Richard John O. Smith who also played the part in Henry M. Milner's The Man and the Monster! Or the Fate of Frankenstein 1826. Shelley received neither credit nor remuneration for Peake's production having published the novel anonymously in 1818. Its great theatrical success moved her father Wlliam Godwin to bring out the 1823 second edition of Frankenstein now crediting the author on the title page. Broadside 345 x 203 mm. Mounted framed and glazed frame size: 426 x 285 mm. A couple of small holes slight chips to edges with loss to lower right corner just affecting text. In well-preserved condition. unknown
1979150583Los Angeles: Dick Clark Productions 1979. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television film which aired on ABC on February 11 1979. Annotation of copy number "147" in holograph marker on top right of title page.<br/><br/>One of three television films made by noted film director John Carpenter. Carpenter began working on "Elvis" after wrapping up his 1978 quintessential horror slasher "Halloween" offering him a chance to try his hand at a dramatic biopic. It was the first time Carpenter had worked with Kurt Russell who would become a frequent collaborator starring in Carpenter's "Escape from New York" 1981 "The Thing" 1982 "Big Trouble in Little China" 1986 and "Escape from L.A." 1996.<br/><br/>The television biopic follows the trajectory of Elvis Presley's career from his impoverished childhood to his sudden and unprecedented rise as a Rock and Roll icon to his years as a Las Vegas sensation. Featuring an outstanding performance by Russell as The King.<br/><br/>Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Television Motion Picture and nominated for three Emmy Awards including Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Russell.<br/><br/>Dark blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/16/78 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Anthony Lawrence. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Dick Clark Productions unknown books
18187950<p>This is a volume of the publication "The Quarterly Review" that contains a rare early possibly the first book review of the classic horror tale "FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley. 1818; John Murray; London. Volume XVIII comprised of the October 1817 and January 1818 issues. This review was published in January 1818 - the same month as the January 1818 first publication of Frankenstein. The book title is also listed within the table of contents at the front of the January issue and in the Index at the back of the volume. The rather scathing review spans seven pages and was written by John Wilson Croker - he writes "Our readers will guess from this summary what a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity this work presents" and ponders "whether the head or the heart of the author be the most diseased." The "New Publications" section within the October issue contains a notice for new JANE AUSTEN works: "Northanger Abbey a Romance; and Persuasion a Novel. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park &c. with a Biographical Notice of the Author." Note: This volume contains two separate issues - October 1817 No. XXXV and January 1818 No. XXXVI.however the title page at the beginning of the volume curiously states "May" 1818 and not "January" 1818.<br /><br />Condition:<br />There are splits at the corners of the spine though both covers are firmly attached. The corners of the back cover are worn. Tight binding with no loose pages. Nice interior - the pages are mostly clean with only some mild foxing to the first 10 or so and the last 10 or so pages; pages 65-71 have a small light stain at the top edge. Old bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Overall the book is in Good condition.</p> John Murray hardcover
18186965This is a volume of the publication "The Quarterly Review" that contains a rare early possibly the first book review of the classic horror tale "FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley. 1818; John Murray; London. Volume XVIII comprised of the October 1817 and January 1818 issues. This review was published in January 1818 - the same month as the January 1818 first publication of Frankenstein. The book title is also listed within the table of contents at the front of the January issue and in the Index at the back of the volume. The rather scathing review spans seven pages and was written by John Wilson Croker - he writes "Our readers will guess from this summary what a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity this work presents" and ponders "whether the head or the heart of the author be the most diseased." Note: This volume contains two separate issues - October 1817 No. XXXV and January 1818 No. XXXVI.however the title page at the beginning of the volume states "May" 1818 and not "January" 1818.Condition:Some fading to the marbled paper over the boards; worn/rounded corners. The gilt on the spine has partially faded. There are splits along the left and right edges of the spine where it meets the covers resulting in the front cover being shaky though the back cover is firmly in place. Nice interior - the pages are mostly clean with occasional light foxing though heavier on the first few and last few pages. Light musty odor. Some shelf wear along the edges of the boards. Page 1 has a name written in old handwriting in the outer margin. Overall the book is in Good- condition. John Murray hardcover
18955051Chicago: Way and Williams 1895. First edition. First edition. 5 x 7" Publisher's dark reddish brown buckram with gilt lettering to spin. Limited to 75 copies printed on French hand-made paper of which this is #48. Title page two initial letters and tailpiece by Bruce Rogers all of which have been colored by hand. "Way & Williams' most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley's translation of Plato's Banquet designed by Bruce Rogers in an obvious imitation of the Kelmscott Press style. The intent of the firm to establish themselves as publishers of fine books in limited editions was clear" Kraus who never examines a copy of this limited edition. Some soiling to edges of title page extending to verso of facing free fly. Corners slightly bumped light rubbing to edges general wear to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. Kraus 9. Warde 5. Way and Williams unknown books
