Amsterdam: Paradiso, 1978. Vintage single color silkscreen poster for a March 23, 1978 performance by The Patti Smith Group at Paradiso, Amsterdam, designed by Martin Kaye. The opening act, Cake, was a Dutch reggae pop group, not to be confused with the 1990s alternative rock band from Sacramento, California.In 1978 The Patti Smith Group was touring in promotion of their.....

Kansas City: T.G. Nichols, 1937. Collection of 32 vintage "citizenship" cards, each featuring a different motivational and inspirational message. Cards numbered on the bottom left corner. Represented in the collection are numbers 1-7, 9-13, 16-17, and 19-36.Character-Culture-Citizenship guide cards were published in the 1930s and 1940s by the T.G. Nichols Company, a book publisher specializing in textbooks. They were then.....

N.p. N.p., 1921. Archive of 41 autograph letters from early silent film actor William S. Hart to his fiance, actress Jane Novak, written on Hart's personal letterhead and dated between May 4 and 26, 1921. Included with the letters are their original mailing envelopes (addressed to Novak's residence at the Biltmore in New York) as well as typescript transcriptions of.....

San Francisco: Noe Valley Community Store, 1984. Vintage multicolor poster opposing US intervention in Nicaragua, showing two hands, each holding long coffee branches, in front of a red and orange background. A caption below the image criticizes US governmental tactics of intimidation and violence to damage key export crops in Nicaragua, most notably coffee, and promotes US support of Nicaraguan.....

N.p. N.p., 2000-2003. Archive of 13 vintage protest posters from 2000-2003.The posters, which range from simple black text on a plain background to intricate, multicolor illustrations, variously oppose the Iraq War, US Homeland Security and the "War on Terror," and George W. Bush. Especially notable among the lot are a 9/11 conspiracy poster showing George W. Bush in a keffiyeh.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Bard Productions, Ltd., Circa 1981. Vintage script for the 1984 televised stage production of the Shakespeare play, copy belonging to Speech and Dialect Coach Roberta Farkas, her name in holograph ink on both the top right of the recto and the top of the verso of the front wrapper. Profusely annotated on every page in holograph ink.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Third Draft script for the 1974 film. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated October 9, 1973, noted as THIRD DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Towne, producer Evans, and director Polanski. 147 leaves, mimeograph, last page numbered 145. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. A......

New York: Charles E. Mazin, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1965 sexploitation film, ribbon copy typescript, with three carbon typescript pages, copy belonging to screenwriter Charles E. Mazin, with "Mazin's copy" written on title label on front of folder, and title page on Mazin's letterhead, with profuse annotations in holograph pencil and marker throughout. Laid in are over two.....

Orem, Utah: Osmond Television, 1978. Rough Final Draft script for the 1978 television special, copy belonging to Haywood Nelson, his name printed on bottom right of binder housing the script, and written in holograph ink on top of two script pages. The variety show special aired on ABC on September 9, 1978, starring Kristy and Jimmy McNichol, and co-starring Donny.....

Berlin: Akademie der Kunste, 1958. First Edition. Limited Edition, one of an unnumbered 1000 copies. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author: "To / Billy Kluever / with my wishes / Hans Richter 59." German-born artist Hans Richter enjoyed a long career as a painter, avant-gardist, political radical, and filmmaker, co-founding the Association of Revolutionary Artists in Zurich, and.....

N.p. N.p., 1983. Vintage setlist, executed in holograph ink by guitarist Bob Mould, from the June 16, 1982 show at San Francisco's On Broadway Theatre, with a corresponding holograph ink annotation of "OB 6-16-82" on the lower right corner of the verso. Full provenance available.The setlist features 20 songs from "Land Speed Record" (1982), "In a Free Land" EP (1982).....

Berkeley: Inter-Relations, 1993. Volume 1, Issue 3 of Frank Moore and Linda Mac's post-porn zine, with performance artist and pro-sex activist Annie Sprinkle featured on the cover. Texts by Moore, Veronica Vera, R. (Dixi) Cohn, Sprinkle, Merle Tofer, Luna Sanguine, and Dorothy Jesse Beagle, with art/photography by Wink Van Kempen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sprinkle, LaBash, Mac Trunz, Amy Ardrey, and Jan.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, Circa 1968. Vintage concept artwork for the 1968 film. A striking two-color op-art design by uncredited artist Norbert Jobst, who had previously worked in title design for the 1967 film "Games." The dimensions of the artwork suggests it was designed for a pressbook or film program. Mounted and laminated, and stamped with a......

