Towards the Real Reality (Original poster for the exhibition and performances at the Acme Gallery, London, 1981)
by Bruce Lacey, Jill Bruce
London: The Acme Gallery, 1981. Vintage poster for "Towards the Real Reality: Being the Tale of Their Move from City to Country and the Deepening of Their Relationship with the Mysteries of the Earth," an exhibition and series of performances by Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce at The Acme Gallery, London, September 7-19, 1981. OCLC locates no holdings. ... Read More
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Look Who's Talking (Original photograph from the 1989 film)
by Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis (starring); Amy Heckerling (director, screenwriter)
Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1989. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1989 film. First film in the successful "Look Who's Talking" series, spawning two sequels in 1990 and 1993, and a television spin-off series, "Baby Talk" (1991-1992). 8 x 10 inches. Fine.
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Bruce Nauman (First Edition)
by [Bruce Nauman] Neal Benezra, Kathy Halbreich, Paul Schimmel, Robert Storr (contributors)
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from November 30, 1993, through February 21, 1994, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, later traveling to four other museums in 1994 and 1995. Spine lean, else Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket.... Read More
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Bruce Nauman (First Edition)
by [Bruce Nauman] Neal Benezra, Kathy Halbreich, Robert Storr, Paul Schimmel (essays)
Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1994. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia between November 30, 1993 and February 21, 1994. Very Good plus in illustrated card wrappers with French flaps. Some creasing to front and rear wrappers.
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Strangers (Original script for the 1979 play)
by Bruce Dern, Lois Nettleton (starring); Arvin Brown (director); Sherman Yellen (playwright)
N.p.: N.p., 1978. Revised script for the 1979 Broadway play, which debuted at the John Golden Theatre on March 4, 1979, running for a brief nine performances. A dramatization of the tempestuous, passionate relationship between author Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson. Cream untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated October, 1978, noted as Rewrite /... Read More
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Tattoo (Original photograph from the 1981 film)
by Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey (starring); Bob Brooks (director); Joyce Bunuel (screenwriter)
N.p.: Joseph E. Levine Productions, 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film. Bruce Dern plays a psychologically unstable tattoo artist who becomes obsessed with a model. After kidnapping her, he uses her body as a canvas for "his masterpiece." Shot on location in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches.... Read More
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The Savage Bees (Eight photographs from the 1976 film)
by Bruce Geller (director); Guerdon Trueblood (screenwriter); Ben Johnson, Michael Parks, Paul Hecht, Horst Buchholz (starring)
London: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1978. Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1978 release of the 1976 US television film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos, with distributor rubber-stamps and layout annotations. Mardi Gras is interrupted by African killer bees! Ben Johnson is cast as the local sheriff, and would reprise his tenure with the bees... Read More
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Don's Party (Two original photographs from the Canadian release of the 1976 Australian film)
by Bruce Beresford (director); David Williamson (screenwriter, play); Ray Barrett, Clare Binney, Pat Bishop, Candy Raymond (starring)
N.p.: Pan-Canadian, 1976. Two vintage studio still photographs from the Canadian release of the 1976 Australian film, one showing actress Jeanie Drynan, the other showing actors Clare Binney and John Hargreaves. With production No. 82-668 in manuscript ink to the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on screenwriter David Williamson's 1971 play. A schoolteacher holds a... Read More
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Original poster for the 1972 film)
by Bruce Beresford (director, screenwriter); Barry Humphries (comic, starring, screenwriter); Barry Crocker, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook (starring)
Bradford: W.E. Berry, 1972. Vintage British quad poster for the 1972 Australian film. Based on the character originally created by cartoonist Barry Humphries, a loutish, beer-guzzling Australian named Barry "Bazza" McKenzie. The first Australian film to surpass one million dollars in Australian box office receipts. Shot on location in London. 40 x 30 inches,... Read More
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The Way of the Dragon [Return of the Dragon] (Original poster for the 1972 Hong Kong film)
by Bruce Lee (director, screenwriter, starring); Nora Miao, Paul Wei (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Bryanston Pictures, 1972. Vintage linen-backed US one sheet poster for the 1972 Hong Kong film. Seen here under its US title, "Return of the Dragon." The first film produced by Bruce Lee's Concord Productions studio, as well as Lee's screenwriting and directorial debuts, and the film debut of Chuck Norris, who battles Lee in... Read More
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The 1000 Deaths of Pete Boardman (Original manuscript for an unpublished novel)
by W.M. Bruckner
N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Carbon typescript manuscript for an unpublished novel. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout, most noting editorial revisions. A chronically ill Palm Springs realtor finds himself unexpectedly framed for murder. Set in Palm Springs, CA. Ordered but unbound leaves, housed in a gray Southworth Typewriter Paper box. Title page present, with credits... Read More
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Taming the Alien (First UK Edition, signed by the author)
by Ken Bruen
London: The Do Not Press, 1999. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Bruce Nauman (First Edition)
by [Bruce Nauman] Coosje van Bruggen
New York: Rizzoli International, 1988. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with light rubbing overall.
