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New York: National Lampoon, 1974. Archive of 26 episodes of "The National Lampoon Radio Hour" on 1/4 inch magnetic tape, individually housed in cardboard boxes with a National Lampoon label and holograph marker noting the episode number, running sequentially from episode 21 (April 5, 1974) through episode 46 (September 26, 1974). Also included is an unlabeled 1/4 inch video tape...

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Prague: Ceskoslevenske Divadelni a Literarni Jednatelstvi, 1954. Vintage script for a 1954 production of the play originally written in 1920 by Karel Capek, produced in Prague. Rubber stamped production No. 5460 on the front wrapper. Issued by the Czechoslovak Theater and the original Prague literary agency for Capek’s groundbreaking sci-fi...

(read more)about R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots [Kolektivní drama o vstupní komedii a trech...

Boca Raton, FL: Penthouse, 1973. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1973 film, based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and...

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Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967. First Argentine Edition, preceding all others. The correct first edition of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, published three years prior to the US edition, and the book that gained Garcia Marquez prominence amongst Latin American writers like Mario Vargos Llosa and Carlos Fuentes. A bright...

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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926 [1925]. Hardcover. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "April 7, 1954 / So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's...

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Los Angeles: National General Pictures, 1969. Final shooting script for the 1970 film, "Darker than Amber," based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald, featuring his series character Travis McGee. Written for the screen by Ed Waters and starring Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel. Boldly SIGNED by Rod Taylor...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957...

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Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1920. A collection of three bordered and one borderless double weight promotional photographs for the lost 1920 silent film, based on the short story "Myra Meets His Family" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Rubber stamp to the verso of the three photographs with borders, and light...

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964. First Edition in hardcover, originally published as a paperback original by Fawcett Gold Medal under the pseudonym Harry Longbaugh. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "9 Sept 80 / For Doug Pagen / William Goldman."Basis for the superb 1968 thriller directed...

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New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition. The author's first book, with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, with a lovely, deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both...

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Rome: Titanus, 1962. Original double weight, borderless photograph of Claudia Cardinale on the set of director Luchino Visconti's 1963 film, "Il Gattopardo," taken in 1962 during shooting. With the blue rubber stamp of an Italian press agency, Publifoto, on the verso. In the photograph, Ms. Cardinale studies an Italian version...

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London: Arthur Barker, 1952. First UK Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light soil to the boards. Jacket has a chip at the crown (titling not affected) and a couple of smaller chips at the corners, with light rubbing overall. A very presentable copy of...

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Santa Barbra, CA: Capra Press, 1981. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies (this being Letter "J") SIGNED by author Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty, who contributes the introduction, as well as an additional inscription by the book's publisher, Ralph Sipper, dated 1981. An vintage photograph of the two authors...

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N.p. N.p., 1968. Collection of three and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now," performed on July 24 at a Caramelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon, France. Three of the...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s-1970s. Archive of 17 photographs (seven double weight and ten single weight) of rock performers, circa the late 1960s and early 1970s. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, most with his stamp and holograph identification number on the verso. Artists represented include Bob Dylan, The Rolling...

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N.p. N.p., 1959. Three vintage photographs from performances of The Living Theatre's 1959 play, "The Connection" by Jack Gelber. One photograph from the original 1959 production, with a printed caption in English on the verso. The other two photographs from a 1961 production in Paris, with the stamp of photographer...

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New York: William Morrow, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / With best from the 'boss' / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants, and clearly took down much of this novel...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original poster for the US premiere of the 1974 film at Columbia I and Columbia II on 2nd Avenue at 64th Street in New York. Cassavetes had only screened the film at two festivals prior to the date advertised here, the San Sebastian Film Festival...

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San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza, 1978. Original color silkscreen print,One of an edition of 300 printed. SIGNED AND DATED IN 1978 by the artist. Published by the Galeria de la Raza, La Raza Silkscreen Center, San Francisco, and the artist. 23 x 17.5 inches. Fine condition, unframed.

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film, based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh, legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Deluxe working script belonging to uncredited crew member William Todd Mason, with his name and phone number in holograph ink on the...

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London: Robert Hale, 1960. First UK Edition and first edition in hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean to book with foxing to the endpapers and page edges. Small numerical ink notation to the front endpaper. Jacket is bright and complete with a bit of...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is...

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Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Issued in green and gray wrapper variants (no priority), this being the gray variant. INSCRIBED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper with typical aplomb: "To Les Dubinas / I hope you all like...

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Rome: Mars Film, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph from the 1970 Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on the verso. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Fine. Arrow Academy 500.

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Draft script for the 1941 film. Based on the 1937 book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay, Jr. Veronica Lake's first major film, the role that would make her a star. Here she plays a seductress who attempts to woo two separate pilots in training (Ray Milland and...

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New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Hecht to members of his family on the front endpaper: "To Peter, Esther, Patty Hecht / From Ben Hecht / Love." Ben Hecht's rarest and most important play, basis for three key films: in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, in...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Vintage photograph of Muhammad Ali with documentary filmmaker and producer Lindsey Clennell, circa early 1990s. With a holograph notation on the verso identifying the subjects. In articles about Ali from 1988 and 1989, both the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" quote Clennell, and the "Times"...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Original one sheet for the 1955 film. The seventh of nine spectacular revisionist Westerns Anthony Mann directed between 1950 and 1960, and his fifth with James Stewart. One of the best and leanest films by the acclaimed director-actor pairing, one you will hear come...

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France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim, 1960. Collection of six vintage borderless still photographs from the 1960 film. With rubber stamps on the verso of each. Based on the 1955 novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith. One of greatest of the French post-noirs, and easily one of...

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N.p. N.p., 1977. Collection of four vintage, large format color negatives of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1977 installation "Wrapped Walk Ways," including one aerial view of the entire project. Two negatives with mimeo snipes attached at the bottom edge, a third mimeo snipe detached. Photographer Wolfgang Volz began collaborating with artists...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1983. Shooting script for the 1984 film. With a few holograph notations in ink and pencil throughout. A teenager moves to a rural town and comes into conflict with the local preacher and his "no dancing" ordinance. The film's soundtrack reached number 1 on the Billboard charts...

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New York: Parallel Productions, n.d. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1969 novel "A Time of Predators" by Joe Gores. An association between two prolific American authors, one a genre writer and the other an America novelist and director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop for...

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Tokyo: Toho Company, circa 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film, crediting Masahiro Makino as the director, who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi, originally released in 1937 as two parts, "Saga of the Vagabonds Part...

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N.p. N.p., 1973. Lengthy typed letter signed from Stan Brakhage to Will Petersen, roughly 500 words, dated May 28, 1973. Petersen was the director of the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University, and Brakhage's letter confirms an upcoming talk at the university and answers in some detail a number...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A shining credit for John Travolta, based on an article in Esquire magazine (1978) by Aaron Latham. A country boy moves to the city to take a job with his uncle, meets a cowgirl and the two fall in...

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Paris: President Films, 1976. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph from the French release of the 1976 French film. Three stamps on the verso for Cine-Revue magazine (dated variously between 9/2/76 and 2/3/77), as well as a studio stamp for President Films, crediting the title, Birkin, Dallesandro, and Gainsbourg. The petite...

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