Paris: Arts et M'tiers Graphiques, 1933. First Edition. 60 full-page, black and white plates. Brassai's first and most notable photobook. A nocturnal exploration of Parisian culture, and one of the most celebrated and influential collections of urban photography ever published. Compiled in a somewhat eery sequence of encounters set around the darkest corners of 1930's Paris. Brassai does not shy.....

New York: Shubert Theatre, circa 1955. Original souvenir play program for the 1953 musical "Can-Can" composed by Cole Porter. This program likely from the mid-1950s touring company production of the play, starring Rita Dimitri, John Tyers, and Ronnie Cunningham. A self righteous judge threatens to shut down a Can-Can dance hall, but finds more trouble than he expected when he.....

Paris: Societe d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films, 1938. Set of 3 black-and-white still photographs from the US premiere of the 1964 film. Each with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, as issued, noting that the film is making its debut at the Esquire Theatre in Los Angeles. Also on the verso is a stamp for the US distributor.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1958. Collection of 71 vintage single weight keybook contact sheets, amounting to over 800 numbered images, from the 1958 French film. Much of the film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many candid moments from the set. Dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors, Demongeot answering telephones and in heated embraces, with.....

Paris: Paris Film, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of director Claude Chabrol goofing about with three of the four bonnes femmes on the set of the 1960 film. With the stamp of photographer Georges Pierre and holograph annotations on the verso. A light, spirited look at the lives of four young women in Paris, perhaps the standout of director Chabrol's early.....

N.p. N.p., 1968. A collection of four contact sheets, totaling 14 images, and five negative strips containing most of the same 14 images. Shown are Ray Charles, guitarist Sonny Forriest, and Ray Charles backing vocalists, The Raelettes, in Paris, 1963. Eleven of the negatives correspond to the contact sheets, one strip of three negatives however, while taken at the same.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US release of the 1966 French film. The French resistance factions attempt to regain control of Paris near the end of WWII. A Nazi general in charge of Paris has orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot maintain control. What the film lacked in cohesive.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs of Catherine Deneuve and David Bailey dancing at a space-themed party in France, circa 1960s. Accompanying the photographs is a contact sheet featuring the images of the photographs, with holograph pencil annotations on the recto. Photographs 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus.Contact sheet 12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good.....

N.p. N.p., 1949. Vintage photograph of Marlene Dietrich in Paris, shot in 1931 for the premiere of "Morocco," struck in 1949. With an agency stamp, archival tape and remnants from a previously adhered paper backing on the verso.Marlene Dietrich was awarded the Legion d'honneur by the French government for her work performing, and raising money for the Allied troops and.....

Leigh-McLaughlin / Atlantic Releasing Corporation, Circa 1977-1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Gilroy was a writer for screen, stage, novels, film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "The Subject Was Roses" in 1965. An autobiographical tale of an American screenwriter living in Paris who has.....

Paris: Anouchka Films, 1966. Vintage one sheet poster from the US release of the 1966 film. With the film title rubber stamped on the verso as called for: "MASCULINE FEMININE / 66/368.""Masculine Feminine" was Jean-Luc Godard’s first examination of 60s youth and culture, whom he described as, “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” Teenager Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) works as an.....

Paris: Parc Film, 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 French film. All but one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.A day in the life of suburban housewife Juliette Jeanson (Vlady), who intersperses her daily routine of housework, cleaning, and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director.....

London: Romulus, 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director John Huston and actors Colette Marchand and Jose Ferrer on the set of the 1952 film. With the stamp of still photographer Serge Lido on the verso. Based on Pierre La Mure's 1950 novel. A dramatization of the life of Parisian bohemian and post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with a focus.....

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First Edition. A presentable copy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with light foxing to the page edges. Jacket is lightly soiled, with light chipping to the extremities. Roth 101, p. 114-115. Parr and Badger, Vol. I, p. 200.

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films [NEF], 1960. Collection of three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1960 French film. An anarchic Louis Malle comedy, one of his finest films, where ten-year-old Zazie, from a provincial town, escapes the custody of her cross-dressing Uncle George and sets out to explore Paris on her own—all while her mother is off spending time.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the German release of the 1970 US film, based on the 1934 autobiographical novel by Henry Miller. In this image, Miller, who also had a cameo role, converses with Rip Torn, who portrays him in the film. With a German mimeo snipe and the stamp Cinema International on the verso. Set and.....

N.p. N.p., 1964. Collection of five vintage, oversize, borderless photographs and two contact sheets (with 59 images) of the Thelonious Monk Quartet in performance at the La Maison de l’ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise) in Paris on February 23, 1964. Photographs with the stamp of photographer Alain Dessalles on the verso.The quartet here includes saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist Butch Warren.....

London: Cannon-Gala, 1984. Vintage reference photograph of director Jacques Rivette and actress Jane Birkin on the set of the 1984 French film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Fiction and reality begin to mix when a theatre troupe begins to rehearse a play in a mysterious mansion. Set and shot on location in Paris and Hauts-de-Seine, France.10.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 film. Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) works as an assistant to Irene Chase (Adams), a fashion purchaser for a large clothing store, and is sent to Paris as a representative for the annual fashion shows of the major European designers. While in Paris, Maggie strikes up a romance with Marc.....

Paris: Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films, 1962. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 French film. Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director, writer, and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche.....

Paris: Migra, 1959-1962. Five issues of "Le Guide de la femme" (roughly, "Woman's Guide"), a mid-century Parisian periodical published with the patronage of French author, journalist, politician, and noted feminist, Louise Weiss. The periodical, not unlike similar publications of today found on wire racks at grocery checkout lines, was produced by and for France's modern Woman, "at the forefront of.....