New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950. First Edition. Late novel by the West Virginia mystery author featuring Kentucky sheriff Jess Roden, who goes undercover to search for a moonshiner who killed a U.S. Deputy Marshal. Teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and Dutton logo embossed on front cover; dustjacket; 223, [1]pp. Mild wear to base of spine, with...

Toronto: Domestic Bliss, 1982. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the verso of the front wrapper: "Doug / Poetry make me warm / Makes Wendy think of you / How about you / Love / Lillian Allen / Oct 82." The first book by the Jamaican born Canadian writer, Juno Award winning...

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...

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during the 1920s. Proletarian through and through, "I'm Lucky At That"...

Berkeley: Berkeley 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. Stickers commemorate the Peace and Freedom Party political campaigns of Mario Savio for California state senator, Black Panther founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver for president, with...

Rome: A.P.E. Roma, 1943. Complete set of three vintage Italian posters for the legendary 1943 Italian film noir. Based on the 1929 novel by James M. Cain, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," and preceding the US film adaptation by three years. Visconti's trenchant first feature, an unauthorized adaptation of Cain's novel, often cited as the earliest neorealist film. Visconti himself...

N.p. David Allen Coe, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in trade wrappers as issued. SIGNED by David Allen Coe on the front wrapper. The maverick country singer's primitively printed autobiography, detailing his time in 11 different correctional institutions--from juvenile detention centers to prison--beginning at age 9, followed by a career as something of a renegade country singer. Coe's biggest single...

London: Michael Joseph, 1961. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the 1971 Australian film of the same name (released in some countries as "Outback") starring Donald Pleasance and Gary Bond, considered by many to be the greatest Australian film ever made. Very Good in a Very Good example of the scarce dust jacket. Book shows offsetting to the...

Germany: Kinematrade, Inc., circa 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt?" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933, as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era, "Kuhle...

Culver City, CA: Mikas 1, 1983. Fourth Draft script for the 1985 film. Here under the working title, "Spooks." Laid in is a letter from Farkas' manager James Reed to Walter Kohner, dated October 31, 1983 While ripping off ATMs using manipulated bank cards, two engineers discover a plot of a shadow organization to crash the computers at the Federal...

New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in French controlled Algeria, in 1955, and a version was published...

Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 134 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in pub with costar Doll, two photos of Gabin kicking a ball and in a manilla envelope addressed to "M. de La Maziere, and images of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette. Several photos...

Paris: Intermondia Films, 1959. Archive of 69 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets, amounting to nearly 800 numbered images, for the 1959 French-Italian film, here under a working title, "Le clochard." Much of the film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many candid off-camera shots from the set. Housed in an orange...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. The author's only title, one of the great novels of the Depression, about a down-and-out young man, and a fine example of proletarian literature. Very Good plus lacking the scarce dust jacket. Spine lean, spine faded, extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, and a hint of soil.

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1952 film noir. Shown in one photo are Barbara Stanwyck and her lover-on-the-side Robert Ryan in a romantic embrace. In the other photo Marilyn Monroe and her romantic counterpart Keith Andes are shown working on a ship. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus.

Hollywood: Petramonte Productions, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph notations throughout. Based on the 1951 novel "Fortress in the Rice" by Benjamin Appel. The only film ever released by Petramonte Productions (and eventually distributed by Allied Artists).During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the...

London: N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. An early version of the screenplay with the provisional title "A Kestrel for a Knave". "6x" in black holograph marker on top right of title page.The second film (and breakthrough) by esteemed British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach. Based upon the 1968 novel by Barry Hines "A Kestrel for a....

Toronto: Telepix Canada Corp. 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...

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Author's first book, a hard-boiled Depression-era classic, basis for the 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York and Gig Young (who won an Oscar for his role as the dance marathon promoter). Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, with publisher's price of $2.00...

N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. No relation to the Ben Bova science fiction novel of the same name. A tragedy that takes place in a dump, where the residents are workers, digging up turn-of-the-century artifacts housed in now-buried ships on a landfill belonging to a foul, conniving woman. A fugitive murderer is discovered on their property and.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film, likely for a specific theatre, as it advertises "Starts May 1," about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. A blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde, about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. Shot on location...

Paris: Films Albatros, 1936. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph from the 1937 film. Notations listing other French films in holographic ink on verso, and with a negative-printed credit for photographer Roger Forster at the bottom right corner of the recto.Winner of 1936's Louis Delluc Prize (the first year the prize was awarded,) Renoir's "Les Bas-fonds," is based on...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1979 film, showing director Martin Ritt discussing a scene with star Sally Field. With the stamps of photographer Jacques Moreau and Twentieth Century Fox on the verso. Inspired by the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton, about a woman who fights to unionize a textile company...

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1957. Draft script for the 1959 television episode. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his name on the first leaf, and his holograph notations througout. An episode of CBS's legendary "Playhouse 90" series, an original script by Rod Serling, which aired on May 28, 1959. Starring Luther Adler, Charles Bronson, and Luther Adler, along...

New York: Robert A. Ballou, 1933. First Edition. One of 598 copies printed. Near Fine and unread in a dust jacket that is Fine but for some light chipping at the crown (titling not affected). A minute bit of toning at the top of the backstrip, in the same spot. An exceptionally bright, fresh example. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell...

Hollywood: Andrews-Vagemann Productions, circa 1960s. Two treatment scripts for an unproduced television series "The Brutes." Written by Jerome B. Thomas, occasional writer for shows like "The Outer Limits" and the 1965 "Branded." This listing contains two scripts, "HERE COME THE BRUTES" and "THE BRUTES: THE IDOLS I HAVE LOVED SO LONG." "HERE COME THE BRUTES" introduces the principle characters, two...

New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. First Edition. The author's fifth book. Jacket illustration by Glenn Cravath. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Some fading to the book's quarter binding, and jacket has a tiny, nearly undetectible hole at the center of the spine panel. A bright, attractive copy overall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To B.T. Harts / with best wishes of the author / Jim Tully." With Tully's homemade "address label" on the front pastedown, with Tully's name and address in holograph black ink, in his hand. The author's first book, an autobiographical novel of the road. Bump...

N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the life of Malcolm X. With copied notations throughout, mostly corrections to the text. Joseph A. Walker is best known as the writer of the 1972 play "The River Niger." The original Off-Broadway run received an Obie Award for Best Play, and Walker became the first African American writer...

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond, playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place, a radical element even in a pre-Code film. A film that has...

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Final script for the 1941 screwball comedy film. A key film in the American screwball comedy cycle, with proletarian elements deftly woven into a hilarious, smart, and blizzard-paced story. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn) goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York...