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190053064Paris: Publisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 28 cm. x 19 cm 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the blank reverse of the half-title page. Fine as new. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. <br/><br/>There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 3704. <br/><br/> Publisher not identified unknown books
1967232649Boston: Little Brown 1967. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey cloth. Very good in worn and faded dust jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Johnny Carson. Inscribed on the half-title:<br/><br/>"Johnny / from / Gore / on air! / Rome '67 Little, Brown unknown books
187726163Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1877. Third edition First edition. Small 8vo. viii 132 pp. mounted photochrome frontispiece with tissue guard plus 2 mounted photomechanical plates identified as photochromes; other illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards gilt title within raised bands on spine t.e.g.; minor rubbing at the edges. Light occasional foxing. A very good copy. Léon Vidal 1834-1906 was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires which he founded and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. This manual covers photomechanical processes invented by Vidal among which is the Photochromie. It further includes the carbon-gelatin phototypie albumen techniques and color. <br/><br/>Although this publication states it as the Third Edition in actuality it is an outgrowth of an earlier treatise on carbon by the author and is indeed a unique work. INSCRIBED by the author to his mother. Roosens and Salu No. 1616. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars hardcover books
187926947Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1879. First edition. Small 8vo. xiv 284 pp. frontispiece is a phototypie by Quinsac with tissue guard plus 3 full-page phototypie plates by C. Relvas; other illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules t.e.g. Scattered foxing frontispiece and photo-plates loose and laid in. A very good copy. A well-illustrated manual covering phototypie a collotype process utilizing greasy-ink on a gelatin plate. We presume this to be Vidal's own copy as it bears his round ink stamp on an endpaper and contains an additional two plates not found in other copies which list only two. <br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 8290. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars hardcover books
1970142749Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. <br/><br/>One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood and a prescient one in terms of trans interests which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myra Breckinridge undergoes gender confirmation surgery and upon completion promptly moves to Hollywood to enroll in her uncle Buck's acting academy where she attempts to claim her half of her uncle's inheritance. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine save for the first and last few leaves which have been worn to around Very Good condition bound with a gold brad. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
WALTER-FILM004146Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Vintage original script by Gore Vidal adapted from the novel by Lucian Truscott USA. Los Angeles: Richard Roth Productions 6 March 1981. 11261 quarto brad bound in production wrappers. Paper filing label across spine NEAR FINE. Second revision draft script of this early form of an adaptation by Gore Vidal to television of Lucian Truscott's novel. In its present state the script would translate into a two-hour television film. Truscott's novel set at West Point at the time of the Vietnam War reportedly based it on fact. The completed film when screened on television dealt with homophobia both external and internalized and it was very strong stuff in the mid-1980s at the height of the Reagan era. The film was clearly troubling to some contemporary critics but it nonetheless was nominated for three Emmy Awards. A very interesting example of Vidal's work as a screenwriter especially because of the film's LGBTQ subject matter. paperback books
1984305889New York: Random House 1984. First trade edition unnumbered presentation copy signed by the author on the limitation leaf for the edition of 350 copies bound in cloth. vi 657 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's presentation binding in full brown leather spine titled in gilt upper cover stamped in blind. Faintest traces of rubbing at extremities. Fine. First trade edition unnumbered presentation copy signed by the author on the limitation leaf for the edition of 350 copies bound in cloth. vi 657 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation binding signed. Random House unknown books
188526369Paris: Gauthier-Villars Imprimeur-Libraire 1885. First edition. 2 parts bound together. 8vo. part 1 xvi 348 pp. phototypie frontispiece illustrations in text; part 2 x 238 pp. gelatin silver portrait frontispiece text illustrations. Half morocco and marbled boards raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules t.e.g.; lightly rubbed. The frontispiece to the second part is detached and is foxed on the blank reverse. A very good copy. An excellent and comprehensive manual covering a wide array of apparatus techniques and processes including platinotype; primarily for landscape and photography in the field. INSCRIBED by the author to his mother. <br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 5763. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire hardcover books
