Search Results: Titles starting with S from The Typographeum Bookshop

International Historic Films, 1992. VHS Movie. Narrated by John Schrapnel. 56 minutes. Black & white. Fine copy in a slip-case which lacks the top flap. Commentary by Callum MacDonald, based on his book. This is a documentary about the life, and particularly the death, of Reinhard Heydrich who was a sinister figure close to Himmler in the Nazi police and was one of the main officials responsible for the implementation of the "final solution to the Jewish problem". As a reward for his efforts--or perhaps to get him out of the way--he was made "Reichs Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia. He took up his duties in Prague and began to move the national economy successfully to the war effort. However his time was short, for the Czech exiles in England had sent a team to kill him. They wounded him severely on May 27th, 1942. His death on June 4th occasioned a state funeral in the presence of Hitler. Part of this film is staged by actors and so is not genuine. Yet under the supervision… Read More

London: Elek Books, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xiv, 290. Frontispiece portrait. Index. Translated by Alec Brown and Lydia Pasternak-Slater.

Koch Lorber, 2004. DVD Movie. Starring Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Marie Gillain, Marie Desgranges. 2004. 163 minutes. Color. In French with English subtitles. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork. Screenplay by Bertrand Tavernier and Jean Cosmos. Set in and around the French film industry during the German occupation. A number of the main characters lead double lives: usually pursuing their careers during the day, but at night blowing up trains in a marshalling yard.

Revere, Pa: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd, 1983. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wraps. Fine copy. 24 unnumbered pp. sewn into paper wrappers. 300 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk.

New York: Rizzoli, 2004. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 4to. Boards. Pp. 216. Illustrated. Chronology. List of Illustrations. Bibliography. Originally published by Éditions de la Martinière. Paris: 2003.

Vanguard Records, 1978. CD Music. Fine copy/fine. Music CD. 14 tracks from Part I and Part 2. Vanguard #VBD 377. Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Barry McDaniel (baritone), Birgit Finnilae (alto), Elly Ameling (soprano). Ambrosian Singers, Desboroughj School Boys Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Johannes Somary. Fine copy with original booklet and liner notes.

MGM, 1988. DVD Movie. Starring Safiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chandra Sharma. 1988. 114 minutes. Widescreen format. With various extra features. Fine copy with original artwork. A boy finds himself utterly alone on the streets of Bombay and has to make his own way in a tough world.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Corners worn. Bookseller's ad pasted to end-paper.. Decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings. Small 4to. Buckram-backed patterned boards with leather label. Pp. 318. Illustrated. Number 334 of 500 copies. Translated by E. Powys Mathers.

Salisbury: The Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, 1978. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 16 pp stapled into flush paper wrappers. 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1984. Limited private press edition. First edition.. Hardcover. New. 8vo. Red cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in) Pp. 128. Index. Limited to 200 copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R T Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Edited and with some selections translated by Alister Kershaw Revised and expanded version of: "Hommage à  Roy Campbell" (France: 1958). This is a tribute to Roy Campbell by many of his friends, including Lawrence Durrell, Laurie Lee, Alan Paton, William Plomer, and Richard Aldington.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1984. Limited, private press edition. 1/2 Leather. Fine. 8vo. Bound by Jelka Kosmus in crimson half morocco with marbled sides, raised bands, and t.e.g. Pp. 128. Frontispiece, 5 pp. plates. Limited to 20 copies. Issued without a dust-jacket. Revised, and much expanded, version of "Homage à Roy Campbell" (France, 1958). Edited and with some selections translated by Alister Kershaw. Some of the contributors include Richard Aldington, Alan Paton, Dylan Thomas, Laurie Lee, and Lawrence Durrell.

MGM, 1985. DVD Movie. Starring James Wood, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpedia Carrillo, Cindy Gibb. 1985. 123 minutes. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork. In El Savador civil war is raging between peasant insurgents and the government forces supported by the CIA. Into this stumbles a drunken, failed American photojournalist who as last discovers something to live for. A compelling story.

Offenbach: Sowula & Sowula, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. Small 8vo. Paper-bound. Pp. 32. Illustrated. Checklist. Text in German. Translated from the Polish by Friedrich Giese.

Offenbach: Sowula & Sowula, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. Small 8vo. Paper-bound. Pp. 32. Illustrated. Checklist. Inscribed by the author. One of a series: Bibliotheca Typographica.

London: Vizetelly, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very good copy. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. Pp. 276, 24 (ads).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 574. Illustrated. Chronology. Index.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/very slightly frayed. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 256. Illustrated. Contributions by Edmund Blunden, Arthur Calder-Marshall, John Guest, Olive Cook, and "Postscript to Maugham" by Fred Bason.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Foxed, very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 320. Translation of Der Goldene Tisch (Stahlberg Verlag; Karlsruh: 1956) by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrberger.

New York: The Viking Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good with slight fading to edges of covers, a bump on one one bottom edge, and the ownership signature on first free end-paper/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 604, (iv). Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Chronology. Checklist. Reference Notes. Index

San Francisco: ASaveur/Weldon Owen Inc., 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Oblong. Boards. Pp. 272. Illustrated. Includes recipe section at the end. Index. Table of Equivalents. Acknowledgments. The Photographers.