New York: La Mama ETC, 1975-1976. Archive of four posters from productions hosted by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, including "Fragments of a Trilogy" (Andrei Serban & Elizabeth Swados, 1975), "A Rat's Mass" (Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor, 1976), "Anais" (Tom O'Horgan, 1976), and "Quarry" (Meredith Monk, 1976). Founded in 1961 by African-American "Off-Off Broadway" pioneer Ellen Stewart, La Mama...
Hollywood: Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures, 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film, a shortened 115 minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock, who is credited on the herald. Interestingly, the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA, apparently just prior to the formation of the larger umbrella production...
Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece--an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his notations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is...
N.p. N.p., 1959-82. Notebook belonging to legendary amateur filmmaker Sid Laverents containing 73 pages of holograph notes on various film and camera tests, lighting, settings, and other technical aspects of filmmaking made between circa 1959 and 1982. Included are 21 film strips laid or tipped into the notebook, with accompanying notations, and each generally between three to four inches in...
London: Cineguild, 1946. Two vintage black-and-white reference photographs, featuring director David Lean, actors Alec Guinness and John Mills, cinematographer Guy Green, camerman Bob Huke, and others on the set of the 1946 film. Both photos with mimeograph snipes detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and Celia Green. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 32.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1937. Vintage photograph for the 1937 film, showing stars Lombard, McMurray, and Butterworth relaxing with director Leisen behind the scenes. With an archive stamp of Argentine writer and film critic Israel Chas de Cruz, and holograph pen notations identifying the subjects on the verso. The second of three adaptations of the Broadway play "Burlesque," following "The Dance...
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Paris: Les Films 13, 1966. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1966 film. With agency stamps and holograph notations on the versos. Anne Gauthier (Anouk Aimee) and Jean-Louis Duroc (Jean-Louis Trintignant) meet as they drop their children off at boarding school. She works as a script supervisor and he as a race-car driver. They quickly become friends and as...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Vintage audio recording on three quarter inch tape, three minutes and 30 seconds long, of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Radio Free London circa 1971. The couple spend the time advocating for free speech and on behalf of the founders of "Oz" magazine, then on trial for obscenity and "conspiracy to corrupt public morals." "Oz" was...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957 play by Ronald Alexander. An older couple (Webb and Wyman)...
Los Angeles: Jerry Lewis Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1963. Final White Script, with rainbow revisions, for the 1964 comedy. With occasional holograph notations throughout. Intended as a sequel to Jerry Lewis' classic "The Bellboy," originally titled "Son of Bellboy," Lewis once again plays a bellboy named Stanley. This time, a group of movie executives choose him as an easily manipulated...
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], 1977. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1977 film. With agency stamps on the verso of five of the photographs and a label with the film's title in French and English affixed to the recto of four photographs at the lower left corner. David Lynch's first feature film. The AFI...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has the usual fading to the colors at the heel, and some creasing and light rubbing at the crown. Presents quite well overall. Lew Archer.
Santa Barbra, CA: Capra Press, 1981. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies (this being Letter "J") SIGNED by author Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty, who contributes the introduction, as well as an additional inscription by the book's publisher, Ralph Sipper, dated 1981. An vintage photograph of the two authors is laid into a pocket tipped on to the front...
Santa Barbara, CA: Cordelia Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 15 roman-numbered copies issued (this being No. III), SIGNED by both Kenneth Millar and Margaret Millar. Brief owner notation on the rear endpaper, now partially erased, else Fine in full blue leather, with a photo of the two authors with their high school deabating team laid in, as issued. The...
Italy: Excelsa Film, 1951. Vintage double weight press photograph of writer Curzio Malaparte sitting in the director's chair during the filming of his sole cinematic effort, "The Forbidden Christ." With holograph pencil notations regarding layout on both the recto and verso, and the stamp of photographer Osvaldo Civirani and a mimeo snipe on the verso. Nominated for the Palme d'Or...
