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1967141304Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1967 film. <br/><br/>Based on William Shakespeare's classic play and starring a feisty Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina. The film was marketed with a notably misogynistic tag-line: "A motion picture for every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved. and for every woman who deserved it. Which takes in a lot of people!" Nonetheless it was positively received and received wide praise as a witty little picture. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Lazio Italy. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1967144865Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from director Franco Zeffirelli on the set of the 1967 film. With holograph annotations and the photographer Paul Ronald's rubber stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction. <br/><br/>8 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1996Embry 176156Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Della Stato 1996. First edition first printing. Remainder dot bottom edge fine. B&W illustrations. Illustrated boards no dust jacket. Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Della Stato, 1996. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1976143612Beverly Hills CA: Charter Entertainment 1976. Draft script for the 1981 film. Agency Script with business card of agent William R. Forman tipped onto the verso of the front wrapper. <br/><br/>An Italian policeman Franco Nero investigates the murders of many powerful people the only clues he finds are drawings of salamanders left at each crime scene. The clues eventually lead him naturally to uncover a conspiracy to overthrow the government. <br/> <br/>Set and shot on location in Rome. <br/><br/>Black untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Fred Haines. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between 1.4.76 and 12.30.76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Fine bound with the silver brads. Charter Entertainment unknown books
19751317824Boston: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book; Little Brown and Company 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; Spine brown with white print; DJ has slight tears at top of spine price-clipped else clean and bright; Boards in brown cloth with gold print slight wear to spine caps and front hinge; Text block clean and tight; xvi 316 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1317824. FP New Rockville Stock. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book; Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1980005374Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 1980. Translated by Ann Dunnigan. 178p. dj. Cornell University Press unknown books
19807366Boston: Little Brown and Company 1980. Octavo 24 x 16 cm. xii 365 pages. FIRST EDITION. The third book from the Boston-based couple whose earlier work included The Romagnoli's Table and the eponymous restaurant in Faneuil Hall. This book brings "modern" techniques like pressure cooking micro-waving and food processing to the more classical techniques they employed in their earlier works. Fine in publisher's mustard yellow cloth; in price clipped and lightly age-toned dust jacket; still near fine. Inscribed at length by the authors to Gail Perrin Food Editor of the Boston Globe. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1979142558New York: Chelsea House 1979. First Edition. First Edition in softcover. With Peter Bogdanovich's ownership signature on the title page along with his library stamp. Additionally INSCRIBED by the author to Peter Bogdanovich on the title page: "February 1983 / Dear Mr. Bogdanovich / Thank you for your help and best of luck with your creative film career. / Sincerely / J. Philip di Franco." <br/><br/>Bogdanovich made his first film "Targets" in 1968 for producer Roger Corman becoming one of the many graduates of the "Corman school" of guerilla filmmaking whose ranks populated every corner of 1970s cinema and beyond. <br/><br/>Very Good in tall perfect bound wrappers. Some paper loss at the top and bottom of the spine vertical creasing to the spine from expected use by Mr. Bogdanovich and some wear at the corners. A very presentable copy. Chelsea House unknown books
2003017532Cairo: American University in Cairo Press 2003. 128p. numerous colored plates large quarto format dj. American University in Cairo Press unknown books
1975140151Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1975. Final Draft script for the 1975 television movie. <br/><br/>A biography of Rudolph Valentino a silent movie star and widely-regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol who established the archetype of the <br/>"great lover" and popularized "gaucho" pants among other things. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 28 1975 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Melville Shavelson. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication with yellow white blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between August 4 1975 and August 11 1975. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1993UGALILF00CZCChronicle 1993. Fine. Galli Franco. The Il Fornaio Baking Book: Sweet and Savory Recipes from the Italian Kitchen. San Francisco: Chronicle 1993. 192pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Near fine with lightly rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Chronicle hardcover books
