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Holiday 2024 Catalogue
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* * * * H O L I D A Y G I F T S * B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 1 FANTASTIC POSTER-SIZED ACTION PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FAMOUS "THRILLA IN MANILA," SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER NEIL LEIFER, ONE OF ONLY 24 COPIES ALSO SIGNED BY BOTH ALI AND FRAZIER 1. (ALI, Muhammad and FRAZIER, Joe) LEIFER, Neil. Large original color photograph signed. Manila, Philippines, October 1, 1975 (printed November, 1993). Poster-sized photographic print (20 by 24 inches), signed beneath the image. Matted and framed, entire piece measures 30-1/2 by 28 inches. $14,500 Extraordinary poster-size color photograph of Smokin’ Joe Frazier taking a punishing straight right hand from Muhammad Ali during the late rounds of the “Thrilla in Manila,” one of only 24 signed by both Ali and Frazier and the photographer Leifer, from the total edition of only 350 copies printed. October 1, 1975 was the third time that Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali clashed, each having beaten the oth
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Ismail Merchant: bio Producer Extraordinary / Partha Chatterjee
Ismail Merchant with James Ivory
Ismail Merchant’s passing away on May 25, 2005 marked the end of a
certain kind of cinema. He was the last of the maverick film producers with
taste who made without any compromise, films with a strong literary bias
which were partial to actors and had fine production values. It is sad that he
died at sixty eight of bleeding ulcers unable to any longer work his
legendary charm on venal German financiers who were supposed to finance
his gods production, The White Countess, which was to have been directed by
his long-time partner James Ivory.Merchant-Ivory productions came into being in 1961 when, Ismail
Merchant, a Bohra Muslim student on a scholarship in amerika met James
Ivory, an Ivy-leaguer with art and cinema on his mind, quite bygd accident in a
New York kaffe shop. The rest as they säga is history. Together they made
over forty films in a relationship that