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1975147480N.p.: Grafopress-Ciampino 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film here under the title "Le Viziose." <br/><br/>"Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles including "Le Viziose" and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires" as well as an X-rated version "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." <br/><br/>Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym of James P. Johnson or L.P. Johnson as on the poster is the screenwriter under the pseudonym David Khune and acts under the pseudonym Jess Frank.<br/><br/>Franco's "Exorcisme" features Franco in the lead as Mathis Vogel a psychotic defrocked priest who writes S&M stories by day and tortures and murders Satanic black mass dinner theater patrons by night. Also starring Franco's longtime collaborator and later wife Lina Romay as the free spirit Anne.<br/><br/>13 x 27.5 inches folded as issued. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Thrower Stephen. Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two 1975-2013. Grafopress-Ciampino unknown books
1966149344Rome: B.R.C. Produzione 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actor Franco Nero crouching in the pose that would later be used for the Italian poster for the film. With holograph annotations regarding layout and stamps to the verso. <br/><br/>One of the few Westerns made by Fulci starring Nero and released the same year as "Django." Also released as "God Forgives I Don't!"<br/><br/>Set on the US-Mexico border shot on location in Lazio Italy and Madrid Spain.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned.<br/><br/>Pitts 1113. Cox 10000 Ways to Die. Blue Underground. B.R.C. Produzione unknown books
1970148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1724000632Firenze Florence 1724. Three Quarters Vellum. Fine. 8 49 240 230 18 pp. Collection of 258 stories from Medieval Italy. Stories vary from being mere anecdotes jokes arguments and rebuttals playlets to short stories along the lines of Boccaccio who was roughly his contemporary about 15 years older. De Sanctis the seminal critic of Italian literature considered Sacchetti "the true echo of his time" which was not necessarily meant as flattery. The contemporary vellum and red title label on the spine have minor soilage. The binding is tight and the leaves generally clean with minimal soilage. Overall near fine or fine. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1975141891Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Here under the working title "Scandal." <br/><br/>Eliane is a pharmicist with a dull husband and teenage daughter. A fellow pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her one night after mistaking her for someone else and she allows it to happen ultimately becoming his complete sex slave. <br/><br/>Set in France shot on location in Italy. <br/><br/>Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with gold brads. Ciesi unknown books
1984137587Hollywood: The Ladd Company 1984. Original press kit for the 1984 Italian-American film. Included in the press kit are 24 black-and-white still photographs including one photograph of director Sergio Leone biographies of select cast and crew final credits production information and insight into Leone's process. <br/><br/>Based on Harry Grey's 1952 novel "The Hoods." David Aaronson De Niro is a former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster who after thirty years of absence returns to Manhattan where he confronts the foibles of his past and the painful truth of his life to date. <br/><br/>Actress Jennifer Connelly's film debut and director Leone's final film a film that like his similarly titled 1968 classic "One Upon a Time in the West" remains one of his few American productions. <br/><br/>Film stills various sizes. Biographies credits and production information printed on 8 x 10 leaves corner-stapled rectos only. Stills and printed leaves Near Fine house in a Very Good plus full-color 9 x 12 studio single-pocket folder. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available upon request. The Ladd Company unknown books
19481602101948. unbound. 1 page 10.75 x 7.75 inches no place February 21 1948. Signed "Franco" by the Spanish Dictator -- a note of affection to the Ambassador of Argentina written on verso of an illustrated book page depicting a medieval soldier on horseback riding over the remains of slaughtered civilians in full: "Al Ambajidor de la Republica Argentina en Espana Pedro Radio con toto afecto." Folds; unevenly trimmed. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
189540267Paris: Germer Bailliere 1895. 6 clxiv 4 382pp. Text illustrations. Original wrappers repaired. Moderate toning one signature starting but very good. Reprint of the 1561 edition with a biography and historical introduction by E. Nicaise. Inscribed by the editor Nicaise on the half-title: "A M. le Dr. Pisteau Hommage sympathique Nicaise." </p> <p>First Nicaise edition and best edition. Franco an extraordinarily skilled lithotomist introduced in 1556 the operation of suprapubic cystotomy in operations for the stone; see Garrison-Morton 4279. Germer Bailliere unknown books