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Holographic ink notations throughout with casting director Alixe Gordin signature. An unusually titled film, alternately known as "Murder by Illusion," follows the staged 'murder' of a mob informant and its chaotic aftermath. Written by novice screenwriters, and originally intended for television, the film was warmly received by viewers...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1952. Collection of 86 vintage photographs from the 1953 film, made specially for director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Photographs are mounted recto and verso (i.e., 2 per leaf) on heavy stock and housed in a leather bound three ring presentation binder with gilt titles and Mankiewicz's name on the front board. Shot between August and October...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Original one sheet for the 1955 film. The seventh of nine spectacular revisionist Westerns Anthony Mann directed between 1950 and 1960, and his fifth with James Stewart. One of the best and leanest films by the acclaimed director-actor pairing, one you will hear come up in a discussion that always includes "Winchester '73" (1950)...
Los Angeles: Callboard Theatre, Circa 1970s. Vintage poster for three performances of the 1969 play held at the Callback Theatre in Los Angeles, circa early 1970s. Directed by and starring Gerald McRaney, who would go on to a long and successful career in film and television as an actor. Mart Crowley's Off-Broadway play, about a group of gay men who...
France: Euro International Film, 1972. Vintage borderless oversize photograph from the 1972 film, showing director Jean-Pierre Melville making a point to actors Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set. With the stamp of photographer J.P. Bonnotte on the verso. A police detective, played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville's films, is on the...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1947. First Draft script for the 1948 film noir, based on the 1947 play by Arthur Miller. The carbon typescript from which the mimeograph copies issued by the studio were made, so noted in holograph pencil on the front wrapper in the hand of studio secretary Marion Pecht ("Copy from which we mimeod 1st draft")...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo, three volumes. Beginning with Roman Britain and ending with theatre of the late 1990s, the collection presents a picture of the evolution of British theatre. Includes a bibliography and index. Contributors include Dennis Kennedy, Sophie Nield, Jan McDonald, John Bull, and Liz Tomlin, et al. Black-and-white photographs throughout. All volumes Near Fine...
Paris: Editions Universitaires / Classiques du Cinema no. 21, 1966. Later printing, trade softcover. INSCRIBED by legendary director Howard Hawks on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / Howard Hawks." The genre-hopping director of such classics as "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Big Sleep" (1946), "The Thing from Another World" (1951), and "Rio Bravo" (1959), Hawks' critical reputation as...
Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios, circa 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film, seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a photographically reproduced character list laid in with single holograph ink notation. Text in Japanese. The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one of the screen’s great heroes, the character of Zatoichi, a......
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Original US half sheet poster for the 1947 film adaptation of Chandler's fourth novel. An unusual and ambitious film noir, Montgomery's final MGM picture, the entire film shot from Marlowe's perspective with the protagonist only ever visible in reflections and during a few scenes when he addresses the audience directly. 28 x 22 inches...
Paris: N.p., 1966. Archive of 16 vintage photographs of Henry Moore and his sculptures. With the photographer's stamp on the verso of five photographs, and the photographer's signature in holograph black ink on the verso of four photographs. Henry Moore (1898-1986) was an English sculptor best known for his semi-abstract bronze and marble sculptures. His work ranged from resembling human forms...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1974 blaxploitation film. Copy belonging to Unit Production Manager Doc Merman whose name is written in holograph pencil on the front wrapper along with notes: "To Brad, Merry Xmas", and "AC Dye", referring to a product used to detect leaks in automotive Air Conditioning cooling systems, likely needed for "Willie Dynamite's"...
New York: Signet Books, 1950. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback of Nabokov's first novel, originally titled "Kamera Obscura." INSCRIBED by Nabokov for publisher Kurt Enoch: "Vladimir Nabokov / IV.1950." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Apart from the rarity of the signature, the book was inscribed Nabokov a full five...
New York: Vanguard, 1959. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The Nobel prize winning author's first book, and basis for the 2001 film directed by Ismail Merchant. Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint splash to the top page edge. Jacket has a sticker shadow on the front panel, with light...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923. First Edition. Described on the jacket as "the novel of The Woman in Business," and dedicated "To the Working Women of America." Charles Norris was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a....
