The Dresser (Original photograph from the 1983 film)
by Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Edward Fox, Michael Gough, Sheila Reid (starring); Peter Yates (director); Ronald Harwood (screenwriter)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Vintage reference photograph from the 1983 film, showing actor Albert Finney preparing for a turn as King Lear, with help from his dresser Tom Courtenay. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1980 play by Ronald Harwood, loosely based on his own experiences as a personal dresser to Shakespearean... Read More
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Alberto Giacometti / Yves Klein: In Search of the Absolute (First UK Edition, complete in two volumes)
by [Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein] Joachim Pissarro, Catherine Grenier, Daniel Moquay, Cecilia Braschi, Richard Calvocoressi (contributors)
London and New York: Gagosian Gallery / Rizzoli, 2016. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Complete in two volumes. Fine and unread, with no dust jackets as issued, housed together in publisher's slipcase. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Oversize item, shipping billed at cost.
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Alessandro Albrizzi (Two original photographs, circa 1950s)
by [Alessandro Albrizzi]
Paris: William Morris Agency, 1950. ry Good Plus overall, with faint foxing and slight curling.
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That Certain Feeling (Original photograph of cartoonist Al Capp from the 1956 film)
by Al Capp [Alfred Gerald Caplin] (starring); Melvin Frank (director, screenwriter); Norman Panama (director); Eleanor Brooke (play); William Altman, I.A.L. Diamond (screenwriter); Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures, Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures, Inc." labels on verso. Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr. Al Capp, famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner," portrays... Read More
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Non-Stop (First UK Edition, agent's copy designated for first American rights)
by Brian Aldiss
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in manuscript manual type. Considered by many to be Aldiss' finest work. The American edition, for which this copy... Read More
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A Woman's Vengeance (Original photograph of Zoltán Korda and William Goetz on the set of the 1948 film)
by Aldous Huxley (novella, screenwriter); Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth (starring); Zoltán Korda (director); William Goetz (subject, producer)
Universal City: Universal-International, 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Zoltán Korda talking with producer and head of Universal-International William Goetz on the set of the 1948 film noir. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Aldous Huxley's 1922 short story "The Gioconda Smile," about... Read More
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Dress Gray (Six original photographs from the 1986 television series)
by Alec Baldwin, Eddie Albert (starring); Glenn Jordan (director); Lucian Truscott IV (novel); Gore Vidal (screenwriter)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1986 television series, which originally aired on March 9, 1986, on NBC. Based on the 1979 novel by Lucian Truscott IV, about a cadet at a military academy who investigates the murder of a fellow cadet. Adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal. ... Read More
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Prelude to a Kiss (Original photograph from the 1992 film)
by Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Stanley Tucci (starring); Norman René (director); Craig Lucas (screenwriter, play)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1992 film. Based on the 1988 off-Broadway play by Craig Lucas, who also adapted this screenplay, about a young woman who finds her spirit trapped in the body of an elderly man after he kisses her on her wedding day. Considered by many to be an allegory... Read More
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Prelude to a Kiss (Original screenplay for the 1992 film)
by Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Stanley Tucci (starring); Norman René (director); Craig Lucas (screenwriter, play)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Draft script for the 1992 film. Based on the 1988 off-Broadway play by Craig Lucas, who also adapted this screenplay, about a young woman who finds her spirit trapped in the body of an elderly man after he kisses her on her wedding day. Considered by many to be an allegory for couples... Read More
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Serious Money (Two original photographs from the 1988 Broadway play)
by Alec Baldwin, Valerie Bahakel (starring); Caryl Churchill (playwright); Max Stafford-Clark (director)
N.p.: N.p., 1988. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1988 Broadway play. Both photographs with credits on the bottom margin for photographer Martha Swope. A scathing financial satire largely written in rhyming couplets, originally written and performed in the UK, about the British stock market. The show premiered on Broadway on February 9, 1988, at the... Read More
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The Scapegoat (Original photograph of Daphne Du Maurier, Alec Guinness, and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film)
by Alec Guinness, Bette Davis (starring); Robert Hamer (director, screenwriter); Daphne Du Maurier (novel); Gore Vidal (screenwriter); Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage reference photograph of novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her husband, Sir Frederick Browning, visiting actors Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Du Maurier, about a lonely university professor who meets his... Read More
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The Lavender Hill Mob (Original photograph from the 1951 film)
by Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James (starring); Charles Crichton (director); T.E.B. Clarke (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film. A dutiful bank clerk is convinced by his new neighbor, an eccentric artist, to steal gold bullion in order to melt it down to make miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Ranked the 17th greatest British film of all time by the... Read More
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The Lost Steps (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Alejo Carpentier (novel); Carlos Diegues, Warren Cook (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Cuban Alejo Carpentier's 1953 novel, wherein a composer and his mistress leave New York City in pursuit of a land untouched by civilization. Set in New York City and South America. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November, 1986, with credits... Read More