18955051Chicago: Way and Williams 1895. First edition. First edition. 5 x 7†Publisher’s dark reddish brown buckram with gilt lettering to spin. Limited to 75 copies printed on French hand-made paper of which this is #48. Title-page two initial letters and tailpiece by Bruce Rogers all of which have been colored by hand. “Way & Williams’ most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley’s translation of Plato’s Banquet designed by Bruce Rogers in an obvious imitation of the Kelmscott Press style. The intent of the firm to establish themselves as publisher’s of fine books in limited editions was clear†Kraus who never examines a copy of this limited edition. Some soiling to edges of title-page extending to verso of facing free fly. Corners slightly bumped light rubbing to edges general wear to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. Kraus 9. Warde 5. Way and Williams unknown
18306924Monsieur Nongtongpaw is an 1808 poem thought to have been written by Shelley as an 11 year old. The poem is an expansion of Charles Dibdin's song of the same name and was published as part of William Godwin's <i>Juvenile Library</i>. Handsomely bound in polished red calf over marbled boards; gilt particulars to spine; top edge gilt. Original yellow paper wraps nicely bound in. Six Cruikshank illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Alfred Miller hardcover
1970155474N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of twelve vintage oversize double weight photographs eleven vintage contact sheets and six vintage photographs taken by noted fashion photographer Ara Gallant. Photographer's stamp on the versos. <br /> <br /> Gallant began his career in high fashion as a hairstylist for Vogue in the early 1960s becoming the first stylist to be paid solely to style hair by a magazine. He was best known for perfecting the "flying hair" technique most memorably captured on a portrait of Twiggy in 1968. During his tenure at Vogue he worked with a number of prominent photographers including Richard Avedon and Irving Penn and his work was featured on 26 Vogue covers in total. <br /> <br /> Gallant would begin working as a photographer in the 1970s succeeding Sari Marks as staff photographer for the fashion magazine Ambiance. Gallant became well known around New York for his personal style as much as his photographs sporting all black from head to toe wearing high heeled cowboy boots and a Japanese schoolboy hat lining his eyes with black kohl and frequenting Andy Warhol's Studio 54. By the 1980s drug use and financial troubles would force Gallant to sell his apartment in the West End relocating to Los Angeles where he would pursue an ultimately unsuccessful career in the film industry. <br /> <br /> The photographs in the collection taken throughout the 1970s feature a who's who of contemporary celebrities and are shot in Gallant's typically fantastical and glamorous style with an androgynous bent and of course distinctive hair. Gallant would enjoy a period of renewed interest after a collection of his styling and photographic work was published by Damiani in 2010 edited by David Wills.<br /> <br /> Photographs ranging from 6.25 x 7.75 inches to 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1960148524London: Hammer Film Productions 1960. Draft script for the 1961 Hammer film with name of editor John Pomeroy written in holograph ink and struck over with holograph pencil with copy No. 51 noted in holograph pencil all at the top margin of the front wrapper. Three pages of the script have annotations in holograph ink highlighting a section of dialogue and action.<br/><br/>House cat Tabitha witnesses the brutal murder of her mistress and becomes a ferocious killer seeking revenge.<br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads.<br/><br/>Johnson and Del Vecchio Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography pp. 203-205. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
188911897London: Richard Bentley & Son 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good . Large octavo 2 volumes 369pp. 325pp. illustrated. A crisp clean unopened set very good or better in the publisher's charming textured paper over mustard yellow cloth boards. Inner hinges tender with some partial cracks though the bindings are holding firm. Gentle corner wear mostly in one spot and light finger-soiling to the light cloth. Contents clean and very fresh with nearly all gatherings unopened; certainly unread. A surprisingly uncommon set which contains a great deal of correspondence involving the author of "Frankenstein" as well as a biography by Florence A. "Mrs. Julian" Marshall who was best known as a composer and conductor. As best we can tell this is the first full-length and separately published biography of Mary Shelley to have been published. Scarce in the trade and appearing infrequently at auction. OCLC holdings are hopelessly muddled but spot-checking suggests the vast majority of purported holdings are digital-only. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover
1959166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. <br /> <br /> Provenance available upon request.<br /> <br /> George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley.<br /> <br /> Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads.<br /> <br /> Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown
