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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft screenplay for an unproduced film. A few holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout, including one to the first page noting the name of director Tom Gries, although we cannot find any information linking Gries to the script. A pet project of action star Charles Bronson and his wife, the actor Jill Ireland, who wrote.....

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: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Basis for the seminal 1943 film directed by William Wellman and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn. Topstain faded, and a bit of the usual offsetting to the endpapers, else Fine and unread lacking the dust jacket. Notably, this copy has none of the usual rubbing and toning to the backstrip that is.....

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, price-clipped example of the scarce dust jacket. Book shows offsetting to.....

N.p. Four Leaf Productions, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film, belonging to cinematographer Paul Vogel, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Script preceded by a thirteen page shooting schedule, dated 12-7-66, with holograph annotations in ink and pencil, including the name of lead actor Aldo Ray added to the character.....

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 Corp. 1939. Vintage oversize double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film, with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative in white 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.....

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.....

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.....

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 film noir. One of the photos is a candid shot of a young Marilyn Monroe, leaning against a camera track and talking to her male counterpart lead, Keith Andes. The candid photo has a mimeo snipe describing the shot, indicating clearly that Ms. Monroe.....

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......

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 French studio still photograph from the 1936 film. Notations listing other French films in holograph ink on verso, and with a negative-printed credit for photographer Roger Forster at the bottom left corner of the recto.Winner of 1936’s Louis Delluc Prize (the first year the prize was awarded), Renoir’s film is based on.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1981. Treatment script for an unproduced film. After the independence of India from England and the dividing of the nation into both modern India and Pakistan, a farmer and Sikh is working when a Muslim woman throws herself at his feet. Upon seeing the man who owns her, the farmer realizes he must purchase the young woman as.....

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.....

New York: Self published, 1968. Vintage double sided flyer promoting one of the best-known direct actions of the Dadaist anarchist protest group Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, a.k.a. The Motherfuckers. The flyer shows an image of a conductor in front of an open casket, surrounded by an orchestra interspersed with garbage. The verso implores the public to bring garbage to.....

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: 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.....