![A Gamut of Girls: A Memoir [Signed by Ray Bradbury]. Elsa LANCHESTER, Forman Brown, Ray Bradbury,...](/pictures/medium/53046.jpg?v=1641872715)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [8],9-80,[4]pp; illus. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Light wear to extremities, with a few faint scuffs to wrappers, else Near Fine. Short, nostalgic memoir by the English theatre and film actress, with song..... More
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in maroon pictorial dust jacket; xx,385pp.; color illus. throughout. Some minor shelf wear and very brief white paint smear at bottom edge of rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. First Edition. "Dostoevsky and Soviet Film blends three major motifs with ease and elegance: an analysis of all films produced in the Soviet Union which used Dostoevsky's fiction, as well as those planned but never realised; a history of the Soviet film industry spanning prerevolutionary..... More
[Paris]: Marval / Mission du Patrimoine Photographique, [1994]. First Edition. Folio (31cm.); publisher's boards in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 195pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Some wear to jacket extremities, chiefly along bottom edges, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better. Text entirely in French. More
[New York]: New Directions, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Small spot of fading to cloth at base of spine, else a Fine copy in the publisher's pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95), a half-shade darkened on spine, still bright and Near Fine. Three of..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1946]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in red decorative dust jacket; [2],359pp.; photographic frontispiece, five leaves of plates. Jacket extremities lightly chipped and a shade darkened, white spine lettering additionally toned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Very Good..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, [2002]. First American Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's boards in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,173pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Pinpoint wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Substantial catalog of an exhibition mounted in Lisbon and Madrid. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 316pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, closed tears and creasing to top edge of upper panel have been repaired and reinforced with archival tape to verso, some of which is slightly visible from rear panel. Near Fine..... More
Mazenod, Basutoland: Catholic Centre, [1966]. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound card wrapeprs; 116pp. A hint of shelf wear and dust-soil, else Fine. Sesotho-language play first published in 1950, though the author is best known for his novel "Mopheme," addressing problems that arise from polygamy while based on the story of..... More
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1938. First Edition. Number 12 in the Haldeman-Julius series "The ABC Library of Living Knowledge." McCabe, best known for his anticlerical writings, here undertakes to demystify the motion picture industry for a working-class audience. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 28pp + ads. Text slightly toned, else fine..... More
![Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera [Inscribed & Signed]. Marianne McDONALD](/pictures/medium/30976.jpg?v=1641872266)
Westport: Greenwood Press, [2001]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,[2],343pp. Tiny blemish to jacket gloss, minor edge wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page in English and Greek. Contributions to the Study of Music and..... More
New York: Morrow, 1989. First Edition. First printing. Large quarto (35cm.); grey paper boards backed in black publisher's cloth, in glossy red dust jacket with embossed metallic title; 272pp. Roddy McDowall's b/w photography accompanies individual celebrity commentaries of their professional peers; 116 total. Text block has very intermittent yellowing and..... More
![Text in Russian] Meierkhol'd i Khudozhniki / Meyerhold and Set Designers: A Lifelong Search. V....](/pictures/medium/41583.jpg?v=1641872391)
Moskva: Galart, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; 368pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better, albeit lacking jacket. Text chiefly in Russian, with captions in Russian and English. Monograph chiefly devoted to the set designs by Soviet actor..... More
![Text in Russian] Meierkhol'd i Khudozhniki / Meyerhold and Set Designers: A Lifelong Search. V....](/pictures/medium/41584.jpg?v=1641872391)
Moskva: Galart, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 368pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket extremities including a few tiny chips and closed tears to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Text chiefly in Russian, with captions in Russian and English. Monograph chiefly..... More
![The Misfits: Story of a Shoot [Signed by Inge Morath]. Arthur MILLER, Serge Toubiana](/pictures/medium/47394.jpg?v=1641872509)
London: Phaidon, 2000. First Edition. Contains an interview with Arthur Miller, an essay by Serge Toubiana, and photographs by Bruce Davidson, Eve Arnold, Cornell Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Lewitt, Ernst Haas, Erich Hartmann, Dennis Stock, and Inge Morath. Quarto (25.75cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine..... More
New-York: Printed for the Author, 1801. First Edition. Libretto (issued without the music) of a pastoral opera set amongst the woodcutters and farmers in the environs outside New York City. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 934. Octavo (21cm.); removed; viii,[9]-68,[6]pp. Ex-New York Historical Society with their small withdrawn rubberstamp to final leaf..... More
![The Absentee: A Comedy in Four Acts [...] Based on Maria Edgeworth's Novel of the Same Name...](/pictures/medium/21900.jpg?v=1641872146)
New York: House of Books, 1962. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 75. Slim 12mo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, glassine dust jacket; [2],vi,88pp. Spine a hint cocked, light wear to bottom fore-edge corner of upper jacket panel, else Near Fine. Signed by Moore on..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition. Small square quarto (23.5cm.); publisher's boards in brown pictorial dust jacket; x,207pp.; illus. throughout. Fine in original shrinkwrap. Bibliographical data provided by OCLC. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. Full text of Nabokov's uncut screenplay, which he adapted from his novel for Stanley Kubrick and James Harris in 1959-60. JULIAR A45.1. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); full black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover;..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Chamberlain (1878-1966) authored some 40 books and screenplays in a career that spanned 5 decades. Among his many Hollywood credits were "White Man" (1924), a silent adventure film which was one of the earliest vehicles for Clark Gable, and "The Red House"..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, in cream dust jacket printed in green, green topstain; viii,136,[1],4pp.; portrait frontispiece. Jacket rather delicate with chipping and a few short closed tear to extremities, a bit of..... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green and black price-clipped pictorial dust jacket; vii,[1],306pp. A hint shelf-wear, old pencil price to front flap, else a Near Fine, quite brilliant copy. Fifth volume of the author's autobiography. AYLING & DURKAN A30a. More
![Two Plays: Juno and the Paycock [and] The Shadow of a Gunman. Sean O'CASEY](/pictures/medium/20582.jpg?v=1641872126)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, black topstain, white dust jacket printed in green; [6],198pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled with some minor chipping, short closed tear to top edge of upper jacket panel not..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket printed in brown; [6],199pp. A few short closed tears to jacket extremities, minor soil and shelf-wear, some brief soil spots to bottom textblock edge, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First two..... More
![Lazarus Laughed [Limited Edition, Signed]. Eugene O'NEILL](/pictures/medium/23904.jpg?v=1641872177)
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Limited to 775 copies of which this is no. 370. Octavo (23.5cm.); original parchment-backed decorative boards, printed paper spine label, in black paper-covered slipcase, printed label mounted to upper panel; 179pp.; title page printed in magenta. Spine rather toned with some light..... More
