N.p. N.p., 1980. Vintage flyer for a performance by no wave band 8 Eyed Spy at Tier 3 in New York City on January 31, 1980. Like many of their contemporaries in the no wave scene, the band was short lived and material relating to it appears scarce. Although not indicated, from the collection of composer and guitarist Glenn Branca... read more about Original flyer for an 8 Eyed Spy performance
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1980. Duplicated Draft script for the 1982 film. Satirical horror farce, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Jerry Belson's cinematic directorial debut, based on a late-night sketch from ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live, "Fridays," wherein comedian Mark Blankfield played a recurrent cocaine-snorting pharmacist. Belson, most often... read more about Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)
New York: Wayne County Defense Fund, 1976. Original poster advertising “The Fantabulous New York Rock Party,” held at the Manhattan Center in New York on May 30, 1976. An ironic moment in New York punk and art scene history, some of the earliest evidence that the movement created to mock celebrity status was beginning to see itself in terms of... read more about Fantabulous New York Rock Party, Manhattan Center in New York, May 30, 1976 (Original poster for...
New York: Chrysalis Records, 1978. Original pressbook for the tour supporting Blondie's third album, "Parallel Lines," released by Chrysalist Records in 1978. Named after an unfinished song, a record that saw Blondie at the peak of its powers, containing the lion's share of the band's most famous singles, including "Hanging on the Telephone," "One Way or Another," and "Heart of... read more about Pressbook for Blondie in support of Parallel Lines, circa 1978
N.p. N.p., 1980. Original flyer for a performance by pioneering post-punk band Bush Tetras at the legendary club Hurrah on March 26, 1980. Although mainstream success alluded the female-fronted band, they were mainstays of the New York and college radio scenes, and charted two singles ("Too Many Creeps," (1981) "Cant' Be Funky" (1982)) on the Billboard charts. 11 x 8.5 inches (28 x 22 cm). Photocopied. Fine. read more about Original flyer for a performance by Bush Tetras
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... read more about The Forbidden Dance [Lambada The Forbidden Dance] (Original screenplay for the 1990 film)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First US Edition, preceded by the UK edition published the same year by Omnibus Press. Heavily photo-illustrated throughout, in both black and white and color. Scarce. Comprehensive biographical dictionary of late seventies and early eighties rock, punk, punk-post, and new waves acts. Written by two Australian music journalists, centered primarily on the UK scene... read more about The New Rock 'n' Roll: The A-Z of Rock in the '80s (First Edition)
London: Black Spring Press, 1990. First Edition, a paperback original. The collected lyrics of Howard Devoto, original frontman for the Buzzcocks and founder of the influential British post-punk band Magazine. Complete through the release of "Beast Box" (1990), the then-current record by Devoto's band Luxuria. About Fine in stiff wrappers with French flaps. read more about It Only Looks As If It Hurts: The Complete Lyrics 1976-1990 (First Edition)
London: Channel Four Films, 1989. Draft script for the 1990 film. Laid in is a synopsis of the film. A young woman (Shelly) is kicked out of her home after announcing her unnplanned pregnancy to her family, leading to her father to suffer a heart attack and her boyfriend to leave her. Striking out on her own, she meets an... read more about Trust (Original screenplay for the 1990 film)
New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Hell on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris from his homeboy Richard 2/3/00." The author's first book. 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”..... read more about Go Now (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
New York: Powerhouse Books, 2001. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Richard Hell to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "For Chris Offutt / From his friend / Richard Hell." From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one... read more about Hot and Cold: Essays, Poems, Lyrics, Notebooks, Pictures, Fiction (First Edition, inscribed to...
Vintage Canadian one sheet poster for the 1984 Canadian sexploitation film. A Canadian cult favorite, wherein a group of teenagers set about saving a summer camp from becoming a shopping mall, while having as much sex and wearing as little clothing as possible. Shot on location in Beaverton (!) and Lake Simcoe, Ontario. 27 x 41 inches. Fine, folded as... read more about Oddballs (Original one sheet poster for the 1984 Canadian exploitation film)
N.p. Matrixbest production, 1977. Seventh Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph signature and copy number 80 in black marker by production designer John Beard on the title page. Beard is best known for his work on "Brazil" (1985), "The Meaning of Life" (1983), "Bad Timing" (1980), and "Life of Brian" (1979). A fabled project helmed by Russ Meyer, along with... read more about Who Killed Bambi? (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
London: Don Letts, 1979. Original handbill for the London premiere of the 1977 film documentary, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema Club, preceding the New York premiere of the film by nearly 10 months. The definitive London punk documentary. Shot by Don Letts on 8mm film almost exclusively at The Roxy in Covent Garden, London, during the club's... read more about Punk Rock Movie (Original handbill from the film's earliest showing in the London)
N.p. N.p., ca. 1977. Original manuscript by Joey Ramone for an unrecorded Ramones song, "Let's Go Playmates," executed by the punk legend in holograph pencil on both the recto and verso of a legal size sheet of lined notebook paper. The lyrics appear in every orientation, a beautiful, messy gathering of ideas--some crossed through--rather than a finished song. They read..... read more about Let's Go Playmates (Original manuscript)
London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and [she] helped him vis a vis the fine details of the... read more about Sid and Nancy [Love Kills] (Original screenplay for the 1986 film, with lengthy inscription from...