18291092978vo. London: Printed for John Brooks 1829. 8vo xxxii 270 pp. and errata leaf at end. Full brown morocco covers ruled in blind and with gilt corner stamps backstrip with gilt titles and floral stamps in compartments gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers. Backstrip and corners lightly worn scattered foxing. Shelley bookplate of Buxton Forman. § Brooks edition with a new title page using the text of the first edition second issue with the fly-title correctly bound as d1 and the preface ending on p. xxi "The original quires and cancel leaves of the work fell into the hands of John Brooks who issued them in 1829 with a new title." Granniss/Grolier Shelley 46. This copy has the distinction of being from the collection of Buxton Forman the famous editor of Shelley and Keats and the infamous creator of literary forgeries in partnership with Thomas Wise. The poem was first published with the title "Laon and Cythna; or The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century" in 1817. Mary Shelley wrote of it: “He chose for his hero a youth nourished in dreams of liberty some of whose actions are in direct opposition to the opinions of the world but who is animated throughout by an ardent love of virtue and a resolution to confer the boons of political and intellectual freedom on his fellow-creatures. He created for this youth a woman such as he delighted to imagine—full of enthusiasm for the same objects; and they both with will unvanquished and the deepest sense of the justice of their cause met adversity and death.†Printed for John Brooks unknown books
202575540Lakewood: Centipede Press 2025. First edition thus Hardcover New in dust jacket and slipcase. Bernie Wrightson. Lakewood: Centipede Press: 2025. First edition thus Hardcover New in dust jacket and slipcase Cover artwork by: Bernie Wrightson This edition limited to 750 numbered copies signed by George Beahm with facsimile signatures from Shelley and Wrightson. Absolutely incredible. Please note: This is a very heavy book and will require additional postage to ship. Centipede Press hardcover
182165778London:: Printed and Published by W. Clark 1821. First regularly published edition. publisher's boards with printed paper label on spine. Preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. This copy lacks free endpapers from and rear the dedication leaf and the ads. Armorial bookplate; extremities of spine chipped and edges of boards worn; cracked at the joints but cords still sound. . 8vo. Printed and Published by W. Clark, hardcover
1927027349London: The Julian Editions. Ten half-leather hardcover volumes--raised band spines with gilt lettering-- published for The Julian Editions in London by Ernest Benn Limited; in beautiful condition with mild wear at extremities and edges--slightly more pronounced at top corners. NOTE: Ten volumes; no priority or overseas Amazon orders. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1927. The Julian Editions hardcover
198017184JLondon: Warner Brothers 1980. Image is 8 by 10 inches and is framed. This photograph belonged to Shelley Duvall at her ranch in Blanco Texas. Accompanying is a certificate of authenticity from her estate auction. A striking image showing Duvall asleep in bed while her son Danny holds a large knife in his left hand while he writes the word REDRUM MURDER in red lipstick on the door of the room. Warner Brothers unknown
1835AQ26146Brussels: Ad. Wahlen Printer to the Court 1835. 396pp. With a half-title. Contemporary burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed cocked lower joint split chipping to head and foot of sunned spine. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of Glenbarr to FEP partially clipped contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of half-title. William St Clair's copy with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript notes to FEP: 'Contemporary pirate not recorded in Lyle. This must be an extremely rare volume: I have never heard tell of it. Resembles early English publisher's cloth but presumably the book has been rebound since the ownership inscription is clipped'. The first continental edition issued as a part of Brussels-based publisher A. Wahlen's Modern British Authors series of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1797-1851 fifth and penultimate novel; a romance that differs from her earlier work in its shift away from the supernatural or historical to a more contemporary setting to critique the limitations of the conventional Victorian class system. The novel's modern editor Lisa Vargo Lodore 1997 Introduction p.18-19 has noted the text's engagement with the education and social role of women suggesting that it dissects a patriarchal culture that pressured women into dependence on men. In the view of critic Betty T. Bennett Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction 1998: 'the novel proposes egalitarian educational paradigms for women and men which would bring social justice as well as the spiritual and intellectual means by which to meet the challenges life invariably brings'. The Literary Gazette No. 949 1835 heaped praise upon the novel dubbing Shelley 'one of the most original of our modern writers'. William St Clair 1937-2021 British scholar and senior civil servant notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys The Biography of a Family 1989 and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. . 8vo. Ad. Wahlen, Printer to the Court hardcover
