The Unseen (Original screenplay for the 1980 film, with promotional program)
by Barbara Bach (starring); Danny Steinman [as Peter Foleg] (director, screenwriter); Stephen Furst (starring)
Los Angeles: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to light in the late 2010s. Featuring actress... Read More
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Starhops (Original screenplay for the 1978 film, actor Dick Miller's working copy)
by Barbara Peeters (director); Stephanie Rothman (screenwriter); Dorothy Buhrman, Sterling Frazier, Jillian Kesner (starring)
Marina del Rey: First American Films, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, with his name on the front wrapper and title page, and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Missing seven pages, likely as used or issued. Screenwriter Stephanie Rothman worked as one of two female directors (the other being Barbara Peeters)... Read More
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Barfly (Original screenplay for the 1987 film)
by Barbet Schroeder (director); Charles Bukowski (screenwriter); Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway (starring);
N.p.: Cannon Films, 1986. Shooting script for the 1987 film. Annotation noting copy No. 62 in manuscript ink on the first leaf. Last three pages of script (pages 109-111) is a epilogue, "Background Bar Talk," a series of two character jokes and dialogue "to be barely heard, if needed, in various bar scenes." Largely based on screenwriter Charles... Read More
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Lucio Fontana: Catalogue raisonné of the works on paper [Catalogo ragionnato delle opere su carta] (First Edition, complete in three volumes)
by [Lucio Fontana] Luca Massimo Barbero
Milan: Skira, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, complete in three volumes. Text in English and Italian. All three volumes Near Fine, with no dust jackets as issued, in publisher's about Near Fine slipcase. Oversize item, shipping billed at cost.
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More (Original oversize photograph of Louise Wink from the 1969 film)
by Barbet Schroeder (director, screenwriter); Paul Gégauff (screenwriter); Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1969 film. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza, where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. 9.25 x... Read More
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More (Original photograph of Mimsy Farmer from the 1969 film)
by Barbet Schroeder (director, screenwriter); Paul Gégauff (screenwriter); Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing a nude Mimsy Farmer. Stamp of photographer Michel Ciment on the verso. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza, where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set... Read More
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Tricheurs [Cheaters] (Original French program for the 1984 film)
by Barbet Schroeder (director, screenwriter); Pascal Bonitzer, Steve Baes (screenwriters); Jacques Dutronc, Bulle Ogier (starring)
Paris: Les Films Galatee, 1984. Vintage French program for the 1984 film, with color film still photographs throughout. Text in French. Barbet Schroeder's brutal, funny, and unsentimental character study of two degenerate gamblers and lovers. Beautifully shot by choreographer Rubby Muller. Set in and shot on location in Portugal, Italy, and France. 10.75 x 8.25... Read More
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More (Three original oversize photographs from the 1969 film)
by Barbet Schroeder (director, screenwriter); Paul Gégauff (screenwriter); Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1969. Three vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza, where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. 11.5 x... Read More
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For Pete's Sake (Original photograph from the 1974 film)
by Barbra; Streisand Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons (starring); Peter Yates (director); Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin (screenwriters); Holly Bower (photographer)
N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1974 film, showing actress Barbra Streisand checking her appearance in a small mirror held by a crew member, with director Peter Yates looking on, and still photographer Holly Bower just visible in the mirror. A scrappy young Brooklyn housewife tries to finance her cab driver... Read More
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A Star Is Born (Original photograph from the set of the 1976 film)
by Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark (starring); Frank Pierson (director, screenwriter); John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Vintage reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing director Frank Pierson and a camera crew capturing a scene. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A remake of both the 1937 film and the 1954 musical, with the leads modernized into an aspiring songwriter and fading rock star. Barbra Streisand, along with... Read More
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (Original photograph from the 1996 film)
by Barbra Streisand (director, starring); Richard LaGravenese (screenwriter); Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1996. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1996 film, showing one image of actors Lauren Bacall and Barbra Streisand, and one image of Bacall and Jeff Bridges. A middle-aged English literature professor leads a lonely life with her acerbic mother in New York, but believes she has a second chance at happiness... Read More
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Quelques coins du coeur (First Edition, one of 686 numbered copies)
by Henri Barbusse
Geneva: Editions du Sablier, 1921. Limited Edition, one of 686 numbered copies (this being No. 204). Text and titles in French. Very Good, bound in contemporary brown quarter leather, with moderate foxing on the pages and boards, light offsetting on the endpapers, and a moderately rubbed spine and corners.
