New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. First Edition. A very nice copy of an important title, probably the premiere monograph of New York images, predicting the series ideas of Ruscha and many others. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little soiling to the boards. Jacket has three small internal repairs (not restoration), and a few... (read more)
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). SIGNED by Anger on the verso of the front wrapper. Screened at Jonas Mekas's Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain, where much of the film was shot on location, with... (read more)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980. First Edition. Rare, this being the only copy we have offered for sale. An early book on improvised music, written by Derek Bailey, one of the pioneering masters of the form, including chapters on Indian music, flamenco, rock, jazz and more. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned, with a.... (read more)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Virginia Allan / from Margaret Ayer Barnes." Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle class girl from youth to adulthood, struggling within a changing... (read more)
Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions, 1952. An early internally produced document containing detailed scene descriptions and numerous black-and-white reproductions of animation cells from the classic 1953 film, designed to illustrate the story process. SIGNED by layout artist Ken Anderson on the title page and legendary animation director Ward Kimball next to an interior still of Peter Pan smoking a peace... (read more)
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 : from Saul Bass." The New York Film Festival was founded in... (read more)
Paris: Cinema d'Aujourd'hui no. 44 / Edition Serghes, 1966. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by director John Huston on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / with my best regards / John Huston." An early, critical look at the iconic director of such enduring classics as "The Maltese Falcon" (1940), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), "The... (read more)
![Winter Light [Nattvardsgasterna] (Original art style poster for the 1963 film). Ingmar Bergman, screenwriter director, Ingrid Thulin Max von Sydow, starring.](/pictures/thumb/130176.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November, mixing the affections and repulsions of... (read more)
London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief notations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film, featuring four different stories, including vampires, witchcraft, wax ladies, and eerie stranglers. In one story, a writer is haunted by the psychopathic central character of his... (read more)
![Celle Qui N'Etait Plus [Diabolique] (First French Edition). Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac.](/pictures/thumb/117736.jpg?v=1469481303)
Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). The writing team's first effort, basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 masterpiece, Les Diaboliques (or Diabolique in the West), starring Simone Signoret. A cornerstone film source title. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Some light creasing to the spine, slightest lean, jacket is lightly soiled on the rear panel... (read more)
London: Hutchinson, 1956. First Edition. also first edition in English and first in hardcover, preceded by the French edition. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic film, Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Very Good plus in an about Very Good, first issue dust jacket with a price of 10/6 at the bottom of the front flap. Book is quite clean... (read more)
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The Broadway... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance," director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery (in only his second post-Bond film) in red briefs and suspenders, thigh-high boots, a handlebar mustache, and a long braid, and... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised temporary script for the 1942 horror film, based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. A well-crafted (and in some ways, superior) variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s, released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret" in 1942. Tan titled wrappers, noted as REVISED TEMPORARY on the... (read more)
San Francisco: Pasteurize Press / Zephyrus Image, 1975. First Edition. An offprint of Brakhage's remarks following a screening of his film, "The Text of Light," at the San Francisco Art Institute, Nov 18, 1974. A variant of the first edition described in the Zephyrus Image bibliography by Alastair Johnston, this copy without the inner printed Mylar wrapper and printed envelope... (read more)
San Francisco: Pasteurize Press / Zephyrus Image, 1975. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, preceding the First Edition. An offprint of Brakhage's remarks following a screening of his film, "The Text of Light," at the San Francisco Art Institute, Nov 18, 1974. One of what could only possibly be a handful of proofs made for Zephyrus Image prior to the publication of the... (read more)
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 director Stanley Kubrick, and he rewrote the script, first with... (read more)
![Paris de nuit [Paris by Night] (First Edition). Brassai, photography, Paul Morand, introduction.](/pictures/thumb/138421.jpg?v=1492979959)
Paris: Arts et M'tiers Graphiques, 1933. First Edition. 60 full-page, black and white plates. Brassai's first and most notable photobook. A nocturnal exploration of Parisian culture, and one of the most celebrated and influential collections of urban photography ever published. Compiled in a somewhat eery sequence of encounters set around the darkest corners of 1930's Paris. Brassai does not shy away... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Collection of six vintage photographs from the 1930 film. All but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon, about an aristocratic young man who falls in love with an opera star. Nominated for Best Director for Clarence Brown and Best Actress for Greta Garbo, who... (read more)
![The Revolt of the Dead [The Revolt of the Savage] (Original treatment for an uproduced film). Tod Browning, story, Gerrit Lloyd Gouverneur Morris, screenwriters.](/pictures/thumb/133776.jpg?v=1418081706)
N.p. N.p. 1932. Treatment script for tan unproduced film called 'The Revolt of the Dead," with an alternate title, "The Revolt of the Savage," written for screen by Gouverneur Morris and Gerrit Lloyd, from a story suggested by Tod Browning. Holograph notations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. Story set in Africa, where an Englishman... (read more)
Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, 1960. First Edition. One of no more than five "author's edition" copies with an original illustration by the author bound in. During the 1970s, Bukowski still had a number of copies of this book and decided to make between three and five unique copies by binding in original artwork or poetry--beginning a practice that would continue... (read more)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First Edition. An exceptionally attractive copy of this uncommon Burnett title, basis for the 1941 film, "Dance Hall," with Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Hanna 525. (read more)
N.p. N.p. 1973. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the July 8, 1973 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip is virtually wordless, and involves Nancy watching a bird taking a bath in a birdbath (followed by payback). As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible... (read more)
Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his holograph notations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with... (read more)