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1987132167Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore - De Luca Editore 1987. Softcover. VG- rubbing to cover. Black illustrated wraps. 180 pp. Color and bw plates. Text in Italian. Catalogue for 1987-1988 exhibition at Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore - De Luca Editore paperback books
199941008NY:: Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0788505475 . First edition. Front free endpaper has been neatly removed else near fine in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
20059003195Barcelona: Poligrafa 2005. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. With 218 illustrations in color. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine and front cover stamped in copper. <br/><br/> Poligrafa hardcover books
2015160037Blurb 2015. Hardcover. As New INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER on first flyleaf. White & illus. paper boards 48 pp BW illus. Presents examples of big tree photography as rendered by American photographer Stuart Rome. Intriguing. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER on the first flyleaf. Scarce. Blurb hardcover books
2001133006Burbank CA: Pandemonium Theatre Company 2001. Original poster for the 2001 Falcon Theatre production of the Ray Bradbury play "Falling Upward!" The production ran from November 27 2001 to December 30 2001. <br/><br/>"Falling Upward!" was known to be one of Bradbury's favorite plays and he often encouraged its production especially as he advanced in age simply for the joy of being able to see it again. Set entirely in an Irish bar with an entirely male cast he had in previous incantations considered the addition of a lone female cast member before deciding that was historically inaccurate. The play coalesced out of his experiences in Ireland which he first wrote into a short story entitled "The Anthem Sprinters" and which then were later incorporated into "Falling Upward!"<br/><br/>Bradbury was an avid playwright and a familiar and enthusiastic presence in the Southern Californian theater circuit near his home. In 1963 he and director Charles Rome Smith founded Pandemonium Theatre Company. The two friends would go on to work with the company together for the next four decades until Rome's death in 2004. <br/><br/>11 x 17 inches. Fine condition. Pandemonium Theatre Company unknown books
2003133011Burbank CA: Pandemonium Theatre Company 2003. Original poster for the 2003 Court Theatre production of the Ray Bradbury play "The Time of Going Away" which ran as a night of four small plays also including "The Swan" "I Will Arise and Go Now" and "Death and the Maiden." The production ran from October 26 2002 to November 24th 2002. <br/><br/>Bradbury was an avid playwright and a familiar and enthusiastic presence in the Southern Californian theater circuit near his home. In 1963 he and director Charles Rome Smith founded Pandemonium Theatre Company. The two friends would go on to work with the company together for the next four decades until Rome's death in 2004. <br/><br/>11 x 17 inches. Fine condition. Pandemonium Theatre Company unknown books
2001133008Burbank CA: Pandemonium Theatre Company 2001. Original poster for the 2002 Falcon Theatre production of the Ray Bradbury play "Fahrenheit 451." The production ran from October 26 2002 to November 24th 2002. <br/><br/>The story of a dystopian future in which all books are burned this item is a poster for Bradbury's dramatic adaptation of what is largely regarded as one of his best works. <br/><br/>Bradbury was an avid playwright and a familiar and enthusiastic presence in the Southern Californian theater circuit near his home. In 1963 he and director Charles Rome Smith founded Pandemonium Theatre Company. The two friends would go on to work with the company together for the next four decades until Rome's death in 2004. <br/><br/>11 x 17 inches. Fine condition. Pandemonium Theatre Company unknown books
192541057Rome NY: Rome Gas Electric Light & Power Company ca. 1925. 16mo 15.1 cm 6". 16 pp.; illus. <br><br>Uncommon electric promotional booklet: "Electric service in the home has become an essential comfort of our modern life" p. 14 and this pamphlet encourages homeowners to get their houses wired for it arguing that installations are clean and quick and subsequent electric bills cheap. The text is illustrated with a cutaway diagram showing the process of wiring a three-story house with attic photographs of electricians on the job inside various homes exterior shots of older and newer buildings and an interior image of an "American workingman's home where . . . every possible economy is practiced." The colophon labels this "Electrical Progress Booklet No. 1" part of an advertising campaign noted at the time for its success. Publisher's printed paper wrappers stapled; small scuffs back wrapper with streak of staining pressure point from a front-wrapper scuff or prick unobtrusively carried throughout. => This ephemeral eye-opening item is now scarce. Rome Gas, Electric Light & Power Company unknown books
