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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Vintage photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa on a Warner Brothers film set, February 3, 1931. In early 1931, Einstein and his wife visited several studios and sets to see European directors at work. Here, Einstein, his wife (sitting at his left) and cinematographer J....

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New York: Macaulay, 1939. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by the author in the year and month of publication to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts: "January 3rd 1939 / To Walter C. Roberts / In friendship and as a belated Xmas gift. / Your friend / Martin M. Goldsmith." With...

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New York: Godwin, 1936. First Edition. Rare in dust jacket, this being the only copy we have ever handled.The author's second book, a sensational and ultimately somewhat prescient look at artificial insemination and the "ectogenic child". One of three pulp novels Fuller wrote prior to bringing the same sensibilities to...

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New York: Lust / Unlust, 1977-1978. Archive of artwork, photography, overlays, and layout design for the vinyl 45 RPM single release of Alex Chilton's "Bangkok" b/w "Can't Seem to Make You Mine". Includes the original silver gelatin photograph used for the cover artwork, with a credit for the photography studio...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1992. Third draft script for the 1993 British film, likely having belonged to actor Peter Halliday. Laid in are six Call Sheets, five of which contain the name of Peter Halliday have the actor's name highlighted, one of which has his name written (incorrectly as...

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Library Edition, but not an ex-library copy. About Fine in brown cloth covered boards and a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. Just a hint of a spine lean, with a gift inscription to the front end paper. Jacket is bright and intact...

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Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film...

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N.p. N.p., 1974. Draft script for an unproduced play. Noted in the script as being based on an unpublished novel, likely an expansion of Sylvester Leaks' short story "Trouble, Blues, and Trouble," which was included in Langston Hughes' landmark 1967 anthology "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers". Leaks was...

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Rome: N.p., 1962. Archive of four vintage borderless photographs of Anita Ekberg from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations in pencil and the photographer Paul Ronald's stamp on the versos. A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love. Anita Ekberg is featured here in Federico Fellini's "Le Tentazioni...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Vintage scrapbook compiled by Mary Norris, a nursing student at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Marshalltown, Iowa, circa 1937. Included are over 100 vernacular photographs, generally featuring classmates, professors, doctors, and her fiance, Donald Malcolm, and their friends in posed shots, several detailed autograph letters signed from...

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Paris: Studio Piaz, Circa 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight promotional photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1934 staging of the revival of the Jacques Offenbach opera "La Creole," with Studio Piaz logo on the lower left.The operatic debut of the longtime comedienne, actor, and dancer. The production, which was...

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New York: Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1965. An archive of two original posters for Don Snyder's multi-media presentation, "Spectro-Mach 1," along with extensive manuscript annotations, diagrams, and charts. Instructions include visual and aural cues for projectionists and musicians, detailed instructions for presentation sequence (numbered 1 to 13 across the versos of the...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. SIGNED by director Robert Wise on the title page, along with a few different date annotations at the top right corner of same, between 1966 and 1967. Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Julie Andrews stars in this biopic...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film "Boomerang". Brief secretarial notation in holograph pencil on the verso of the last leaf.Based on a Reader's Digest article (1945) by Fulton Oursler (as Anthony Abbot), in turn based on an actual incident involving a Catholic priest and...

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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 131) SIGNED by the author. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk...

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N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film.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 of violent gangs...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel, about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut, as well as a breakthrough...

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N.p. John Kender, 1972. Vintage double weight black-and-white press photograph of director Jacques Tati, walking against traffic at the corner of 45th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City. With the stamp of photographer John Kender on the verso. Unfailingly sublime, here Tati is shown during his visit to...

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N.p. N.p., 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film, with the number 542 in holograph pencil on the verso, with a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the...

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N.p. N.p. Vintage borderless photograph of experimental theater director Robert Wilson in Paris on the occasion of the Paris Autumn Festival, October 1974. With typed description and agency stamps on the verso.Robert Wilson founded The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, an experimental performance group in 1968. He is well known...

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Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, 1946. First Edition. The only novel by radio personality Forbes, basis for the classic 1948 film noir (also known today under its UK title, "The Scar"), shot by John Alton and starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett. Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dust...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Original pressbook for the 1941 film. Also included is a supplement titled "Intelligence in Motion Picture Advertising," by Kenneth Collins, in essence a second pressbook, as well as a second supplement featuring further ad campaigns and exhibitor's information. Date stamps to the pressbook and Collins...

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Gallup, NM: Southwesterner Books, 1989. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies, this being a non-lettered presentation copy, with a full-color drawing by Franklin laid in. SIGNED by Hillerman, Franklin, and the publisher. A collection of in-depth interviews with the author about his writing process, illustrated throughout. Fine in a....

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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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N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a twenty-page German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis for the film. An early draft, written by screenwriter Jeffrey Boam a year after the novel's release at the request of Lorimar Film Entertainment, before they shuttered their...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown, detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper of...

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N.p. N.p., 1953. Collection of six vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1953 French film.Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece, a tense, literally volatile thriller which follows a team of four luckless Europeans who have been hired by an American oil...

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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light," showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. A famously difficult shoot, and just as famously, the final film of both Gable's and...

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London: The Archers / Eagle-Lion, 1946. Original UK Program for the 1946 film, released in the US as "Stairway to Heaven." SIGNED by director Michael Powell on page 12, just above the photo next to his biographical sketch. While it is certainly arguable that the greatest Powell-Pressburger film is a....

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Archive of 62 vernacular photographs, likely taken by an American GI stationed on a US base in postwar Germany, with 57 of those photographs depicting a fascination with Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle cars that borders on obsession.At least three different Beetles are depicted in the collection...

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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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La Rochelle, France: 1975. Original poster for the 1975 stream-of-consciousness opera directed by Robert Wilson, for its debut in La Rochelle, France in 1975. Known for his deep concern for the use of language in his work, this piece is characteristic of Wilson's explicit attention to detail. In the play...

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. A touch of toning to the edges of the text block. Jacket is bright, with some nicks at the spine ends and a couple of corners. A bright copy of this scarce McBain...

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N.p. N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, and Martin Sheen on the set of Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso, in holograph pencil: "Candid...

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London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations 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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N.p. N.p., 1968. A collection of nine vintage, borderless photographs, four oversize, of Ray Charles in Paris, October 1968. All five of the smaller photographs have stamps of photographer Araldo Crollalanza on the verso, four with have Italian mimeo snipes. All four oversize photographs have stamps of photographer Crollalanza and...

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