New York: Signet Books, 1960. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback. SIGNED by O'Connor on the title page to publisher, Kurt Enoch. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. O’Connor’s second novel, published four years before her death, follows the struggle of a young boy with fate, and epitomizes the Southern Gothic.....
Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions, 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro, with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yusjiro Ozu’s penultimate film, about a widower and his daughters, who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame, while also trying to...
New York: Lincoln Center / List Art Poster and Print Program, 1968. Original serigraph designed by artist Henry Pearson for the Sixth New York Film Festival, held at Lincoln Center on September 17-28, 1968. One of 144 copies (this being No. 138) SIGNED and NUMBERED by Pearson. The New York Film Festival was founded in 1963 by Amos Vogel and...
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Talent Associates Ltd./N.S.I. / ABC Pictures, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title, and title of the source material, "The Siege of Trencher’s Farm." Based on Gordon M. Williams’s 1969 novel. Director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter David Z. Goodman kept only the central concept of the siege itself, but completely altered the circumstances around.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1973. No. R7678. First Edition, a paperback original. Melvin Van Peebles' copy, with his name, company name ("Y.E.A.H., Inc."), address, and phone number in holograph ink on the inside front wrapper. Contains the script and lyrics for Van Peebles' Broadway play, a series of 19 politically outspoken, darkly comic, and sexually charged musical monologues that explore.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Script archive built around the Revised First Draft script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to Burt Bluestein, with his name on the title page in holograph pencil, and notations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Bluestein, although not credited at the film's release, was presumably involved with production design, as indicated by the notations concerning...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 film, showing actor Faye Dunaway brandishing a pistol while director Arthur Penn describes the scene and co-star Warren Beatty looks on. With the stamp of photographer Lee Johnson on the verso. The beginning of the New Hollywood Cinema. Screenwriters Robert Benton...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage contact sheet containing 12 test images of a sultry Kim Novak in a somewhat otherworldly parlor room setting, shot by noted photographer Peter Basch for the 1955 film. With Basch's name and studio address along two margins of the recto, and two different stamps, crediting both Basch and his studio, on the verso...
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First Edition, in a later printing dust jacket. Jacket has a different design than that of the first printing, red with black titles and a yellow printed Pulitzer Prize Novel band. Winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize and Peterkin's most important book, with dialogue written in the Gullah dialect of South Carolina. Very Good plus in...
Paris: Carthago Films, Circa 1985. Shooting script, undated, for the 1986 film. With substantive working notations in variously colored holograph ink on a few pages. Noted as copy No. 7 in red ink at the top right corner of the first blank. One of Polanski's most underrated efforts, in many ways a companion to "The Fearless Vampire Killers" in that...
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Paris: Films Polski, 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen, including a few candid moments, and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical notations in holograph pencil on the versos. Also included is an original French language press packet for the film...
London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stitched illustrated self wrappers, 7 x 9 inches (18 x 24 cm)...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Final corrected manuscript for Bill Pronzini's novel, "Scattershot," ultimately published in book form by St. Martin's Press in 1982. Included is a typed letter signed by Pronzini, on his stationery, addressed to Robert O. Robinson at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York, stating that this the only working manuscript in existence. Ribbon copy typescript...
N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes...
New York: New York University Press / Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. First Edition. First issue, with no additional note by Reich at the Introduction page, in the rare dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Reich in 1976 on the front pastedown: "For Denis Murphy / from Steve Reich 4/25/76." An extremely uncommon signature, and...
New York: Atheneum, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Jean Renoir on the title page: "To Dan and Estelle Rocklin. / Best wishes, / Jean Renoir." Garson Kanin writes of the book: "Jean Renoir's book is a Jean Renoir film. I can think of no higher praise." Renoir went from sitting for his father's paintings as a boy to becoming the...
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France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF) / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink notations with the name of the production, credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet, and with...
