oscar millard (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG internally, clean and bright with only one or two age spots. Fold out map to rear. Slightly grubby orange cloth, dulled to spine with small tear at top.

HARDCOVER. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. First Am edition. 287pp b/w illustrations folded map octavo cloth. cover wear and fading but good+ in worn and torn dustwrapper, sun fading to dw spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Minor edge toning to covers, otherwise quite a nice copy.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film. Two French sisters who are both nuns come to New England to open a children's hospital, enlisting the help of colorful characters, including an artist, a composer, and a racketeer. Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Set in Connecticut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Three vintage studio still photographs, one color and two black and white, from the 1972 film. The two black and white photographs have the title incorrectly printed as "The Salzburgh Connection." Based on the 1972 novel by Helen MacInnes. American lawyer Bill Mathison (Barry Newman) is on vacation in Austria and is asked by a publisher to meet with a photographer who is compiling a photography book. Finding the photographer missing and the photographer's wife Anna (Anna Karina), panic-striken, it is revealed the photographer may have found a list of former Nazis, some of whom could be connected to US politics. Film debut of Klaus Maria Brandauer. Set in and shot on location in Slazburg, Austria. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 television re-release of the 1951 film. A brilliant yet socially awkward aeronautical engineer predicts that the newest airplane model, the Raindeer, will break up mid-flight after reaching 1,440 hours of use due to accumulated stress. The engineer, Theodore Honey (played by James Stewart), tries desperately to prove his prediction and alert the those in charge before another disaster occurs. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with pin holes to each.

Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1960 US film. Based on events surrounding the life of Franz Liszt, his scandalous affairs and the passion he displayed while performing. Dirk Bogarde is a natural actor at the piano, being himself an accomplished artist. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases overall, else Near Fine.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Condition Notes: A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the panels of the dust wrapper with fraying to the spine ends. Minor age-toning to the edges of the text block; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with black titles to the spine; Measures 8¼" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 179; Laid in ms. from John Farquharson agents to Penthouse Publications regarding possible film rights with a small Penthouse compliment slip alongside. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196645 ||.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1960 film, showing actors Capucine and Dirk Bogarde. A dramatization of the life of famed Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, focusing on his affair with Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein. Something of a follow-up to director Charles Vidor's 1945 biographical film "A Song to Remember," caught in development hell for over ten years and ultimately delayed until 1959. Vidor died midway through filming, leading producers to bring in George Cukor to finish the production. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. First American Edition. [good sound copy, light shelfwear, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, generic vintage bookplate on front pastedown (with one-time owner's name blacked out); fold-out map in excellent condition; jacket is edgeworn, small tears at most corners, small puncture-wound in spine, shallow paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs, fold-out map) The history of "La Libre Belgique," an underground journal operated by a group of Belgian patriots during the German occupation of their country during World War I. "Started soon after the Germans had closed down all the Belgian newspapers, it was one of the best kept secrets of the Great War," and is told here in "a powerful and dramatic account [using] facts which have been obtained by the author from the actual heroes of the enterprise." Originally published in England under the title "Uncensored," it was filmed under that title in 1942; after the war the British-born author emigrated to Hollywood, where he established himself as a film and television writer of some note, with feature film credits including THE FROGMEN, ANGEL FACE and THE CONQUEROR.

First Estimating Draft script for an unproduced film. In ancient Babylon, Sargon, the king's physician, is sent by King Nebuchadnezzar to stir up a revolt in nearby Judah, in order to undercut the prophet Jeremiah. Screenwriter Oscar Millard was best known for "Come to the Stable" (1949), "The Frogmen" (1951), and "Angel Face" (1953). Blue titled wrappers, noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8309, dated Dec. 16, 1955. Title page present, dated December 15, 1955, noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Oscar Millard. 135 leaves, with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Zustand: fair to good. Second Printing. 22 cm, 287, illus., facsims., plan, boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. The American edition was published in New York by R. M. McBride with the title: Underground News. La Libre Belgique was published in Brussels during the German occupation.

Illustrated.  With a Note by Robert Ross.  2 vols.  New York:  Haskell House Publishers Ltd.,   A photographic reprint of the original edition published by T. Werner Laurie in 1914.  Green cloth over boards.  New in the original publisher?s shrinkwrap.

THE PRINTED WORK OF CLAUD LOVAT FRASER (1890-1921, English artist, designer and author) F raser, Claud Lovat: - Millard, Christopher: Verlag: London, H.Danielson. 1. Auflage 1923, ERSTAUSGABE, gebunden (Hardcover gr. 8°) (26 x 16,5 cm). X, 106 S., 6 Blatt mit Portrait und 5 (1 montierte) farbigen Tafeln. Original-Halbleinenband mit Buntpapierbezug, Entwurf von Claud Lovat Fraser. - VORZUGSAUSGABE, Eins von 275 numerierten Exemplaren, von Chr. Millard signiert. Mit Werkverzeichnis der Bücher, Exlibris, Gelegenheitsdrucke und seiner Plakate (743 Nummern). Auf besseren Papier, unbeschnitten und großzügig gedruckt. - Kanten minimal berieben, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: englisch.