Papiers carbones (Box of carbon paper, circa 1950s)
by [Somarco]
France: Somarco, 1950. with lid, paper reams slightly smaller. Paper Near Fine, box Very Good plus.
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Willard (Original photograph from the 1971 film)
by Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Bruce Davison, Michael Dante (starring); Daniel Mann (director); Gilbert Ralston (screenwriter); Stephen Gilbert (novel)
N.p.: Bing Crosby Productions, 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film. With one provenance sticker adhered to the verso. Based on the 1968 novel "Ratman's Notebooks" by Stephen Gilbert. When one of his beloved pet rats is killed at work, an unpopular young man named Willard orders his remaining rats to attack those who have... Read More
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Ain't That America (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Frank Pierson (screenwriter); John Cougar Mellencamp (songwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1984. Second Draft script for an unproduced film, using the hook from singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp's 1983 song "Pink Houses" as its moniker. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, noting copy No. 20. An unproduced drama about unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania, by acclaimed screenwriter and director Frank Pierson. Pierson was the writer... Read More
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Original Japanese record store poster featuring Sonny Rollins on soprano saxophone
by Sonny Rollins (artist); Katsuji [K.] Abe (photographer, designer)
N.p.: Victor / Prestige, 1975. Vintage Japanese record store poster, created in 1975 and showing Sonny Rollins towering above the New York skyline. Dated credit for photographer and designer Katsuji Abe on the lower right corner. Recipient of the 6th Milt Hinton Award for Excellence in Jazz Photography in 2005 (the only Japanese photographer to receive the honor),... Read More
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Point Blank (Uncorrected Proof)
by Sonny Grosso, Philip Rosenberg
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good plus in publisher's wrappers, with light fading to the extremities.
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The Condemned of Altona (Original photograph from the 1962 film)
by Sophia Loren (starring); Vittorio De Sica (director); Cesare Zavattini, Abby Mann (screenwriter); Jean-Paul Sartre (playwright); Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Francoise Prevost (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film. With provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1959 play by Jean-Paul Sartre. A dying man invites his family to his home where they discover dark secrets about his past. Set in Germany, shot on location in Hamburg, Germany. ... Read More
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The Condemned of Altona [Prisoners of Altona] (Two original photographs from the 1962 film)
by Sophia Loren (starring); Vittorio De Sica (director); Cesare Zavattini, Abby Mann (screenwriter); Jean-Paul Sartre (playwright); Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Francoise Prevost (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film. With mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1959 play by Jean-Paul Sartre. A dying man invites his family to his home where they discover dark secrets about his past. Set in Germany, shot... Read More
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Desire Under the Elms (Original photograph of Sophia Loren on the set of the 1958 film)
by Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives (starring); Delbert Mann (director); Eugene O'Neill (play); Irwin Shaw (screenwriter); Bill Avery (photographer)
N.p.: N.p., 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Sophia Loren on the set of the 1958 film. With a Photoplay Library stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Bill Avery and manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play. A greedy New England farmer marries for a third time after working... Read More
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What a Woman! [La Fortuna di Essere Donna] (Original photograph of Sophia Loren from the 1956 Italian film)
by Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni (starring); Alessandro Blasetti (director, screenwriter); Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Sandro Continenza, Ennio Flaiano (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 Italian film, showing actress Sophia Loren raising her skirt to examine her tights. French provenance stamp on the verso. A young woman decides to take a photographer to court after he takes her photograph without telling her, and it turns up on the cover of a magazine. ... Read More
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Variations: Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper (First Edition)
by [Sophie Taeuber-Arp] Walburga Krupp, Christoph Vogele (texts)
Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2002. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn on October 10, 2002 through January 5, 2003. Fine and unread in illustrated boards with no dust jacket as issued.
