N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe ad the stamp of Cinema International affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Director Robert Altman's brilliant, caustic view of American politics and culture, seen through the microcosm of five days in the.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Robert Altman on the set of the 1975 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Robert Altman's brilliant, caustic view of American politics and culture, seen through the microcosm of five days in the Nashville country and gospel music scene, with 24 main characters and multiple storylines, a tour-de-force, and.....
Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, Circa 1970. Vintage double-sided Vietnam War protest poster, circa 1970. with the image printed on the recto, and computer code printed on the verso. Begun in a workshop taught by influential Chicano Arts Movement print maker Malaquias Montoya in 1970, the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop was one of the largest of the poster art groups.....
Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, Circa 1970. Vintage Vietnam War protest poster, circa 1970. Begun in a workshop taught by influential Chicano Arts Movement print maker Malaquias Montoya in 1970, the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop was one of the largest of the poster art groups that spread throughout the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s, producing 100s of.....
Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all from June 1970), and a clip of the published photo.....
New York: Music Vanguard, 1935. Complete two issue run of "Music Vanguard" magazine, listed as Vol. 1, issue 1 March-April 1935 and Vol. 1, issue 2 Summer 1935. Rare. "Music Vanguard" focused on the relationship between music and social justice, with a particular focus American socialist thought, noting in the introduction to the first issue the "wish to interrelate diverse elements.....
Rome: Fair Film, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. An English language script for consideration by US filmmakers, though the film was shot in Italian. Based on Alberto Bevilacqua's 1964 novel of the same name. The widow of a worker killed by police joins the militant strike against the factory owners, one of which falls in love with her.....
Berkeley: Berkley Graphics Arts, 1968. Collection of five vintage bumper stickers from the 1968 political campaigns run via a collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party. Each of the stickers were made for various Peace and Freedom Party political campaigns, including: Mario Savio for California state senator, Black Panther founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Collection of seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 Italian film. Based on the real Salon Kitty, a cabaret and brothel used by Nazi secret intelligence to collect information on high-ranking SS commandants and foreign dignitaries during World War II. Heavily edited for its US release, with many political elements purged in order to market the.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe, stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer, and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its (accurate, then and now) depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional, shallow.....
New York: NBC Television Network, 1960. Collection of four vintage photographs from NBC News of the 1960 Democratic National Convention. "NBC photo by Frank Carroll" stamp on the verso of each. Laid in is an NBC News mimeo snipe. One photograph is of the floor of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, largely empty, prior to the beginning of the.....
N.p. N.p., 1928. Vintage photograph of Philip Sassoon and Charlie Chaplin at United Artists studios in 1928. The acetate negative of the photograph is in the holdings of the Charlie Chaplin Archive at Cineteca Bologna. Chaplin and Sassoon were born within three months of each other, with childhood homes less than three miles apart, Sassoon into one of the wealthiest families.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A corrupt politician places one of his cronies in charge of a boy's home, where he intends to misuse funds in the home's budget. Unluckily for him the crony finds that he has much in common with the unruly boys he's been put in charge of. Tan wrappers. 12 leaves.....
New York: Basic Books / Perseus Books Group, 2006. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Vic / Who has been in the fight longer than I / Thomas B. Edsall." Fresh insights and rock-solid reporting, Edsall reshapes our understanding of modern politics. A stray ink mark on the front endpaper (likely from the time of inscription).....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1963. Revised Final Draft script for the 1963 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped and noted in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Best on the best-selling 1958 novel by Burdick and Lederer, about Americans in Vietnam and the struggle for the US in combating the country's Communist politics. Brando plays a scholar named Harrison.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1963. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1963 film. Tall blue studio self wrappers, dated February 12, 1963, noting 7 reels and footage of 10,797 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Good plus, lacking rear wrapper.
Budapest: Hunnia Filmstudio, 1929. Presentation copy of an Early Draft script for the Hungarian film, released in Hungry in 1932 as "Tavaszi zapor," in Frace in 1933 as "Marie, Legende Hongroise," and in the United States in 1935 as "Spring Shower." Housed in a (likely hand-sewn) floral cloth-covered portfolio, the script is INSCRIBED by the Hungarian-American feminist and radical socialist.....
N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....
Paris: Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the Jean-Luc Godard film, shot in 1960 but not released until 1963 due to a ban in France over torture scenes. Thus it was Godard's second feature film, but fourth to be released. This photograph was taken and struck in 1960, when the film was shot. A shot that.....
