Italy: Nepi Film, 1960. Vintage oversize double weight borderless photograph from the 1961 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni, cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo, Jeanne Moreau, and others working on a balcony shot, part of the long party sequence that makes up the last third of the film. The second film in the trilogy that begins with "L'Avventura"...
London: Carol Reed Productions, Circa 1948. Vintage candid photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. From the archive of Maurice Bessy, with his stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Leslie Baker, and another for Carol Reed Productions and The London Films Studios in Shepperton, England. A mimeo snipe, also on the verso, describes the...
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1971. Original double weight, wide margin photograph of Luis Bunuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere by Mary Ellen Mark, taken outdoors during the shooting of Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Notated on the verso as having been taken in 1971, with a separate rubber stamp showing a date of 1980, presumably when the photograph was...
N.p. N.p., 1945-1963. An archive of 18 mimeograph manuscripts for short stories, novels, and screenplays, many never published or produced, by W.R. Burnett. All identified by stamp, label or cover sheet as being from H.N. Swanson, Inc., Burnett's literary agent. Four of the scripts are ribbon copy typescript or carbon typescript, two of the scripts have been briefly annotated by.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by Gaddis in 1984 to Harper's Magazine and Saturday Review literary critic John Aldridge: "To John Aldridge / with great thanks and serious regard / William Gaddis / Ann Arbor / 1984." Though later considered one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century, Gaddis' debut novel "The...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Martha Graham to the late, legendary film director Sidney Lumet at the half-title page: "For Sidney Lumet / Martha Graham." Sidney Lumet's astounding catalog of films slightly predicted (and later joined) the work of the great filmmakers of the 1970s, with a laundry list of five-star achievements that includes "Dog...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage press photograph of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, the iconic female character in the classic British television series, "The Avengers." Here Rigg stands on a polar bear skin rug laid out near the shoreline of an unknown British locale. Shot by photographer Terry O'Neill to promote the hiring of John Bates (who worked for noted.....
New York: Carnegie Hall, 1980. Original poster for an early, seminal performance by the Steve Reich and Musicians Ensemble, premiering what amounted to the second phase of his compositions for large ensembles. "Music for a Large Ensemble" and "Octet" were both built on ideas formed in Reich's first "large ensemble" piece, "Music for 18 Musicians" (1974), experimenting with what the...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by Sonny Rollins in black marker on the front endpaper, along with a small doodle of a sixteenth note couplet. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Full provenance available.
Rome: Titanus, 1962. Original double weight, borderless photograph of Claudia Cardinale on the set of director Luchino Visconti's 1963 film, "Il Gattopardo," taken in 1962 during shooting. With the blue rubber stamp of an Italian press agency, Publifoto, on the verso. In the photograph, Ms. Cardinale studies an Italian version of the script while having her hair done for a....
Wengen, Switzerland: Alpine Films, 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Orson Welles and John Gielgud on location in Spain for the shooting of "Chimes at Midnight" in 1965. Shot and struck by noted photographer Nicolas Tikhomoroff, with his rubber stamp and the stamp of his Parisian agency, V.I.P., on the verso. "Chimes at Midnight," Welles' third of three legendary...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan J. Pakula, Donald Sutherland, and Jane Fonda on the set of "Klute" in the summer of 1970. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso, in holograph ink: "Donald Sutherland, Alan Pakula, and Jane...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1956. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Elizabeth Taylor on location for the shooting of "Raintree County" 1956. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his rubber stamp on the verso (noting his address at Coolmaine Castle in Kilbrittain, Cork, Ireland), as well as his holograph inscription to Deirdre Hughes, dated...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage oversize full color double weight photograph of Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark on location for the shooting of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" in Sherborne, England in 1968. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his rubber stamp on the verso (noting his employment with the Lee Gross Agency in New...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1952. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of James Mason on location in Bronson Canyon, California, for the shooting of "Julius Caesar" in 1952. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by Willoughby at the bottom right margin in black ink, with his rubber stamp on the verso (noting his Los Angeles...
N.p. N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, and Martin Sheen on the set of Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso, in holograph pencil: "Candid during rehearsal / The boys break up in briefing room...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra on the set of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the fall of 1955. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by Willoughby on the verso, along his ASMP rubber stamp for both his New York and Ireland addresses. Full provenance...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak in conference with director Otto Preminger on the set of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the fall of 1955. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by Willoughby on the verso, along his ASMP rubber stamp for...