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.....

N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1971 film, showing director Woody Allen behind a pile of bananas. With the stamp of London Press Photos Ltd. on the verso, along with holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. Anxious to impress his activist ex-girlfriend, a blue collar worker travels to a fictitious South American country, where he is unwittingly conscripted into.....

Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, Circa 1970. Vintage double-sided Vietnam War protest poster, circa 1970. with the image printed on the recto, and computer code printed on the verso. 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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980. Collection of materials related to post-production editing for the 1981 film, including notes on film reels and pages of proposed sequences for each reel. Director, screenwriter, and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama, which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning three for.....

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 six vintage 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, some of which credit photographer Maria Saporta. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's seventh annual convention occurred from September 24 to September 27 at Virginia Union University in Richmond.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes," which was considered by some to be Conrad's response to "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, whom Conrad purportedly despised. The narrative generally depicts the life of an oft-downtrodden revolutionary, told through the story of a language teacher living in Geneva.....

Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing, 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer, and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters, who married and had children at a young.....

N.p. N.p., 1968. Draft script for the 1971 production at the Theatre by the Sea in Wakefield, Rhode Island, as stated in the copied annotations on title page and verified by the University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections and Archives. Copied annotations regarding staging directions on nearly every page. Laid in is a memo on "Black Girl" letterhead with.....

Germany: Kinematrade, 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 Wampe.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1969. Two vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1969 French film. With printed mimeo snipes for the film's British release affixed to the verso.A man and a woman meet to discuss the Vietnam War, student protests, the changing relationship between the US and France, and other current events of the 1960s, interspersed with news.....

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 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.....

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.....

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......

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. 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.....

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. 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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1972 film. With the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso.A documentary following an antiwar political comedy troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which put on shows called "F.T.A." (which stood for "Fuck the Army") in towns near US military bases. The film opened.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Revised Draft script for the circa early 1970s musical, from the Ebony Showcase Theatre, with "Property of Ebony" written boldly in blue ink at the bottom of the front wrapper. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name to the front wrapper and extensive holograph ink and pencil annotations to nearly every page, noting.....

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.....

Los Angeles: United Artists, 1934. Vintage press photograph of the film's premiere at the Chicago World Fair, at the "Century of Progress" exhibition, on July 30, 1934. The premiere was reported as being attended by 15,000 people, including international celebrities, civic and industrial leaders, newspapermen, and five governors. In early October, 1934 the film had a special White House screening.....

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.....