New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance at the University of Illinois: "At one point [Snyder] crawled.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's card laid in. Also laid in is the additional perforated fold out reviews that originally accompanied the first issue jacket. Winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Just a slight lean, with light rubbing to the cloth on.....

N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein received unprecedented access to student leaders, activists, various committee meetings.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs, a trade advertisement, a film program, and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III, with images prominently featuring Ordway, production designer Harry Lange, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, and others. One photograph.....

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1975. Vintage borderless double weight photograph, circa 1975, featuring mystery writer John Le Carre in conversation with an unknown figure to the right of the photograph. Partially stricken attribution rubber stamp to the verso, with pencil holograph annotations indicating the copyright belonging to photographer Marina Cicogna. One of the best-known espionage novel writers, John Le Carre spent.....

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 role for Sean Connery, who was previously stuck being typecast.....

Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], 1977. Collection of four vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1977 film. All four with labels specific to the film's French release affixed to the bottom right corner of the recto, noting the film's French title, "Labyrinth Man." Three with provenance stamps on the verso, and one with the stamp of Cinemagence.David.....

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1974. First American edition in hardcover, originally published as a paperback original by Fawcett in 1964. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Bookplate of noted collector Duke Collier on the front endpaper. Just a touch of rubbing in a couple of spots, with none of the usual fading to the sensitive jacket spine. A bright, fresh.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Revised Final Draft script for the 1955 film. The 8th and final collaboration of James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and the second film to be released in VistaVision. "Dutch" (Stewart) is a professional baseball player and an ex-pilot who fought during WWII who is recalled to service with the US Air Force. Many speculate that the.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author to legendary film director Tod Browning: "To Tod Browning / with admiration / Horace McCoy / Hollywood, August, 1935." A wonderful association. Horace McCoy was a Hollywood screenwriter in 1935, and at the same time Tod Browning was making one of his last.....

Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions L'Age D'Homme, 1981. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Satyajit Ray on the half title page: "For Pierre Goulliard / Satyajit Ray / 1/4/83." Ray's contribution to twentieth century cinema is inestimable, and brought the reality of Indian culture to the world by way of gifted visual storytelling and directorial genius. He only visited America.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released.....

Paris: Arte Adrien Maeght, 1961. Original lithograph by Joan Miro, one of an unknown number of copies printed. Listed as Figure 295 in "Miro Lithographs II," the second volume of the artist's catalogue raisonne. 19.25 X 26.25 inches, linen backed and rolled. Near FineMiro Lithographs II 295.

Tokyo: Shintoho Film, 1950. Two Draft scripts for the 1950 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Selichi Funabashi . A young servant girl Hamako has recently begun working for her hero, Madame Yuki, who quickly disillusioned her to her dream when she is presented with a list of the Madame's personal problems. First draft:White illustrated titled perfect.....

Paris: N.p., 1966. Archive of 16 photographs of Henry Moore and his sculptures, circa 1966. 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. Struck from the original negative circa 1976.Henry Moore (1898-1986) was an English sculptor best known for his semi-abstract bronze and marble.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, here under the working title "The Outlaws are in Town." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Lonny Kesh, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil and his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. Lonny Kesh (Arthur) works his family's farm in Georgia, but has big.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First American Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper: "To Mrs. Norman / from / Liam O'Flaherty / Sept 27th 1925." The author's landmark first novel, a Haycraft Queen cornerstone, and basis for two films, one in 1929 and a better one in 1935 directed by John.....

New York: Arts at St. Anna's, 1991. Original program for a performance by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by David Alan Miller, held at The Town Hall in New York City on June 8 and 9, 1981. The performance featured four pieces: "Freeform" and "Shivering Air," composed by Glenn Branca, "Sanctus," composed by John Cale, and "The Forest," composed.....

Unknown: Unknown, Circa 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. A pitch black comedy about a man sentenced to death who survives his hanging, leading to a two-hour debate among his executioners over how best to handle the situation. Loosely based on a 1958 crime and execution, and a rare (for its time) discussion of the discrimination faced by ethnic.....

Rome: Arco Films, Circa 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the set of the 1966 film. Italian "Uccellacci e Uccellini" stamp, photographer "Divo Cavicchioli" stamp, and provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso.An old man (played by the famous Italian performer Toto) and his son (Ninetto Davoli) are walking along the road.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983. Original press kit for the 1973 music documentary chronicling David Bowie's final live performance as Ziggy Stardust. Included in the press kit are four vintage black and white film still photographs and 21 pages of production information. Shot on location with only four cameras in London's Odeon theater on July 3, 1973, the film witnesses.....

[unknown]: Brut Productions, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 television film, here under the working title "Welcome to Xanadu," which originally aired on ABC on October 10, 1975. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page.Based on the 1968 novel "Welcome to Xanadu" by Nathaniel Benchley. A fugitive mental.....

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 10-way tie for first place, "A Matter of Life and.....

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.....

Shepperton: London Film Productions, 1949. Vintage reference photograph of director Carol Reed, music director Hubert Clifford, film editor Oswald Hafenrichter, and notably the composer of the film's soundtrack, Anton Karas, on the set of the 1949 film noir. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with a studio stamp.An unemployed pulp fiction novelist travels to postwar Vienna.....

New York: Carnegie Hall, 1979. Original poster for a WKCR Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cale, Leroy Jenkins, The Model Citizens, and others. April 1, 1979. Fine condition, on archival linen. In the 1970s and 1980s, Carnegie Hall—as well as forward-looking radio stations such as WKCR and WNYC—hosted a number of important performances by.....

