Blazing Stewardesses (Original vinyl 45 RPM record of radio spots for the 1975 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Don "Red" Barry, Regina Carrol, Robert Livingston (starring); Al Adamson (director); John D'Amato (screenwriter)
New York: Independent-International Pictures, 1975. Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record of two radio spots for the 1975 film. A newly single flight attendant and her friends head to a cattle ranch to help the owner convert it into a holiday center, only to be terrorized by masked bandits. Sequel to "Naughty Stewardesses" (1973). Shot in Palmdale,... Read More
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The Desert Hawk (Original photograph from the 1950 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Rock Hudson, Jackie Gleason (starring); Frederick De Cordova (director); Audrey Wisberg, Gerald Drayson Adams, Jack Pollexfen (screenwriters)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1950. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1950 film, showing actors Yvonne De Carlo and Richard Greene. Aided by his trusty sidekicks Aladdin and Sinbad, a desert guerilla goes head-to-head with a greedy prince, and eventually marries the caliph's beautiful daughter. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born... Read More
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Salome, Where She Danced (Five original photographs from the 1945 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce (starring); Charles Lamont (director); Laurence Stallings (screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1945. Five vintage publicity photographs from the 1945 film, all showing actress Yvonne De Carlo. Two with printed mimeo snipes and provenance stamps on the verso. Loosely based on the life of famed dancer and courtesan Lola Montez. De Carlo's breakthrough role, about an exotic dancer who becomes a spy during the American Civil... Read More
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Salome, Where She Danced (Original photograph from the 1945 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce (starring); Charles Lamont (director); Laurence Stallings (screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1945. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1945 film, showing actress Yvonne De Carlo. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and was the first still photographer to... Read More
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Deerslayer (Original photograph from the 1943 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Trevor Bardette, Jean Parker (starring); Lew Landers (director); James Fenimore Cooper (novel); John W. Krafft, P.S. Harrison, E.B. Derr (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1943 Western film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1841 novel. In 18th century New York, a white frontiersman raised by the Mohicans helps his former tribe when their princess is stolen by a rival tribe. A breakthrough role for Yvonne De... Read More
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Two original bound sets of contact sheets from the 2008 film)
by Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale (starring); Kenny Ortega (director); Peter Barsocchini (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 2008. Two vintage bound sets of 127 contact sheets from the 2008 film. Printed labels on the front wrappers note the name of photographers Andrew Eccles and Bob Damico. One set with 57 sheets and one set with 70 sheets. 125 sheets show 30 images, one shows 15 images, and one shows 19 images, totaling 3784... Read More
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Watchmen (Original screenplay for the 2009 film)
by Zack Snyder (director); Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, Malin Åkerman (starring); Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore (comics); David Hayter, Alex Tse (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 2004. Fifth Draft script for the 2009 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast or crew member, with their name watermarked on every page, and annotations in manuscript ink throughout, indicating weapons and fight sequences. Bound in at the rear of the script is a two-page spreadsheet table of prop weapons needed for scenes in the film... Read More
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The Shadow of the Wind (Signed First Edition)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition. First American Edition, preceded by the Spanish First Edition published by Editorial Planeta three years prior. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The first book in the author's "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" series. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, with trompe l'oeil distressing on the... Read More
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El Croquis: Zaha Hadid, 1983-2004: Forms of Indetermination and Landscape as a Plan (First Edition)
by [Zaha Hadid] Richard C. Levene, Fernando Cecilia Marquez (editors)
Madras: El Croquis, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A combined and updated edition of "El Croquis" issues 52, 73, and 103. Text in English and Spanish. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Dilemma [A World of Strangers] (Three original photographs from the 1962 Danish film)
by Zakes Mokae, Marijke Mann, Evelyn Frank, Ivan Jackson (starring); Henning Carlsen (director, screenwriter); Nadine Gordimer (novel)
Copenhagen: Politikens Presse Foto, 1962. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1962 Danish film. Printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the versos, along with the stamps of Politikens Presse Foto and Agence France-Presse. Not to be confused with the 1962 British crime thriller directed by Peter Maxwell. Based on South African writer Nadine Gordimer's 1958... Read More
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Forlorn River (Original photograph from the 1926 film)
by Zane Grey (novel, screenwriter); John Waters (director); George C. Hull (screenwriter); Jack Holt, Arlette Marchal, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Burns (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage reference photograph of actress Arlette Marchal from the 1926 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Zane Grey (not published until a year after the film's release). A fugitive is left in the desert to die by his outlaw partner, but is rescued by a young rancher, unaware that romantic entanglements... Read More
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Habit and Other Short Stories (First Edition)
by Darryl Francis Zanuck
