Munich: Peter-Presse / Atlas Films, 1965. Original 1965 German A1 poster for the 1963 US film. Designed by Heinz EdelmanFrom the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. An iconoclastic, utterly American underground film best understood by way of the reactions it receives from viewers outside the US. Time Out Guide notes: "a highpoint from the ‘innocent’.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1951. Vintage script for the 1951 musical play. Copy belonging to cast member Steve Elmore, who was an uncredited understudy or replacement in the role of Sandy, with his name and character's name in holograph ink and pencil to the title page, and several substantive holograph pencil annotations throughout.Basis for the 1969 film, made 18 years later.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Holograph annotations on first few leaves indicating the names of the actors playing the lead roles.Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel, this film follows the adventures of English hero Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men.Set in the UK. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. First Draft Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to art director Joseph C. Wright, with his name in holograph ink to the front wrapper. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward about a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and her long recovery at a......

Moscow: Creative Unit of Writers, 1972. Set of 16 vintage oversize black-and-white still photographs from the Russian release of the 1972 Russian film. On the verso of each photograph is a label for a European distributor. Often cited as one of the most important films in the history of cinematography, "Solaris" is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a......

New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. Two versions of the film were shot - one with an all nude, all male cast that was never released publicly, and one with both male and female actors wearing G-strings, which was originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York. A stylistic breakthrough, in that the.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film.First is a First Draft script, under the working title "'Sherlock Holmes' (#2)," by screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling, dated March 24, 1942. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, with annotations in holograph pencil on several pages, inquiries about plotline, question marks, as.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of ten vintage photographs of a full-size clay car model, which appears to be a prototype of a mid-1970s second generation Pontiac Firebird. Two photographs with holograph touch-up work to the images, all with annotations in holograph pencil noting catalog numbers on the verso. The photographs in the archive do not explicitly identify the model.....

Budapest: Csoma Bela - MOKEP, 1981. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1981 Hungarian film, here under its Hungarian title "Szabadgyalog." A talented but destructive, alcoholic, and apathetic violinist Andras (Andras Szabo, who also composed music for the film), destroys his marriage, is kicked out of music school, and devolves from creating music to becoming a disc jockey in Tarr's.....

Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2015. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good Plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Jacket is lightly bumped at the bottom corners.

Rome: de Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company, 1973. First Draft script for the 1974 Italian rime film "Crazy Joe," here under the working title, "Crazy Joey." Rubber-stamped Feb. 14, 1973, on the first page. A remarkable transplant of American New Hollywood stalwarts (and some of their elders) to the poliziotteschi genre. Peter Boyle plays a member of the Colombo crime family.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1956. Vintage oversize satin-finish borderless black and white photograph of actor Charlton Heston holding his infant son Fraser up to the mirror at a barbershop immediately following what was likely his son's first haircut, with the barber looking on in the background, circa 1956. With the stamp of photographer Bill Avery on the verso, along with several.....

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, with a short closed tear at the crown, light rubbing.....

New York: Vanguard, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Daniel Fuchs on the half-title page, in an early hand: "With best wishes / Daniel Fuchs."Fuchs' second novel, and the second book in his Williamsburg trilogy.Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Some darkening at the gutters as always found. Jacket is lightly toned overall, with small.....

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 film division and the rights went to Dino De Laurentiis.....

New York: United Press International, 1983. Vintage reference photograph from the 1983 play, showing actress Debbie Harry pinning actor Andy Kaufman, with Caitlin Clarke calling the hold. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of United Press International.A woman wrestler faces off against her family members, her school psychiatrist, her best friend, and her.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Advance Preview Edition, preceding the First Edition. Publisher's review slip laid in. Promotional publication of two stories by the author, "Florence Green is 81" and "Me and Miss Mandible," in anticipation of Barthelme's first book, a collection of stories. Loose leaves, mimeograph duplication. Fine, housed in original Near Fine red publisher's box. An attractive copy of.....

Los Angeles: J.E.R. Pictures, 1961. Original one sheet poster for the 1961 film. A rare artifact from the second of eight nudism-related films produced and directed by the prolific sexploitation director Doris Wishman. Working with a large sum of inherited money, two scientists build a rocket to take them to the Moon. Once there, they discover that the Moon's surface.....

London: DJM, 1970. Original UK promotional poster for the 1970 album. Elton John's third album, a breakthrough on every level. A concept album by a Brit based on American country and western and Americana themes—not something anyone would have expected to be a classic, and an album that didn't produce any of Elton's big singles. But it was the album.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First American Edition. Very Good in publisher's standard card wrappers, stating "SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY: For private and confidential use only." Tipped on to the front wrapper, as issued, is the full-color illustration from the first edition jacket. Basis for the 1943 film directed by Raoul Walsh, written for the.....

N.p. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast, crew, and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in holograph ink on verso.Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery, but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von.....

Cambridge, MA: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1973. First Edition. Richards' first book, a monograph that consists of photographs taken in West Memphis, Arkansas, during his 1968 tenure with VISTA. An examination into the lives of African-American workers living far below the poverty line. One of the most important twentieth century photo books on American culture outside the mainstream.....

