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Fox Lorber, 1999. DVD Movie. Starring Nianzhen Wu, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Issey Ogata. 1999. 173 minutes. Color. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Widescreen format. With various special features. Fine with original artwork.

Columbia, 1983. VHS Movie. Starring Tom Courteney, Albert Finney. 1983. 118 minutes. Color. VHS. Closed captions. Very good copy in original slip-case which is somewhat worn.

Palm, 2003. DVD Movie. Starring Zhang Ziyi (Cynthia), Liu Ye (Situ), Toru Nakamura (Itani). 2003. 127 minutes. Color. In Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, with English subtitles. DVD with widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork. Set in China of the late 1920s and early ‘30s. A young woman witnesses the death of her brother at the hands of Japanese extremists. She moves to Shanghai, changes her name and joins a violent extremist group. The director says of his film: “The people of that period faced more or less the problems we face today. Our lives are still chaotic, still hard to grasp or control.

Sony Pictures Classics, 2007. DVD Movie. Starring Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye. 114 minutes. In Chinese with optional English subtitles. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork. A remarkably lavish production with the full spectrum of colors in nearly every scene. It is a simple story about a family riven with secrets and tensions which finally explode, however the family in question is the imperial one so the consequences are bloody.

Columbia Tristar, 1994. DVD Movie. Starring Gong Li, Li Boatian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun. 1994. 107 minutes. In Chinese with English subtitles. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork. It is the 1930s in Shanghai. A boy is brought in from the country to be a servant for the mistress of a gangland boss. Soon the boy and the woman are caught up in a violent struggle between two gangs. A remarkable film with some wonderful cinematography.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 432. Illustrated: 32 pp. of plates. Index.

Greetings from H. C. Kauffmann (President, Exxon Corporation) and Carlos Moseley (President, New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society).Program Notes by Edward Downes.Includes an essay by Jacques Manheit: "Mahler Goes to Olmütz".4to. Paper-bound. Stapled. Pp. 59 [sic]. Illustrated.Covers a bit worn; else very good copy.This copy was from the library of Wallace Tripp (1940-2018), an illustrator and author, known particularly for his charming, whimsical animal caricatures which he and his wife published as Pawprints. He illustrated over forty books, many of them for children. He lived in Peterborough and Hancock, New Hampshire.

Music CD set. 10 discs, boxed. Fine.

MGM, 1963. DVD Movie. Fine copy. DVD movie. 111 minutes. Two disc set which includes interviews with Ian Fleming and a documentary about the producer Harry Saltzman. "Ultimate Edition". Starring Sean Connery, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Daniela Bianchi.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (viii), 230, (ii). Notes. Checklist. Translation of "Le temps, ce grand sculpteur" by Walter Kaiser.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (xviii), 346, (ii). Genealogy. Notes. Illustrated. Index. Translation of "Souvenirs pieux" by Maria Louise Ascher.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy/very good (slightly torn and with one small piece missing). 4to. Cloth. Pp 240. Illustrated. Index. The story of a shy country girl who became a celebrated writer and fixture of French literary life.