1872380601872. 104 numbered leaves; written in in on folded sheets with text on right-hand side notes and corrections on left. With numerous corrections and deletions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 inches0. Fine. 104 numbered leaves; written in in on folded sheets with text on right-hand side notes and corrections on left. With numerous corrections and deletions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 inches0. A very early and well-written analysis by an amateur historian shortly afer the cessation of hostilities.<br/><br/>The author begins: "It is but a few months since Europe saw the end of a struggle of which history affords so example. There have been fiercer battles fought larger territories involved in the conflict but never was there witnessed a more futile pretext for war blind imprudence in the aggressor or more consummate generalship & complete success on the opposite side ."<br/><br/><br/>Possibly by an American given references to Abraham Lincoln the American Revolution "the freest nation in the world" etc. A good candidatate might possibly be Henry Percy Litchfield see OCLC 10644238 of Long Island whose papers are in George Washington U with the Litchfield family papers and whose privately printed book THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870 Gracehill Brooklyn L.I. 1872 was among the earliest studies of the war. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000151No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 55 x 78"" 140 x 200 cm. quattro foglio poster Italy. Brigitte Bardot Henri Vidal Dawn Addams Dario Moreno dir: Michel Boisrond; Vides Cinematografica/Franco Films. The film about a young widow who becomes a dance instructor at the dance school where her husband is circumstantially involved in a murder is more a thriller than a film about a sexy girl. But of course Bardot teaches dance in a somewhat provocative way and thus the Italian ""take"" on the action. On linen NEAR FINE. unknown books
2018147263London: Strange Attractor Press 2018. First Limited Edition one of 500 non-numbered copies as issued. With a sealed white card envelope containing a set of full-color postcards and an illustrated bookplate signed by author Stephen Thrower with the currently unknown limitation number stamped in red at the bottom of the plate. <br/><br/>Included with the limited edition as called for is separate book entitled "The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco" a lush visual guide through a briefcase full of intriguing material left behind by the director. <br/><br/>The final word on the wild career of exploitation filmmaker Jess Franco who devoted nearly every single day of his life to making the films he wanted to make breaking cinematic rules and international laws along the way. An exhaustively detail and lavishly illustrated compendium.<br/><br/>Both books brand new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Postcard set still in sealed white card envelope also brand new.<br/><br/>Note that the ISBN / UPC code for this edition is the same as that of the trade edition. Strange Attractor Press unknown books
1967138750Rome: Arco Films 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 Italian film. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is seen behind the camera shooting Silvia Mangana and Franco Citti. Short typescript description in Italian and Roma Press rubber stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>A sparse intensely personal modern adaptation of the Oedipus Rex tale in which a man and woman have a child and the man becomes jealous of his wife's attentions to his son. The film's setting then changes back to antiquity where the legend largely follows its original course suggesting we may not be as emotionally removed from ancient times as we may believe. Set in modern and ancient Italy shot on location in Italy. <br/><br/>8 x 12 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Masters of Cinema 39. Rosenbaum 1000. Arco Films unknown books
1970144970Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970144408Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on location in the Mojave Desert shooting the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
159039319Vinegia: Presso Altobello Salicato 1590. 8vo 14.8 cm 5.8". 8 148 ff. <br><br>First Catholic-approved edition of Franco's Dialogi piacevoli. During the Counter Reformation most of the "ingrato e faticoso lavoro" as described by the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani of censoring texts that the Church found objectionable was carried out anonymously; Dominican priest and prolific editor Giovannini was one of the few whose name was associated with his work. His expurgated productions achieved notable success this title alone was republished in six other editions by 1609.