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Two original photographs of dance group The Biltmorettes, circa 1940s
by Bruno Bernard (photographer); Edna Mae Isenburg, Joan Baker, Beverly Sweet (subjects)
N.p.: N.p., 1940. Two vintage photographs of all-girl dance and vaudeville group The Biltmorettes, circa 1940s. With the insignia of Bruno Bernard, also known as Bruno of Hollywood, to the bottom right corners of the rectos, and Bernard's corresponding stamp to the verso. The Biltmorettes were an acrobatic dance group mostly active in the late 1930s and... Read More
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Boccaccio [Nights of Boccaccio] (Original program from the 1972 film)
by Bruno Corbucci (director, screenwriter); Mario Amendola(screenwriter); Giovanni Boccaccio (novel); Enrico Montesano, Sylva Koscina, Pascale Petit, Bernard Blier, Isabella Biagini (starring)
N.p.: Columbia Films, 1972. Vintage German program from the 1972 film. Loosely based on the set of stories by 14th century author Giovanni Boccaccio. Also based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "The Decameron" (1971). A satire about Christianity and sexuality. 8 x 11.25 inches folded along the bi-fold. 16 x 11.25 inches unfolded.... Read More
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Camille Claudel (Seven original photographs from the 1988 French film)
by Bruno Nuytten (director, screenwriter); Marilyn Goldin (screenwriter); Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Alain Cuny (starring)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1988. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1988 French film. All with mimeo snipes and manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout on the verso, and two with collector labels. A dramatization of the career of talented, lesser-known sculptor Camille Claudel, who began as an apprentice to Auguste Rodin, later became his muse and... Read More
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Erotic Japonisme: The Influence of Japanese Sexual Imagery on Western Art (First Edition)
by Ricard Bru
Leiden, Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued, in publisher's shrinkwrap.
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Antonio Lopez Garcia (First Edition)
by [Antonio Lopez Garcia] Cheryl Brutvan
Boston: MFA Publications / Museum of Fine Arts, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from April 13 to July 27, 2008. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with French flaps.
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Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy's Story as told to Yannick Bruynoghe (Softcover)
by [Big Bill Broonzy] Yannick Bruynoghe
New York: Oak Publications, 1964. Softcover. Revised Edition. Foreword by Charles Edward Smith. Very Good plus in lightly rubbed, perfect-bound wrappers.
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Clay Night, Gone Paintin', and New Yorker (Three artist's books by Edgar Bryan)
by Edgar Bryan
Valencia: Golden Spike Press / Yes and No Books, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Three artist's books by Edgar Bryan, dating between 2015 and 2016, including "Clay Night," "Gone Paintin'," and "New Yorker," the latter being credited to both Bryan and Calvin Marcus. All three books Near Fine to Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
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The Wrong Box (Original screenplay for the 1966 film)
by Bryan Forbes (director); Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (novel); Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove (screenwriters); John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1965. Early Draft script for the 1965 British comedy film. Based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. In 1818, the parents of 20 boys establish a tontine, a fund to go to the last surviving boy. It is now 1882 and only 2 elderly brothers are left, Joseph (Ralph... Read More
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (Three original photographs from the 1969 film)
by Bryan Forbes (director); Jean Giraudoux (play); Yves Mirkine (photographer); Edward Anhalt, Maurice Valency (screenwriters); Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner-Pathe, 1969. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1969 film. Rubber-stamped on the versos, "Not for Sale / Warner-Pathe Copyright." Based on Jean Giraudoux's 1945 French play, "La Folle de Chaillot." Countess Aurelia (Hepburn) is an idealistic, slightly mad woman with a heart of gold who decides to protest... Read More
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Deadfall (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1968 film)
by Bryan Forbes (director, screenwriter); Desmond Cory (novel); George Courtney Ward (photographer); Michael Caine, Eric Portman, Giovanna Ralli, David Buck (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the US release of the 1968 UK film. Based on Desmond Cory's 1965 novel, and one of the more unusual heist films of the 1960s, starring Michael Caine as a recently recovered alcoholic mixed up in a diamond heist with a woman and her recently... Read More
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Rut Bryk (First Finnish Edition, inscribed)
by [Rut Bryk]
Helsinki and Rovaniemi: Amos Anderson Art Museum / Rovaniemi Art Museum, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the artist in the year of publication on the title page: "to Stewart Johnson / 27.9.1986 / from Rut Bryk-Wirkkala." Text in English, Swedish, and Finnish. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from September 27 to November... Read More
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Alexandre Sokourov (First Edition, inscribed by Sokourov)
by Bruno; Dietsch Freddy Buache
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions L'Age D'Homme, 2005. First Edition. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by director Alexandre Sokourov on the half-title page: "Pierre Goulliard / [unknown] / Alexandre Sokourov / 2007." In 2007, Sokourov, a prolific Russian filmmaker of increasing complexity and daring, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his... Read More
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