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Berkeley: Berkeley Graphics Arts, 1968. Collection of five vintage bumper stickers from the 1968 political campaigns run via a collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party. Stickers commemorate the Peace and Freedom Party political campaigns of Mario Savio for California state senator, Black Panther founders Huey...

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New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper on the day after Christmas, in the year of publication: "December 26 - 1964 - / To Elizabeth Boyne - / at the / suggestion of my wife, who / says you are comely and...

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Tokyo: Toho Company /, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped...

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New York: Bantam, 1992. First Edition. Stephenson’s breakthrough title, one that saw him move away from the straightfoward satire of his first two novels into the action-packed and idea-heavy speculative fiction for which he would become known, while simultaneously putting the final exclamation point on the cyberpunk genre.Fine and unread...

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New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. Original film program for the 1966 screening of six Kenneth Anger films, being shown on the Spring Equinox (March 21, 1966). Screened at Jonas Mekas' Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom...

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New York: Clifford Hayman, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1959 British play. Copy belonging to Dana Andrews, from Clifford Hayman, the producer for the play in London, with a mimeograph letter signed by Hayman, dated August 25, 1965, suggesting Andrews' production company bring the play to the US for...

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Los Angeles: Studio Films, 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers, and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio, Studio Films, and the short-lived film process "WonderColor," used to make it...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. After selling his original screenplay, Erich Segal was approached by Paramount to adapt his own work into a novel, to be published ahead of the film to help publicize it. The novel was an instant best seller, and the...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950. Revised Composite script for the 1951 film. Two front wrappers present, one with the script department receipt intact, both noting changes (dated 5-12-50) to the script. Tom and Ellen Bowen (Astaire and Powell) are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent...

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Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, Circa 1959-1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1960 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph of the film's stars, Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois, in the midst of an outdoor tracking shot in Paris. Director Truffaut stands on the tracking trolley, hands apart, giving instruction for...

(read more)about Francois Truffaut, Charles Aznavour, and Marie Dubois on the set of "Shoot the Piano Player"

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by Sonny Rollins in black marker on the front endpaper, along with a small doodle of a sixteenth note couplet. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Full provenance available.

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N.p. Various, Circa 1966-1996. Archive of material from the estate of Michael Dreyfuss, violinist for progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, including material spanning over four decades, with the majority of the material dating from the band's heyday in the 1970s. This listing includes 15 posters, 817 pages of material from...

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London: Faber and Faber, 1934. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK edition. The UK edition of Stout's book is itself a rarity, this proof likely the only surviving copy. Found in the author's attic after his death. Very Good in plain brown wrappers, title label on the spine. Square and...

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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...

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London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Final script for the 1966 film. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his notations throughout. 1960s remake of the 1939 John Ford Western. Studio self-wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, dated June 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriter Landon. 130 leaves...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1990. Original Press Kit for the 1990 film, "Goodfellas," directed and written for the screen by Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi, and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, and Lorraine Bracco. 19 still photographs from the film, all...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely notated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Laid in is a vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment...

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New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "9 July, 1976 / To Joan Alhadeff - The realest lady of all the real ladies / To Morrie Alhadeff - Half angel, half hustler, all street, and all smart - / With...

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N.p. N.p., 1955-1965. A dazzling collection of 10 original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass, documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Several of the pressbooks typically defy the existing conventions of pressbook design, utilizing a wild...

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N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film, "The Crips." A soldier's father is killed when witnessing a gang hit in Los Angeles and the soldier, on 30 day leave from his tour in Vietnam in order to attend his father's funeral, is out for revenge. A blunt condemnation...

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N.p. Robert Villa, 1974. Vintage double weight borderless press photograph of Pasolini, shot on location in the Middle East by noted photographer Roberto Villa. With Villa's ink stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of the Marka Archives. In 2008, Villa donated his vast archive to the Cineteca di...

(read more)about Pier Paolo Pasolini in on the set of Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte [Arabian Nights

Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless press photograph of director Luis Bunuel with cinematographer Christian Matras and the cast on the set of the 1967 film. With a European press agency stamp on the verso ("Photo exclusive / EUROPANEWS"), a date stamp of April...

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Paris: Les Films Imperia / Films Around the World, 1960. Original French pressbook for the 1960 film. A fascinating object, created in a die-cut style we have never seen duplicated, made by Films Around the World, the distributor that picked up the film for international distribution. The only copy we...

(read more)about A bout de souffle [Breathless

London: Circus of Terror (Films) Ltd., 1965. Revised British Shooting script for the 1966 UK film "Circus of Fear," here under its original title "Circus of Terror," with "TERROR" crossed through and replaced with "FEAR." Re-titled "Psycho-Circus" for the US release. A few notations in holograph pencil on the cast...

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London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, circa 1889. Three parts in one, preceded by the original 4-volume folio edition published privately in the 1840s and the quarto editions that followed in the 1850s. 120 hand-colored lithographs after Roberts' drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly. Divided into 3 sections: I. Jerusalem...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper, "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD," and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title, "Don't Call Me Madam," is present on the front wrapper, crossed through, with the...

(read more)about Tillie and Gus [Don't Call Me Madam

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the 1968 French film noir. With a notation in holograph ink that the photo comes from the collection of Patrice Enard on the verso. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich, a Haycraft Queen...

(read more)about The Bride Wore Black [La mariee etait en noir

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout, four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear, as...

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Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1953. Original Swedish poster for the 1953 film. A rich, powerful Bergman film that charts the frustrations and humiliations of several performers in a traveling circus troupe. The story takes a domino approach to personal disintegration, with the humiliation of one character leading to another character making...

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N.p. N.p., 1951. Vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photograph of Orson Welles by British photographer Jane Bown. Photographed during the same shoot as one of the most iconic Welles portraits of all time, the renowned director is seen here in a simple suit and tie. The photo was taken during...

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Paris: Filmsonor, Circa 1958. Collection of 109 vintage black-and-white still photographs for the 1958 French film. All photographs with mimeograph series number on the verso. Images of cast and crew expertly captured, including director Patelliere working with cameraman on the set. Photographs range in size, several with white borders, several...

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New York: New Regency Films, 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Perhaps Scorsese's most underrated film, "The King of Comedy" is a brilliant study of celebrity worship and American media culture by way of an exploratory journey into the mind of Rupert Pupkin, a man totally lacking in...

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New York: Cort Theatre, 1963. First Draft script for the 1963 Broadway play. Based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. First produced at the Cort Theater, opening on November 12, 1963 and closing on January 25, 1964, for a total of 82 performances, starring Kirk Douglas and Gene Wilder...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. The Nobel laureate's second book. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Spine ends lightly bumped, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.

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N.p. N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in his studio, New York City, 1985. Snipe, agency and photographer's stamps, and holograph notations on the verso.Christo Vladdimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon worked together on environmental artworks for nearly 50 years. Christo is pictured here...

(read more)about Original photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, 1985