<br>Â Â Â Â Author Franco 151570 led quite the interesting life first as Pietro Aretino's secretary and then as his nemesis before being hanged by the Inquisition though the present radically altered version of his work might suggest otherwise. Ugo Rozza reports that Giovannini chose to omit Franco's eulogy for Erasmus and further that the "rewriting was a travesty of Franco's thought: the explicit anti-Roman polemic in the original was => perverted into an apologia for doctrine and for the most orthodox sentiments" "Italian Literature on the Index" Church Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Indeed in a twist showing how radically confusing to readers and "the record" censorship could be Giovannini's revisions here were so extensive that he later decided to publish the work under his own name rather than Franco's!<br>Â Â Â Â Of the two Salicato printings of 1590 this offering is distinguished by a dedication from Giovannini to Annibale Ruccelai instead of the later dedication to Bernardo Brandimarte and Bartolomeo Lovaria. The text in Italian is neatly printed in single columns using mostly italic and some roman type with several decorative and historiated initials as well as head- and tailpieces; Salicato's printer's device appears on the title-page.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adams F954; Brunet II 1377; EDIT16 CNCE 79848; Graesse II p. 628. On Franco & Giovannini see: Treccani online. Rebacked 18th-century speckled calf spine with gilt-lettered red leather label raised bands ruled in gilt covers framed in gilt double fillets; extremities rubbed original leather showing fine cracks free endpapers chipped with a few pencilled notations. All edges speckled red. Light age-toning and mostly faint marginal waterstaining a few other stains; four leaves with uneven edges or marginal paper flaws from manufacture. Booklabel as above evidence of partially removed bookseller label; title-page with small ink dashes five leaves with mostly illegible ink notes occasionally offsetting in an early hand. => Intriguing particularly in comparison with Franco's original. Presso Altobello Salicato hardcover books
196414291New York: Gallery 63 1964. First Edition. Folio 50cm. Number 207 of an unspecified number of copies. Printed paper portfolio containing 21 loose sheets including one page of letterpress and 20 halftones after original works by the author. Inscribed on front cover: "A Ben Shan sic / mio maestro e mi illegible" signed by the artist and dated in 1964. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with estate label tipped on inside front cover. Attractive privately-issued portfolio of Minei's drawings from the 1960s mostly large-scale portraits and life studies rendered in ink wash. Minei b. 1922 is an important Italian realist one of the founders of the New Roman school and a student of Giorgio di Chirico. This item very scarce; none others noted in commerce and OCLC returns no locations. Gallery 63 unknown books
1966137413Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Revised Estimating script for the 1967 film. Winner of three Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Based on the 1960 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe winner of four Tony awards and itself based on "The Once and Future King" T.H. White's 1958 adaptation of Arthurian legends. <br/><br/>Set in England shot on location in Spain. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 14 dated June 1 1966. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/1/66 with credits for screenwriter-lyricist Lerner composer Frederick Loewe and novelist White. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph on white yellow pink and blue stock dated variously between 6/1/66 and 6/7/66. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
196015053Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1960. First edition. Octavo original cloth. From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow with his signature to the front free endpaper. Additionally signed by another Nobel Prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Along with Merton Miller Franco Modigliani formulated the important Modigliani-Miller theorem in corporate finance 1958. This theorem demonstrated that under certain assumptions the value of a firm is not affected by whether it is financed by equity selling shares or debt borrowing money. He was also the originator of the life-cycle hypothesis which attempts to explain the level of saving in the economy. Modigliani proposed that consumers would aim for a stable level of consumption throughout their lifetime for example by saving during their working years and spending during their retirement. Prentice-Hall hardcover books
1596175753Venetia 1596. Vellum. Good siginificant soiling and finger smudging here and there also instances of practice penmanship and scriving on margins and backs of plates soiling to vellum covers. Full limp vellum Title-page followed by 2 sheets numbered 3 and 4 then by plates which begin with 5. Appears to be lacking plates 91011141526333536373940 but no signs of removal. Last plates is numbered 45. text is in Italian. Extremely scarce no copies found in auction records or for sale. Worldcat locates 3 copies and calls for 41 plates. Engraved t.p. within historiated border followed by plate representing emblematic view of Venice./ Writing specimens include those of Curione Sopranini Testa Cortese and Cresci. hardcover books
