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... (read more)

N.p. N.p., N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old, blind beggar ends up charged with taking care of a young girl whom he calls his niece because she is deaf and dumb, and he believes he can make money by having people pity her and giving her money. He is urged by a local clergyman to bring the..... (read more)

N.p. N.p., 1990. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Later generation photocopy, not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. A biopic of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, a muralist. Their love spans deceit, passionate lovemaking and an openness due to their Communist nature and Diego's affinity for multiple partners. She becomes attracted..... (read more)

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"... (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

N.p. N.p., 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike, standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni, using a striking example of designer Virgilio Marchi's meticulously designed and... (read more)

Pasadena, CA: Night Train Films, circa 1990s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the 1930's 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... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Original one sheet poster for the 1941 film. Frank Morgan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men," but still a.... (read more)

N.p. N.p., 1986. Treatment 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, with... (read more)

Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 11 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll, and a photo of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette, with a single photo credited to photographer Dole on the recto, mimeograph number on the verso, showing a.... (read more)

Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll, all photos with brief numerical notations in holograph pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As... (read more)

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... (read more)

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. (read more)

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. (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

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 notations in pencil, black ink, and red felt ink. Likely a photograph from a meeting of... (read more)

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. McCoy'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). Very Good in a Very Good... (read more)

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.... (read more)

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... (read more)

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Mrs. White / by / Dorothy Scarborough / May 1930." Very Good in a Very Good plus, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned at the spine, with some light chipping along the top edge, no titling affected... (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

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. (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)

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... (read more)