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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first to tell me about Hell...
...position of a young man sitting on the rocks on a fine moonlight night in summer, holding the hand of a pretty girl and having a great desire to kiss her, but dare not do so." The passionate metaphorist. Frank Bemis, merely wanted to buy a particularly fine First Folio Shakespeare (he finally did, for $30,000), and his was the kind of passion only one bookseller could inspire...
Private book collecting in the U.S. reached its peak in the '20s, before its frenzy was cooled by taxes, the Depression and the increasing rarity of first-rate items outside institutional libraries. During that time it was customary for the great auction houses to announce after important sales that "unless otherwise noted, all books were bought by Dr. Rosenbach." The coolness with which the Philadelphia dealer, by an inclination of his head, would top a bid by ?500 caught the public's fancy, and Dr. R. knew how to keep publicity afloat. Solemnly he advertised: "Shakespeare...
...Love Game (in French). A happy, bawdy, and always violently spontaneous little Parisian pajama party, billed as the first New Wave comedy, in which the exquisitely funny Jean-Pierre Cassel refuses to make Geneviève Cluny a mother, much less an honest woman...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...