N.p. Russ Meyer, Circa 2001. Archive of 13 oversize photographs by Russ Meyer, twelve in color, five signed by Meyer on the verso, struck circa 2001, from Meyer's personal collection. All of the photographs are from an edition of 20 and are numbered on the verso, with all twelve of the color photographs numbered "1/20," and the black and white.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1980s. Original illustration artwork, circa 1980s, commissioned by sexploitation maestro Russ Meyer, from his collection. Noted “good girl” artist Bill Ward was a favorite of Meyer’s, and Ward’s art decorates all three volumes of the director’s 2000 autobiography, "A Clean Breast! The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer." This particular illustration appears on page 158 of the.....

Plymouth: Lupus Music, 1969. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan's first and only collection of poetry, published shortly after the release of the Tyrannosaurus Rex album "A Beard of Stars"—the last album before the group's name was shortened to T. Rex in 1971. Very Good, with no dust jacket as issued, boards and board edges.....

Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1974-1977. First Xiccarph Editions, each copy number No. 20 of variously sized limitations, and each in the original publisher's titled envelope with the corresponding limitation number. Laid in to Volume Five is a "Notes to accompany The Fanes of Dawn and Seer of the Cycles ..." from publisher Squires regarding changes to design and type.Each.....

New York: Arista Records, 1978. Vintage tape recording of a 1978 anti-drug public service announcement by noted soul and jazz musician-poet Gil Scott-Heron. Included with the tape is an audio CD and MP3 file of same. The recording features Scott-Heron narrating both 15 second and 30 second radio spots about the dangers of PCP use over clips from his song.....

Vienna: Universal Edition, 1955-1962. First Edition. Complete set of eight volumes. Text and titles in German. An eight issue academic journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, such as the then-new field of electronic music, the work of Austrian composer Anton Webert, language in music, and more.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED on the second front endpaper by Irving Berlin: "To / Dorothy Hechtlinger / with my best / Irving Berlin." A scarce promotional songbook issued by Twentieth Century-Fox in connection with their successful 1938 musical film "Alexander's Ragtime Band."Dorothy Hechtlinger was Twentieth Century-Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck's script coordinator from.....

St. Croix Falls, WI: N.p., 1940. Vintage stringbound photograph album, containing 31 black-and-white snapshot photographs, including four hand-tinted in blue and yellow, documenting a school costume day. Holograph ink annotation to the inside front cover provides the date and album title: "Dress-Up-Day Pictures / April 5, 1940". Many photographs with holograph ink annotation captions to the bottom edges, identifying the.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1920s. Archive of approximately 230 vintage photographs, mounted on unbound black cardboard album leaves. The set includes approximately 105 vintage reference photographs taken by studio photographers, including several photographs of cast and crew members posing on film sets, and approximately 125 vernacular photographs.Among the films represented in the collection are "Partners of the Tide" (1921), "Red Lights".....

New York: Grove, 1957. Later printing. Two volumes. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper of Volume One by translator Pearl Buck: "For Tad Danielewski, / this ancient novel, / source book of hundreds of Chinese plays, / Pearl S. Buck / New York / September 27, 1957." Polish-born director Tad Danielewski and Buck co-wrote the screenplay for the.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists, Circa 1980s. Vintage large format color negative, produced circa 1981, showing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production logo, with the studio's longtime motto, "Ars Gratia Artis," replaced by the joint studio name "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.There have been eight different lions used for the MGM logo.....

N.p. N.p., 1974. Vintage photograph of Gladys Knight and the Pips performing for a group of young children in front of English Avenue Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1974 television special "Midnight Train to Georgia." English Avenue, an all-Black elementary school, was bombed in December 1960, the result of years of tension after the school's racial designation had.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Collection of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1964 independent film. Philip Kaufman's directorial debut, a humorous then-present-day retelling of the biblical story of Elijah, starring many local actors from the improvisational Chicago comedy troupe The Second City, as well as author Nelson Algren appearing as himself.Shot on location in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Near.....

N.p. N.p., 1964. Vintage reference photograph of playwright Saul Bellow and actor Sam Levene on the set of the 1964 film. Printed mimeo snipe with a full description affixed to the verso and noting a date of 9/24/64, along with the stamps of The Salt Lake Tribune Library.Bellow's only theatrical effort, about a New York comedian who conducts a psychiatric.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1944 film, showing actress Tallulah Bankhead sitting and reading a newspaper that makes reference to World War II. A group of survivors are stranded on a lifeboat following a Nazi attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot.....

Watertown, MA: Ploughshares Books, 1985. First Edition. SIGNED on the front endpaper by authors Richard Yates and William Styron.A screenplay by Yates based on Styron's 1951 novel. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.

Marina del Rey: First American Films, Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, with his name on the front wrapper and title page, and his holograph ink annotations throughout. Screenwriter Stephanie Rothman worked as one of two female directors (the other being Barbara Peeters) at Roger Corman's New World Pictures, most notably directing.....