195916236ELos Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1959. Original 124 page final white shooting script with color rewrite pages dated April 23 1959 for the comedy film Visit to a Small Planet directed by Norman Taurog starring Jerry Lewis Joan Blackman Earl Holliman and Fred Clark. Bradbound. Very good lightly used copy. The film tells the story of a naive and curious alien visitor to Earth named Kreton Lewis whose fascination with human beings generates much comic action and dialogue. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1952225501New York E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1952. 1952. First edition. 8vo. Original orange/red/tan cloth. Color pictorial dust jacket designed by Lester Kohs unclipped; few nicks. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1952. hardcover books
28379Hamburg: Vidal & Sohn No Date. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. String-bound clothcovered photo-album printed by Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke an automotive company founded in Hamburg in 1924 and continued in existence through 1977. During World War II the company produced small military vehicles. This photo-album was created by the company for the purpose of collecting small black and white photo-cards showing the various models of truck created by the company. The album is not dated. While not completely filled with the photos there are 22 pictures present and all in fine condition. One of the images shows a Vidal & Sohn truck with a swattika which gives some indication of the era from which this album was printed. Handomely illustratedon the front panel. The album is lightly worn but still easily in very good condition. Vidal & Sohn unknown books
1970152410N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film attributed to Gore Vidal. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Vidal's 1948 classic landmark novel "The City and the Pillar" one of the few books of the period which portrayed overt homosexuality as natural and without moral ramifications.<br/><br/>In 1970 and 1971 Variety International reported Franco Rossellini had been in discussion with Vidal to produce his screenplay adaptation of his 1948 novel with Vidal also slated to direct reiterated in William Hawes' 2008 book "Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: the Making Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film." According to Hawe's the production had not gotten off the ground because "funding proved to be insufficient even for a low-budget version."<br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 25 1970 with credits for author Gore Vidal. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1889265994Paris: Maison Quantin 1889. First edition one of 500 copies. Frontispiece 29 plates. vi 347 1 pp. 8vo. Later orange cloth. Original wrappers bound in. Soiling to covers. First edition one of 500 copies. Frontispiece 29 plates. vi 347 1 pp. 8vo. A history of the violin condensed from the author's celebrated Les Instruments à Archet. "The feature which gives this volume its pre-eminent value is the quantity of marvellous photogravures of labels ." Fidiculus Bibliographia. Fidiculus Bibliographia 193 Maison Quantin unknown books
1950220639New York: Dutton 1950. First. hardcover. very good/near fine. 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Dutton 1950. First Edition.<br/><br/> The book has some shelf wear with fading at the extremes of the cloth spine a tiny tear at the top of the spine and brown- staining on the end-leaves. The book is inscribed "Louis - Auchincloss with esteem good wishes and a mostly friendly Yours - Gore 1952"<br/><br/> Dutton unknown books
196898977Boston: Little Brown & Company 1968. First edition of this satirical novel by written in the form of a diary. Octavo black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal. Name to the half-title page near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Photo courtesy of the Hotel Sahara. A very nice example. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s" the book's major themes are feminism transsexuality American expressions of machismo and patriarchy and deviant sexual practices. Harold Bloom cites Myra Breckinridge as a canonical work in his book The Western Canon. Made into the 1970 film directed by Michael Sarne and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner Mae West as Leticia Van Allen Farrah Fawcett Rex Reed Roger Herren and Roger C. Carmel. Tom Selleck made his film debut in a small role as one of Leticia's "studs". Little, Brown, & Company hardcover books
195230407New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1952. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by Vidal on flyleaf in the year of publication: "___ from Edgar Box date illegible 1952." Fine book in near fine dust jacket with some minor edgewear and a short closed tear at bottom of front panel . Nice copy of the first Edgar Box mystery. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
