Steamboat Bill Jr. (Original publicity photograph of Buster Keaton for the 1928 silent film)
by Buster Keaton (subject, starring); Charles Reisner (director); Carl Harbaugh (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1928. Vintage borderless publicity portrait photograph of actor Buster Keaton Jr. in his shirtsleeves, issued to promote the 1928 silent comedy film. Contemporary dealer stamp on the verso. The last film Keaton would make with United Artists before moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was a commercial and critical failure upon release, but has since been reevaluated... Read More
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Spite Marriage (Original photograph from the 1929 film)
by Buster Keaton (director, starring); Edward Sedgwick (director); Robert Hopkins (screenwriter); Dorothy Sebastian (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1929. Vintage reference photograph from the 1929 silent film, showing actors Buster Keaton and Edward Earle shaking hands. Provenance stamp on the verso. A humble dry cleaner believes he's lucked out when a famous actress agrees to marry him—unaware that he is being used to make her ex-lover jealous. The film was released in two editions:... Read More
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From Sketch Book and Diary (First Edition)
by Elizabeth Butler
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good in a Good example of the scarce dust jacket. Light foxing to the leaves and fore-edge and slight spine lean. Jacket toned and soiled overall, frayed overall, with a large tear to the spine panel.
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (UK Uncorrected Proof)
by Gerald Butler
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1940. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. The earliest edition of one of the rarest film noir sources—we have never seen a jacketed copy of the first edition that followed it, and a jacketless copy only once. Excessively rare. A crime novel from an author known better for weird fiction, basis for the... Read More
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Coffin and the Paper Man (First Edition)
by Gwendoline Butler
London: Collins Crime Club, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine and unread in a bright, easily Near Fine dust jacket.
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Dine and Be Dead (First Edition)
by Gwendoline Butler
New York: Macmillan, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Touch of foxing to the page edges, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Usual toning to the page edges, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing at the corners and spine ends. A sharp copy.
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James Lee Byars: The Path of Luck (First Edition)
by James Lee Byars
New York: Michael Werner, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of James Lee Byars' work which ran from April 5 to May 18, 1991. Near Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.
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IS (First Edition)
by James Lee Byars
Madrid: Galeria La Maquina Espanola, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of James Lee Byars' work which ran from January 30 to March 15, 1992. Near Fine in wrappers.
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James Lee Byars: The Path of Luck (First Edition)
by James Lee Byars
New York: Michael Werner, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of James Lee Byars' work which ran from April 5 to May 18, 1991. Near Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.
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Original program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball, 1915
by [Hollywood] H.E. Wildy (compiled by)
Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles, 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball, held February 13, 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors, directors, producers, and others, and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services, most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce, with only two... Read More
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The Laff Parade (First Edition)
by Jerry Lieberman (compiled and edited by)
New York: Pocket Books No. 1144, 1957. First Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. Gags, quips, and stories guaranteed to tickle the funny bone. Cover photographs by Alfred Gescheidt. About Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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Defeat in the East (Vintage Paperback)
by Juergen; Thorwald Fred Wieck (edited and translated by)
New York: Ballantine Books, 1959. First printing of this edition. First published in Germany in 1951, and then as "Flight in the Winter" in the US. Thorwald studied history before the second World War, and during the war was a participant in German Naval operations. Light toning to the spine, else about Fine in photo illustrated wrappers.... Read More
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National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900 (First UK Edition)
by Laurence Senelick (edited by)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Second volume in the "Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History" series. This volume documents the emergence of appreciation and criticism of theatre throughout Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Russia, and other European countries from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to the... Read More
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Conquest of Space [La conquete de l'espace] (Original double weight oversize photograph from the 1955 film)
by Byron Haskin (director); Willy Ley, Chesley Bonestell (book); Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph from the French release of the 1955 American film. "Made in France" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1949 book by Willy Ley and Chesley Bonestell, a work of speculative fiction about the first interplanetary voyage to Mars and the various dangers encountered during... Read More
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Brand of Shame [Nude Django] (Six original photographs from the 1968film)
by Byron Mabe (director); Gene Radford, David F. Friedman (screenwriters); Steve Stunning, Cara Peters, Steve Vincent, Darlene Darling (starring)
N.p.: FPS Ventures, 1968. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film, also released under the title "Nude Django." All seven photographs with provenance stamps on the versos, five with labels on the versos obscuring older provenance stamps. A young schoolteacher inherits a map to a gold mine and arrives in a small western... Read More
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Too Late for Tears (Original photograph from the 1949 film)
by Byron Haskin (director); Roy Huggins (screenwriter); Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1948. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film. With a blindstamp for the National Screen Service on the bottom right corner. A suitcase full of money is thrown into the back seat of a moving car owned by a married couple. The couple fights about if they should keep the money... Read More
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Treasure Island (Three British front-of-house cards from the 1950 film)
by Byron Haskin (director); Robert Louis Stevenson (novel); Lawrence Edward Watkin (screenwriter); Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney (starring)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1950. Three color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1950 US film. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin-boy in competition with the infamous pirate Long John Silver for a trove of treasure. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine... Read More
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Scream [Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker] (Original screenplay for the 1981 film)
by Byron Quisenberry (director, screenwriter); Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne (starring)
Burbank, CA: Cougar Films, LTD, 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film, here under the working title "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages, in manuscript marker and pencil, on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters, played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet, dated for "Mon. May 12, 80," with annotations in... Read More
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Aesthetics and Language (Hardcover)
by William Elton (edited and with an introduction by)
Oxford: Blackwell, 1970. Hardcover. Reprint, Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket shows toning to spine with small stains to front panel.
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Original Caelus Bakelite hard disk stack miniature prototype model
by [Early computers] [Caelus]
N.p.: Jupitor Corporation, 1967. Vintage Bakelite prototype model hard disk pack, created circa 1967. Small printed label of Caelus Memories Incorporated adhered to the bottom of the canister, with a small engraving on the bottom crediting manufacturer Jupitor [sic] Corporation in Japan. Caelus was a start-up created around 1966, of note initially as an early supplier of... Read More
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Miriam Cahn: Morgen Grauen [Morning Horror] (First Edition)
by [Miriam Cahn]
Various cities: Galerie Nächst / Galerie Krinzinger / Pro Helvetia Foundation, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Comprises nine reproductions of charcoal and chalk drawings by the artist, laid into a bi-fold sheet of card stock with text in German at the rear. Near Fine, unbound, with faux soil on the front of the bi-fold, as issued. ... Read More
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Antony Gormley (First Edition)
by [Antony Gormley] Martin Caiger-Smith
New York: Rizzoli, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued, in publisher's cloth slipcase. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On (First German Edition)
by [Cai Guo-Qiang] Dan Cameron, Friedhelm Hutte (contributors)
Frankfurt: Deutsche Bank, 2006. Hardcover. First German Edition. Text in English. Near Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.
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Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe (First Edition)
by [Cai Guo-Qiang] Alexandra Munroe, Thomas Krens (editors)
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. As New. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Love's Lovely Counterfeit (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
by James M. Cain
New York: Signet Books, 1957. No. 1445. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With warmest regards / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / October 13, 1957." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of... Read More
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