Sao Paolo: Metron, 1989. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated 14.2.90 by the artist on the front endpaper: "Por caros Nomita e George, Este immenso prazer em recebe-los aqui, assim tao espontaneamente. Meu abraco amigo e os uatos de felicidades, o Carlos Bracher, Ouro Preto, 14.2.90". Fine in a Near Fine...
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...
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." Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An impeccably fresh, Fine copy of Keyes' science fiction classic, normally found well-worn. Basis for the 1968...
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...
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Patterson’s superb first novel, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. About Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
London: Merton Park Studios, 1960. Shooting script for the 1960 British film noir, "Clue of the New Pin," later rebroadcast as Season 1, episode 5 of the British series, "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre." Based on Wallace's 1923 novel. Trasmere is thrifty and does not trust banks, so he keeps...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. An attractive, unrestored example of the author's first book, a cornerstone of noir detective fiction, and basis for the Howard Hawks film noir, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is uniformly toned, but...
N.p. N.p. 1989. Original portrait of Shirley MacLaine, taken circa 1960s, Shot, struck, and mounted by photographer, Bob Willoughby, and INSCRIBED by him on the verso: "To Michael [and] Deirdre / Happy Daze! / Bob Willoughby / 11-24-89 / Coolmaine Castle." Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film musical, "Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John...
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...
New York: Andy Warhol, 1965. Vintage mimeograph poster advertising the world premiere of Andy Warhol's seminal films, "Vinyl" and "Poor Little Rich Girl." Photo illustrated with a repeating image of Sedgwick and Malanga from the film. Both films were shot by Warhol at the Factory. Technically, this was the first screening...
N.p. David Allen Coe, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in trade wrappers as issued. SIGNED by David Allen Coe on the front wrapper. The maverick country singer's primitively printed autobiography, detailing his time in 11 different correctional institutions--from juvenile detention centers to prison--beginning at age 9, followed by a career as...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1936. Vintage sepia toned double weight photograph from the filming of the 1936 Universal Studios newsreel "You Can't Get Away With It." Shot in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, on October 14, 1936, the photo shows Hoover filming his Assistant...
Paris: Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the Jean-Luc Godard film, shot in 1960 but not released until 1963 due to a ban in France over torture scenes. Thus it was Godard's second feature film, but fourth to be released. This photograph was taken and struck...
N.p. N.p. 1965. Archive of four vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1966 film. Shot and struck by special photographer John Bryson. The photographs feature Frankenheimer, actor James Garner, and cinematographer Lionel Linden. Bryson was a photojournalist for Life magazine and many other publications, and was also a noted...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting"...
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Madrid: Deseo El, 1989. Original film poster for the 1989 Spanish film, directed by Pedro Almodovar. Juan Gatti's extremely innovative lithographic design was co-opted for the US film poster, but to lesser effect. Almodovar's comedy introduced Antonio Banderas to the English-speaking world (or don't you remember?), and was instrumental in...
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N.p. N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless press photograph of Mick Jagger in the studio, from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With a few penciled notations on the verso indicating placement. An image of Mick Jagger in the studio, from one of...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Revised Final Script for the 1938 film, "Just Around the Corner" (here under the working title, "Lucky Penny"), directed by Irving Cummings, based on a story by Paul Girard Smith, written for the screen by Ethel Hill, J.P. McEvoy, and Darrell Ware, and starring Shirley...
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 176) SIGNED by the author. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben, Paramount, and an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1954 film, nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp...
London: Anglo-EMI, 1970. Collection of three vintage black-and-white borderless double weight reference photographs Julie Ege, taken as test shots for the 1971 film. Ege is shown sitting in cloth folding chair with her name on it, in various positions designed to hide her breasts as unsuccessfully as possible. Ege, an actress...
Beverly Hills, CA: The Mirisch Corporation / United Artists, 1967. Collection of five original title card maquettes for the 1967 film hand lettered by Harold Adler. Based on the 1965 novel by John Ball. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Author's first book, a hard-boiled Depression-era classic, basis for the 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York and Gig Young (who won an Oscar for his role as the dance marathon promoter). Near Fine in a bright...
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...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Original Screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her notations in holograph pencil throughout, noting revisions to dialogue and direction, and her name on several pages. Based on Rex Beach's 1906 novel, about a miner in Alaska named Roy...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1962. Original Pacific Title hand painted artwork for the original trailer advertising the classic 1962 film. In the final trailer, Gregory Peck's name as the lead actor preceded this card, making this a slightly alternate draft of the design. 14 x 20 inches. White gouache on...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches (119 x....
Altadena, CA: Twin Palms, 1992. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies (this being No. 57) SIGNED by Horst. A wonderful retrospective of the great fashion photographer's work, with photographs ranging from 1932 to 1990. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase, as issued.
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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...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film, an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcée looking to remarry. She falls for her physician, Dr. Karl...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film. Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, written for the screen by Blatty. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and...
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter signed by O'Hara, addressed to "Bill and Frank," on stationery from Long Island, NY. The letter is dated June 20, 1960 (in pencil), and in it O'Hara expresses his dislike of the public remarks made by Mark...
N.p. ITC Entertainment, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease, and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow, with a star-studded cast, including Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and producer Carlo Ponti's wife...