1959a3083basMadrid Spain: Unknown publisher 1959. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. No edition. Spanish newspaper photograph from December 23 1959. Signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969 U.S. President 1953-61 in January of 1960. It is also signed by Generalisimo Franco Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco Bahamonde 1892-1975 and Vernon Walters who was Eisenhower's interpreter. All three men are pictured in the photograph. Includes several pieces of related correspondence including copies of letters and newspaper clippings. Americana. Unknown publisher Paperback books
1782252594Paris 1782. First edition first issue. Engraved frontispiece. 158 pp. 8vo. Original pink paper wrappers lightly worn and soiled. A few light scattered stains but generally quite clean and fresh inside. Very good and in original condition. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase. First edition first issue. Engraved frontispiece. 158 pp. 8vo. Authorship of this work is uncertain but Howes theorizes that one Captain Walsh is the author. Whoever wrote it served as an officer in the Comte d'Estaing's squadron and is highly critical of his conduct. This work describes the operations of the French fleet in 1778-79 beginning with the departure from Toulon and covering the blockade of the British at New York; the planned but aborted naval battle off Newport; the encounter with the British fleet under Admiral John Byron; and finally the attack on Savannah Georgia. This is one of the best sources for the Savannah attack. An important Revolutionary naval item here present in the first edition first issue of the text. Clark I:234; Howes E198; Sabin 23033. De Renne I:224 unknown books
1787252583London i.e. Paris 1787. xxiv xlviii 344 pp. Later roan spine gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Negligible foxing. Very good plus. xxiv xlviii 344 pp. Advocates of French-American Commerce. A highly important work of political economy published in Paris under a false imprint and designed to stimulate investment in the United States by the French. Brissot was one of the most pro-American French thinkers of the period; he later wrote a well-known work on his American travels and later died in the Terror. This work seeks to enlighten the French and American public about the possibilities for mutually beneficial investments. Dedicated to the American Congress and the "friends of America in both worlds" it reviews a number of economic issues such as balance of trade the superior benefits of French manufactures for American markets why French wines and oils were better than any that could be produced in the U.S. and a broad range of specific products. Various American products ranging from rice to furs are then discussed. In the end the authors include a prospectus for their proposed "Societe Gallo-Americaine." Claviere and Brissot worked together on a number of political tracts and both believed that the example of America's fledgling democracy held the key to France's future9. Howes C464; Kress B1169; Goldsmiths 13307; ESTC T109594; Sabin 13516 unknown books
1984135254Various cities: Various studios 1984. Collection of 311 vintage still photographs from 95 sexploitation films released between 1941 and 1981 comprised predominantly of black and white studio photographs but with some color or reference photos. <br/><br/>Sexploitation films in the mid-century featured female stars in sexually charged roles as stewardesses nurses prostitutes virgins teens inmates rollergirls bikers beachgoers cheaters curious aliens Scandanavians submissives beatniks junkies and just about any other marketable context. The genre hit its peak in the 1960s but was by no means limited to that decade. Differing attitudes towards sex in the United States Europe Central America and Asia resulted in a wide variety of content perspective and subtext. The collection offered here features a diverse international range of films made in Sweden France West Germany Japan Italy the United Kingdom the United States Mexico and elsewhere. <br/><br/>The collection runs the gamut of the genre from its relatively innocent beginnings to a high point of creative content by the 1970s. As an example "They Wear No Clothes" 1941 simply explores life in a nudist colony whereas by the 1970s titles such as "Girls at the Gynecologist" "Naughty Stewardesses" "Truck Stop Women" and "Erotica" are more imaginative explicit and subversive. Also in the collection are examples of sexploitation films made between 1968-1979 that due to a somewhat gentler approach reached broader international audiences including "The Story of O" titles in both English or French "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" Walerian Borowczyk's controversial "Immoral Tales" and "Goodbye Emmanuelle."<br/><br/>Stills largely approximately 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to about Fine condition. Various studios unknown books
