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LAUREL, Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson).
A collection of original Laurel and Hardy scenarios and scripts from the files of the Hal Roach studio. 1927-35
£45,000
A superb collection of original script material from the golden age of the most successful comic partnership in film history. In 1926, under contract to Hal Roach Studios for the...
Carbon copy or mimeograph typescripts of 40 Laurel and Hardy films (39 short films, of which 17 are silent; Babes in Toyland full-length), several scripts with... Read more
GERSHWIN, George.
The Theatre Guild presents Porgy and Bess. 1935
£12,500
First edition, first issue of the vocal score, the first published manifestation of Gershwin's masterwork, identified by the absence of a list of songs and by the use of a lower-case...
Quarto. Original black cloth-backed, printed grey card wraps. Portrait frontispiece, small illustration of Porgy in his goat-cart verso of the title page. Wraps a... Read more
[DISNEY, Walt]
Version of Pinocchio. 1939
£9,750
First Edition, First Impression. No. 71 of 100 copies. Signed by Walt Disney on the title page and by the animators; Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Paul J. Smith, Al Parke, John Hurley,...
Quarto. Ringbound cloth boards with titles and illustration to label to upper board. Glue residue to front and back free endpapers, also to a lesser extent on the... Read more
GERSHWIN, George.
Porgy and Bess. 1935
£9,500
First edition, first printing, limited issue being one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian.
Quarto. Original red hard-grained morocco, top edge silver, Japanese paper endpapers, titles to spine in blind. With the original raffia slipcase. Housed in a red... Read more
HOLIDAY, Billie, with William Dufty.
Lady Sings the Blues. 1956
£7,500
First Edition, First Impression. Inscribed vertically, and quite expansively, across the first blank, "To Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Landis, Stay Happy Always, Billie Holiday." A...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title blocked to spine in silver and black, in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Very light toning, a touch of bleed from the cloth onto... Read more
BERNSTEIN, Leonard.
Typed letter signed to Renee Longy Miquelle. 1945 [1959, 1966]
£6,750
First editions, first printings. Each book bearing the composer's signed presentation inscription, "To Renee who taught me much about the Joy of teaching Love Lenny", "For Renee with...
Single leaf folded for mailing with the envelope. Octavos. Original cloth, with the dust jackets. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box made by The... Read more
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RAND, Ayn.
Pola Negri [Cyrillic] 1925
£6,750
First edition, first printing. The author's first book and a rare one. This biography of the leading silent screen actresses of her day was written at the age of 20. It was the only...
Small octavo. Single quire wire stitched into pictorial pink wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery.... Read more
MORRISON, Jim.
The Lords: Notes on Vision. 1969
£6,000
First edition, first printing. Printed in an edition of 100 copies only, this was the lead singer of The Doors' first published work. The Lords is the first of four self-published...
82 single sheets, unbound as issued (matches collation in OCLC, UC copy). Verse printed on Japan vellum, housed in the original portfolio folder of flexible textured... Read more
FORBES, John (ed.)
Cantus, Songs and Fancies, To Three, Four, or Five Parts, Both apt for Voices and Viols 1682
£5,000
Rare early edition of the first Scottish music book. The Hero as Printer comments that "this work was the first published edition containing Scottish songs and the only music book...
Oblong small quarto (161 × 213 mm), in 2 parts. 19th-century stiff vellum, covers with two-line gilt ruled borders, lettered on front cover, spine with double... Read more
LOVELACE, Delos Wheeler; Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper.
King Kong. 1932
£4,750
First edition in book form. The novelisation was serialised in Mystery Magazine the same year and published in book form slightly before the film was released. Lovelace was a former...
Octavo. Original lime green cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, endpapers photographic images from the film. With the dust jacket. Pages a little browned... Read more
POUND, Ezra.
Antheil and the Treatise of Harmony. 1924
£4,750
First edition, first printing, special issue being one of just 40 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. The present example is one of the few signed by George Antheil and with a...
Octavo. Original red wrappers printed in black. With the Contact Press slip pasted to the title page. Housed in a block cloth solander box. Small browning to two... Read more
STEINBECK, John.
The Forgotten Village. 1941
£4,500
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the film's narrator, "For Buzz (Voice) Meredith with great appreciation, John Steinbeck [with a...
Quarto. Original beige cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board in green. With the dust jacket. 136 illustrations from film stills. Small spot to... Read more
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich.
Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik. 1872
£4,500
First edition of Nietzsche's first book, one of 800 copies printed, the Wagnerian musician Siegmund von Hausegger's copy with his bookplate. Written at the age of 28, the book was a...
Octavo (227 × 140 mm). Contemporary green half cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides and edges, plain brown endpapers. 4 pp. publisher's... Read more
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich.
Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. Viertes Stück: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. 1873-74-76
£4,000
First edition of Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, one of 700 first edition copies (the whole edition was 1,500, with 800 falsely marked "Zweite Auflage"), bound with two earlier pamphlets...
3 pamphlets bound in one volume, octavo (217 × 138 mm). Contemporary brown sand-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers decoratively blocked in... Read more
WAGNER, Richard.
[The Ring of the Nibelung.] 1873–75
£3,750
First editions in English of the complete libretti to the Ring cycle, translated by Alfred Forman, individually printed for private circulation, the first three works in 1873, the...
4 works in one volume, octavo (211 × 133 mm). Dark red quarter morocco, marbled paper sides. Oval inkstamps of Edward Dannreuther to title or half-title of each... Read more
(WARHOL, Andy.) COOPER, Michael.
Blinds & Shutters. 1990
£3,750
First edition, first impression. Limited to 5000 copies. This is no. 1160 signed by 11 of the contributors; Adam Cooper, Allen Jones, Bill Wyman, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Eric...
Quarto. Original black morocco and yellow buckram, titles to front cover in black and yellow, titles to spine in yellow, all edges red. Housed in the publisher's... Read more
SCHOENBERG, Arnold.
Style and Idea. 1950
£3,750
First edition, first printing. A remarkable presentation copy with the composer's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "To Mr Roger Sessions cordially Arnold Schoenberg...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board gilt and to spine gilt on a black ground, top edge stained yellow. Spine a little faded but an excellent copy. Read more
[BURGESS, Anthony] WILSON, John Burgess.
Sonatina in G Major. For Anne Field. 1952
£2,750
Holograph music manuscript comprising the complete Sonatina written by Burgess as a Christmas gift to his first wife. Titled and annotated by him and signed at the end with the rare...
Folio. Pp 6. White wove paper lined in six double staves, with plain front wrapper titled in ink by Burgess. Wire stitched. Housed in a blue cloth ribbon tied chemise... Read more
RICHTER, Von Hans.
Filmgegner Von Heute - Filmfreunde Von Morgen 1929
£2,750
First edition, first printing. Published to coincide with the Film und Foto Exhibition. Illustrated with many examples of shots and sequences of experimental films of the 1920s by...
Quarto. Original red boards, titles to front board and spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, boards lightly marked, dust jacket with small hole to front... Read more
(HARRISON, George) TAYLOR, Derek.
Fifty Years Adrift. 1984
£2,750
First edition, first impression. Limited to 2000 copies. This is no. 1687 signed by Derek Taylor, George Harrison and Larry Smith (of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band fame), the artist of the...
Quarto. Original brown half calf with brown boards, illustration to front cover in red and git, titles to spine gilt, one red calf label to spine, all edges gilt.... Read more
MINGUS, Charles & Gunther Schuller.
Signed contract for the publication of Revelations. 1977
£2,500
Original contract dated Jan. 20 1977, on the letterhead of Schuller's music publishing company, Margun Music, signed by Minus and Schuller on the the final page, and with their...
Original typed document, signed, 3 pages on Margun Music letterhead. Some minor damage from the removal of staples from the top, left-hand corner, else very good. Read more
(STRACHEY, Lytton) SHAKESPEARE, William.
Shakespeare's Songs. 1912
£2,500
Limited edition, one of 510 copies printed, presentation copy from Lytton Strachey to Ottoline Morrell, with his gift inscription on the front free endpaper, "Ottoline from Lytton....
Sextodecimo. Original red paper stamped in imitation of raffia over boards, title in black within recessed panel on front cover, untrimmed edges, black silk marker.... Read more
PANASSIÉ, Hugues.
Le Jazz Hot. 1934
£2,500
First edition, this number 17 of the limited issue of 60 copies on Lafuma. One of the earliest serious works on jazz. Panassié was the founder of the Hot Club de Paris and for...
Octavo. Original wraps with upper panel design by Chastel. Coloured frontispiece after Chastel and 8 half-tone plates. Wraps just a little rubbed, and with a few... Read more
PANASSIÉ, Hugues.
Le Jazz Hot. 1934
£2,500
No. 30 of the limited issue of 60 copies on Lafuma. First edition of one of the earliest serious works on jazz. Panassié was the founder of the Hot Club de Paris, and for many...
Octavo. Contemporary quarter sheep on yellow paper-covered boards, title gilt to the spine, the original wraps with upper panel design by Chastel bound in at the rear.... Read more
HARRISON, George.
Live in Japan. George Harrison with Eric Clapton and Band. 1993
£2,500
First edition, first impression. Limited to 3,500 copies. This is no. 144 signed by George Harrison. Together with the original prospectus.
Quarto. Original full black morocco, titles in Japanese to front cover in red, titles to spine in red and gilt, all edges gilt. Two compact discs and explanatory... Read more