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Der Findling [The Foundling] (First Edition)
by Ernst Barlach
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1922. First Edition. First Edition. With 19 woodcut illustrations and an illustrated frontispiece by symbolist artist Ernst Barlach. Text and titles in German. Very Good plus in paper-covered boards, with no dust jacket, with lightly toned and soiled boards.
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Archive of 103 vernacular photographs by documentary filmmaker Barnett Addis, circa 1950s-1960s
by Barnett Addis (photographer, filmmaker)
N.p.: N.p., 1960. Archive of 103 vintage vernacular photographs, a mix of double and single weight, by psychologist and documentary filmmaker Barnett Addis, circa 1950s-1960s. 21 photographs with his stamp on the verso, several of which also include brief manuscript pencil annotations noting the subject, location, or year. As a faculty member, and later director, of the... Read More
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Barnett Newman (First Edition)
by [Barnett Newman] Ann Temkin (editor); Richard Shiff (essay); Suzanne Penn, Melissa Ho (contributors)
Various American Cities: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held from March 24 to July 7, 2002, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and from September 19, 2002, through January 5, 2003, at the Tate Modern in London. Fine in a Near... Read More
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Bronco Bullfrog [Bronco Bullfrog King of the Nippers] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film)
by Barney Platts-Mills (director, screenwriter); Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood, Freda Shepherd (starring)
N.p.: Maya Film Productions Ltd, 1969. Treatment script for the 1970 British film. Here under working title "Bronco Bullfrog King of the Nippers". A classic of underground British cinema that follows a group of disillusioned teens as they carry out petty robberies in East London. While a fictional narrative, very much a fascinating record of the then-emerging... Read More
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Thinking and Deciding (Trade Softcover)
by Jonathan Baron
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Trade softcover. Near Fine, unread.
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Sickert (First Edition)
by [Walter Richard Sickert] Wendy Baron
London: Phaidon, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good plus, lacking the dust jacket, with a slight lean and some bumping to a few corners.
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Sickert: Paintings and Drawings (First Edition)
by [Walter Sickert] Wendy Baron
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. About Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography (First Edition)
by [Ilse Bing] Nancy C. Barrett
New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the New Orleans Museum of Art on May 25, 1984 and closed at the International Center of Photography in New York on February 23, 1986. Near Fine in illustrated card wrappers. Light tap to wrappers and... Read More
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The Lilies of the Field (First Edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication)
by William E. Barrett
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page: "For Winnie McClelland / thank you for coming to my party / and all best wishes / William Barrett / April 9, 1962." Basis for the classic 1963 film starring Sidney Poitier. Fine in a strong... Read More
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Dictionarium Polygraphicum: or, the Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested (First Edition, two volumes)
by John Barrow
London: C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1735. First Edition. Two volumes. First Edition. A comprehensive set, containing information on how to dye cloth, create inks, weave tapestries, and more. Over 50 black-and-white engravings, many of which fold out, depicting everything from how to hold engraving tools to lessons on perspective. Two pages of advertisements at the rear. ... Read More
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The Catered Affair (Original photograph from the 1956 film)
by Barry Fitzgerad, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Rod Taylor (starring); Gore Vidal (screenwriter); Richard Brooks (director); Paddy Chayefsky (playwright)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1956. Vintage reference photograph of actor Barry Fitzgerald from the 1956 film. With manuscript ink annotation on the verso identifying Fitzgerald. Based on the 1955 television play by Paddy Chayefsky. The daughter of a taxi driver is engaged to be married. Her mother wants to use the opportunity to have the big... Read More
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The Addams Family (Original screenplay for the 1991 film)
by Barry Sonnenfeld (director); Larry Wilson, Caroline Thompson (screenwriters); Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 film, with rainbow revisions. Barry Sonnenfeld's directing debut, with characters based on the beloved cartoon series created in 1938 by Charles Addams. Con artists attempt to swindle an aristocratic, macabre family out of their fortune by producing a man who claims to be a long-lost uncle. ... Read More
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Coonskin (Original vinyl 45 RPM record of radio spot announcements for the 1975 film)
by Barry White, Charles Gordone, Philip Thomas, Scatman Crothers (starring); Ralph Bakshi (director, screenwriter)
Beverly Hills, CA: Bryanston Pictures, 1975. Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record of two radio spot announcements for the 1975 film. A satirical crime film written and directed by legendary, controversial animator Ralph Bakshi, blending live action and animation, about three anthropomorphic "Uncle Remus" characters—Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Bear—who rise to the top of a crime... Read More
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