1966129518Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1966. Original US Pressbook for the 1966 Italian film. Franco Nero plays a small supporting role in this drug-related crime film released just prior to his breakout role as "Django" the same year. <br/><br/>4 pages folded 12.25 X 15 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal fold at the middle and faint toning else about Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1979229975Mercer Island WA: The Writing Works Inc 1979. Mass Market Paperback. vi 216p. softbound in pocket-size wraps covers are a little dust- and handling-soiled. A good to very good copy. Has lots of b&w site snapshots plat maps tables. The Writing Works, Inc paperback books
187550155Boston: I.G. Gates Printer ca 1875. 16mo. Sewn printed wrappers; 24pp. Mild creasing at corners else Near Fine. Souvenir booklet and program for the exhibition of Philippoteaux' massive circular panorama Le Siége de Paris. Philippoteaux completed his original panorama in 1872 when it becamse a cause célèbre in Paris; the Boston impresario T.E. Halleck commissioned a duplicate which he put on display in Boston beginning in 1875. The current program never mentions Phiippoteaux by name leading us to wonder whether Halleck may have commissioned artisan painters to execute the facsimile. Though not illustrated the program provides a narrative description of the work. I.G. Gates, Printer unknown books
1968146530N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film here under the working title "Tenderly." With a business card clipped to the first leaf. Laid in with the script is a typed two-page overview of director Franco Brusati's prior screenwriting and directorial credits. Text in English.<br/><br/>After 15 years apart a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart a free-spirited young woman. <br/><br/>Set in Italy.<br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters FRANCO BRUSATI and ENNIO DE CONCINI and translator John Francis Lane. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus internally side stapled our first encounter with this practice and bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969137628Italy: Clesi Cinematografica 1969. Typescript Treatment script for the 1970 film "The Fifth Day of Peace" here under the working title "Gott Mit Uns!!" its translated title being "God's On Our Side." Laid in is a single typescript leaf author unknown dated 9/8/69 detailing the story outline and noting the possibility of actor Max von Sydow taking on the lead role of "Falkenstein" the commanding officer of the German POW's. Sydow would ultimately not take part in the film. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Andrea Barbato whose film credits include "Kill Me Quick I'm Cold" 1967 "Morel's Invention" 1974 and the television mini-series "Caravaggio" 1967. The story involves German deserters and their trial by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp in the waning days of WWII the fifth day of peace to be exact. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated but preceded by a "copyright" page dated 2/5/69 in holograph ink and crediting the Clesis Cinematografica production company. 158 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 154 and a laid-in leaf. Typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Laid-in leaf Near Fine with brief annotations in holograph pencil and a few typeovers. Clesi Cinematografica unknown books
1989009597Princeton: Princeton University Press 1989. Translated by R. Burr Litchfield. xxiii 453p. b/w illus. origina red cloth. Princeton University Press unknown books
1989Embry 33849Princeton 1989. Blind stamp on FFEP else fine in fine dust jacket. B&W illustrations. Princeton, 1989. unknown books
1989142516Princeton: Princeton University Press 1989. hardcover. near fine/very good. Translated by R. Burr Litchfield. Illustrated. xxiii 453pp. tall 8vo maroon cloth d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1989. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Princeton University Press unknown books
19861338972n.p.: Betsy Franco 1986. Softcover. Booklet 9x12; VG/paperback; off-white pictorial covers have very minimal wear; light adhesive residue to front; mild rubbing to edges; text block clean; illustrated; pp 32; inscribed by artist Mitzie Verne; arts - Collection. 1338972. FP New Rockville Stock. Betsy Franco unknown books
1992Embry 189730Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First U.S. edition. unknown books
1992216817New York: Harcourt Brace 1992. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 587p. cloth d.w. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992. First Edition in English<br/><br/> Harcourt Brace unknown books
1992WRCLIT37627New York: Harcourt 1992. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Translated by Gregory Dowling. Dust jacket art by Edward Gorey. A fine copy in dust jacket. Gathered at an international conference in Rome to resolve the mystery surrounding the Drood case are Lew Archer Father Brown Sherlock Holmes Maigret Phillip Marlowe Hercule Poirot Nero Wolfe and Porfiry Petrovitch. Harcourt hardcover books
19923411.1New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992. 1st Edition in English. Red cloth backed boards. Dust jacket. F/F. ix 3 587 7 blank pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>Lew Archer Father Brown Sherlock Holmes et al all focus their considerable deductive powers on "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"… Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
2005427805The MIT Press 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 6 only. 8vo. Cloth. 401 pp. Superficial shelfwear. Jacket with slight wrinkling at bottom edge. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket. The MIT Press hardcover books