1969137566Beverly Hills CA: Emidela / United Artists 1969. Collection of vintage black-and-white negatives contact sheets and mounted slides and transparencies from the 1969 Italian-French film "Burn!" here under the original Spanish title "Quemada." From the collection of Sam Gilman with his name on several of the film processing envelopes in holograph ink. Gilman did not work in this film but worked with Brando on earlier films like "One-Eyed Jacks" 1961 and "The Young Lions " 1958 as well as later on "The Missouri Breaks" 1976. <br/><br/>Over 130 images representing on-the-set production featuring Marlon Brando on a lunch break director Pontecorvo riding a mule and members of the cast and crew as well as images of locals likely used as extras. Formats include 35mm color slides 35mm negative filmstrips medium-format negatives and mounted color transparencies and three 8 x 10 contact sheets. <br/><br/>Based loosely on the life of Sir William Walker 1824-1860. Walker Brando is a professional mercenary who ignites a slave revolt on an island in the Caribbean where the British sugar trade is in turmoil. After a successful mission Walker returns to Britain where he remains for ten years. The same slave revolt he helped initiate is now at war with the replacement regime and he is sent back to quell the revolt. Seen as a traitor to the natives Walker is subsequently assassinated riddled with guilt upon his death. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Colombia Morocco Italy and France. <br/><br/>All items Near Fine overall with slides transparencies and negatives still in the original film processing envelopes and boxes from the Emidela processing company in Barranquilla Colombia. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Emidela / United Artists unknown books
176739389Paris: Briasson 1767. 8vo 3 vols. 7 11/16 x 4 5/8 inches. 36 571; 6 656; 6 290 286 1 pp. 30 engraved plates some folding. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards spines in six compartments with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt with armorial crests in two compartments red edges.<br/> <br/>First and only edition of this comprehensive catalog of the Parisian curiosity collection of Pedro Dávila.<br/> <br/>Pedro Franco Dávila was born in Guayaquil in present-day Peru and studied natural sciences in Lima before moving to Paris in 1740. He took an interest in collecting around that time and over the course of 20 years he amassed the largest collection of natural history specimens in all of Paris. He sought to preserve it by establishing an institution in Spain but after King Carlos III rejected his request Dávila was forced to put the collection up for auction to settle the debts he incurred in building it. The Dávila catalogue as it became known was prepared as a sale catalogue when he sold the collection off in Paris prior to returning to his native Peru. Considering the size of the collection the sale became one of the major auction events of that time period and the catalogue was distributed widely in Paris London Amsterdam Rotterdam and Basel. The catalogue describes 8096 mineral specimens from a broad range of places including Canada Mexico and Paraguay. It further describes over 12000 prints and engravings 1741 original artworks 441 maps plus various scientific instruments and precious stones. It also lists 5253 shells 600 preserved animals 101 plants 3915 fossils 154 bezoars and calculi and 402 books. "Dávila had already written many descriptions but it was his introduction through Balthasar Sage to the young Romé de l'Isle that created this remarkable record of the collection. Romé de l'Isle took the existing material added considerably to the mineralogical descriptions and put the catalog into publishable form. In this task he was assisted by Abbé Duguat who helped with the mineralogical descriptions and Abbé Gua de Malves 1712-1786 who described the shells. Through their efforts two volumes describing natural history specimens were produced one of which was entirely devoted to minerals. In addition a third volume written by Romé de l'Isle probably with assistance from Pierre Remy describes the fossils artwork and books. "The published catalog provides a detailed insight into his collection his special tastes and preferences. The major value of the collection lay in its superb mineral specimens many of which were finely crystallized examples. Romé de l'Isle fully described the many fine mineralogical specimens which included examples of native silver from Norway cassiterite from the Dutch East Indies crocoite from Siberia pyrite from Columbia and calcite from Saxony etc." The Mineralogical Record. Dávila was able to make more than enough to pay off his creditors and subsequently began to amass a second collection. Within three years in October 1771 King Carlos III agreed to accept this second collection and Dávila became the founder and first director of the Royal Cabinet of Natural History of Madrid now known as the National Museum of Natural Sciences where his specimens are still located today.<br/> <br/>Nissen ZBI 1050; Wilson 209; Conlon 67:1238; Sinkankas 1594. Briasson unknown books
