ALADDIN.

The Playbook for Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp. [A Play for the Toy Theatre.]. Text in five languages. NEAR FINE COPY

Pollocks Toy Theatres,, [1972]. Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and full-page coloured illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Facsimile of original 'Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured'. SCARCE.

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AUILER Dan

Hitchcock's Secret Notebooks. An Authorised and Illustrated Look inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock. [First UK Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bloomsbury,, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 27927

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Keywords: film, cinema, alfred hitchcock, hitch, dan auiler, theatre, cinema, hitchcock's, secret, notebooks

BAZIN Andre

Jean Renoir. Edited with an Introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated from the French by W.W. Halsey II and William H. Simon.

W H Allen,, 1974. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, ochre endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'For me, the best book on cinema, written by the best critic, on the best director' (Truffaut).Eminence grise of the New Wave and colleague of Godard, Truffaut and Rivette, Bazin was one of the most influential French film critics of the twentieth century. His most famous work, this detailed study of the 'Master' was written in the 50s and first published in Paris in 1971.

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Book number: 13341

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Keywords: film, cinema, france, new wave, nouvelle vague, jean renoir, bazin, truffaut, andre bazin, theatre, cinema, jean, renoir

BELL Mrs Hugh [Florence]

Fairy Tale Plays and how to act them. Illustrations by Lancelot Speed. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Longmans Green & Co,, 1899. 8vo., with frontispiece (original tisue guard present), title-vignette, and numerous illustrations, diagrams and scores in the text; green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, black endpapers, backstrip lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, crisp copy. Collects fourteen plays based on well-known fairy tales. First published in 1896. SCARCE.

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Book number: 33709

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Keywords: theatre, fairy plays, fairy tale plays, mrs hugh bell, florence bell, lancelot speed

BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE.

The Playbook for Blackbeard the Pirate. [ A Play for the Toy Theatre.]. Text in four languages. NEAR FINE COPY

Pollocks Toy Theatres,, [1972]. Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and full-page coloured illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Facsimile of original 'Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured'. SCARCE.

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CALLOW Simon

Charles Laughton. A Difficult Actor. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Methuen,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 28561

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Keywords: theatre, cinema, charles laughton, simon callow

CALLOW Simon

Orson Welles. The Road to Xanadu. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Jonathan Cape,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 35457

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CARSTAIRS John Paddy

Love and Ella Rafferty. A Novel. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Hurst & Blackett,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, backstrip lettered in black and very lightly sunned at extreme head and tail, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly frayed at extremities. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. John Paddy Carstairs (1910-1970), director and author, was a stalwart of the British film industry for over thirty years. Starting his career as assistant cameraman, he quickly progressed to writing screenplays (beginning with 'Honeymoon Adventure' in 1931) and directed his first feature in 1934. He is best known for 'The Chiltern Hundreds' (1949), the first (and hugely successful) Norman Wisdom comedy 'Trouble in Store' (1953) and numerous subsequent vehicles for Frankie Howerd, Tommy Steele, Charlie Drake and Bob Monkhouse. As a writer he produced a string of humorous and semi-autobiographical novels, of which the present work is regarded as among the finest. This copy was inscribed by Carstairs at Pinewood Studios during the making of 'The Big Money' (1956) produced by Joseph Janni and starring Ian Carmichael and Kathleen Harrison.

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Book number: 8539

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Keywords: modern firsts, cinema, film, directors, carstairs, british film industry, john paddy carstairs, theatre, cinema, love, ella, rafferty

CHAMBERS E.K.

The Elizabethan Stage. [Complete set].

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1923. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with four frontispiece (all original tissue guards present), a double-page plan and 8 illustrations (3 full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy buckram, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Read 2570.

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Book number: 11668

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Keywords: theatre, literature, drama, plays, elizabethan period, elizabethan stage, shakespeare, e.k. chambers, theatre, cinema, elizabethan, stage

CHARDEN Eric

[Souvenir Programme of] World Premiere of 'Mayflower'.. A French Celebration of the American Bicentennial. Performed at Constitution Hall [Washington DC], 10 December 1976. Sponsored by United States Capitol Historical Society. A SCARCE SURVIVAL

[Privately Printed],, [1976]. 8vo., pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. The musical opened in Paris two days later. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 29540

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COCTEAU Jean

Orphee. Film. Photographies de Roger Corbeau. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

La Parade, Paris,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 16 plates, free endpapers very lightly browned, some light and inoffensive age-staining; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The script of Cocteau's famous surrealist feature film (1950) starring Jean Marais and Maria Casares. With stills from the film shot by Corbeau.

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Book number: 26090

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COCTEAU Jean

Le Testament d'Orphee. Film. COCTEAU'S SIGNED PRESENTATON COPY TO LOUIS PAUWELS

Editions du Rocher, Monaco,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 62 pages of full-page photographs from the film; grey tweed boards, upper board with mounted photograph [of Maria Casares] lettered in red, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO LOUIS PAUWELS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. With two copies of Rocher's flier, printed in pink and black and listing Cocteau' available works, loosely inserted. 'Le Testament d'Orphee' (1959) is the third film in Cocteau's Orphic trilogy, following 'Blood of a Poet' (1930) and 'Orphee' (1950). In addition to the author himself, the cast includes many leading theatrical and literary figures of the period, including Jean-Pierre Leaud, Maria Casares, Francoise Arnoul, Yul Brynner, Claudine Augier, Pablo Picasso, Charles Aznavour and Jean Marais. The screenplay with stills was published two years later; this copy is inscribed by Cocteau ('Jean') to Louis Pauwels, the eminent French journalist and author of 'The Morning of the Magicians' (1960). SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 31613

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CURTIS], [Richard

Black-Adder. The Whole Damn Dynasty. FINE COPY OF A CUNNING PLAN

Michael Joseph,, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The scripts of all four series of the much-loved (and respected) BBC comedy.

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Book number: 34027

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DIXON PC George

Dixon of Dock Green. My Life.

Kimber,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at backstrip and with medium closed tear on (predominantly white) rear panel. Very scarce in anything like this condition.

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Book number: 13017

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DORAN John

'Their Majesties' Servants'. Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and revised by Robert W. Lowe [from the Author's annotated copy]. [Large Paper Edition with plates in duplicate.] LARGE PAPER EDITION IN ROXBURGHE BINDING; 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED

John C Nimmo,, 1888. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, ON LARGE PAPER, with 3 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title in red and black, 47 fine copper-engraved portraits (all original tissue guards present), and 80 fine wood-engravings in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original Roxburghe binding of blue cloth boards, maroon cloth backs with new printed paper labels, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 66) WITH ALL PLATES PRESENT IN TWO STATES: ON JAPANESE PAPER AND PLATE PAPER, AS INDIA PROOFS. With personal pictorial boookplate on front paste-downs, and 24pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1887) bound in at end of third volume.

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Book number: 45013

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Keywords: theatre, stage, english stage, john doran, betterton, thomas betterton, kean, edmund kean