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Paris: Ajym Films, 1961. Original French moyenne poster (affiche) for the 1961 French film. Winner of the 1962 Sutherland Trophy for best first or second feature by the British Film Institute. Scarce, with only two copies found in Cine-ressources. A labor of love released after numerous financial woes and a three-year production schedule, "Paris Belongs to Us" did not cause...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by Sonny Rollins in black marker on the front endpaper, along with a small doodle of a sixteenth note couplet. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Full provenance available.
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To George and Sally / Who were so good as the Inspector and Mrs. Simmons when we did the play in Fairfield / June 1942 / James Ronald." An important historical inscription. The book was published in 1939, and was apparently produced as a local play...
Italy / France: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate / Franco London Films, 1954. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1954 film, showing Ingrid Bergman tied to the titular stake, with actor Tullio Carminati beside her, and director Roberto Rossellini in the foreground. With stamps identifying the film (under the English language title "Joan at the Stake") and the New York...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film (though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script, as it was a rewrite issued during shooting). AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20, 1932 date on the script, revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23...
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha, 2009. First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 50 copies (this being No. 15) signed by the photographer Eduardo Hernandez Santos, with two signed original prints all housed in a gray clamshell case. A photographic exploration of one of Havana's hidden communities. Interweaving stark photography with excerpts from...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1949. First Edition. The author's first book, one of the best Westerns ever written, which in 1953 was adapted into one of the best films the genre has ever seen (with a script by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.), in which a lone gunfighter comes to the aid of a small community. Though not nominated, Alan Ladd gave an...
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg in the year of publication, almost certainly to a fellow Paramount house screenwriter, on the front endpaper: "For Charley / With affectionate regards / From the guy in the adjoining cell. / Budd / March 29, 1941." Regardless of whether the inscribee is Charles Brackett, Charles MacArthur, or some Charley...
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London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and [she] helped him vis a vis the fine details of the...
London: Arthur Barker, 1952. First UK Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light soil to the boards. Jacket has a chip at the crown (titling not affected) and a couple of smaller chips at the corners, with light rubbing overall. A very presentable copy of Spillane's first book, the first Mike Hammer mystery, and the...
N.p. N.p., circa 1969. Original ribbon copy typescript for Tay Garnett's screenplay adaptation of Mickey Spillane's 1967 novel. Profusely annotated by Garnett in blue and red ink on every page, and with a notations by him at the top right corner of the first leaf: "First Draft (Work Copy)," "Screenplay by Tay Garnett," and "From Mickey Spillane's novel." Raoul Walsh eventually.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1953. Original American three-sheet illustrated poster for the 1953 film noir, "I, the Jury," based on the novel by Mickey Spillane, directed by Harry Essex and starring Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer. This entry was the first of four Spillane B-movie adaptations made by the small production house Parklane, each of which featured a different...
New York: Robert A. Ballou, 1933. First Edition. One of 598 copies printed. Near Fine and unread in a dust jacket that is Fine but for some light chipping at the crown (titling not affected). A minute bit of toning at the top of the backstrip, in the same spot. An exceptionally bright, fresh example. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell...
Los Angeles: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to light in the late 2010s. Featuring actress Barbara Bach during...
New York: Vintage, 1984. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Stephenson's first book, the only proof copy we have ever encountered, one of presumably only a few copies that were produced. Small crease to the first leaf, else Fine in plain yellow wrappers.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1940. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Binding very slightly cocked, else book is quite clean. Jacket is bright, with some fading to the red spine title, some brief staining on the rear panel, and tiny chips at a couple of corners. An attractive copy of the eighth Nero Wolfe mystery.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To (Mrs.) Ralph's Mother [sic] / Mima / Respectful and Sincerely / Igor Stravinsky / July 13, '59." A deeply personal revelation of the variety of interests of the Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. A companion volume to this one, "Memories and...
N.p. N.p., 1953. Original program for the notorious Broadway flop, "Carnival in Flanders." An interesting and rare piece documenting a directorial and writing effort from the strange final years of Sturges' career. The program was printed well prior to Sturges' arrival to the production--as a result, though the musical was never staged prior to his involvement, it still credits the.....
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1955. First Edition. The sixth Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery, set in Nepal. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. Small, neat owner name on the front flyleaf. An attractive copy.