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1963. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. As with the first UK edition, this proof contains an afterword by Malamud and a 10-page glossary of baseball terms not found in the American edition. Basis for the iconic 1984 film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close and Kim Basinger. Very.....

Hollywood: Malibu Productions, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and his holograph pencil annotations throughout. Miller was director Roger Corman's initial pick for the title role, but disagreements between Corman and screenwriter R. Wright Campbell (who wanted the lead to go to his.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1957 film, here under the working title "Viking Women." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Dick Miller, with his name in holograph ink to the title page, and holograph pencil annotations throughout underlining lines for Ottar, although the role was played by actor Jonathan Haze. A group of Viking women-warriors go on.....

Hollywood: Roger Corman Productions, Circa 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, who had a sizable role in the film, with his name to the title page, and his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. The finished film runs a little over an hour, so the script, at 127 pages, was cut down substantially.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, with his name on the title page and his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Miller was initially cast in the role of Leroy, although a motorcycle crash during filming left him with several broken ribs, leading to his replacement by.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1942. Collection of three vintage double-weight photographs from the 1942 Broadway musical. With the insignia of New York photography studio Lucas-Monroe to the bottom corners, and the studio stamp to the verso. The show opened on June 24, 1942, running for a successful 609 performances before closing on December 4, 1943. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches.....

London: Eskenazi, 1996. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Eskenazi between June 11 and July 13, 1996.Else Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Tiny tap to heel. Jacket with small bump to heel.

New York: International News Photos, Circa 1946. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of actor Bert Lahr with producer Michael Todd and other producers, circa 1946. With the stamp of International News Photos to the verso. The group was likely in talks for a planned musical revue produced by Todd and set to star Lahr, called "Face and Body," which ultimately never.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Original one-panel comic showing actor Charlie Chaplin in costume as "Adenoid Hynkel" (satirizing Hitler) in the 1940 satire "The Great Dictator." Distinctive signature/badge of artist Al Kilgore to the center left edge of the cartoon. Chaplin's most famous role, "The Tramp," was also known as "Charlot" in France, Italy, Spain, and other countries. Noted comic artist.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1944-1970. Archive of five vintage screenplays and scripts belonging to novelist and poet Robert Nathan. Included in the archive are: one Draft script for an unproduced film titled "Red Shoes Run Faster," one script for an unproduced play titled "The Ice Maiden," one early treatment script for an unproduced film adaptation of Nathan's novel "Mr.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Basis for the little-seen but unforgettable 1948 William Dieterle film starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with light fading to the sensitive pink spine titles of the jacket as is often found.

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery from May 10 through June 15, 2002.Fine and unread in illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued.

London: Alvin Redman, 1955. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'Yes' / Caresse Crosby." An autobiography of Caresse Crosby, an arts patron, antiwar activist, and bohemian in the early 20th century. Alongside her second husband Harry Crosby, she co-founded the Black Sun Press, a publisher which was instrumental in publishing many now-renowned.....

New York: London Features International, Circa 1978. Vintage photograph of musician Lou Reed in performance in London, circa 1978. With the stamp of photographer Elaine Bryant to the verso, along with the stamp and label of London Features International. Renowned English photographer Elaine Bryant shot a number of evocative photographs of rock and pop musicians throughout the 1970s and 1980s.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1934. Vintage keybook photograph taken during filming on location for the 1934 film, showing actor W.C. Fields leaning against a wall while in conversation with director Norman Taurog and actor Kent Taylor. Mimeo snipe to the verso, along with the approval stamp of the Advertising Advisory Council, date-stamped JUL 19 1934. Based on the 1909.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Roman Polanski moments after lighting actress Isabelle Adjani's cigarette on the set of the 1976 film, with composer Philippe Sarde looking on in the background. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on the 1964 novel "Le locataire chimerique" by Roland Topor. The third and final film.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film, showing actors Warren Oates and Michelle Phillips. A dramatization of the crimes of folk hero, midwestern bank robber, and notorious mobster John Dillinger, best known for killing five FBI agents during a shootout in Kansas City. Hot on the heels of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde".....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage reference photograph of novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her husband, Sir Frederick Browning, visiting actors Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Du Maurier, about a lonely university professor who meets his lookalike, a wealthy.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1946. Vintage reference photograph of director Robert Florey arranging a shot with actor Peter Lorre on the set of the 1946 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a Warner Brothers stamp, the stamp of photographer Mac Julian, and a provenance stamp. Based on the 1919 short story by W.F. Harvey. A......

London: Hemdale International Films, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, and John Entwistle performing onstage in the 1975 film. Printed mimeo label affixed to the verso. Based on the 1969 rock opera written by The Who, about a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball and subsequently becomes the idol of a......