New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. Vintage poster for an exhibition of work associated with an unrealized Christo project, intended to wrap the New York Museum of Modern Art. INSCRIBED by the artist on the poster in orange crayon: "For Betsy Jones / Christo 1968." In early 1968 Christo and...
Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso, two with holograph annotations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1947. First Edition. Basis for Francois Truffaut's 1969 film noir, "Mississippi Mermaid" ("La Sirene du Mississippi"), starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo; and more recently the 2001 neo-noir, "Original Sin," starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Light...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on three pages. A cocaine fueled spoof of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," that could have only been made in the early 1980's. With...
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gardner to one of his secretaries: “To Noni, Who wrote it—from the guy who only had to talk it. Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner.” About Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, which is lightly worn at top of spine and corners...
1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text and titles in Japanese. A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in...
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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Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK, the film was a US co-production, and...
Springfield, MA: Willey, 1891. First Edition. A history of African-American newspapers beginning in 1827 and continuing through to the book’s publication, with over 70 biographical sketches of editors and journalists, including a separate chapter dedicated to female African American journalists, and essays on the state of the Black press and...
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 34). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Mekas on the verso of the front board. Designed by George Maciunas. Featuring poetry by Mekas alongside photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1922. Draft script for the 1922 film. The film is now considered lost. Tess (Wanda Hawley) is a social climber who is neglected by her hardworking husband, David (Edward Hearn). She decides to go on a date with ex-suitor Arthur Sinclair (Casson Ferguson) to a casino...
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Vintage borderless photograph of Yves Saint-Laurent, circa 1970s. Mimeo snipe, holograph annotations and press agency stamps on the verso. Yves Saint-Laurent started his career working for Christian Dior. He succeeded Dior's position after his untimely death in 1957. Four years later he founded his eponymous fashion label...
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. First Edition. An important monograph on the American farm subculture in the southwest United States. From the collection of abstract expressionist Alfonso Ossorio, with his ownership signature on the half title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has...
N.p. N.p., 1974-1976. Archive of material for the 1976 film belonging to Second Assistant Director Bill Venegas, including a First Draft screenplay dated December 12, 1974, a Revised Draft screenplay dated August 11, 1975, and several sets of production documents regarding location shooting in Louisiana, California, and Arizona, including shooting...
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...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1952. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs, seven borderless, from the 1952 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipes on the verso, and all with holograph ink and pencil annotations as well as the stamp of Svensk Filmindustri. While vacationing at a summer home, four sisters-in-law tell each other...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the 1932 film, based loosely on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel "Tarzan of the Apes." Two black and white reference photographs for the film also laid in. The first of Weissmuller's twelve Tarzan films, and the first appearance of Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee...
New York: Richard Fields, Circa 1968. Draft script for the musical which premiered in 1968 by the Lincoln Center Workshop at the Forum Theatre. Numeric holograph annotation in holograph pencil on verso of last leaf. One of two musical plays written by actor Austin Pendleton. "Booth is Back in Town!" was...
N.p. John Erwin, 1953. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the premiere of the 1953 play. Both photos feature a very young Louis Gossett (who later changed his stage name to Louis Gossett, Jr.), and one features African American actress and singer Maxine Sullivan. Both photos credit photographer John...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1956. Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Freddy Warren, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink, and holograph ink annotations, additions, and changes to his scenes throughout. Based on the novel "Hellcats of the...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage borderless press photograph of Fondas Henry, Peter, and Jane outside of the a Whelan's Drugstore in New York City, circa the mid-1960s. With the New York stamp of photographer Don Ornitz, and the stamp of UK press agency Pictorial Press on the verso. 8 x....
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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 annotations 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...
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Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos...
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933...
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N.p. Alfieri, 1969. Vintage oversize double weight color photograph of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, at an outdoor press conference held in front of the Carlton Hotel at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hopper was awarded the Cannes First Film Prize. Shot by Marc Alfieri, and signed by him in...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. First UK edition, and first English-language edition. The film director's first novel, the only English language edition, and with no US equivalent. The story involves a film star who becomes lost in his own character, and devises a scheme to make a film with God...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight matte finish photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1956 novel "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones" by Charles Neider. Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, after his production company fired original screenwriter Sam Peckinpah and...
Manchester: Factory Records, 1981. Vintage offset lithograph poster for the release of the 1981 album. Based on the record sleeve designed by lead Factory designer Peter Saville. The band's debut album, after the dissolution of their previous band Joy Division following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, a mix...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, Circa 1947. Vintage press photograph of Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, and the film's still photographer Robert Coburn on the set of 1947 film noir. Mimeograph snipe on the verso notes that here Welles and Coburn are discussing the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film...
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 with wide margins...
N.p. N.p., 2004. Vintage double weight photograph of Amos Vogel, taken by Gerard Malanga and gifted by Malanga to Vogel in 2004. Malanga's trademark name blindstamp is at the bottom right corner of the image, and he has inscribed the verso: "Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 / October 22...
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Rome: Dell Publishing, 1984. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, and others, as performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March of 1984. "The CIVIL warS" was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original film program for the 1933 film. With a striking image of Dietrich on the front wrapper, and much detail throughout regarding the production. Based on the novel by Hermann Suermann and the play by Edward Sheldon, about a country orphan who goes to Berlin to...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, circa 1940s, largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation, "Caligula and Cross Purpose," but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters (patricians...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film, here under the working title "Stingray." A teenage boy (Mark Hamill) heads to Las Vegas, determined to track down his high school shop class' stolen project car, a tricked-out Corvette. Set and shot on location in southern...