1996303509New York: Oxford University Press 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Complete in 29 volumes. All volumes published in 1996 by Oxford University Press three second printings and 26 first printings with full number lines. Forewords and afterwords by a wide range of authors and critics including Toni Morrison George Plimpton Russell Banks Kurt Vonnegut E.L. Doctorow Malcolm Bradbury Nat Hentoff Walter Moseley Gore Vidal Cynthia Ozick Ursula K. LeGuin Arthur Miller and many more. Identical burgundy boards with burgundy cloth spines stamped black titling on spines; text is facsimile type from first edition. Bindings are tight sturdy and square; boards and text also very good throughout set. Very minor wear to edges of dust jackets; jackets arrive wrapped in protective mylar. VOLUMES INCLUDED IN THIS LISTING with foreword / afterword authors: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches Roy Blount Jr. / Richard Bucci; The Innocents Abroad 2nd printing Mordecai Richler / David E. E. Sloane; Roughing It George Plimpton / Henry B. Wonham; The Gilded Age Ward Just / Gregg Camfield; Sketches New and Old Lee Smith / Sherwood Cummings; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2nd printing E. L. Doctorow / Albert E. Stone; A Tramp Abroad Russell Banks / James S. Leonard; The Prince and the Pauper Judith Martin / Everett Emerson; Life on the Mississippi Willie Morris / Lawrence Howe; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2nd printing Toni Morrison / Victor A. Doyno; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Kurt Vonnegut / Louis J. Budd; Merry Tales Anne Bernays / Forrest G. Robinson; The American Claimant Bobbie Ann Mason / Peter Messent; The £1000000 Bank Note and Other New Stories Malcolm Bradbury / James D. Wilson; Tom Sawyer Abroad Nat Hentoff / M. Thomas Inge; The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins Sherley Anne Williams / David Lionel Smith; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Justin Kaplan / Susan K. Harris; The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories Walter Moseley / Lillian S. Robinson; How to Tell a Story and Other Essays David Bradley / Pascal Covici Jr.; Following the Equator and Anti-imperialist Essays Gore Vidal / Fred Kaplan; The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays Cynthia Ozick / Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky; The Diaries of Adam and Eve Ursula K. LeGuin / Laura E. Skandera-Trombley; What is Man Charles Johnson / Linda Wagner-Martin; The $30000 Bequest and other Stories Frederick Busch / Judith Yaross Lee; Christian Science Gary Wills / Hamlin Hill; Chapters from My Autobiography Arthur Miller / Michael J. Kiskis; 1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead Erica Jong / Leslie A. Fiedler; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Frederik Pohl / James A. Miller; and Speeches Hal Holbrook / David Barrow. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges will apply for international shipping. Not available for domestic priority/expedited shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Oxford University Press hardcover
2013x-0199764352Oxford Univ Pr 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1550 pages. 10.00x7.50x3.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
202211939London: Folio Society 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. 1st Printing. Signed by the Illustrator Angela Barrett. Brand new copy. <br/> <br/> Folio Society hardcover
71823Fine illustrated and antiquarian Ornithology . 1st. Ed. Pub. John Van Voorst. 1872. pp.iv viii ii 342 with 14 fine hand-coloured lithographs by J.G. Keulemans. 8vo. Large paper copy measures 26.5cm x 17cm. Believed to have been Sir John Slessors copy with a signature and a letter dated 05.04.68 from Ainsford Books in support of this. Also comes with a handwritten letter dated 6th Feb. 1896 from J.H. Gurney author of Rambles of a Naturalist in Egypt and other Countries in which he talks about a new edition of this work and that he had added a new species of Owl Ninox spilonotus to the collection of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. Minor spotting to fore-edges of text block to ends and a very minor amount internally o/w. contents fine. More recent handsome blue half-morocco leather binding a trifle sunned to spine o/w. fine. "The information in this excellent work is derived chiefly from a collection of nearly a thousand skins of birds". The author travelled extensively in the Nile area and was able to observe the birds first-hand. Some of the birds are illustrated here for the first time. Fine illustrated and antiquarian Ornithology hardcover
190150464London: The Vale Press 1901-2. Three volumes one of 310 sets 8vo. Woodcut borders and initial letters armorial bookplate to the paste down in volumes II and III with it having been removed from volume I. Original white buckram spines browned with some light marking otherwise a well preserved and internally excellent set. Watry B34. (London: The Vale Press unknown
192821216Montagnola: Officina Bodoni 1928. leather_bound. Orig. full vellum spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 38 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition one of 220 copies printed on vellum paper with the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Verses Addressed To The Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilio V____ This work was inspired by Shelley's meeting at the end of October 1820 when the author had moved back to Pisa the beautiful young Teresa Viviani 1801--1836 who was being kept in a convent awaiting the outcome of marriage arrangements in which she played little part. But it also reflects the difficulties he was facing in his second marriage to Mary Godwin and looks back to the desolation the poet faced after the suicide of his first wife Harriet Westbrook. Covers slightly splayed bookplate covers and interior fresh and clean. Officina Bodoni unknown books
19901393699Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1990. Collector's Editions. Hardcover. Octavos Three Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in genuine black leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spines; gilt text blocks; silk endpapers and ribbon bookmarks; sealed in publisher's shrink wrap. MA consignment. Shelved above Science Fiction. 1393699. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover
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