Santa Ana, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols, inscribed by Nichols to L.A. Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols—with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in holograph pencil at the top right.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1963. Archive of 15 vintage borderless photographs from the 1963 film, each photograph showing director Alain Resnais on the set, often accompanied by cast, crew, or camera and lighting set ups. With holograph annotations on the verso of a few photographs. In a small seaside town, an antiques dealer, her former lover, and her son all.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film.Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler "Sanctuary." The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her and forces her into prostitution. Every bit as controversial as the source material, the film’s depiction of the assault was.....

Los Angeles: Maverick International, 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, and holograph annotations on nearly every page. Also included is an extensive archive of material relating to the production, including contracts, budgets, cast and crew lists, call sheets, script supervisor.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil on page 141. Winston Miller is credited as a screenwriter on the front wrapper, but he went uncredited upon the film's release. Reuniting the stars of Universal's "The Spoilers" (also 1942), and based on a......

New York: William Morrow, 1940. First American Edition, preceded by the UK edition published by Heinemann the same year.Basis for the 1949 film, directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison.Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Tap to the lower front corner. Faint foxing to the edges of the jacket flaps, with light edgewear and a small.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced 1964 British remake of Robert Siodmak's 1933 German-Austrian film (the remake directed by Siodmak as well), based on the 1913 novella "Brennendes Geheimmnis" by Stephan Zweig, and with Siodmak once again attached to direct. Copy belonging to screenwriter Arbeid, with his name in holograph ink on the title page. The story.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950, 1952. Four Draft scripts for three Pete Smith production shorts "The Camera Caught It" (1954), "Bandage Bait" (1951), and "Bargain Madness" (1951), seen here under the title "Dollar Day." Collection of scripts for three of Pete Smith's later short productions: "The Camera Caught It," "Bandage Bait," and "Bargain Madness." "Bargain Madness" features a passive.....

Seattle, WA and Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads 1977, No. 7-12. First Edition. The poet's magnum opus, published one year before his suicide in 1978. Stanford's landmark primitive style of poetry, which involved strange tall tales and recurring characters, rivers, and a constant focus on death, has attained an almost mythical status among students of avant-garde and.....

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Two volumes. A chronological reference of Alfred Stieglitz' work, spanning the length of his illustrious career in American photography. Both volumes Fine and unread with no dust jacket in a Fine linen slipcase as issued, and housed in the publisher's shipping carton. Shipping billed at cost.

Paris: Albin Michel, 1926. First Edition, volume two only. Ex-library copy, with contemporary hardcover library binding and a rubber stamp to a number of pages. Very Good plus, with foxing and toning to pages and hinges starting. Without dust jacket. A book of political cartoons and anecdotes by the active artist. Text in French. A good candidate for rebinding.

San Francisco: Bill Graham Productions, 1976. Original poster advertising the final performance by The Band at Bill Graham's Winterland in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976. Not to be confused with the resulting film of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese.By the mid-1970s, after a furious number of performances with The Band, Robbie Robertson had become road-shy.....

N.p. N.p., 1968. Collection of three single weight and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now," performed on July 24 at a Carmelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon, France. Three of the photographs with stamps of the Gamma photo agency.....

Manchester: Factory Records, 1980. FACT 30. Vintage cassette containing interviews with members of the Sex Pistols, housed in a vinyl pouch. Designed by Peter Saville.Factory Records’ Christmas gift for 1980, despite having never released any music by the band, was a cassette containing a 1977 interview of Sid Vicious and Steve Jones by Judy Vermorei on side A, and an.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film, printed in a striking blue and fluorescent pink.Half-Navajo, Vietnam veteran, Green Beret, and hapkido master Billy Jack defends the peace-loving, free-thinking Freedom School from intolerant and bigoted locals. Originally unable to find distribution, director, screenwriter and star Tom Laughlin booked the film into theatres himself, and.....

N.p. N.p., 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Rare."Love at Twenty" is anthology film on the titular theme by five filmmakers, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffault, and Andrzej Wajda, united with a score by Georges Delerue and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson.Truffaut's short is the second of five films which follow.....

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 annotations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Vintage herald (or broadside) for the 1924 film. A clever and excessively rare bit of advertisement, designed as a "Wanted" poster, pulling together the main character from Frank Norris' novel (John "Doc" McTeague) a photo of "McTeague" (Gibson Gowland), and mention of a specific screening at San Francisco's Imperial Theatre on Market Street (today.....

New York: Theatre de Lys / Edison Theatre, 1970-1971. Archive of ten photographs, two programs, and an early mimeograph summary of performances for a little-seen production of Kurt Vonnegut's play, "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," directed by Michael J. Kane. Photographs by Bert Andrews, with his stamp on the verso of each, along with holograph ink annotations regarding the actors in.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1967. Collection of ten vintage photographs, including eight borderless reference photographs, one borderless promotional photograph of Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton, and one promotional studio still photographof the same, from the 1967 film. Nine of these with a mimeo snipe on verso, one with additional “David Lasceller” stamp on verso. Peter Watkin's outrageous and paranoiac dystopian.....

London: Ward Lock, 1933. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the quintessential 1946 film noir "The Spiral Staircase," directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Dorothy McGuire and George Brent. Rare.Very Good plus in brown cloth-covered boards, lacking the rare dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper, with moderate foxing to the page edges through about page 27.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final script for the classic 1938 film, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," based on the novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, directed by Allan Dwan, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written for the screen by Don Ettlinger and Karl Tunberg, and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, and Gloria Stuart. This Darryl F. Zanuck's copy, with.....

London: Methuen, 1918. First Edition. A collection of short stories, written by the prolific, early twentieth century British husband-and-wife mystery writing team. Very Good in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Pages significantly toned though still somewhat supple. Jacket with minor chipping along the top and bottom edge (no loss to titling), neat cellotape reinforcement along the.....