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......

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in holograph manual type. A touch of rubbing to the rear panel, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Considered by.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on location in the Mojave Desert shooting the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso.Antonioni’s great American experiment, and the only film the director ever made in.....

Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Treatment script for the 1937 film. Almost certainly the earliest draft associated with the film, a typescript prose synopsis. A ballet star (Astaire) falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire and.....

N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph of Josephine Baker in character as Dora from the 1934 revival of Jacques Offenbach's 1875 operetta "La creole". With a holograph pencil annotation to the verso identifying the production. The operatic debut of the longtime comedienne, actor, and dancer. The production, which was staged at the Theatre Marigny in Paris, was the.....

New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1999. First Edition. Profusely illustrated in color throughout with Basquiat's substantial oeuvre. Fine and unread in illustrated boards and a just about Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has a bump to one corner else Fine.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on 3 pages.Jerry Belson's cocaine fueled spoof on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," could have only been made in the early 1980's. With tag lines like, "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his.....

Various cities: Various Publishers, 1933-1934. Archive of 89 photographs belonging to actress Julie Bishop, featuring film still and publicity photographs from five pre-Code films made in 1933 and 1934 while she was still being credited under her birth name, Jacqueline Wells. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album, with the exception of three photographs, which are laid.....

N.p. United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations including the director's name and phone number, time to.....

N.p. N.p., 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Number". Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his extensive holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout.Realizing that his family faces eviction due to a corrupt real estate deal, a desperate inventor takes a police officer hostage in the hopes that news coverage of the.....

New York: Galeria Bonino, 1967. Complete set of four matching exhibition catalogs for a staggered series of installations by avant-garde film director Robert Breer, held at the Galeria Bonino in New York between 1965 and 1970. The first catalog is for an exhibition at the gallery titled "Constructions and Films," and was held in early 1965, noted as Exhibition No.....

N.p. Agence D E B, 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film, one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso, one with annotations on verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay, as opposed to one adapted from existing material, perhaps the finest of his many films, and according to one of.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel, a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as.....

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 8, 1969, and a few other annotations. 8 x 10.....

Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1987. First Edition. Presentation copy, one of an undetermined number of copies stamped "BURNS ARCHIVE NO." on the verso of the title page (this copy hand-numbered 59) and INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Joanna Grimes on the verso of the title page, below the limitation statement: "Presented to / Joanna Grimes of the Old.....

Rome: A.P.E. Roma, 1943. Complete set of three vintage Italian posters for the legendary 1943 Italian film noir. Based on the 1929 novel by James M. Cain, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," and preceding the US film adaptation by three years. Visconti's trenchant first feature, an unauthorized adaptation of Cain's novel, often cited as the earliest neorealist film. Visconti himself.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1977. Original one sheet poster for the 1970 film, issued by John Cassavetes' small production company, Faces Music. The last film to be produced and distributed by Cassavetes' company, and surprisingly one of the scarcest of its iconoclastic, elegantly designed posters. 27 x 41 inches. Rolled as issued, Near Fine.

Paris: Les Films la Boetie, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film noir. SIGNED by director Claude Chabrol on the title page. Text in French. A torrid, bourgeois crime drama set in a small French village, where desire and death convene as tension escalates behind closed doors. When the town's boorish Gaullist mayor discovers his wife and his deputy.....

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 Jeanne-Claude proposed to wrap the Museum of Modern Art in.....

London: Hammer Films, 1971. Draft script for the 1972 British horror film. A brooding, dissonant film entry in the great Hammer canon of the 1970s, about a naive young woman who travels from Liverpool to London thinking she is going to meet the man of her dreams, only to wind up with a psychotic killer. Green wrappers, with a die-cut.....

Mexico City, Mexico: Excelsior, 1975. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and signed simply as "Julio," which is typical of how he signed for friends. Text in Spanish. A critique of large corporations' reach into Latin America, designed as a superhero comic book featuring the French serial antihero Fantomas. The title.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Complete script for the 1952 film. The seventh of the nine legendary films made by the acting team who redefined onscreen chemistry for a generation, and whose long-time offscreen romance gave their work an added depth. The second of two masterful screenplays by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, following "Adam's Rib" (1949). The screenplay.....

Rome: G. Ricordi, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Maggie - the direct cause of this piece. / With thanx! [sic] / James / 28 March, 1972 / Roma." Printed musical score, reproduced from the composer's original holograph score. An early pioneer of computer music, James Dashow is also a composer of electro-acoustic music.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Safari guide Van Heflin is hired to hunt murderer Abel McCracken in the wilds of Africa, though the guides motives may go beyond his assigned task. Pink titled wrappers, noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper, dated September 24, 1953. Title page.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1956 film, here under the working title "Children of the Covered Wagon." Walt Disney's working copy, with "Walt Disney," in holograph ink on upper left margin of Walt Disney Productions label on the front wrapper (not in Disney's hand), and annotations in red, blue and graphite holograph pencil throughout, all.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. James Coburn returns as Derek Flint in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to "Our Man Flint" (1966). Flint's boss assigns him to stop a group of women on the Virgin Islands who hope to take over the world. The enemy women are kidnapping astronauts and replacing them.....