Paris: Parc Film, Circa 1968. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. French "La Chinoise" stamps on versos. Loosely based on the 1871 novel "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Godard's wry, improvisational take on politics of the late 1960s, follows five disaffected students studying the teachings of Mao Zedong and debating the use of terrorism to achieve revolution. Set.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television special. A musical special in the form of a cultural forecast, in anticipation of a changing world. The show addresses topics including: science, technology, politics, entertainment, and leisure. Grey titled wrappers. 83 leaves, with last page of text numbered 82. Mimeograph duplication, with pink, yellow, and.....
N.p. N.p., 1974-1976. Archive of material for the 1976 film belonging to Second Assistant Director Bill Venegas, including a First Draft screenplay dated December 12, 1974, a Revised Draft screenplay dated August 11, 1975, and several sets of production documents regarding location shooting in Louisiana, California, and Arizona, including shooting schedules, handwritten and xerographically duplicated maps, letters, and legal documents.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, and Randy Quaid. SIGNED by David Carradine on the title.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light tonight to page edges; jacket has a short closed tear at the bottom of the front panel, mild soil, and a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.
New York: Henry Holt, 2006. First Edition. INSCRIBED to a noted political consultant and commentator on the title page: "For / — — / with best personal regards / Gary Hart." Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28, 1948." Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in the 1950s were asked to denounce Paul Robeson (1888–1976) in.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and former president on the front endpaper: "The Complements of Herbert Hoover." Near Fine in an about Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with offsetting on the front endpaper, and the Herbert Hoover postage stamp on the front pastedown. Jacket spine has just a hint of toning.....
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N.p. National General Pictures, 1970. Vintage photograph from the 1970 film of Lionel Jeffries in character as Grandpa. Originally released in the UK under the title "Eyewitness." Based on the novel "The Eyewitness" (1966) by Mark Hebden, under the pseudonym John Harris. After young Ziggy (Mark Lester) is an accidental witness to an assassination, the assassins pursue him and his older.....
Los Altos, CA: National General Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Rare. Obscure documentary about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, exploring the possibility of a second gunman having been involved. Folded as issued. Near Fine.
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For — — / Best, / Joe Klein." Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein received unprecedented access to student leaders, activists, various committee meetings.....
N.p. London Film Productions, 1947. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1947 film. Based on Oscar Wilde's 1895 play of the same name. Imbued with the wit that characterizes most of Wilde's work, Alexander Korda's 1947 film follows a prominent politician preparing to expose a financial scandal. His plan begins to unravel when a woman threatens him with her.....
New York: The Realist Association, 1962. First Edition. A couple pinhole tears to the top edges of a few pages, with just a hint of toning, else jsut about Fine. The "Special Offensive Issue" from the well-known title in countercultural satirical journalism, including articles such as "An Impolite Interview with an Abortionist."
Toronto: Telepix Canada, 1985. Final Draft for the 1986 television film. Based on the book of the same name recounting the corruption of the 1969 United Mine Workers' presidential election, and the murder of Joseph "Jock" Yablonski that followed. Set in Pittsburgh, PA and environs, shot on location in Pitsburgh and Nemacolin, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. Self-wrappers, with title page.....
N.p. N.p., 1986. Shooting draft script for the 1987 film. Based on the 1984 Cheech and Chong song, written by Cheech Marin and Frank Price. Cheech Marin's first film without his long time comedy partner Tommy Chong. Rudy Robles (Marin), a Mexican American man from East Los Angeles, who speaks no Spanish (but is fluent in German), is caught without.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1953. Vintage single weight linen-backed keybook still photograph from the 1953 film. Seen are Leif Erickson and Marie Wilson hanging out at a window. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on a story by Frederick Kohner and Fred Brady, about a group of women in the Army testing new military equipment. This was.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Two vintage black-and-white photographs of Harvey Milk, one showing Milk standing underneath several campaign signs during his run for city supervisor in 1975, and one showing Milk shaking the hand of Mayor George Moscone during his official appointment to the Board of Permit Appeals the following year. With provenance stamps on the verso relating to the.....
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 1995. Vintage press kit for the 1995 film. Press kit includes 11 black and white photographs and a pamphlet of production information, housed in a titled pictorial studio folder. The second of director Oliver Stone's trilogy of films about US Presidents, a semi-biographical film chronicling Nixon's impeachment, with flashbacks to his life before the presidency.....
Washington, DC: Susan Conway Gallery, 1994. Lithograph print by political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant titled "GOPula." One of 20 copies (this being No. 14) SIGNED in pencil by Oliphant at the bottom right. With the label of the Susan Conway Gallery in Washington DC on the verso of the mat. 11 x 14 inches. Fine.
