Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1979. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs and two advertising mockups from the 1979 film. Both the photographs and the advertising mockups have been hand-retouched, adhered to a backing board, and prepared for use in advertising. A stark black comedy in which a man who is caretaker for his mentally disabled mother becomes...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, circa 1944. Collection of six original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of the 1944 anti-Nazi film by a member of the Hollywood Ten. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to white paper stock at the corners, some with notations at the margins. Released in...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Original preliminary advertising concept art sketch 1944 family drama, winner of two Academy Awards. Executed in graphite on onion skin paper and mounted on to white paper stock. Includes three finished printed ad mat proofs. A single draft of a confident ad with a superlative claim, boasting the studio's "sincere belief" that "National...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Collection of 14 original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of sultry 1944 B-picture. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to white paper stock at the corners, some with notations at the margins. The collection displays a variety of styles and themes...
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Original single-pocket blue folder from French film studio, Cinedis, for the years 1960 to 1961. Distributed to press agencies, film distributors and theaters, this folder is empty but would have contained press release information, like film credits and star biographies, for films credited on the front, here being "Adua et ses compagnes" (Hungry for Love, 1960), "L'amant...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1945. Collection of nine original concept art sketches for advertisements for the 1945 film. Executed in graphite pencil and white paint on onion skin stock. The fourteenth of fifteen films in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, based on characters originally appearing short stories and novels by Max Brand. Also the fifth film to focus on...
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 with large die-cut two-color images of the books themselves ("Sister...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1941-1942 season. Notable among the offerings featured are two full color Disney features ("Fantasia" and "Bambi"), several literary adaptations, including "Sister Carrie" and "The Little Foxes," actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, and Gary Cooper. 1941 marked the beginning of the decade...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1944. Collection of seven original concept art sketches for advertisements for the 1944 film. Executed in graphite pencil and white paint on onion skin stock. Based on the 1937 Hungarian play "Delila" by Ferenc Molnar, about a diner owner wins the lottery, only to be seduced by a waitress after the money, leading his...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film, the first film released by the newly minted United Artists, co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy, only to find he is secretly the heir to...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1944. Vintage reference photograph of the original poster for the 1944 film musical, based on the 1937 Broadway musical "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray, previously adapted in 1938 as a Marx Brothers vehicle. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus. Holograph pen notation to the recto, image not affected...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1948. Vintage reference photograph of a boardwalk poster advertising the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film. 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm). Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Weldon 1996.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Original preliminary advertising concept art sketch for the release of the 1944 war-time musical. Executed in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, and mounted on to white paper stock. Includes one finished ad mat printed proof. 8.5 x 17 inches. Very Good with light creasing, faint toning to upper half, fold...
Los Angeles: Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. Vintage sepia photograph of the illustrated poster for the 1946 poverty row film noir. Erich von Stroheim plays a stage magician who uses hypnotism to take revenge on those that humiliated him. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Weldon 1983. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, circa 1944. Collection of eight original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of the seminal 1944 film noir. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to card stock at the corners, some with notations at the margins. The sketches reflect different styles and feature traces of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage photograph showing an illustrated advertisement for the 1949 film noir, based on the short story of the same name by Frederick Nebel. 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm). Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946-1947. Original 3-color promotional folder advertising a double bill of "Notorious" (1946) and H.C. Potter's "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947). A caricature of producer Joseph E. Levine, the event producer, is shown at the top of the left, and the pairing is billed as the "Next SRO Star-Studded Package." Designed to promote the package to cinema houses...
France: Various Publishers, 1957-1959. Collection of thirteen French publisher and distributor catalogs, including a small book-shaped calendar, advertising toys, novelties, and home goods. Most are full-color folding brochures. From the archives of Maryse Martres, in original manila envelope with her name on the front in holograph ink. Martres (Martin) was a prolific French actress who was later involved in press...
London: William Heinemann, 1944. W. Somerset Maugham's holograph ink sketch showing his jacket design concept for the American edition of his greatest novel, "The Razor's Edge," executed in holograph black ink on a blank Western Union telegram form. Remarkably, the design, a somewhat more elaborate version of the stark UK jacket, was not only considered by the publisher but followed...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Substantial collection of 12 original preliminary advertising concept art sketches. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf mounted on to white paper stock, some with notations at the margins. Includes one finished color ad mat printed proof. A broad and varied advertising campaign, including two drafts for...
Buffalo, NY: Bob Moog, 1982. Production catalog from 1982, including the recently released Memorymoog, Source, and Rogue models, as well as the Moog Liberation, the first commercially produced keytar. A contemporary look at available synthesizers at the moment when they would begin to dominant popular music. Three pages. Three hole punch to the left edge, affecting some of the text...
