New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. First Edition. A very nice copy of an important title, probably the premiere monograph of New York images, predicting the series ideas of Ruscha and many others. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little soiling to the boards. Jacket has three small internal repairs (not restoration), and a......

Havana: Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos, 1965. Vintage silkscreen poster for the 1965 documentary short film. Designed by Alfredo Rostgaard, one of the most prolific and influential Cuban graphic artists and poster designers. A documentary about racial discrimination in the United States, juxtaposing still photographs with clips of singer and actress Lena Horne, a style of montage that.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

London: Jack Parsons, 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in holograph pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers, dated May 1953, with credits.....

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.....

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. N.p., 1963. Collection of five vintage black-and-white photographs of members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference marching in Richmond, Virginia in 1963. With holograph annotations in pencil and ink to the verso.The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's seventh annual convention occurred from September 24 to September 27 at Virginia Union University. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of the.....

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., 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.....

N.p. Four Leaf Productions, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film, from the collection of cinematographer Paul Vogel, presumably his working copy, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper, and annotations throughout in holograph ink, primarily noting locations and which shots are to be done in post-production. Bound in behind back wrapper.....

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.....

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.....

New York: Methuen, 1979. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Daniel Fuchs on the front endpaper to film historian Gabriel Miller and his wife: "For Gabriel & Kathie / affectionately, Dan."A collection of short stories and personal essays.Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

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.....

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......

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 annotations in holograph pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As.....

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.....

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.....

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

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.

Los Angeles: Walter Wanger Productions, 1937. Original deluxe illustrated pressbook and matching deluxe advertising supplement (with a single ad mat laid in), both unfolded, for the 1937 film. A beautifully illustrated pressbook and truly comprehensive advertising manual for one of Fritz Lang's greatest American films, and an important film noir antecedent, very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would.....

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.....

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......

Paris: Films sans Frontieres, 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actors Romy Schneider and Alain Delon. With the stamp of S.A. Excelsior Films on the verso, along with several holograph ink annotations.Having been ousted from the USSR, Leon Trotsky travels through Europe to Mexico, where he establishes residence in the 1930s and 1940s, hoping to hide from.....

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.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author to legendary film director Tod Browning: "To Tod Browning / with admiration / Horace McCoy / Hollywood, August, 1935." A wonderful association. Horace McCoy was a Hollywood screenwriter in 1935, and at the same time Tod Browning was making one of his last.....

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 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.....

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 1975. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on January 8. With a single holograph pencil annotation (phone number for a cast or crew member) on the title page.A group of black inmates try to survive amidst dehumanizing treatment and discrimination by their captors and other inmates at a......

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. Field.....

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.....

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'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.....

N.p. N.p., 1970. Vintage double sided flyer for a speaking engagement by Artie Seale on May 7, 1970 at Cornell University. The recto of the flyer contains information about the event, while the verso contains the ten point Black Panther platform. Seale was an activist and speaker, as well as the wife of Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, and was.....

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. First Edition. Basis for the 1932 film, "The Purchase Price," starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Torch singer Joan Eustice, tiring of her relationship with a small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields, flees to Montreal and becomes the mail-order bride of down-to-earth farmer Jim Gilson. Their chance for happiness is threatened by Gilson's own stubborness, a......

London: Feliks Topolski, 1965. First and only edition. Folded broadside, revealing when unfolded a large scale graphic and textual portrayal of a poetry reading that became a watershed moment in 1960s British counterculture. SIGNED by Alexander Trocchi at the inclusion of his essay. The broadside was published as a part of Topolski's prolific ongoing "Chronicle" series. The recto of the.....

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 to the front hinge.

N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in holograph ink. Four characters swept up in the Mexican revolution go from no possibility of ever meeting each other to their fates becoming intertwined. Set in Mexico. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present, no with credit to the screenwriter. 224 leaves, with last page of text numbered.....

N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the life of Malcolm X. With copied annotations 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: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of four 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.....