Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Original scenario artwork for the 1978 horror film. Depicting the interior of Peggy Ann Snow's Catskills home. Based on the 1976 novel by William Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A young Anthony Hopkins plays a mentally disturbed magician who rises to fame when he begins utilizing a ventriloquist dummy. He rekindles.....

Detroit: Time Stereo, 2005. Limited Edition. One of 40 copies (this being No. 12) of this small photocopied perfect-bound zine in yellow photocopied wrappers. SIGNED by the artist on the first blank. Created by Detroit artist and noise musician Davin Brainard, the zine contains a collections of alternative, slightly-more misanthropic Charlie Brown comics. Fine in illustrated yellow wrappers, with original.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Original three-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the October 11, 1977 daily strip of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features Nancy and Sluggo enveloped in a fog created with Ben Day dots in a very stylish Pop Art manner. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of.....

London: Robert Hale, 1963. Original artwork study for the dust jacket front panel and spine panel of the UK edition of James M. Cain's "Mignon," published by Robert Hale in 1963. The artwork consists of ink and watercolor on textured stock, with a transparent negative overlay lending browns and blues to the image. Some notes in holograph pencil on the.....

N.p. N.p., 1979. Original arwork depicting exotic birds in a glorious psychedelic landscape, also known as Don Van Vliet's mind. Signed "Van Vliet / 79." From the collection of Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, for whom the painting was made. It was around this time that Van Vliet famously began to contribute artwork to the covers of two of his finest.....

N.p. N.p., 1969. Original mixed media drawing on paper of Peter O'Toole by British actor and artist, David Hemmings, 1969. Signed by Hemmings in holograph pencil on bottom right of art, with annotation in holograph marker, in Hemmings' hand, on backing of frame, "Peter O'Toole as Baal / by Hemmings '69 / original drawing." The image Hemmings used is based.....

Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1921. First Edition. Includes three original illustrations: two are primarily typographic layouts, one centered around Charlie Chaplin (each is lacking the applied paste-up elements, in the case of the Chaplin image, it lacks the photographic image that was pasted on and that appears in the finished illustration), and the third and most interesting is the.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design for the 1973 film, featuring a vintage silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin’s first arrival to Georgetown in the film mounted to the poster.A minimal design, without the credits information seen in the completed original “purple style” poster variant, and with a proposed.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Original conceptual artwork the 1960 film. Featuring a drawing of Burt Lancaster with Audrey Hepburn clasped against him. Based on the 1957 novel by Alan Le May. In many ways a reflection on John Ford's 1956 film "The Searchers," which was also based on an Alan Le May novel, "The Unforgiven" tells the story.....

Budapest: Mafilm / Mosfilm, 1967. Original maquette for the Hungarian poster for 1967 film. A combination of original artwork (tempera paint) and applied lettering designs. Designed by Antal Revesz. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in which.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage satin banner with hand-sewn lettering, by an unknown artist, made after Paul Krassner and John Francis Putnam's 1963 poster. Krassner created the "Fuck Communism" poster for sale through his satirical underground magazine The Realist, with typography by longtime Mad magazine art director Putnam. In addition to publishing The Realist from 1958 to 2001, Krassner was.....

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], 1955. Original scenario artwork by Charles K. Hagedon for the 1955 film musical, a somber and colorful scene depicting two men in a boat floating near the ice, with various others in cold weather suits floating in the water, heads just above the surface, around them. Signed by Hagedon at the bottom left corner. Archivally.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film, depicting two men and a woman, each well dressed and on horseback, meeting in front of a large mansion. Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point.....

N.p. N.p., 1969. Original three-panel artwork by Al Vermeer for the September 9, 1969 daily strip of "Priscilla's Pop," featuring Priscilla, her friend Hollyhock and Priscilla's dog Oliver.Albert (Al) Herman Vermeer began his newspaper career as a sports writer while growing up in Oakland, California. He began doing sports illustration for the San Francisco News, and in 1945 he was.....

N.p. N.p., 1959. Hand tinted woodcut by Kurt Seligmann in 1959 as a Christmas card, titled "Moor," SIGNED and dated in pencil by Seligmann just below the image, and further INSCRIBED to Amos Vogel: "We loved your card - with Jean Durand! / Season's greetings / Arlette and Kurt."Kurt Leopold Seligmann (1900-1962) was a Swiss-American surrealist painter and engraver. He.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1956-1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois, satirizing (or perhaps elucidating) the dress habits of their distinguished friend, American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s, both under the tutelage of William Styron, while both of them were associated with The Paris Review. During this time William Rose.....