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...

N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Collection of 26 vintage photographs of actress Martine Carol, seen here traveling in Asia with her then husband, Christian-Jaque. All photos, shot by an unknown photographer, feature the bubbly Parisian galavanting with geishas, posing outdoors, enjoying Asian culture, and hamming for the camera. Nearly all photos have Carol's and/or Jaque's name rubber-stamped on the verso, and.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of 8 vintage borderless black-and-white photographs of actress Dominique Clement, including two contact sheets, one with cropping notations. All photos, shot by an unknown photographer, feature the demure Parisian contemplating nature, or life itself. Little has been documented of Clement (1940-2012), but she had roles in Jacqueline Audry's "Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon" (1959), Henri.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title, several with notations in holograph...

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.....

London: Albatross, 1962. Shooting script for the 1962 film. Date notation of "12 Sept 1982" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper label. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "The Fur Collar" is the principal clue in a mystery involving an espionage ring. Reporter John Bentley, assigned to the Paris beat, does his best to route out the spies. When his enemies...

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. Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Vintage photograph with wide bottom margin from the set of the 1961 film showing Louis Armstrong performing in the midst of a listening audience.Two American Jazz musicians, Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier), are living in Paris and fall in love with two vacationing young American girls, Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann...

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...