New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a small rubber stamp for the "Booth Memorial Hospital" on the front endpaper. Bump to the heel, some minute rubbing at the corners. An attractive copy of the author's fourth novel.
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gardner to one of his secretaries: “To Noni, Who wrote it—from the guy who only had to talk it. Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner.” About Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, which is lightly worn at top of spine and corners...
Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Original program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Sigfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924, based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Also included is a supplemental program for UFA theatres, featuring another brief essay on the film...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First Edition. Signed by author Gordon Kahn and by each of the ten men indicted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, known collectively to history as the "Hollywood Ten": Herbert Biberman, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, Edward...
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in...
Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film...
Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs." Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries...
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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...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Original US one sheet poster for the third of Budd Boetticher's seven legendary Westerns with Randolph Scott, one of five released through Columbia. Near the end of Randolph Scott's career, producer Harry Brown, Scott, and Boetticher began work on a series of intelligent films...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Richard Lupoff on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dick Lupoff / Best of luck to a fellow Creature-Feature fan / Anne Rice / May, 1976." Anne Rice was still attending school in San Francisco at this time...
London: Don Letts, 1979. Original handbill for the London premiere of the 1977 film documentary, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema Club, preceding the New York premiere of the film by nearly 10 months. The definitive London punk documentary. Shot by Don Letts on 8mm film almost exclusively...
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, circa 1889. Three parts in one, preceded by the original 4-volume folio edition published privately in the 1840s and the quarto editions that followed in the 1850s. 120 hand-colored lithographs after Roberts' drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly. Divided into 3 sections: I. Jerusalem...
Rome: Cino del Duca, 1960. Vintage oversize double weight borderless glossy press photograph by Enrico Appetito from the 1960 film. Bold notation on the verso noting that the photograph is from the archives of the French cinephile magazine, “Cinema 60.” The first film in Antonioni's famed trilogy, followed by La Notte...
New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1955. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration...
New York: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1940-1941 season. Notably, this annual is the earliest advertisement for "Citizen Kane," with a full-page spread featuring Orson Welles, against the working title, "John Citizen, US." Notable among the offerings featured are several literary adaptations...
France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and...
Los Angeles: Saul Bass and Associates, 1960. Original glossy photographic title card for plate No. 3 in the title sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, "Spartacus." This plate was used for the portion of the title card sequence showing "LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus." Only a small portion of the photographic...
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1958. First American Edition, and first English language edition, originally published in Austria in 1955 by Universal Edition. First issue of an eight issue journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, this...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1969. Three scripts from the seminal police procedural television program, from its colorful, pop culture-infused revival made between 1967-1970, starring Jack Webb and Henry Morgan, along with a relentless cast of hippies, druggies, bad parents, priests, and a host of substantially less hip, efficient...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To E.F. / With appreciation for all your kind encouragements / Fondly / Harold R." Basis for the 1958 film "King Creole," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring a different king, Elvis Presley, in...
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...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Vintage black-and-white linen-backed keybook photograph from the set of the 1946 film. Shown are Orson Welles, Loretta Young, and Rhett the dog, accompanied by a team of cameramen and cinematographer Russell Metty. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing. 8 x 10 inches (20...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Collection of 81 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with the film title printed on the wrapper. A businessman named Dwight Dawson (Ameche) attempts to market a program that guarantees business success and quick riches. To...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, presumably quite early on, as "John Ross Macdonald." Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Some fading to the topstain and spine panel lightly toned, else book is Fine. Jacket extremities lightly...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1973. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 21 October 1983. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Importantly, the dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows a price of $5.95 on the front flap. Only the second such...
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...
New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film...
Tokyo: Seibuno Shinkosha, 1956. First Edition. Text in English. The philosophies and techniques of judo, and an instrumental work in broadening the martial art's popularity post-WWII. Photo-illustrated throughout. Scarce. Fine and unread in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is lightly chipped, with some small closed tears, several accompanied by...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film musical, "Springtime in the Rockies," directed by Irving Cummings, based on the screenplay for the 1936 comedy "Second Honeymoon," written for the screen by Walter Bullock, Ken Englund, Jacques Thery, and Philip Wylie and starring Betty Grable, Carmen...
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966. First Edition. 153 duotone plates. Contains 179 pages of beautiful photogravure illustrations and photos by Van der Elsken, documenting the artist's 14-month tour around the world. Text printed on brown textured paper. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Fine and...
Various cities: Various studios, 1951-1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan) 1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, with TCF stamp...
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A drama about the extreme hazards of marrying for money, featuring early performances by Joan Bennett and Spencer Tracy. Bennett begins as a poor girl from Missouri, the daughter of a railway brakeman. Tracy works for the same...
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N.p. Cliff Leary, 1929. Vintage sepia photograph of the world premiere of the landmark 1929 film, at the legendary Criterion Theatre in New York. Shot by photographer Cliff Leary, with his stamp on the verso, as well as a numeric reference number (6434), and the stamp of a Scandanavian press...
Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French petite poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate proteges, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1966. Revised Estimating script for the 1967 film. Winner of three Academy Awards. Based on the 1960 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe, winner of four Tony awards, and itself based on "The Once and Future King," T.H. White’s 1958 adaptation of Arthurian legends. Set in...