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of lighthearted stories by Zanuck, published at a point when his writing career (if one could call it that) was on the ropes, his screenwriting career was well on its way, and his great fame as a producer was yet to begin. An unusually sharp copy,... Read More
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Original invitation to a performance by Frank Zappa at Limelight nightclub, New York, August 14, 1984
by Frank Zappa
New York: N.p., 1984. Vintage invitation to a performance by Frank Zappa at Limelight nightclub, 660 Sixth Ave., New York, on August 4, 1984. The invitation features a black and white photograph of Zappa by Steve Schapiro on the recto, donning an oven mitt over a raised fisted left hand, with an oven mitt graphic and text... Read More
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To Walk is to Die: A Regan Chance Adventure (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Zavada, Ervin, Richard Briggs (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: William Morris Agency. Draft script for an unproduced film. A local criminal escapes from prisoner transport and bounty hunter Regan Chance is hot on his trail, as well as the mysterious J, another bounty hunter working for the father of the escaped, who wants his son brought back alive. Chance remains one step ahead... Read More
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Selected Writings I (First Edition, signed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela)
by La Monte [LaMonte] and Marian Zazeela
Munich: Heiner Friedrich, 1969. First Edition. First Edition, one of 2100 copies printed in West Germany. Though not called for, this copy INSCRIBED and signed by both authors in February 1997: "To — / With all good vibrations / La Monte / Marian / 97 V 2. As New. Includes several pages of Zazeela's hallucinatory calligraphy, a poem... Read More
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Drawings (First Edition, inscribed by Marian Zazeela in 2003)
by Marian Zazeela
Polling, Germany: Kunst im Regenboenstadl, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication: "To — / With light of the line / Marian Zazeela / 03 I 22 / NY." With some of the usual scuffing and rubbing to the sensitive black paper-covered boards, overall Very Good plus and unread with... Read More
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White Fire (Original one sheet poster for the 1981 film)
by Zebedy Colt as Roger Colmont (director, screenwriter); Lisa Marks, Georgette Sanders, Herschel Savage (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1981. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1981 film. Directed by the notorious Zebedy Colt (under a pseudonym), the same year he performed in Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" on the New York stage. Colt is considered one of the innovators of "queer cabaret" in the late 1960s. Vanessa Johnson (Lisa Marks) discovers her boyfriend is... Read More
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Roadmarks (First Edition)
by Roger Zelazny
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books, 1979. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dust jacket.
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Zero (First Edition)
by [ZERO] Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker (artists)
New York: Howard Wise, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition of the work of artist group ZERO, founded by artists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker, held from November 12 through December 5, 1964 at Howard Wise Gallery. Very Good in perfect-bound wrappers, lightly foxed.
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The Ride of the Valkyrie (Original screenplay for the 1967 short film)
by Zero Mostel, Julia Foster, Frank Thornton (starring); Peter Brook (director, screenwriter)
London: Woodfall Films, 1966. Shooting Script for the 1967 British short film. Two annotations in manuscript ink: one on the title page, noting copy No. 11, and one on page eight, noting a deletion. Clad in an ornate and eye-catching costume, an opera singer must make his way through a succession of busy city streets in order... Read More
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The Great Bank Robbery (Original photograph from the 1969 film)
by Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, John Anderson (starring); Hy Averback (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter); Frank O'Rourke (novel)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Zero Mostel. Based on the 1961 novel by Frank O'Rourke. A genre-bending film combining a heist feature and a comedy Western, in which multiple gangs converge on the town of Friendly, Texas, in order to attempt to rob the most... Read More
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Pablo Picasso [Zervos] (Revised Edition, complete in 33 volumes)
by [Pablo Picasso] Christian Zervos
Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 2014. Softcover. Revised Edition, one of 1200 English language copies. Complete in 33 volumes. As New. Preceded in publication by the original French language editions published individually between 1932 and 1978, and the French language 33-volume set published in 1991. Catalogue raisonné, published by Cahiers d'Art founder Christian Zervos in partnership with Picasso himself.... Read More
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Zien: No. 9 / 1986: Catalogue Issue (Softcover)
by [Zien] Gerald Van Der Kaap, Gea Kalksma (editors)
Rotterdam and New York: Zien Magazine, 1986. Softcover. Issue No. 9, published in conjunction with "A Distanced View: One Aspect of Recent Art from Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland," a 1986 exhibition at The New Museum in New York. Text in English. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 (First Edition)
by [Lesbiana] Jaye Zimet
New York: Penguin / Viking Studio, 1999. First Edition. First Edition, a trade softcover original. As New. Fine in perfect-bound wrappers. Illustrated in color throughout. A cornerstone guide to the artists and artwork from the golden era of lesbiana paperbacks.
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Young Girls of Good Families [Sex og Brillanter] [Les Saintes Nitouches] (Original program for the 1963 film)
by Ziva Rodann, Reggie Nalder, Fred Clark, Marie-France Pisier (starring); Pierre Montazel (director); Mario Brun, Jean Marthin (screenwriters)
Various cities: Columbia Pictures, 1963. Vintage program for the 1963 film. Title in both Danish and French, and text in Danish. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador... Read More
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