Washington, DC: Susan Conway Gallery, 1995. Lithograph print by political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant titled "You told me to do it - I heard you." One of 20 copies (this being No. 2) SIGNED in pencil by Oliphant at the bottom right. With the label of the Susan Conway Gallery in Washington DC on the verso of the mat. 13 x......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1972 documentary film. With the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso. The film follows an antiwar political comedy troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which put on shows called "F.T.A." (which stood for "Fuck the Army") in towns near US military bases. The film.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For — / With deep gratitude and affection / Lazar." Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light toning at the spine panel, a tiny closed tear at the heel, a hint of shallow creasing at the extremities, and mild toning. An.....
New York: W.W. Norton, 1986. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Victor Kamber on the front endpaper: "To Victor / Wise counselor and creative genius for a whole new generation of GIANT KILLERS!!! / With great respect, Mike Pertschuk / 4-1-88." Kamber is a labor union activist and political consultant who worked for the AFL-CIO in the 1970s before.....
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N.p. Allied Artists, 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 US release of the 1966 film, housed in their original brown paper envelope stamped "Battle of Algiers B7," with annotations on envelope in holograph marker. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on the.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Stamped production No. 63-83 on the verso and on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning political shocker of 1959 (but detached from the novel's Cold War agenda), about how American government functions in a free society. Set in Washington, DC.....
San Francisco: Civil Action Day Committee, 1967. Vintage poster for a anti-Vietnam War protest, organized by the Civil Day Action Committee, and held at the Oakland Induction Center on December 18, 1967. These protests came two months after one of the largest anti-War actions, Stop the Draft Week, in which thousands of protesters blocked access to the Induction Center, burned.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. The idealistic son of a former California governor is persuaded to run for the US Senate. In the face of almost certain failure, he decides to try to bring controversial, leftist views into public view, and campaign against the corrupt political system. Nominated for.....
10-16-31. Vintage photograph, 1931. Mimeo snipe and International News Photos stamp on verso. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York addressing spectators at the dedication of the Colonial National Monument at Yorktown during Virginia's Sesquicentennial Celebration of Cornwallis surrender. By the fall of 1931 Roosevelt was already being considered a likely candidate for the Democratic nominee for President in the.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1979. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1979 US film. A politician struggles with his morality and ideals amid the corrupt system. He is dually unsettled by his attraction to a woman other than his wife, leading to an affair that could jeopardize his career. Shot on location in Maryland. 27 x 41 in.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. First UK Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing to the endpapers, with top corners lightly bumped. Jacket has light fading to the spine, with a hint of rubbing at the spine ends.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Collection of seven vintage keybook photographs from the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe and "Approved Advertising Advisory Council Apr 21 1942 Hollywood" stamp on verso of each. Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison, he hides out in former schoolmate (and.....
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, Circa 1942. Vintage reference photograph of a supine Cary Grant surrounded by Jean Arthur, director George Stevens, and crew from the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe on verso, here under the working title "The Talk of the Town." Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and.....
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty," seen here under the working title, "Down Went McGinty," corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges, with two earlier titles, "Biography of a Bum" and "The Vagrant," cited on the second and fourth.....
Paris: Albin Michel, 1926. First Edition, volume two only. Ex-library copy, with contemporary hardcover library binding and a rubber stamp to a number of pages. Very Good plus, with foxing and toning to pages and hinges starting. Without dust jacket. A book of political cartoons and anecdotes by the active artist. Text in French. A good candidate for rebinding.
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N.p. MOKEP, 1977. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1977 Hungarian film, here under its Hungarian title "Csaladi Tuzfeszek." Bela Tarr's debut feature film, shot in six days, a dark and desperate portrayal of a couple forced to live in a cramped, tiny flat with the husband's parents, suffocating under the rule of a dominating father, reflecting the national hopelessness.....
Los Angeles: TransWorld Entertainment, Circa 1978. First Draft script for the 1978 film. One of English director Thompson's lesser known films, his better known works being "Blonde Sinner" (1956), "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), "Cape Fear" (1962), "Mackenna's Gold" (1969), "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" (1972), and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (1973). Theo Tomasis (Quinn).....
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First French Edition, preceded by the Greek edition published by Editions Themelion in 1966. Association copy, inscribed by Vassilikos to author William Styron and his wife: "For Rose and Bill / With all my happiness for the success of the book / Love and nostalgia / from Mimi and Vassilis." The prolific author's best known work, basis for.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film, a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship, the other with actors Robert Forster, Peter Bonerz, and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures, the other with the stamp of.....