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Yayoi Kusama: Obsesion infinita [Infinite Obsession] (First Spanish Edition)
by [Yayoi Kusama] Philip Larratt Smith, Frances Morris
Buenos Aires: Malba / Fundacion Costantini, 2013. Softcover. First Spanish Edition. Text in Spanish and English. Fine and unread in wrappers with French flaps, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
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Japanese Art Today (First Edition)
by Yayoi Kusama, Kazuo Kadonaga, Ryoichi Majima, Goro Namerikawa, Kazuo Shiraga, Katsuro Yoshida (artists)
La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Mandeville Gallery at the University of California, San Diego, from May 16 through June 22, 1986. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers. Endpapers lightly foxed.
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Japanese Art Today (First Edition)
by [Yayoi Kusama, Kazuo Kadonaga, Ryoichi Majima, Goro Namerikawa, Kazuo Shiraga, Katsuro Yoshida]
La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held from May 16 through June 22, 1986, at the Mandeville Gallery at the University of California, San Diego. Laid in is a copy of the school undergraduate newsletter's Spring Quarter 1986 issue. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers, lightly... Read More
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Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968 | In Full Bloom, Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan (First Edition, two volumes in slipcase)
by [Yayoi Kasuma] Lynn Zelevansky, Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata and Alexandra Munroe (essays)
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999. Softcover. Two volumes in a custom labeled slipcase as issued. About Fine.
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Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968 (First Edition)
by [Yayoi Kusama] Lynn Zelevansky, Laura Hoptman
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's work which ran from March 8, 1998 to July 4, 1999. About Fine in wrappers.
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Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the Spaces We Shape, and the Ways We Communicate, As Seen Through the Collections of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (First Edition)
by Susan Yelavich
New York: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
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The Avant-Garde: Before and After (First Edition)
by Yevgenia Petrova, Jean-Claude Marcadé (editors)
Brussels: Palace Editions, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Gioia (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Y. Lombart, C.l. Roman (screenwriters)
Brussels: S.A. Dupuis, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small annotations in manuscript ink throughout, mostly noting grammatical revisions and deletions. Text in English. After her lover—a composer working on his final great opera—is killed in a horseback riding accident, a young woman remembers the events leading up to his death. Set... Read More
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The book: Sanoja = words = paroles: an exhibition of artists' poems (First Edition, Review Copy)
by Yoko Ono, Maria de Alvear, David Bowes, Tuukka Luukas (contributors)
Helsinki: Tapio Books, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. REVIEW COPY, preceding the First Edition, with publisher's slips laid in. Text in Finnish and English. Published in conjunction with "The Words," an exhibition held at the Canal Grande as part of the 1999 Venice Biennale. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers, with a Near Fine dust jacket, and Near Fine... Read More
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![Pink Cut: Love Me Big, Love Me Deep [Love Hard, Love Deep] (Three original photographs and accompanying brochure from the 1983 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/190/796/1389796190.0.m.jpg)
Pink Cut: Love Me Big, Love Me Deep [Love Hard, Love Deep] (Three original photographs and accompanying brochure from the 1983 film)
by Yoshimitsu Morita (director, screenwriter); Tomomi Kimura (screenwriter); Mayumi Terashima, Mai Inoue, Ryoko Watanabe (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1983. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure (in Japanese) from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" ("The Family Game," 1983), and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" ("Like Asura," 2003), and nominated for... Read More
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![Eros + Massacre [Eros Plus Massacre] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/672/479/1062479672.0.m.jpg)
Eros + Massacre [Eros Plus Massacre] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film)
by Yoshishige Yoshida (director, screenwriter); Masahiro Yamada (screenwriter); Mariko Okada (starring)
Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae, who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring, and It Noe,... Read More
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Black Lab (First Edition, inscribed by the author)
by David Young
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For Terry— / Dec. 2007 / David Young." Small bump on the crown, boards slightly bowed, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Original Webster Young poster for a performance at Maryland Art Place, 1987
by Webster Young
Baltimore: Maryland Center for Creative Music, 1987. Vintage four-color Webster Young poster for a "Visiting Jazz Artists '87" performance at Maryland Art Place (MAP), January 8, 1987, for the Baltimore Jazz Workshop and hosted by the Maryland Center for Creative Music. Jazz trumpeter and cornetist Webster Young is best remembered for his smooth, lyrical playing, and performed with... Read More
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Proof of the Man (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)
by Y saku Matsuda, George Kennedy, Mariko Okada (starring); Zenz Matsuyama (screenwriter); Junya Sat (director)
Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc, 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City... Read More
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Takaharu and Yui: Tezuka Architecture Catalogue (First Japanese Edition)
by Yui Tezuka, Takaharu Tezuka
Tokyo: Toto, 2006. Softcover. First Japanese Edition. Text in Japanese and English. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Gallery-Ma from March 15 to May 20, 2006. Near Fine in publisher's clear plastic dust jacket.
