Various cities: Liberation Support Movement, Circa 1970. Vintage 1971 calendar produced by the Liberation Support Movement (LSM), illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic illustrations. The LSM was founded in Vancouver in 1968, with branches in Oakland, Seattle, and New York before the group disbanded in 1982. The organization stood in solidarity with indigenous resistance movements in former colonial countries, with a......

Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an anti-fascist meeting in Paris in 1936, featuring novelist Andre Malraux speaking on a microphone with Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso, accompanied by holograph annotations in pencil, black ink, and red felt ink. Likely a photograph from a meeting of.....

N.p. N.p., 1986. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The true story of Benjamin Franklin traveling to France after the American Revolution, where he acts as a diplomat from the newly-established United States of America and he makes sure to throw around the new weight of this budding country. Set in Paris. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1986.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1976. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1976 film, showing director Bernardo Bertolucci giving instructions to actors Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, and Romolo Valli. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the small town of Parma.....

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923. First Edition. Described on the jacket as "the novel of The Woman in Business," and dedicated "To the Working Women of America." Charles Norris was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a......

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film, both attributed to the film's photographer Chris Marker. One photograph shows director Costa-Gavras, the other a crew member with a clapboard. Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London, a defendant in the violent, antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of.....

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".....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Two vintage borderless photographs, one showing artist David Siqueiros trying on a new shirt, while his wife Angelica watches, the other showing Siqueiros alone, circa 1966. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso, along with two agency labels and the stamp of photographer Per-Olle Stackman. From the archive of the PIX Agency, a photo house.....

West Orange, NJ: Derio Productions, Inc., 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film, with an annotations in holograph ink of copy number "24" on top right corner of the title page and on the top left corner of the verso of the last page, and a single annotation in holograph ink on page five. Laid in are three documents, a......

London: Connoisseur Films, 1971. Vintage reference photograph of director Dusan Makavejev and actress Milena Dravic on the set of the 1971 film. With a printed label specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso.From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Noted Yugoslav filmmaker Makavejev's fourth film, a surreal political satire banned in his home country upon.....

N.p. N.p., 1961. Vintage photograph of singer, activist, actress and writer Eartha Kitt on British television, 1961. With a mimeo snipe, agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. Kitt was pregnant during this performance, stirring controversy amongst her audience. As well as being a prolific and multi talented performer and writer, Eartha Kitt was a civil rights activist and.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures Industries, 1978. Two studio still photographs from the 1954 film, struck by Columbia Pictures Television in 1978. Housed in a Columbia Pictures Television photos envelope stamped with title.Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. Terry Malloy (Brando), who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for.....

Cambridge, MA: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1973. First Edition. Richards' first book, a monograph that consists of photographs taken in West Memphis, Arkansas, during his 1968 tenure with VISTA. An examination into the lives of African-American workers living far below the poverty line. One of the most important twentieth century photo books on American culture outside the mainstream.....

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 annotations througout. An episode of CBs' 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.....

Los Angeles: Walter Wanger Productions, 1937. Vintage pressbook and matching deluxe advertising supplement with a single ad mat laid in for the 1937 film. One of Fritz Lang's greatest American films, and an important film noir antecedent, very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it, notably "They Live By Night" (1948), "Gun Crazy" (1950), and "Bonnie and.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 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.....

N.p. N.p., 2008. Rainbow Revision Production Draft script for the 2008 film, copy belonging to Director of Photography Harris Savides, his name on labels on the top right of goldenrod revision title page and blue revision title page.The much acclaimed and widely loved biopic of gay rights activist, and first openly gay politician in California, Harvey Milk, portrayed by Sean.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A semi-documentary dramatization of the violence that surrounded the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and a film that questions the politics inherent in journalism and image-making, "Medium Cool" is a remarkable directorial accomplishment, highlighting the political unrest of the late 1960s, in part by using real.....

Hollywood: Petramonte Productions, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph annotations 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.....

New York: M. Horowitz, 1938. Vintage program for a 1938 Broadway production of the 1933 play. Six page two-color red program, with photographs and illustrations throughout, biographies of cast and crew, and history of the play."Tobacco Road," at the time the longest-running play on Broadway, opened on December 4, 1933 at the Theatre Masque, moving to the 48th Street Theatre.....

Pasadena, CA: Night Train Films, circa 1990s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the 1930s United States. Jack faces the hardships of unemployment, jail, and a future without promise. He is driven mad, ultimately torching the last of what he has in a frenzy. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter James Elliot. 131 leaves.....

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.....

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.....

New York: Filmarte, 1938. Vintage program for the US premiere of the 1937 French film, which opened at the Filmarte Theatre in New York on September 12, 1938. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema, a poignant look at nationalism, class differences.....

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.....

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: Alfred H. King, 1933. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and screenwriter on the front flyleaf: "To Joe Hoffman / Once a mug, always one. Hope you like it. / Jerry Wald (John Bascom)." REVIEW COPY, likely one belonging to the author for presentations, with the publisher's review slip tipped on on the front flap, denoting a publication.....

New York: Coward McCann, 1931. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. The author's fifth book. Very Good in printed wrappers. Spine faded, light dampstain to the lower front wrapper, separation on the front hinge.

Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture, 1939. Vintage, oversize, double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film, with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon." "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E.S. Blake Dec 15 1939" stamp with.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage borderless black and white photograph of musician Johnny Hallyday, actor Alain Delon and his then-wife, actress Nathalie Delon, and director Claude Lelouch at a 1967 French protest against the ban of Israeli trade by the United Arab Republic. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso, along with the stamp of Agence Dalmas.From the archive.....

New York: Double Helix Films, circa 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Kimberly Ryan, with her name and phone number on the title page in holograph pencil and ink. With a few annotations in holograph pencil. An unproduced film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes," which many consider to be Conrad's response to.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1963 film, with a blind stamp in the upper corner of each. Based on the 1948 novella by Robin Maugham.The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter, a dark, squeamish parable that tells a servant-becomes-master tale, but goes beyond what could have been.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film noir. A wonderful fourth wall version of the film's most classic shot, only this one including cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, director Joseph Losey, actor James Fox (not in the original scene), and a guy adjusting the chandelier, all in the reverse mirror image.From the archive of film historian and author.....

London: British Lion Films LTD, Circa 1961. Vintage narrow margin reference photograph of director Karel Reisz on the set of the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe and "British Lion Films LTD." stamp on verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Alan Sillitoe and part of the British New Wave "kitchen sink" dramas of the late 1950s and early 1960s.22 year old.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1971 film, including five borderless and one bordered. With holograph pencil and ink annotations to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.A teenage girl (Sandy Ratcliff) living with her unhappy, restrictive family in London is forced to undergo psychiatric treatment for her erratic.....

London: National General Pictures, 1967. Vintage black-and-white double weight linen-backed keybook photograph from the 1967 film. With a three-hole punch at the left margin as called for, and a mimeo snipe on the verso noting actors White and Bindon (pictured), as well as actor Terence Stamp, novelist and screenwriter Nell Dunn, director Ken Loach, and producer Joseph Janni. Set in.....

N.p. Tamm Productions, 1967. Second Draft script for the 1970 film, printed on green paper. Annotations on title page of names of the two lead characters and actors, in holograph ink: "McParlan - Richard Harris / Kehoe - Connery," and production dates, "Shot — April 26 - July 27 - 1968." Laid in are two yellow pages of script revisions.....

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition, in the rare dust jacket. The final two pages of the book are dedicated to a glossary of Harlem slang. A Jazz Age novel, with proletarian leanings, about an ill-fated love affair between an idealistic young woman from Connecticut and a rambling snake oil salesman who travel from to New York, where they.....

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1984. Vintage photograph of director Nestor Almendros and writer Susan Sontag, taken in 1984. With three printed Institute of Contemporary Arts labels affixed to the verso.A searing documentary, focusing on the Castro regime's persecution of Cuba's lesbian and gay population. The film interviews members of the American Left who initially voiced support for the revolution.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Collection of 12 vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. Loosely based on the exploits of Jimmy Hoffa, the notorious boss of the Teamsters Union. In the 1930s, a ruthless warehouse worker in Cleveland climbs his way to the top of a trucking union, but his links to organized crime prove to be.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First American Edition. First book in Hamilton's "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" trilogy. INSCRIBED by the author to his wife, and dated in the year and month of their marriage (as well as the year of publication): "To Lois / from / her own private novelist / Patrick Hamilton / 8th August 1930."Very Good lacking dust.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1978. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. With mimeo snipes on the verso. Fed up with the lies of factory management and union heads, three working-class, Rust Belt auto workers decide to rob a safe at their union headquarters. The directorial debut of Paul Schrader. Set and shot on location in.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage satin banner with hand-sewn lettering, by an unknown artist, made after Paul Krassner and John Francis Putnam's 1963 poster. Krassner created the "Fuck Communism" poster for sale through his satirical underground magazine The Realist, with typography by longtime Mad magazine art director Putnam. In addition to publishing The Realist from 1958 to 2001, Krassner was.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Orson Welles from the 1963 film. Italian "ROGOPAG / LA RIOTTA" stamp on verso. An anthology film of four short films, titled after the names of the four directors: "Illibatezza," directed by Roberto Rossellini, "Il Nuovo Mondo," directed by Jean-Luc Godard, "La Ricotta," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and "Il Pollo.....

N.p. N.p., 1930. Vintage photograph showing rows of cots and resting or idle strikebreakers at the 147th St yards of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 1930. With a mimeo snipe, press agency stamps, one dated "Jun 28 1930," and holograph pencil annotations on the verso. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company of one of the original private companies contracted to operate.....

N.p. Films Sonores Tobis, 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 French film, showing the exterior of the phonograph factory where the film's protagonist Louis begins to find prosperity. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the verso.Director Rene Clair's third sound film, a lyrical, proletarian satire about friendship, wealth, and the price of success. 10 x 8 inches. Near.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers - First National, 1942. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso, one with "National Screen Service Corp" and "227- 42" stamps on verso, and two with a "Photograph by Madison Lacy" stamp on versos. Included is a two-color press flyer for the film.Two migrant workers.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1927. Vintage photograph of the death masks of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, from the famed exhibition at the Stuyvesant Casino in August 1927. Mimeo snipe, annotations in holograph pencil and ink, and "Agence Trampus," "Lynx Agence," and a third stamp obscured by snipe, all on verso.Italian immigrants, anarchists and atheists, Sacco and Vanzetti, were arrested in.....