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Madame [Madame Sans-Gêne] (Seven original photographs from the 1961 film)
by Sophia Loren (starring); Christian-Jaque (director, screenwriter); Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou (playwrights); Ennio De Concini, José Luis Dibildos, Jean Ferry, Rafael García Serrano, Henri Jeanson, Franco Solinas (screenwriters); Robert Hossein, Ren
New South Wales: Cine-Alliance / Embassy Pictures, 1961. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1893 play by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau. A laundry woman in France follows her husband to the battlefield, inadvertently helping Napoleon win a battle. They are both given the title of Duke and Duchess, though she... Read More
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[Sotheby's] Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London, 17 October 2008 (Softcover)
by [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2008. Trade softcover. Very Good plus, lightly worn.
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[Sotheby's] Contemporary Art Day Sale: London, 20 October 2008 (Softcover)
by [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2008. Softcover. Near Fine.
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[Sotheby's] Important 20th Century Design, New York 18 December 2008 (Softcover)
by [Sotheby's]
New York: Sotheby's, 2008. Softcover. As New.
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[Sotheby's] Modern and Contemporary Design, London 18 October 2008 (Softcover)
by [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2008. Softcover. Very Good plus.
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[Sotheby's] Photographs: New York 14 and 15 October 2008 (Softcover)
by [Sotheby's]
New York: Sotheby's, 2008. Softcover. Lightly faded on the top wrapper edges, else Near Fine.
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[Sotheby's] 20th Century Italian Art: London 20 October 2008 (Softcover)
by [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2008. Softcover. Very Good plus, lightly worn.
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[Sotheby's] Damien Hirst's Pharmacy: London, October 18, 2004 (Softcover)
by [Damien Hirst] [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2004. Softcover. The auction catalogue for the sale of the contents of Matthew Freud and Damien Hirst's Pharmacy, a high-end cocktail bar-cum-art installation in Notting Hill. Light wear at the spine ends, else about Near Fine.
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[Sotheby's] 20th Century Italian Art: London, 15 October 2007 (Softcover)
by [Italian Art] [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2007. Softcover. Price list laid in. Near Fine, with light fading on the wrapper edges and spine.
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[Sotheby's] 20th Century Italian Art: London, 16 October 2006 (Softcover)
by [Italian Art] [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2006. Softcover. Price list laid in. As New.
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[Sotheby's] The Gunter Sachs Collection: Evening Auction, 22 May 2012 / Day Auction, 23 May 2012 (Softcover, two volumes)
by [Gunter Sachs] [Sotheby's]
London: Sotheby's, 2012. Softcover. Two catalogs for the 2012 sale of the art collection of Gunter Sachs, split into two auctions over two days: an evening auction on May 22, and a day auction on May 23. Both volumes about Fine in perfect-bound wrappers. Oversize item, shipping billed at cost.
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Hot Rods and Customs of the 1960s (First Edition)
by Andy Southard
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Profusely photo-illustrated in color throughout. Manuscript ink price annotation on the front wrapper, else Near Fine.
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Notes on actor Rip Torn (Original manuscript essay, with corrections)
by [Rip Torn] Terry Southern
N.p.: N.p., 1973. Seven-page manuscript, executed in manuscript pencil with numerous corrections. An early rough draft of an essay by Southern regarding his first encounter with actor Rip Torn, which, oddly, is more an encounter with the concept of Rip Torn than Rip Torn himself (though Torn would ultimately become one of Southern's closest friends and confidants). The piece... Read More
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The Telephone (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)
by Southern, Terry, Harry Nilsson (screenwriters); Rip Torn (director); Whoopi Goldberg, Elliott Gould, John Heard (starring)
New York: Oscard Associates, 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film, two copied annotations of a circled "3" and "4" on one page. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson teamed... Read More
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Flash and Filigree (Inscribed by the author)
by Terry Southern
New York: Coward McCann, 1958. First Edition. First Edition, in the second issue dust jacket, with a $5.00 price on the front flap, and a mention of "Dr. Strangelove," "Candy," and "The Loved One" at the bottom of the front panel. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Laurie with best wishes / Terry Southern." ... Read More
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