18081951280Impensis M. Carey 1808. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Ink note from previous owner on front endpaper 'The property of Otis Hutchins. purchased second hand. August 22d 1815. price 1.00 No. 77' edges of endpapers toned top corner of front free endpaper removed. 1808 Full-Leather. iv 256 pp. Original full leather red leather spine label gilt titles & rules. Books 1-4 of Tacitus's histories in the original Latin taken primarily from the Brotier's edition with portions from Barbou and Gronovius. Notes by Barbou taken from his 1793 edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman statesman in the first century A.D. whose histories provide an authoritative account of various events within the Roman Empire with the unique insight of a politician living at the time. Impensis M. Carey hardcover books
1969211550New York 1969. unbound. 1 pages 10.25 x 7 inches New York March 27 1969. Brief letter signed "Harold" to Carl Miller thanking him for the copies of "Wish you Were Here." The letter says in part: ".It's a lovely job and I still marvel at how much you're able to do in that small office." Two horizontal folds; one tiny spot on the bottom portion of the page. Very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
17152135233Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts 1715. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor loss from spine head & foot ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. viii 141 2 pp. Full calf gilt titles decorations & rules marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian. Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts hardcover books
19602379571960. unbound. Inscribed photograph signed in full -- a 10 x 8-inch black-and-white publicity still of Rome sitting on a piano stool and smoking his trademark cigar. No place no date circa 1960. Inscribed: "For the Allens with my best Harold Rome." The first letter of the word "For" is smudged but the rest of the inscription and signature is flawless; very good condition.<br/><br/> American composer best known for such musicals as" Fanny" and "Call Me Mister."<br/><br/> unknown books
18282101550D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent 1828. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Spines repaired with minimal loss from spine feet and joints. Volume II: rear board broken away from hinge. 1828 Hard Cover. 360; 342 2 pp. Brown cloth paper spine labels. 8vo. An English translation of a portion of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri Books from the Foundation of the City. The full work encompassed the history of Rome from the earliest legends through the reign of Augustus. This portion of the work focuses mainly on the Punic Wars which pitted the Romans against the Carthaginians. D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent hardcover books
2005174793Tucson AZ: Nazraeli Press 2005. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Number 48 of only 50 copies. A collection of 36 duotone images. A very fine copy in green cloth boards in a fine clamshell box. Original gelatin silver print affixed to the front board. Signed and numbered by Rome on the title page. As usual a beautifully printed book from this terrific publisher. Nazraeli Press unknown books
1975137576Paris: Cite Films 1975. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph for the 1975 film as known as "Scar Tissue." With the label of the Paul Kohner agency on the verso. <br/><br/>Maria Schneider stars as a young woman who must protect the son of her ex-lover when they are kidnapped while she is babysitting him. The final directorial effort of Rene Clement's long illustrious career. <br/><br/>9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Cite Films unknown books
154932 vols. 200 294 pp. detailed crit. catalogue by Paola della Pergola of paintings in the collection annotated digest of 260 documents and inventories including some transcriptions chronological bibliographies concordance tables indices 3 text illus. 557 illus. on plates. Small 4to. Orig. printed bds. Rome Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato 1955-1959. Cataloghi dei Musei e Gallerie d'Italia. The collection now state-owned was started by the Borghese Popes and their family in the 16th and 17th centuries and boasts such treasures as Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love" and Correggio's "Danae." unknown books
1970137569N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversized double weight press photograph of actress Sydne Rome circa 1970 with the label of the Paul Kohner agency affixed over the stamp of Italian agency I.M on the verso. <br/><br/>American born actress Sydne Rome achieved success in Italian and French films often typed the innocent or naive American abroad in films such as Roman Polanski's "What" 1972. <br/><br/>9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1723214670London: Printed for Abel Roper 1723. First edition. 6 352 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original full calf. Spine label intact upper hinge and joint roughly repaired rear hinge and joint cracked. Internally Fine. First edition. 6 352 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for Abel Roper unknown books