Various cities: Various, Circa 1950s. Collection of 140 vintage photographs of department store window displays, 9 of which are double weight. Eight photographs dated 1948, four dated 1949, with the rest being circa 1950s. Nearly two thirds with stamps on the verso or other identifying information for the photographers or photography studios. Roughly half of the photographs feature window displays.....

Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Original borderless double weight photograph of the extraordinary set piece at night and in the rain, shot by legendary photographer Pierluigi Praturlon, from the 1960 film. Multiple stamps on the verso, including Pierluigi's, the film's title logo, and the film's production company Cineriz. Born in Rome, Praturlon (better known simply as Pierluigi) embarked upon a career.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release, Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play, "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However, during the 1941.....

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. Near Fine. Spicer, p. 403.

Berlin: Nero-Film AG, 1931. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1931 film. Based on the true story of psychopathic serial killer Hans Beckert, nicknamed the "Vampire of Dusseldorf," here played by Peter Lorre. A brilliant image from this crime thriller classic in which the search is on for Lorre. Lang's first sound film, Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film.....

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Final corrected manuscript for George Baxt's novel, "The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case," featuring his series character Jacob Singer, set in England between 1925-1936. Ribbon copy typescript, with holograph pencil corrections by the author throughout. First published in 1986 by St. Martin's Press. 251 pages, Near Fine. In a custom clamshell box, with red leather.....

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, 2004 / Gerard Malanga." Below is Malanga's stamped copyright. Included.....

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 "Meanwhile," with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry.....

London: William Heinemann, 1937. First Edition. One of two books that Ms. Simpson wrote that were made into films directed by Alfred Hitchcock (the other being "Enter Sir John"). Later, her association with Hitchcock extended into the writing of dialogue for his films, including Sabotage and Murder. Extremely uncommon in dust jacket. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust.....

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 just a touch of rubbing, and a minute crimp at.....

Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles, 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball, held February 13, 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors, directors, producers, and others, and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services, most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce, with only two copies.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Collection of four vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1939 film, with keybook tab extension removed at the left margin but with linen tape remaining on the verso of same.A strange and underappreciated adventure story, set at a remote sea trading port, sort of a South American version of "Casablanca"—but rather than World War II.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties, changing both the time and motivation for the raid. In the film, a group of Confederate POWs.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked.....

N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1966 film. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. A flurry of controversy surrounded the production and release of Rivette's film. Upon facing pressure from the French Catholic Church regarding its critical religious and sexual content, the new Minister of Information, Yvon Bourges, banned its.....

London: Macmillan, 1941. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Basis for the classic 1942 film starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, one of the dreamiest, most surreal romances ever to be committed to celluloid. The first proof copy we have ever encountered, and we imagine most likely the last.Brown paper wrappers with publisher's label. About Very Good, with spine.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Estimating script for the 1947 film, dated April 3, 1946. James M. Cain’s ultimately uncredited rewrite of Geoffrey Homes’ early draft, based on Homes’ 1946 novel, "Build My Gallows High," which was at that time still unpublished. A rare script, which confirms a claim still listed as unsubstantiated by the AFI Catalog, which.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless oversize candid photograph of Jane Birkin by her best known photographer Jean-Pierre Fizet. Here she lounges poolside, wearing more than usual (i.e., a hat). With Fizet's rubber stamp and multiple agency stamps on the verso, along with a date of 1973.11 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the right edge and.....

France: Cinedis, Circa 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph pencil, several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box, with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder (similar.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black and white reference photographs from the French release of the 1963 film. Head shots of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, one of each, and one especially striking shot of the two together. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously.....

Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Collection of ten vintage borderless photographs (five black-and-white and five in color) from the 1975 film. Generally considered the peak of the collaborative work on video done by Godard and Mieville, presenting scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family, with a special focus on children. The film was shot on video, then played back.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage borderless oversize matte-finish double weight reference photograph of actor Jerry Lewis in a jumpsuit and bowler hat on the set of an unknown film. With the stamp of photographer Ted Allan on the verso, along with a holograph pencil annotation noting "5815-12". 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine.

New York: Coward McCann, 1931. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. The author's fifth book. Very Good in printed wrappers. Spine faded, light dampstain to the lower front wrapper, separation to the front hinge.

Los Angeles: Dick Clark Productions, 1979. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television film, which aired on ABC on February 11, 1979. Annotation of copy number "147" in holograph marker on top right of title page.One of three television films made by noted film director John Carpenter. Carpenter began working on "Elvis" after wrapping up his 1978 quintessential horror slasher.....

Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night." Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run with their young son, who is in possession of a......

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1961. Original scenario artwork for the 1962 film, depicting the main drag of the town of Osage, with various townspeople going about their business. Archivally mounted and double matted, with a description in a die cut window in the matte just below the artwork. Unexamined out of frame. Winner of the Academy Award for Best.....

N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker.From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. Final and Revised Final drafts for four episodes the 1976 season and two episodes 1977 season of the NBC television series "Gibbsville," based on characters in John O'Hara's 1934 novel, "Appointment in Samarra." Gibbsville is the name of the town central to the novel's plot, a fictionalized version of O'Hara's hometown, Pottsville, Pennsylvania.....