Original poster for the seminal second album by Talking Heads. For our money, the very moment at which punk crossed into New Wave, and due to an inspired cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River," a commercial breakthrough for New York's most accessible and irresistible art rock band. "More Songs About Buildings and Food" slyly addressed the sophomore... read more about More Songs About Buildings and Food (Original poster for the 1978 album)
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 a custom archival frame. Near Fine, with a few faint creases. Rolling Stone 500. read more about Talking Heads 77 (Original tour poster for the band's first UK tour in 1977)
Finland: Tmi Ramoniac, 2004. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Jimmy, this book is full of love, and you're one reason for it, J [Joey] and so many other people underline that you're one of the most lovely people in New York with the most honest heart. We're lucky and happy to know you. Thanks. Hugs... read more about Rock In Peace: Dee Dee and Joey Ramone (Signed First Edition)
N.p. N.p., 2014. Photograph of the Velvet Underground and Nico, shot by Billy Name circa 1967 and struck by him in 2014. SIGNED by Billy Name in silver ink on the recto, and with his stamp on the verso. Name, who had gotten his start in theatre, met Andy Warhol in the early 1960s, and appeared in Warhol's 1963 films... read more about Original photograph of The Velvet Underground and Nico
London: Lyceum Theatre, circa 1984. Vintage poster for a concert featuring early punk musicians Johnny Thunders and the original Heartbreakers, with Patti Palladin and Sex Beat performing at London's Lyceum Theatre on Sunday March 25th, 1984. Frontrunner for the New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders formed the Heartbreakers after his departure from the Dolls. Although the band broke up in the... read more about Head Music Presents Johnny Thunders and the original Heartbreakers, with Patti Palladin and Sex...
New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white die-cut standee promotional poster for U2's 1980 debut album "Boy." Though "Boy" was reviewed at the time as relatively unpolished yet still having potential, U2 has gone on to be one of the most widely-recognized bands in the world. Over the years U2 has sold over 170 million records, won 22 Grammy... read more about "Boy" U2 promotional die-cut poster (Original poster for U2's debut 1980 album)
New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white double-sided poster for U2's 1980 US tour promoting their debut album "Boy" and hit single "I Will Follow." One side of the poster advertises press responses to U2's debut album "Boy," alongside a list of the band's upcoming US tour dates, while the other side has a close up image of Bono..... read more about "I Will Follow" / "Boy" double-sided U2 promotional poster (Original...
New York: Island Records, 1987. Vintage black, white, and gold US promotional poster blank for U2's 1987 tour in support of their phenomenal smash hit album "The Joshua Tree." Promotional poster blank for the tour supporting their fifth studio album "The Joshua Tree," with boxes reading "VENUE" and "DATE" that would later be replaced by said pertinent information. Critically acclaimed and... read more about Promotional poster blank for U2's "The Joshua Tree" tour (Original poster for U2's 1987...
New York: Island Records, 1987. Vintage black and white US promotional banner poster for U2's 1987 "maxi-single" release of their chart-topping hit "With or Without You." Promotional poster for the "With or Without You" single from the band's fifth studio album "The Joshua Tree." Critically acclaimed and publicly beloved, "The Joshua Tree" won U2 their first two Grammy awards, topped the... read more about "With or Without You" U2 promotional banner poster (Original poster for U2's 1987...
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... read more about Collection of catalogs for small records labels, from 1979-82
Zurich: Black Sheep Press, 1985. First Edition, a paperback original. A collection of interviews, lyrics, sketches, and artworks by the pioneering post-punk, art rock band, with contributions by lead singer Gavin Friday, Colin Newman of Wire, Geoff Rushton of Coil, Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle / Psychic television, Bono of, you know, U2, and Patti Smith, of herself. Published shortly... read more about Virgin Prunes: The Faculties of a Broken Heart (First Edition)
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1986. Fourth Draft script for the 1987 film. Copying belonging to actor Stephen Berrier, who played Roosevelt, one of the scientists responsible for transforming police officer Alex Murphy into The Future of Law Enforcement. With Berrier's name, character name, and signature in holograph ink on the title page, and holograph notations relating to his scenes throughout... read more about Robocop (Original screenplay for the 1987 film, with contemporary ephemera from the year of release)
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