New York: Lincoln Center / List Art Poster and Print Program, 1964. Original lithograph designed by Saul Bass for the Second New York Film Festival, held at Lincoln Center on September 14-26, 1964. INSCRIBED at the bottom right by Bass to Film Festival founder Amos Vogel: "to Amos Vogel...
N.p. N.p. 1989. Original portrait of Shirley MacLaine, taken circa 1960s, Shot, struck, and mounted by photographer, Bob Willoughby, and INSCRIBED by him on the verso: "To Michael [and] Deirdre / Happy Daze! / Bob Willoughby / 11-24-89 / Coolmaine Castle." Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the...
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter signed by O'Hara, addressed to "Bill and Frank," on stationery from Long Island, NY. The letter is dated June 20, 1960 (in pencil), and in it O'Hara expresses his dislike of the public remarks made by Mark...
London: William Heinemann, 1960. First UK Edition. Basis for the 1962 Robert Mulligan film, starring Gregory Peck, and winner of three Academy Awards, as well as a nomination for the Palme d'Or at Cannes the following year. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean, light...
New York: Ace Books, 1953. First Edition, a paperback original, Ace Double Books D-15. Burroughs' fragile and uncommon first book, bound dos-a-dos with "Narcotic Agent" by Maurice Helbrant as issued. Very Good plus in wrappers. Light creasing to the front wrapper, with starting to the bottom hinge, ad light rubbing...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben, Paramount, and an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)...
New York: The Barber Company / Barr/Woodward Productions, Circa 1980-1982. Draft script for the 1979 Broadway musical. Copy belonging to actor James Edward Justiss, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, detailed holograph notations throughout, mostly with regard to blocking, and with a photo of Justiss laid...
N.p. N.p. 1975. Original poster for a performance by COUM Transmissions held on February 18, 1975 at the Stedelijk Academy in Ghent, Belgium. The third in a series of five performances in the "Omissions" series, the previous two taking place that same month in Belgium and the final two in...
Beverly Hills, CA: The Mirisch Corporation / United Artists, 1967. Collection of five original title card maquettes for the 1967 film hand lettered by Harold Adler. Based on the 1965 novel by John Ball. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with...
London: Michael Powell (Theatre), circa 1960. Vintage borderless production photograph from the UK release of the 1960 British film. Shown is Austrian actor Carl Boehm, sitting pensively in front of the tripod-mounted film projector to which he is hopelessly devoted. On the verso is a rubber stamped credit and disclaimer...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Original conceptual artwork the 1960 film. Featuring a drawing of Burt Lancaster with Audrey Hepburn clasped against him. Based on the 1957 novel by Alan Le May. In many ways a reflection on John Ford's 1956 film "The Searchers," which was also based on...
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg to his top editor, Saxe Commins, in the year of publication on the verso of the half-title page: "For Saxe / Dear friend and guide through all these many years. Looking forward to many more fruitful hours and years of...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, ca. 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film "Ocean's Eleven," seen here as "Oceans Eleven or And the Angels Sing." Copy belonging to actor Peter Lawford, with his name to the front wrapper and his holograph notations throughout. Lawford owned the rights to the film, and...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. First Edition. One of 260 copies (this being No. 120) SIGNED by the author. Light fading to the spine, else a bright Fine copy. A lovely copy of this play by the author of "Winnie the Pooh."
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty," seen here under the working title, "Down Went McGinty," corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges, with two earlier titles, "Biography of a....
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1971. Original double weight, wide margin photograph of Luis Bunuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere by Mary Ellen Mark, taken outdoors during the shooting of Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Notated on the verso as having been taken in 1971, with a separate rubber stamp...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Revised Shooting script for the 1959 film. Studio Vault copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notations in holograph pencil throughout, and in ink and pencil on the front wrapper. Pre-production and production scripts of any Hitchcock film are rare, presumably because the director...
N.p. N.p. Circa 1970s. Archive of 14 vernacular color photographs taken at an unknown concert in California, circa 1970s. The photographs are clear and bright, taken close to the stage, with clear detail of the performers. Included are shots of McCoy Tyner, Rahassan Roland Kirk, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Alphonso...
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Canada: Mount Everest Enterprises, 1975. Final Draft script for the 1976 Canadian film. Uncredited producer Don Carmody's working script, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the first leaf. Notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout by Carmody and (more extensively) by the script supervisor, presumably Lynne Twentyman, on...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film, an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcée looking to remarry. She falls for her physician, Dr. Karl...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Original Screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her notations in holograph pencil throughout, noting revisions to dialogue and direction, and her name on several pages. Based on Rex Beach's 1906 novel, about a miner in Alaska named Roy...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First American Edition. First book in Hamilton's "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" trilogy. INSCRIBED by the author to his wife, and dated in the year and month of their marriage (as well as the year of publication): "To Lois / from / her own private novelist...
London: Black Spring Press, 1988. First Edition, first printing. SIGNED and dated by Cave just after the title page: "Nick Cave / 1990." Author, songwriter, screenwriter, and actor Cave's first book, which went into multiple printings. A collection of early lyrics from his recordings with The Birthday Party and the...
San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 1977. First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Townes Van Zandt on the title page, this being copy No. 409. Wings Press owner Bryce Milligan notes: "1000 casebound copies were originally printed. 500 were signed by Townes and numbered, roughly 100 of which...
Altadena, CA: Twin Palms, 1992. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies (this being No. 57) SIGNED by Horst. A wonderful retrospective of the great fashion photographer's work, with photographs ranging from 1932 to 1990. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase, as issued.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. First printing of this edition. Folio, gray quarter cloth with illustrated paper boards and paper title label. One of 300 numbered copies (this being No. 237), SIGNED by both Ferlinghetti and artist R. B. Kitaj. A celebration of the classic collection of poems by Ferlinghetti...
N.p. N.p. 1959-82. Notebook belonging to legendary amateur filmmaker Sid Laverents containing 73 pages of holograph notes on various film and camera tests, lighting, settings, and other technical aspects of filmmaking made between circa 1959 and 1982. Included are 21 film strips laid or tipped into the notebook, with accompanying...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket has a slightly faded spine, and some light chipping along the top and bottom edge, no separation or loss to lettering. A very presentable copy of the fifth Nero Wolfe mystery, which in...
Paris: Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the Jean-Luc Godard film, shot in 1960 but not released until 1963 due to a ban in France over torture scenes. Thus it was Godard's second feature film, but fourth to be released. This photograph was taken and struck...
New York: Arthur Allen Studios, 1915-1925. Photo album portfolio sold to subscribers by Allen from his Arthur Allen Studios circa 1915-1925, containing more than 40 pages of original nude photographic prints pasted onto stiff pages. Each photo is discreetly rubber stamped (1 to 40) at the bottom right corner. Each leaf...
N.p. David Allen Coe, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in trade wrappers as issued. SIGNED by David Allen Coe on the front wrapper. The maverick country singer's primitively printed autobiography, detailing his time in 11 different correctional institutions--from juvenile detention centers to prison--beginning at age 9, followed by a career as...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting"...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Revised Final Script for the 1967 film musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," directed by George Roy Hill, written for the screen by Richard Morris, and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing. This Oscar-winning director George Roy Hill's working copy, with...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a small rubber stamp for the "Booth Memorial Hospital" on the front endpaper. Bump to the heel, some minute rubbing at the corners. An attractive copy of the author's fourth novel.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film musical, "Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John...
Paris: Eugene Penaud et Comp, 1847. First Edition. Text in French. Very Good condition. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Tissue guard intact. Light foxing to the interior pages, minor splitting to the corners, light fraying to the crown, lightly rubbed overall.