194729584New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1947. FIRST EDITION. Some faint spotting to endpapers and page edges. Else a fine copy in a beautiful crisp dust jacket with a few tiny nicks at spine ends. Particularly nice copy of Vidal's second book. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton & Company unknown books
196429261Boston: Little Brown and Company 1964. FIRST EDITION. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Vidal on a tipped-in leaf. Issued as part of Kroch & Brentano's First Edition Circle with their bookmark laid in.Fine in bright fresh dust jacket with one tiny tear at head of spine and some creasing to rear flap. Burgess 99. <br/><br/>< Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1968138763London: Cassell 1968. First UK Edition preceding all others. INSCRIBED by Sassoon on the half title page: "To Gerald Naborro / Thank you / Vidal Sassoon / Dorchester Hotel / 26.4.68 / It was very kind of you."<br/><br/>A memoir by the legendary hair designer written when he was 40 years old and at the height of his popularity and influence on woman's fashion. Sassoon was born into extreme poverty with seven years of his childhood spent in an orphanage. He quit school at age 14 became a hairstylist at the suggestion of his mother and after a mercurial rise to fame had a chain of shops and a line of products. He mentored Paul Mitchell who also became a great hairstylist and icon. Mitchell has described Sassoon as "the greatest hair stylist in the history of the world."<br/><br/>Sassoon's lasting contribution to fashion was to liberate women's hair from the high maintenance styles of the previous decade creating casual and modern looks that matched the emerging fashions of the day. He caused an international sensation with his reintroduction of the bob hair cut on Nancy Kwan for 1963's "The Wild Affair" created a shorter and more angular version of it known as the five point cut for British model Grace Coddington and was flown to Los Angeles by Roman Polanski for a press event where he cut Mia Farrow's long hair into the iconic pixie cut she wears in "Rosemary's Baby." <br/><br/>Sassoon went on to write another autobiography several decades later published in 2010 only a year prior to his death. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. Cassell unknown books
19561264Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1956. First edition of the author's play that was later made into the 1960 motion picture starring Jerry Lewis as Kreton. Octavo. Fine in a lightly used very good plus dust jacket. Signed by the author. Laid in is a ticket stub at a play that Vidal appeared at. Little, Brown & Co. unknown books
187353054Bruxelles: Bureau du Bulletin Belge de la Photographie 1873. First edition. 8vo. 51 pp. later cloth-backed marbled paper wrappers. The title page bears the stamp of a chemist as well as a manufacturer of photographic chemicals the later stamp also appears on 2 additional leaves. Occasional light foxing toning and moderate wear. A near very good copy. The Autotype Fine Art Company of London produced a unique form of collotype prints a carbon transfer process. This manual revises and enlarges the 1870 manual by J. R. Sawyer. <br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 586. OCLC locates a single copy at the Getty Research Institute. <br/><br/> Bureau du Bulletin Belge de la Photographie hardcover books
188126945Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1881. First edition. Small 8vo. xiv 246 pp. photoglyptie Woodburytype frontispiece with tissue guard by Liebert plus another printed by Woodbury; illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules t.e.g. Occasional scattered foxing. A very good copy. A nicely illustrated manual of Woodburytype processes a mechanical method of producing carbon prints and considered by many as the most realistic of the photomechanical processes. Léon Vidal 1834-1906 was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires which he founded and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. <br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 11126. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars hardcover books
1952125964New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1952. cloth. First edition. The author's uncommon first mystery. Some dustiness to top edge of pages a very good copy in very good dust jacket with light wear to corners some rubbing to spine ends with shallow loss small chip to lower rear corner and dust soiling to rear panel. #125964 E. P. Dutton & Co. unknown books
1947172828New York: Dutton 1947. hardcover. Dust wrapper. New York: Dutton 1947. First Edition. Near fine copy with a touch of wear to the edges of the dust wrapper<br/><br/> Dutton unknown books
19901338601Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1990. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 6 Volumes; Octavos; 377/486/364/430/437/657 pages; VG-; Each volume is bound in fine geniune leather with gilt detailing and lettering; Gilt textblocks; silk endpapers; silk bookmarks; Minor wear to edges and corners; wear to gilt along textblock; includes 6 of 7 novels from Vidal's Narratives of Empire series of American History Novels; Shelved front window. 1338601. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Easton Press hardcover books