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![Afraid to Die [Karazaze Yaro] (Original photograph from the 1960 Japanese film noir)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/065/505/1601505065.0.m.jpg)
Afraid to Die [Karazaze Yaro] (Original photograph from the 1960 Japanese film noir)
by Yukio Mishima, Yaeko Mizutani, Takashi Shimura, Ayako Wakao (starring); Yasuzô Masumura (director); Hideo Andô, Ryûzô Kikushima (screenwriters)
Kanagawa: Daiei Studios, 1960. Vintage Japanese reference photograph from the 1960 Japanese film noir, showing actors Yukio Mishima and Yaeko Mizutani in an intimate moment. After being released from prison, a young man decides to turn his back on his past as a yakuza mobster, but finds that escaping his former life is harder than expected. Mishima's... Read More
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![Chelovek s Drugoy Storony [The Man From the Other Side] (Original treatment script for the 1972 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/502/1242502152.0.m.jpg)
Chelovek s Drugoy Storony [The Man From the Other Side] (Original treatment script for the 1972 film)
by Yuri Yegorov (director, screenwriter); Emil Braginskiy, Vladimir Semichev, Volodja Semitjov, Vasiliy Solovyov (screenwriters); Alan Blair (translator); Bibi Andersson, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Patrick Wymark, Igor Yasulovich (starring)
Moscow: Gorky Film Studio, 1969. Treatment script for the 1972 film. A collaboration between Moscow's Gorky Studio and Stockholm's Omega Film. An English translation, produced for consideration by English-speaking parties involved in production. After the October Revolution of 1917, a Russian engineer is assigned to purchase locomotives from Sweden. He is to purchase them with gold claimed by... Read More
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Young Girls Beware (Seven original photographs from the 1957 film)
by Yves Allegret (director); James Hadley Chase (novel); Robert Joffres (photographer); Jean Meckert and Rene Wheeler (screenwriters); Antonella Lualdi, Robert Hossein, Michele Cordoue, Jean Gaven (starring)
London: Miracle Films, 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel, "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" (1941), banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women.... Read More
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![Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee] (Original double weight photograph from the 1948 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/360/771/684771360.0.m.jpg)
Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee] (Original double weight photograph from the 1948 film)
by Yves Allegret (director, screenwriter); Henri La Barthe (novel); Roger Poutrel (photographer); Jacques Sigurd (screenwriter); Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcel Pagliero, Marcel Dalio (starring)
London: Curzon Film Distributors, 1949. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1949 UK release of the 1948 French film. Distributor's rubber-stamp and notation on the verso. Based on a story by Ashelbe (Henri La Barthe), about a prostitute named Dedee (Simone Signoret) who works in a night club in Antwerp. She meets an Italian sailor... Read More
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![The Proud and the Beautiful [Les orgueilleux] (Original photograph from the 1953 French film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/787/1370787542.0.m.jpg)
The Proud and the Beautiful [Les orgueilleux] (Original photograph from the 1953 French film)
by Yves Allegret (director, screenwriter); Michele Morgan (starring); Rafael E. Portas (director); Jean Aurenche, Jean Clouzot (screenwriters); Gerard Philipe, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1953 French film, showing actress Michele Morgan. With manuscript ink annotations regarding layout on the verso, along with the stamp of City Film N.V. In the midst of a deadly typhoid outbreak, a French tourist finds herself widowed and stranded in a small Mexican village, where she... Read More
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![Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee from Antwerp] (Original carbon typescript for the 1948 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/513/157/869157513.0.m.jpg)
Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee from Antwerp] (Original carbon typescript for the 1948 film)
by Yves Allegret (director, screenwriter); Ashelbe (novel); Jacques Sigurd (screenwriter); Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Marcel Dalio (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Victor Glaser, 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development, with brief annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser, with his name and address on the front wrapper in manuscript ink, and the person to whom the internal... Read More
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Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? (Collection of 18 original press photographs from a gala for the 1961 film)
by Yves Ciampi (director, screenwriter); Jean Jungmann, Charles Andre (photographers); Tsutomu Sawamura (screenwriter); Thomas Holtzmann, Keiko Kishi, Mario Adorf, Nadine Basile (starring)
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi, here as "Kiski," in kimono, and director Ciampi, on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs, presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos, crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre,... Read More
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![Le Guerisseur [Comme le sucre dans le cafe...] (Original treatment script for the 1953 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/108/901/1405901108.0.m.jpg)
Le Guerisseur [Comme le sucre dans le cafe...] (Original treatment script for the 1953 film)
by Yves Ciampi (director, screenwriter); Jacques-Laurent Bost, Pierre Very (screenwriters); Jean Marais, Daniele Delorme, Maurice Ronet, Dieter Borsche (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1953. Treatment script for the 1953 film, here under the working title "Comme le sucre dans le cafe...". Text in French. A doctor turned homeopath poaches patients from his former medical colleagues, but is challenged when his shady treatment further endangers the life of a woman with a brain tumor. Set in Brittany, France. ... Read More
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![The Confession [L'aveu] (Two original photographs from the 1970 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/749/294/1715294749.0.m.jpg)
The Confession [L'aveu] (Two original photographs from the 1970 film)
by Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti (starring); Costa-Gavras (director); Artur London (book); Jorge Semprun (screenwriter)
N.p.: Les Films Corona / Les Films Pomereu, 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London, a defendant in the violent, antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1952. Shot on location in... Read More
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![The Fenouillard Family [La famille Fenouillard] (Original program for the 1961 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/834/802/1122802834.0.m.jpg)
The Fenouillard Family [La famille Fenouillard] (Original program for the 1961 film)
by Yves Robert (director, screenwriter); Christophe (comic strip); Jean Ferry (screenwriter); Sophie Desmarets, Jean Richard, Annie Sinigalia, Marie-Hose Ruiz (starring)
Paris: Gaumont, 1961. Original program for the 1961 French film, here under the original French title. Illustrated in red, black, and white, and stills from the film, with laid-in synopsis sheets featuring the "Fenouillard" family and oversize umbrella illustration on the rectos. Based on the 19th century French comic by Marie Louis Georges Colomb (Christophe), one of... Read More
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