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph pencil. Small-time deliquent criminals greatly enjoy robbing other people, but fall into big trouble when they accidentally rob the Yakuza. Brown titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 84 leaves, with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine.
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. Two inmates are killed when a police truck is assaulted and the driver is held responsible for negligence. He takes it upon himself to find the bandits which attacked the van. Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 23...
N.p. Genjiro Amato, 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa, who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband, and her husband's murderer. Purple titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Production designer's copy, with holograph pencil notations throughout denoting objects, transportation, and scenarios that will require advance work. Also laid in is a Shooting Call, dated 5/24/79, and noted as the second date of shooting. A blend of science fiction and romance that has over time become...
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Tokyo: Toei Animation, circa 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun," also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. A milestone in the history of Japanese animation, heralded as the first animated feature to successfully disrupt the Walt Disney...
New York: Sire Records, 1977. Vintage UK tour poster for "Talking Heads 77," promoting Talking Heads' first tour outside US borders in--you guessed it--1977. Any vintage posters from the first year of the band's existence are uncommon; this is one we have never encountered before. 27.5 x 19 inches, rolled. In a custom archival frame. Near Fine, with a few faint creases. Rolling Stone 500.
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address, as well as film information, on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary...
New York: Theoretical Records, 1979. Vintage flyer advertising the release of the band's lone 7" titled "Theoretical Record," featuring "My Relationship" b/w "Don't Let Me Stop You." SIGNED by founding member Glenn Branca on the recto. Formed after Branca's previous band Theoretical Girls dissolved, The Static was the first outfit to play Branca's music exclusively and introduced his three octave...
London and New York: Track / MCA, 1974. Original promotional poster for the 1974 album. In the autumn of 1973, while members of The Who were preparing for the film version of "Tommy," John Entwistle was put in charge of compiling an album to counter the widespread bootlegging of the band's concerts. "I tried to arrange it like a parallel...
New York: Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. Copy from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] library, with two of their rubber stamps on the front endpaper at the bottom center, one that reads "FILE COPY," overstamped by another that reads "VAULT COPY," at the top center. Also on the front endpaper is a holograph notation of "#10"at the top right, and a tiny date...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Draft script for the 1938 film. Here under the working title, "Blonde Poison." The fourth of nine films in the very popular B-movie series featuring tenacious female journalist Torchy Blane, which ran from 1937 to 1939. In this installment, Torchy is engaged to be married to a police officer who is suspected of leaking police...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First UK Edition, and first edition in English. Translator Basil Creighton's annotated copy of his own translation of Traven's masterpiece, with notations throughout for serialization. INSCRIBED by him on the front endpaper: "Annotated for serialization / Basil Creighton." The text of the book is filled with penciled holograph notations by Creighton, including cuts, underlining, running...
London: Feliks Topolski, 1965. First and only edition. Folded broadside, revealing when unfolded a large scale graphic and textual portrayal of a poetry reading that became a watershed moment in 1960s British counterculture. SIGNED by Alexander Trocchi at the inclusion of his essay. The broadside was published as a part of Topolski's prolific ongoing "Chronicle" series. The recto of the...
New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white double-sided poster for U2's 1980 US tour promoting their debut album "Boy" and hit single "I Will Follow." One side of the poster advertises press responses to U2's debut album "Boy," alongside a list of the band's upcoming US tour dates, while the other side has a close up image of Bono.....
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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 notations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come...
Denmark: Zentropa Entertainments, 1998. Vintage press kit for the 1998 film. Includes eight page film program, plus a single-fold pamphlet and six vintage borderless color film still photographs. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive, originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller, with their sticker and a Zentropa Productions sticker to the verso. A film in which the collective of main...
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N.p. Grand National Pictures, 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film, "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder," here under the working title (and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release), "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace (Edgar Wallace's son), with his name and holograph notation in pencil to the front wrapper. Based on...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Revised Shooting Final Script for the 1956 film. With holograph notations throughout. Also included is a call sheet and nearly complete scene breakdowns for the film. A dramatic depiction of The United States' early tests and developments of space travel technology, and the experiences of the future astronauts that underwent strenuous and risky trials. A....