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Aleksandr Rodchenko: The Complete Work (First Edition)
by [Aleksandr Rodchenko] Vieri Quilici (introduction, editor)
Cambridge: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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European Nights [Nuits d'Europe] (Original French program for the 1959 film)
by Alessandro Blasetti (director); Ennio De Concini, Gualtiero Jacopetti (screenwriters); Raffaella Carrà, Henry Morgan, Gustavo Rojo, Carmen Sevilla (starring)
Paris: Cinémato, 1959. Original French program for the 1959 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Nuits d'Europe." Lavish and compact, the program fits in a shirt pocket and unfolds to reveal four panels of bright primary colors, showcasing various performers seen in the film. An early "mondo" film, in keeping with what would become a... Read More
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I Love, You Love (Original Film Pressbook)
by Alessandro Blasetti (director); Giuliano Gemma, Nadia Lara, Peter Marshall, Ivan J. Rado (starring)
New York: Royal Films International, 1962. Original 1963 US Pressbook for the 1962 Finnish documentary film. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and filmed throughout Europe, the film is an expose of affection and its various means of display the world over. Nadia Lara's final film credit. 4 pages, folded, 9.75 x 13.75 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal... Read More
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Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park (First Edition)
by [Kohei Yoshiyuki] Vince Aletti
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Comprises the artist's photographs of individuals captured in the middle of nocturnal trysts in Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama public parks in the 1970s. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from September 6 through October 20, 2007, at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Fine... Read More
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Dangerous Pursuit [Fast Lane] (Original screenplay for the 1990 television movie)
by Alexandra Powers, Brian Wimmer, Elena Wohl, Robert Prosky (starring); Sandor Stern (director, screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1989. Draft script for the 1990 television film, here under the working title "Fast Lane." A woman discovers that the man with whom she has just had a one-night stand is a hired assassin, and tries to stop him from completing his next hit. Set in New York. Self wrappers. Missing... Read More
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Love has Many Faces (Two original photographs from the 1965 film)
by Alexander Singer (director); Marguerite Roberts (screenwriter); Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, and Hugh O'Brian (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1965. Two vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Sex, intrigue, infidelity, and murder all stir up this beach-based melodrama. When an ex lover washes up on shore of Acapulco, wealthy aging Kit and her beach-boy husband become prime suspects. Shot on location in Acapulco, Mexico. ... Read More
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The Fighting Guardsman (Original photograph from the 1946 film)
by Alexandre Dumas (novel); Henry Levin (director); Edward Dein, Franz Schulz writing as Franz Spencer (screenwriter); Willard Parker, Anita Louise, Janis Carter, John Loder, Edgar Buchanan (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1946. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1946 film. Based on the 1857 novel "The Companions of Jehu" by Alexandre Dumas. In the days leading up to the French Revolution, a baron steals the king's tax profits to give them back to the poor. Set in France. 8... Read More
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Rembrandt (Four original photographs from the 1936 film)
by Alexander Korda (director); Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester (starring); Carl Zuckmayer, June Head, Lajos Biro (screenwriters)
London: London Film Productions, 1936. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1936 film, one of Charles Laughton in the lead as artist Rembrandt van Rijn and three of Gertrude Lawrence as Rembrandt's lover Geertje Dircx. In 1933, 3 years prior to "Rembrandt," director Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton made "The Private Life of Henry VIII" firmly establishing... Read More
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Calder / Prouvé (First Edition)
by [Alexander Calder, Jean Prouvé] Annie Cohen-Solal (editor)
New York: Rizzoli, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Text in French and English. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from June 8 through November 2, 2013, at the Gagosian Gallery, and from October 24 through December 7, 2013, at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued.... Read More
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My Sister Eileen (Original photograph from the set of the 1942 film)
by Alexander Hall (director); Ruth McKenney (story); Jack Koffman (photographer); Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov (screenwriters); Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, ALlyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Vintage photograph of cinematographer Joseph Walker, director Al Hall and actors Janet Blair and Rosalind Russell on the set of the 1942 film. With a mimeo snipe, photographer's rubber stamp and manuscript annotations on the verso. Sisters Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and Eileen (Janet Blair) move to New York City from Ohio... Read More
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Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo (First Edition)
by [Alexander Calder] Jed Perl, Karl Shapiro, John Updike, Paul Goldberger (contributors)
New York and London: Dominique Lévy, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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The Prince of Thieves (Original screenplay for the 1948 film)
by Alexandre Dumas (novel); Howard Bretherton (director); Charles H. Schneer, Maurice Tombragel (screenwriter); Jon Hall, Patricia Morison, Adele Jergens (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Manuscript annotations on first few leaves indicating the names of the actors playing the lead roles. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel, this film follows the adventures of English hero Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Set in the UK. ... Read More
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