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1971. Original tabloid sized advertisement for a retrospective exhibition of Ono's work held at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York from October 9 - 27, 1971. The exhibition contained new and old work by Ono, as well as contributions by Lennon as a "guest artist" and other friends of the couple...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Original photo album archive consisting exclusively of exquisitely shot vernacular photographs from George Pal's studio in Germany, shot shortly after he left his native Hungary, where he developed his famous Puppetoons technique of stop-motion animation. With Pal's bookplate to front free end-paper and his ownership stamp to inside front and back covers. 68 vintage photographs, all...
N.p. N.p., 1988. Vintage 1988 cardboard standee for holding American Express application forms for college students, featuring Lou Reed. Part of a extended campaign for American Express, beginning in 1985 with ads featuring Reed in his leather jacket proclaiming "How to buy a jacket." Part of a brief phase as a corporate pitchman by the iconoclastic musician, which also saw...
New York: The Center For New Music, 1973. Invitation for an early and important three-night stand by Steve Reich and Musicians, with a different program for each evening. The first and third concerts in the series featured Reich's seminal percussion piece, "Drumming" (1971), and the second of the series featured the debut of three new pieces, "Music for Pieces of...
Paris: Theatre Marigny, 1965. Original French program for the "20th Night of Cinema," here under the original French title. A lavish illustrated magazine, with blue cord marker, featuring full-page advertisements for motor car companies, cosmetics (notably the Coty line of perfume, Imprevu), alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, galleries, televisions, salons, and refrigerators, produced to coincide with the gala held at the...
N.p. N.p., 1937. Archive of letters from the Hal Roach Studios archive, all relating to the promotion of the studio's wildly popular "Our Gang" series of shorts and films, all circa 1937 14 letters in all, dated throughout 1937. Very nice content, all addressed to the Hal Roach Studio, addressing every manner of promotion relating to "Our Gang." Over half the...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Small archive of letters from the Hal Roach Studios archive, all relating to the promotion of the 1937 film. 11 letters in all, dated throughout 1937. Very nice content, 3 of which are address to the Hal Roach Studios, having to do with the promotion of Constance Bennett in the film. Noteworthy among these are letters...
Paris: Self-published, 1961-1962. Original French toy and home goods sales catalogue and supplements for the "Comptoir general de la bimbeloterie" company in Paris, 1961-1962. Illustrated with black-and-white vignette photographs of items for sale, each represented with a serial number, accompanied by a corresponding descriptive price catalogue. Thousands of toys, puzzles, board games, sports equipment, and miniatures are featured, including Pierres...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Collection of 6 original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of the 1944 Laurel and Hardy feature. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to white paper stock at the corners, some with notations at the margins. Five of the designs differ substantially...
Various cities: Various Publishers, 1979-82. Collection of three catalogs compiling hundreds of listings of releases by small and independent record labels from 1979 to 1982. A treasure trove of information on the underground music scene of the era. Included in the listing are: "Great bands, small labels," published by "Gorilla Beat" magazine, Mulheim, Germany, 1979. "Small Labels Catalogue 1980," published by...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, circa 1944. Original preliminary advertising concept art sketch for the release of the 1944 Universal horror film from the director of "The Wolf Man." Executed in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, and mounted on to white paper stock. 11.5 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to right margin and...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1944. Collection of five original concept art sketches for advertisements for the 1944 film. Executed graphite pencil, black ink, and white paint, four on onion skin and one on white paper stock. Ostensibly based on the play by Edward Locke, but bearing little resemblance in plot, the film follows a physician who becomes obsessed...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1980s. Original studio document featuring 372 images of scene backings, or backdrops, available for rent from Warner Brothers. With a holograph "#27" on the title page. The document is divided into three sections, "Architectural," "Landscapes," and "Miscellaneous," with the first two sections then subdivided into categories including "City Skyline," "Western," and "Rural & Residential" under...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1945. Three original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of William A. Wellman's unconventional 1945 war-comedy-romance film. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to white paper stock at the corners, two with notations in red pencil at the margins. Includes one finished ad...
New York: Henry Miller's Theatre, 1929. Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End," which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22, 1929 and closed on May 17, 1930, for a total of 485 performances. The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London, which starred a young...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Seven original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release with Gloria Graham's first credited role. Title written as both "Blonde Fever" and "Blond Fever" between ads. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on a single sheet of onion skin paper, mounted on to white paper stock, some with notations at the...