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 with Ms. Hayworth. Shot by Van Pelt, with his stamp...
Wengen, Switzerland: Alpine Films, 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Orson Welles and John Gielgud on location in Spain for the shooting of "Chimes at Midnight" in 1965. Shot and struck by noted photographer Nicolas Tikhomoroff, with his rubber stamp and the stamp of his Parisian agency, V.I.P., on the verso. "Chimes at Midnight," Welles' third of three legendary...
Berlin: Decla-Bioscop AG, 1921 [1920]. Vintage double weight matte finish reference photograph from the seminal 1920 silent film. Samuel Goldwyn discovered "Caligari" on a trip abroad, and released this film in the US in 1921, at which time 11 x 14 inch photos such as this one were printed on matte paper. Reference number "4" noted in holograph pencil at...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Original half-sheet poster for the 1954 film, adapted to the screen by Samuel Taylor, based on his play, "Sabrina Fair." A highspot performance for Audrey Hepburn, and a film that Humphrey Bogart took because he liked the idea of playing a character named "Linus." Wilder would work again with Hepburn 3 years later, on "Love in...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Willeford on the front endpaper: "To John Melville / Sincerely / Charles Willeford." The first Hoke Mosley mystery, basis for the superb 1990 film starring Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and arguably the best of the author's many fine novels. Fine and unread in an about Fine...
Boca Raton, FL: Penthouse, 1973. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1973 film, based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1952. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of James Mason on location in Bronson Canyon, California, for the shooting of "Julius Caesar" in 1952. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by Willoughby at the bottom right margin in black ink, with his rubber stamp on the verso (noting his Los Angeles...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Jean Seberg, Otto Preminger, David Niven, and the stand-ins for Seberg and Niven on the set of "Bonjour Tristesse" in the late summer of of 1957 in Cote d'Azur, France. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. Willoughby's notations regarding same present on the...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless film still from the 1960 musical film depicting Shirley MacLaine involved in a hand of cards with assistant director Joseph E. Rickards while Frank Sinatra and director Walter Lang look on. Based on the 1953 Broadway musical by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Shot, struck, and...
New York: Ecco, 1981. First Edition. First issue, with publisher's price of $14.95 present at the top right corner of the front flap (i.e., unclipped). INSCRIBED by Wolff to fellow author Chris Offutt on the half title page: "For Chris / Whose stories I love / Toby / Sept 23, 1994." The author's first collection of stories, and his first book...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1996. Revised Final rainbow production archive and script for the 1997 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member D. Maynard, with their name in holograph ink on the half-title page, and containing 88 tipped in Polaroid photographs throughout detailing cast hairstyles in particular scenes, including numerous images of stars Joan Allen and Dominique Swain. The second and...
London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First Edition. An especially sharp copy, Fine and unread in a bright, fresh, very nearly Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of tiny nicks at the crown, and just a hint of foxing at the front and rear panels, but with none of the toning and general wear normally found. A superb example.
N.p. N.p., 1966. Two autograph letters signed from Cornell Woolrich to Don Yates, on stationery from the Sheraton-Russell Hotel in New York City, where Woolrich lived at the end of his life, each with the original mailing envelope postmarked April 30 and November 27, 1966 respectively. Also included is a Christmas card inscribed by Woolrich to Yates. Content from these...
![Native Son [Sangre negra] (Original British quad poster for the 1951 film). Richard Wright,...](/pictures/thumb/143023.jpg?v=1536616250)
Buenos Aires: Argentina Sono Film, 1951. Original British quad poster for the 1951 film. Based on Richard Wright's 1940 novel. Rare. A striking illustrated poster, evoking the story's desperation and heat at a glance. In a move that placed him in a category with Mickey Spillane, Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as leading man in a film based...
![Eros + Massacre [Eros Plus Massacre] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film). Yoshishige Yoshida,...](/pictures/thumb/143218.jpg?v=1524580528)
Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae, who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring, and It Noe, who lived her...