Search Results: Titles starting with R from The Typographeum Bookshop

Starring Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard.DVD movie. 108 minutes. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original liner notes.

First edition. Paper-bound. 22 x 17 cm. 16 unnumbered leaves stapled into paper wrappers, with a dust-wrapper printed in color. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Staples just a bit rusted; cover slighly worn; some offsetting of the wrappers.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Reprinted. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xiv, 722. Illus. Notes. Index.

Paris: Réalités, 1969. First edition. Wrappers. Very good copy. Number 223. June 1969. With articles by Simon Gell ("Rembrandt: the chiaroscuro of the man"), Bernard Gregory ("CERN: Geneva's nuclear League of Nations"), Henri Gault & Christian Millau ("Paris is becoming a man's town"), and an interview with François Mauriac

Fox , 1985. VHS Movie. Starring Tatsuya Makadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nesu. 1985.160 minutes. Color. In Japanese with English subtitles. Fine copy in original slip-case which lacks top flap. A 16th Century ruler divides his kingdom between his three sons who turn against each other and against him.

London: Faber & Faber, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dj soiled and faded. Slim 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 64. Introduction by The Earl of Harewood. This is the libretto of an opera composed by Benjamin Britten.

London: Hutchinson, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Some slight discoloration to end-papers. Else fine copy/slightly chipped. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 448.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Tiny dent in front cover, else fine copy./Fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 232.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (viii), 216.

London: London House, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 224. Illustrated. Checklist. Index. John Beckett began his political career in 1925 as the youngest Labour MP, but just six years later he was expelled from Parliament. He then joined Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and ran their propaganda. After quarrelling with Mosley he formed the National Socialist League with William Joyce, and then the People's Party with the Duke of Bedford. He spent the War years in prison. This biography by his son attempts to understand why Beckett's career was derailed and why some in his generation turned to radical right-wing politics.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xii, 126, (iv). Illustrated. Appendices. Checklist. With a Foreword by Dr Marianne Tidcombe.

Public Media, 1956. 1952.. VHS Movie. Two short films: "The Red Balloon" starring Pascal Lamorisse. (34 minutes. Color). "White Mane" starring Alain Emery. (38 minutes. Black & white). Fine copy in original slip-case which lacks top flap.

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2004. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (ii), xii, 334, (iv).

Hallmark, 1948. VHS Movie. Starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann. 1948. 128 minutes. Fine copy in original slipcase which lacks top flap. One of the finest films ever made, about an impresario of a dance company who demands total devotion to their art from all, but especially from his young ballerina.

New York: Random House, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (xiii), 420.

New York: Random House, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xiv, 690. Sources. Index. This history covers a huge amount of material from the rise of Bolshevism in Russia during World War I, to the very real attempts by the Soviets to subvert the U.S. in the 1930s and '40s, to the excessive reaction on the part of the American Government after World War II, to the obscenities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, and finally to the various twitches of anti-Communism after McCarthy's swift fall. It is quite a story!

New York: Viking Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (viii), 184. Essays originally published 1957-1983

Francestown: Typographeum, 1992. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. Illustrated by Rosalind Berwald. 8vo Green cloth Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 44 pp Illustrated. 135 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Rosalind Berwald. This short story concerns a group of colorful people who gather regularly at a charming small hotel in Venice. It is about the way memorable experiences take hold of one's imagination so that everything else seems to lack vitality.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xxxviii, 102, (iv). Notes. Glossary. Index. Originally published as "La Mémoire vaine. Du crime contre l'humanité (Æ’ditions Gallimard. Paris: 1989). Klaus Barbie was an SS officer stationed at Lyon where his brutality was much feared. Among his acts two in particular became infamous: the murder of Jean Moulin, and the capture and transfer to Auschwitz of 44 Jewish children who were being sheltered in the village of Izieu, near Lyon. After the War Barbie was used by the gormless Americans as an informer. Later, he was whisked away to South America and lived there comfortably pandering to the needs of the military governments in Bolivia. In 1972 he was discovered and finally brought back to France in 1983. Although he had been twice convicted and sentenced to death in absentia, the statue of limitations had expired, so in 1987 he was accused of "crimes against humanity". His defense attorney was… Read More

Sony Classical #SK 89669, 2001. CD Music. Fine copy with original booklet and liner notes. Music CD. 62 minutes, 14 seconds. 18 tracks with music by Schubert, Chopin, Scarlatti, Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy.