Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. From the collection of author Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has also written for.....
Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film. Presentation copy belonging to director Luis Bunuel, and SIGNED by Bunuel on the front wrapper. Also laid in is a program from the film's American premiere on May 18, 1960, also SIGNED by Bunuel. Blue ink holograph notations in the same hand to the verso of the last page...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1966. Collection of 9 vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1966. Each still shows a particular location in Mexico City and in Acapulco, Mexico, various scenes used for shooting the film. Tarzan (Mike Henry) travels from Africa to Mexico at the request of an old friend to help rescue a kidnapped boy...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1989. Two different Draft scripts for the 1990 film. Both are working scripts, one with notations throughout in holograph pencil. Both here under the original title, "Lambada! The Forbidden Dance." After her home in the Amazon rainforest is threatened, a princess (Harring) from an indigenous tribe heads to Los Angeles to express her complaints and...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 Italian film. Features Burt Reynolds on horseback and as a captive. Reynolds' fourth film credit, as a survivor of a massacre out for vengeance, released the same year as director Corbucci's infamous brutal western, "Django." 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). About Near Fine...
Mexico City, Mexico: Excelsior, 1975. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and signed simply as "Julio," which is typical of how he signed for friends. Text in Spanish. A critique of large corporations' reach into Latin America, designed as a superhero comic book featuring the French serial antihero Fantomas. The title...
Mexico: Siglo veintiuno editores, 1967. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Oblong octavo, softcover with stiff wrappers and patterned endpapers. One of 6000 numbered copies (this being No. 3367). Another 6000 copies were printed for distribution in Argentina. One of two almanac-style books produced by Cortazar, the other being "Último Round" (1969). Very Good plus, with faint foxing, a few...
N.p. N.p., 1940s. Collection of four vintage black-and-white press photographs of Lester Cowan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Hernan Santa Cruz (former Chilean UN Ambassador), and author Enrique Campos Menendez, signing a contract for the proposed film "Bolivar." The film was set to portray the life of Simon Bolivar, the Venezelan military and political lead of the 19th century, though the.....
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New York: Didier, 1948. First Edition. A humorous and light-hearted rags-to-riches autobiography of the great Latin composer, arranger and bandleader who was a mainstay in American film musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Cugat, who also designed the jacket. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus example of the...
Burbank, CA: Artanis Productions, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill, bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design, Bill's name on the front board, California Bookbinding (Hollywood) label on the front pastedown, housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. Dan (Sinatra) and his wife Valerie (Kerr) go...
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
N.p. N.p., 1951. Vintage borderless still photograph of Cuban songwriter and composer Osvaldo Farres. Featuring Farres at the piano while two men holding sheet music look on. Archivo Bohemia and Herve Derrien collection rubber stamps to the verso. One of Cuba's most significant musicians, Farres is said to have had an innate ability for composition. His works included well-known hits.....
London: Gala Films, Circa 1966. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1965 Spanish film, "Cabriola," released in the US as "Every Day Is a Holiday." Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos, noting cast, synopsis, and production company. Pictured is Marisol in action, and smiley on horseback Releasing during a time when female bullfighters were widely...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1950. Two post-production Continuity and Dialogue scripts for the 1950 film. Included is a script for the feature, dated March 15, 1950, and a script for the film's trailer, dated March 20, 1950. In this key film noir, James Mason reprises in spirit his role from the British film noir, "Odd Man Out," made three...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised First Continuity script for the 1950 film noir, here under the film's working title, "Death on a Side Street." That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title, "One Way Street," written just above it. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil on...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. Based on the 1963 book of the same name by Robert MacLeod, Matt Fletcher (Brando) is a Mexican-American buffalo hunter who has his beloved horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit Chuy (Saxon) and his girlfriend Trini (Comer) who is later revealed to have been sold to...
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Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967. First Argentine Edition, preceding all others. The correct first edition of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, published three years prior to the US edition, and the book that gained Garcia Marquez prominence amongst Latin American writers like Mario Vargos Llosa and Carlos Fuentes. A bright, attractive copy of a genuinely scarce high spot of Latin...
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with an accompanying sketch of a bird. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing at the spine ends and corners. An attractive copy of this collection of 26 short stories.1750.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy of this uncommon Marquez edition of 26 short stories.
Santafe de Bogota, CO: Arango Editores, 1994. First Colombian Edition. The lightest hint of rubbing at the crown, else Fine in illustrated French wrappers. A lovely copy of his first play, never translated into English. Text in Spanish.
Bogota, Colombia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1992. First Colombian Edition, and correct first. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of this collection of fourteen short stories. Text in Spanish.
Bogota, Colombia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1989. First Colombian Edition. Text in Spanish. Bottom corners just barely bumped, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
New York: Harper and Row, 1978. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Light fading at the spine and extremities, else just about Fine and unread in light green wrappers. A lovely copy of a scarce proof.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine in red publisher's wrappers. Light fading to the top of the front panel, with fading and a few mild reading creases at the spine. An attractive copy of this set of short stories.
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Mexico: Era, 1966. First Mexican Edition, preceded by 1962 Madrid edition, but the first printing of the text as Garcia Marquez originally intended. One of just 2,000 copies, and much scarcer than the 1962 Madrid edition of which 5,000 copies were printed. In an author's note to this edition, Gracia Marquez takes issue with the liberties taken by a proofreader...
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Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1986. First printing of this edition. Text in Spanish. Very Good plus in an about Fine dust jacket. Slightly cocked, with lightly bowed boards. Jacket has light toning to the spine panel, else Jacket is Fine. One of an edition of 5000.
Chicago: Bard / Avon, 1973. First printing of this edition. Just about Fine in illustrated wrappers. The lightest hint of a reading crease to the spine, with two small creases to the corners, else Fine.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author and dated in the year of publication. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. Just about Fine and unread in gray wrappers. Bottom corner lightly bumped. An attractive copy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine and unread in black and white wrappers. Crown lightly rubbed, else Fine.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. First UK Edition. The usual light toning to page edges, with a hint of fading to the jacket spine, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy, with publisher's price sticker to the bottom of the front flap.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First American Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Par Ted, / del amigo, / Gabriel '87." Fine in a just about Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly bumped at the spine ends, with a hint of fading to the spine panel, else Fine. A bright, lovely copy, uncommon signed.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First UK Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. An attractive copy of this book, published in the US as "Collected Novellas."
New York: Harper and Row, 1975. First American Edition. About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light fading to the topstain, else book is Fine. Jacket has a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and corners, with mild laminate lift to the crown and a crease to the front flap. A bright, attractive copy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Just about Fine in red wrappers, with just a hint of foxing to the page edges. An attractive copy, and basis for the 1987 film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Rupert Everett.
New York: Henry Holt, 1986. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. About Fine in yellow wrappers, with publisher's materials stapled at the fore-edge to the inside of the front wrapper. An attractive copy of a scarce proof.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. About Fine and unread in light green wrappers, with proof jacket stapled to the rear and publisher's materials stapled to the front wrapper. A lovely copy.
New York: Harper and Row, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine, in green wrappers. Light reading crease to the front joint, with a tiny crease to the bottom rear corner. A bright, lovely copy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition, and first edition in English. A cornerstone novel about the Mexican Revolution. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, long split to the rear pastedown. Jacket spine and folds slightly toned, with only a few tiny chips and tears at the extremities, else fresh and attractive.
Los Angeles: Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written for the screen by William Hairston, based on his 1967 novel about a young Puerto Rican boy growing up in the harsh realities of New York. Cream wrappers, with paper title label on the front wrapper. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Hairston...
N.p. N.p., 1984. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a signed letter from the screenwriter to the Walter Kohner, dated January 31, 1985. An interpretation, memorialization, dedication and history of Jimi Hendrix, told through art and collages made by the screenwriter, which are in this screenplay, as well as a fantasy meeting between della Sala and Hendrix...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless press photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky directing his third film, "The Holy Mountain." Mimeo snipe on the verso credited to the director's Mexican production company, Procinemex, describing the details of the photo in Spanish. 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24 x 19.5 cm). Near Fine.
N.p. Douglas Films, 1970. Collection of eight vintage borderless photographs from the 1970 Mexican film. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive, originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller, with their sticker to the verso of two stills. A bizarre surrealist Western film, "El Topo" is a mystical allegory for the world's religions, while also hitting all the important plot points...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film. Snipe printed on the verso. The culmination of screenwriter Steinbeck's long-standing fascination with Zapata, it was said that Steinbeck had begun work on such a screenplay as early as 1948. The subject was a touchy one, as the MPAA's Production Code Administration had been discouraging studios from...
London: Faber and Faber, 1987. First Edition. Light toning to page edges, else just about Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. A lovely copy of this collection of essays discussing the works of the greats of Latin American literature.
Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises, Inc. / S. A. C. L., 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film from Argentina for distribution in the US. It was a....
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Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], Circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "The Border." With notations in holograph ink throughout. Frank Cooper is a border patrol agent who is friendly with the locals and hostile to the local gangs that terrorize both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States. A....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957 play by Ronald Alexander. An older couple (Webb and Wyman)...
N.p. American Cinema, 1973. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1973 film. Features fantastic, and disturbing, painted illustration of the dog before a duo of men engaged in fisticuffs. Notation in holograph ink on the verso. In the Klondike in the late 1800s, the dog White Fang and his friend Mitsah (Missaele) help rid a gold mining town of greed...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Original British quad poster for the 1965 French-Italian film. Printed in England by Stafford. Set in Central America, 1907, Maria II (Moreau) is the daughter of an Irish terrorist, and she joins a vaudeville act headlined by Maria I (Bardot). Together they invent a new striptease dance and become stars, propelling them to fame...
London: ITC Entertainment, 1979. Collection of 6 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1979 international film. Produced in Italy, the UK, Brazil, and the US. Jewel heist gone wrong in piranha-infested waters, with a band of thieves struggling to find cohesion. Shot on location in Brazil. Hot on the tail of Joe Dante's satirical horror film, "Piranha," itself...
Madrid, Spain: RM Films International, 1986. Original Spanish one-sheet poster for the 1986 release of the 1975 US film. Features buxom Christy Hartburg, who starred as SuperLorna. Hartburg, along with Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard, has become one of the more recognizable faces of Russ Meyer filmdom, even though this was her only film. Clint (Pitts) operates a small-town gas...
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Mexico City: Libreria Madero, 1969. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Slim quarto, perfect-bound softcover. A cornerstone of Latin American pop photography, and included in "The Latin American Photobook." Designed by Vicente Rojo, with photographs by Hector Garcia, one of the most important Mexican photojournalists. A private edition published by a prominent Mexico City bookstore and distributed gratis to its clients.....
![Alturas de Macchu Picchu [The Heights of Macchu Picchu] (Signed Limited Edition). Pablo Neruda,...](/pictures/thumb/135561.jpg?v=1492979135)
Chile: Nascimento, 1954. First printing of this edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 680) SIGNED by the author. This copy retains the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge Sanhueza. The first definitive edition of the poems, including the...
Spain: Inventarios Provisionales, 1973. First Spanish Edition, preceding all others. An excellent documentary on the military coup in Santiago during 1973, with black-and-white photographs by Fina Torres throughout. The book also explores the funeral of Pablo Neruda, where mourners took advantage of the funeral to protest the new regime. With images of his open casket and of his house where...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. With a single notation in holograph pencil on page 18. Four street urchins bet weekly on the horse races and decide to steal a dime from the church one week in order to allow Jesus to be a partner in their scheme. Their horse wins, with an exorbitant...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Final Shooting script for the 1971 film. Based loosely on the 1818-20 Missouri Expedition, John Huston stars as Captain Henry, a fictionalized Major Andrew Henry of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. John Huston joined the production as an actor a few days after he had quit as director for the film, "The Last Run," due...
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New York: Sotheby's, 2008. Trade softcover. Near Fine.
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Rome: Sancro Film, 1968. Early Draft script for the 1972 Spanish-Italian-French-German film, "A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die," here under the working title, "Best of Enemies." Brief notations throughout in holograph ink. A Union officer surrenders his fort to the Confederates during the Civil War, and attempts to regain his status by helping condemned prisoners on a suicide...
US: Clasa-Mohme / Azteca Films, 1955-1980. Collection of 67 vintage Mexican lobby cards for films released between 1955-1980. Included are lobby cards for 61 Mexican films or co-productions, and 6 international Spanish language films released in Mexico, all of which were distributed by either Clasa-Mohme or Azteca Films. Cards are full color and universally bright, illustrated or photo-illustrated, each with...
Mexico: Various, 1961-1981. Collection of 40 vintage Mexican posters for films released between 1961-1981. The majority of posters feature full color illustrations, but the collection also includes photo-illustrated, collage, and other techniques, showcasing the variety of graphic design techniques which evolved over the two decades covered by the collection. Even among the illustrated posters, a variety of styles can be...
Spain: Various, 1961-1976. Collection of 30 vintage posters for Spanish or Spanish co-productions released between 1961-1976. The posters are predominently full color illustrations but also include photo-illustrated and, and other techniques, showcasing the variety of graphic design techniques which evolved over the decade covered by the collection. Even among the illustrated posters, a variety of styles can be found, as...
Burbank, CA: Batjac Productions / Warner Brothers, 1972. Revised Final script for the 1973 film. Fast-paced John Wayne train heist film, with Ann-Margret starring as a widow who needs to recover gold stolen and stashed by her late husband. She persuades a gunhand named Lane (Wayne) to ride into Mexico with her and recover the loot. Once in Mexico, they're...
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Italy / France: Riama Film, Circa 1959. Collection of 12 vintage single weight still photographs from the 1959 Italian-French film. Seen in the images is starring actress Magnani, Masina, singer Perry Como, director Castellani, and two images of Magnani and adoring fan, author Tennessee Williams. Notations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph ink, and as many rubber-stamped...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1979 film. Hillary Kramer (Streisand) is a successful perfume magnate who one day discovers she's been robbed. She digs up a tax write-off, a boxer named Eddie (O'Neal), and the two begin to bond. Streisand's first foray into disco, performing the title theme "The Main...