13888Vintage albumen silver photograph 9-3/8" x7-3/4". Inscription on lower border reads: "ROMA - Mole Adriana e Ponte S. Angelo". In very good condition with expected age wear and toning. Slight bend imperceptible when framed. unknown books
191286703Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1912. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. This volume only. 94 black & white plates printed on one side and numbered 1-34 34A and 35-93. Original cloth-backed boards. 34cm. Uneven cover fading and some small holes and other wear along rear joint. Modest wear along extremities. <br/><br/> At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
197828460Bridgewater CT: The Flume Press 1978. cloth leather spine label. Papermaking. 8vo. cloth leather spine label. 1011 pages. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by this private press of which this is one of 25 copies to be in a special binding and contains a specimen of paper made at The Red Mill located in Bridgewater CT. A charming essay about the joys and pitfalls of starting a papermaking mill. The book is illustrated by Elmer Garrett. Presentation on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a prospectus to the book a signed poem by Garrett a large newspaper clipping giving us history of the mill and two newspaper clippings listing the sale price of the mill. The Flume Press unknown books
7406168 pp. Small 8vo 164 x 95 mm. cont. pink paste-paper wrappers edges worn. Rome: Mordacchini 1825.<br /> A scarce revised and updated edition 1st ed. under this title: 1819 of this museum catalogue. It describes the institution's paintings and sculptures a number of which had been seized by the French during the conquest of Italy and subsequently returned.<br /> A very good copy; some soiling and wear to the wrappers.<br /> ❧ For an account of the museum's establishment see C. Paul "Capitoline Museum Rome: Civic Identity and Personal Cultivation" in The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of an Institution in 18th- and Early 19th-Century Europe 2012 pp. 21-45. unknown books
172536632Romae: Typis Bernabò sumptibus Francisci Giannini bibliopolae 1725. 8vo 19 cm; 7.5". 18 ff. 464 pp. 12 last a blank ff. <br><br>During the first year of Benedict XIII's pontificate 1725 as the bishop of Rome he hosted a concilium for the province of Rome. The assembled prelates met in the Lateran Basilica to review and revise the rules and laws regulating the clergy in and of the province producing revisions that were numerous and important. These were promulgated promptly and published in several editions in 1725. This is one of three editions we have identified as being printed in that year all from the press of the same printer. No priority has yet been established for their order of appearance. Contemporary vellum over light pasteboards with slightly raised bands; the vellum used here was recovered from earlier use in a binding or some document. Some foxing and other staining/soiling in text; in all a solid good to good-plus copy. Typis Bernabò, sumptibus Francisci Giannini bibliopolae hardcover books
16792128667Amstelodami Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elsevirium 1679. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First two volumes only of three volume set comprising books I-X and XXI-XXX XI-XX are lost. These volumes cover the following though parts are absent due to some portions being lost: The founding of Rome including the landing of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city by Romulus; the period of the kings and the early republic down to its conquest by the Gauls; The subjugation of Italy the Samnite Wars before the conflict with Carthage; The Punic Wars. The third volume discussing the Macedonian and other eastern wars down to 167 B.C. is not included. Rear joint of first volume splitting front joint of second volume just beginning to along top edge boards a bit soiled and slightly bowed minor ink marginalia owner name excised from front flyleaf of first volume. 1679 Hard Cover. xliv 922 72 62; 973 60 58 pp. 8vo. Bound in vellum. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Latin text two-column format. The Roman history of Titus Livius often referred to as Livy edited by J.F. Gronovius with extensive footnotes and an enormous index following the text of each volume with appendices by the Italian humanist Carolus Sigonius which continue the chronologies of Livy through the year 751 A.D. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Danielem Elsevirium hardcover books
1963286082Rome: Rotograph Roma 1963. unbound. very good. Rotograph backed with paper. 26.75" x 38". Shows some small tears and chips to edges of mounted paper image unaffected. Original fold lines are present but faint. In very good condition.<br/><br/> Original movie poster for the Italian release of Columbia Picture's 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole Alec Guiness and Anthony Quinn.<br/><br/> Rotograph Roma unknown books