Canada: Mount Everest Enterprises, 1975. Final Draft script for the 1976 Canadian film. Uncredited producer Don Carmody's working script, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the first leaf. Notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout by Carmody and (more extensively) by the script supervisor, presumably Lynne Twentyman, on both rectos and versos. Twentyman worked on the film under.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. Known as the father of documentary, Flaherty mixed real life footage with staged events to capture portraits of people surviving in extreme environments in films such as "Nanook of the North" (1922), "Moana" (1926).....

Venice: Venice International Film Festival, 1952. Director John Ford's framed International Award from the Venice International Film Festival for his classic 1952 film, "The Quiet Man." Ford also received a nomination for the Golden Lion Award at the same festival and went on to win the 1953 Academy Award for Best Director for the film. Begun in 1932, the Venice.....

France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel by Jean Redon, about a doctor who goes to horrific.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. First Temporary Draft script for the 1930 film "A Lady's Morals," seen here under the title "Jenny Lind." Copy belonging to musical director Arthur Freed, with his holograph pencil name to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore stars as Jenny Lind, the 1850's Swedish opera sensation whose exceptional.....

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.....

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 her mother, leaving a trail of blood in her wake.....

Venice, CA: Blum Group, 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20,000 prize. Shot on location in California. Lime green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated.....

N.p. N.p., 1959. Three vintage photographs from performances of The Living Theatre's 1959 play, "The Connection" by Jack Gelber. One photograph from the original 1959 production, with a printed caption in English on the verso. The other two photographs from a 1961 production in Paris, with the stamp of photographer Roger Pic on the versos. All three photographs with holograph.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1963 film. With the stamp of photographer Aldo Durazzi and a press agency stamp on the verso. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously furthering his own.....

Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1985. First Edition. One of 500 copies (this being No. 196) SIGNED and numbered by Gorey. Prospectus for the edition laid in. A cut-apart style book in illustrated tan wrappers with two side-stitched spines. The book is "read" by independently flipping the captions and illustrations on each side . A tiny crease to one corner of.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's wealthy family. One of Shirley Temple's earliest starring roles, and her first and only on-screen appearance with.....

New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a......

Kyoto, Japan: File, 1994. First Edition. A monograph of Hopper's photographs from a 1991 visit to Tokyo and a 1994 visit to Kyoto, published in Kyoto in 1994. Only one printing is known and to our knowledge these photographs have never appeared in book form since. Fine saddle stitched two-color photo illustrated wrappers.

London: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. First Draft script for the 1960 UK film. File copy belonging to the film's director Ken Hughes, with a typescript note tipped on to the title page requesting its return to the director and noting it is the only script in existence for the film. Peter Finch delivers a strong performance as the inimitable author.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Final shooting script for the 1981 film "Death Hunt," directed by Peter Hunt and starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board, and is INSCRIBED on the first blank by producer Albert S. Ruddy: "Lee / Thank.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on October 26 at the ANTA Playhouse. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page.Playwright William Inge's rewrite of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 play "Picnic", about an attractive young drifter whose arrival into a small town inadvertently causes upheaval among its residents. Although "Summer Brave" was.....

Redding, CT: Charles Ives, 1922. First Edition. Second issue, in publisher's blue cloth with titles and rule in gilt on the front board and spine, and with pages 37-39 printed, and no dust jacket as issued. Fine condition. A collection of avant-garde short pieces in every imaginable format (marches, violin sonatas, group sing-a-longs, etc.) written by Ives using the poetry.....

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: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Final corrected manuscript for Stuart Kaminsky's novel, "The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance," ultimately published in book form by St. Martin's Press in 1986. Included is a typed letter signed by Pam Hoenig, assistant editor at St. Martin's Press, on the publisher's stationery, dated January 27, 1986, addressed to Kaminsky and confirming that the.....

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cliff Robertson, who portrayed the title character in the 1968 film adaptation of Keyes' novel, "Charly." Basis for the 1968 film, Charly, considered by many to be Cliff Robertson's finest performance. In a custom clamshell box.Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An impeccably fresh, Fine copy of Keyes' science.....

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 well as a number of holograph annotations, primarily denoting the.....

Los Angeles: Samuel L. Bronkowitz, 1977. Shooting script for the 1977 film. Working copy belonging to producer Robert K. Weiss, with his ownership name in holograph orange ink at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Photocopied annotations throughout. Written by and starring the Zucker brothers, the duo who would eventually make their fame with similarly irreverent comedy hits.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie, considered one of his finest efforts, and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir, which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others.....