Little Miss Marker (Original press kit for the 1980 film)
by Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Lee Grant (starring); Walter Bernstein (director, screenwriter); Damon Runyon (screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 21 black and white photographs, and 9 gatherings of promotional reading material. A crooked, cantankerous bookie in 1930s Los Angeles is given a six-year-old little girl as collateral for a bet, and soon finds himself the child's sole caretaker. A remake... Read More
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Modern Architecture: International Exhibition (First Edition)
by [Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Hood, Richard Neutra] Alfred Barr, Philip Johnson, Henry-Russell Hitchcock (text)
New York: The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] / Arno Press, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Extensive catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's groundbreaking exhibition of modern architecture, which ran from February 10 through March 23, 1932. Good or better in perfect-bound wrappers, moderately dampstained on the rear wrapper, an ink mark on the fore-edges,... Read More
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Sitting Pretty (Original screenplay for the 1948 film)
by Walter Lang (director); Gwen Davenport (novel); F. Hugh Herbert (screenwriter); Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Web (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Revised Final Draft script for the 1948 film, with manuscript annotations in pencil on the distribution page listing actors and annotations of names on verso of final page in manuscript pencil. Harry and Tracey King (Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara) put an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter which is answered by... Read More
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State Fair (Original photograph of Dana Andrews from the 1945 film)
by Walter Lang (director); Philip Stong (novel); Oscar Hammerstein II, Paul Green (screenwriters); Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1945. Vintage oversize borderless double weight satin-finish publicity portrait photograph of actor Dana Andrews from the 1945 film. With the stamps of Silver Screen and a filing stamp on the verso, along with layout annotations in pencil. Based on the 1933 film directed by Henry King, which was in turn based on Philip Stong's 1932 novel.... Read More
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Prison Bars (Original poster for the 1901 documentary film)
by Walter Barnsdale (director, producer, screenwriter)
Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film featuring the Wright Brothers, and a Western... Read More
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Original photograph of Walter Pidgeon from the 1967 television movie)
by Walter Pidgeon, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Peter Lawford, Lola Albright (starring); William Hale (director) Gene Kearney (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 television movie, showing actor Walter Pidgeon. One of the first made-for-television movies, an espionage thriller about a double agent tasked with investigating a billionaire. Originally aired on NBC on January 7, 1967. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine.
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The Driver (Original screenplay for the 1978 film)
by Walter Hill (director, screenwriter); Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. A unique script in terms of the narrative, with each scene described in fragmented sentences. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway... Read More
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Die Mücke [The Mosquito] (Original program for the 1954 German film)
by Walter Reisch (director, screenwriter); Hilde Krahl, Margot Hielscher, Gustav Knuth, Bernhard Wicki (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1954. Vintage program for the 1954 German film. Text and titles in German. A German spy finds herself in debt to the man who saved her life during the Spanish Civil War years before, leading her into the dangerous world of illegal weapons smuggling. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bifold. Near Fine.
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The Driver (Eight color studio still photographs from the 1978 film)
by Walter Hill (director, screenwriter); Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978. Complete set of eight color studio still photographs for the 1978 film. Stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services of Canada on the versos. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway... Read More
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The Driver (Original photograph from the 1978 film)
by Walter Hill (director, screenwriter); Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978. Vintage matte black-and-white reference photograph of director Walter Hill and actor Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1978 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid.... Read More
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![The Devil's Female [Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil, Beyond the Darkness] (Original poster for the 1974 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/777/070/1295070777.0.m.1.jpg)
The Devil's Female [Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil, Beyond the Darkness] (Original poster for the 1974 film)
by Walter Boos (director); August Rieger (screenwriter); Dagmar Hedrich, Werner Bruhns, Michael Hinz (starring)
N.p.: Constantin-Film, 1976. Vintage French-Canadian poster for the 1974 German film, "Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen," released in the US as "Beyond the Darkness," "Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil," and "The Devil’s Female." With the latter title tipped on to the poster, demonstrating the ad hoc distribution process for grindhouse and exploitation films, which often saw titles change at a... Read More
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The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present (First Edition, inscribed by Bruce Cassiday)
by Waltrand Woeller, Bruce Cassiday
New York: Ungar, 1988. First American Edition, preceded by the First German Edition published by Leipzig in 1984. INSCRIBED on the half title by author Bruce Cassiday: "To Barry Zeman / Happy Crime! / Bruce Cassiday." Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Ride the Pink Horse (Original portrait photograph of Wanda Hendrix for the 1947 film)
by Wanda Hendrix (subject); Dorothy Hughes (author); Nicholas Ray (director); Robert Montgomery (director, starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1947. Vintage portrait photograph of Wanda Hendrix, with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso noting her role of Pita in the 1947 film noir, "Ride the Pink Horse" (1947). From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the... Read More
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Alain Resnais, or the Theme of Time (First Edition, Joseph Losey's copy)
by [Alain Resnais] [Joseph Losey] John Ward
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Joseph Losey, with his name and home address written in manuscript ink on the first leaf: "Joseph Losey / Hanover, NH / '70." Additional underlining and bracketing throughout, in the same fountain pen ink as the inscription, mostly to the opening chapters of the text. ... Read More
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![The Kid from Kokomo [Broadway Cavalier] (Original screenplay for the 1939 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/338/948/1603948338.0.m.jpg)
The Kid from Kokomo [Broadway Cavalier] (Original screenplay for the 1939 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
by Ward Bond, Joan Blondell, Jane Wyman (starring); Lewis Seller (director); Richard Macaulay, Jerry Wald (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1938. Final script for the 1939 film, seen on the title page under its working title "Broadway Cavalier." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer... Read More
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The Snake Pit (First Edition)
by Mary Jane Ward
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1948 Oscar-nominated film noir, directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia DeHavilland. Fine in a lightly edgeworn, else Near Fine dust jacket. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 256.
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The Snake Pit (Uncorrected Proof)
by Mary Jane Ward
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Rare. Basis for the 1948 Oscar-nominated film (also considered film noir), directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia DeHavilland in an interesting turn as a woman who wakes up in a mental ward and is unable to remember how she got there. Very... Read More
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Ralston Crawford: Images of War (First Edition)
by [Ralston Crawford] Meredith E. Ward
New York: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Ralston Crawford's work which ran from March 19 to April 24, 1993. Near Fine in wrappers.
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Red Baker (First Edition, review copy)
by Robert Ward
New York: Doubleday, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's material laid in. Set in the early 1980s in Baltimore, Maryland, and about the steel industry. Author's fourth novel. Jacket design by the prolific Paul Bacon. Foxing to the page edges and endpapers, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. ... Read More
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Andy Warhol: Vanishing Animals (First Edition)
by [Andy Warhol]
Barthelemy, French West Indies: Medium [Me.di.um], 2006. First Edition. First Edition. Exhibition catalog published to accompany the exhibit, "Andy Warhol: Vanishing Animals," held from January 7 through February 25, 2006, at Me.di.um Gallery in Barthelemy, French West Indies. Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again (First Edition)
by [Andy Warhol]
New York: Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Warhol Live (First Edition)
by [Andy Warhol]
Munich and Montreal: Prestel / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New. Fine and unread, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Andy Warhol: Polaroids (First Edition)
by [Andy Warhol]
Koln [Cologne]: Taschen, 2015. Hardcover. First German Edition, preceding all others. Text in English, French, and German. As New. Fine and unread in publisher's wraparound boards. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Art Actuel No. 18: Janvier—Février 2002 [January—February 2002] (Softcover)
by [Art Actuel] [Andy Warhol]
Paris: Art Actuel, 2002. Softcover. Issue No. 18. Text in French. Very Good plus or better in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Thank You All Very Much [The Millstone] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film)
by Waris Hussein (director); Margaret Drabble (screenwriter, author); Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Michael Coles, John Standing (starring)
N.p.: Amicus Productions, 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film. Typed Letter Signed in manuscript ink laid in, three pages total, dated August 21, 1968. Based on the 1965 novel, "The Millstone" by Margaret Drabble, and adapted by her to the screen. Produced by Amicus Productions, a company typically known for its blood-drenched horror films. Venturing into... Read More
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