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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Serenade (Hardcover, inscribed in 1938)
by James M. Cain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author in the year after publication: "To Miriam Geiger / In memory of pleasant times / James M. Cain / Feb 17, 1938." Jacket art by W. A. Dwiggins. One of Cain's least-appreciated novels, a hard-boiled story about a dethroned opera singer who meets the love of... Read More
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Serenade (First Edition)
by James M. Cain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. In the green-and-purple variant of the jacket, one of three color designs issued simultaneously. The author's bleakest noir, and his final masterpiece, the tale of an opera tenor who runs to Mexico to flee from professional disgrace, meets a girl there, and then attempts a triumphant return... Read More
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Serenade (Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition)
by James M. Cain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather, titles in gilt.... Read More
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Three of a Kind (First Edition)
by James M. Cain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. First Edition. Second issue with a price clip on the front flap, publisher's stamped price of "$2.50" at the bottom of the front flap, and a two-paragraph admonition from James Cain (with a photo of the author) about war bonds on the rear panel. The first appearance in hardcover of... Read More
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Archive of 41 photographs relating to silent film screenings at the California Theatre, 1919-1921
by [California Theatre] Dick Stagg, J.C. Milligan (photographers)
Los Angeles: California Theatre, 1921. Archive of 41 vintage photographs of the elaborate stage sets and live performers which supported silent film screenings at the California Theatre in Los Angeles, taken during the theatre's first three years in operation, 1919-1921. 20 photographs with blindstamps crediting photographer Dick Stagg, and 14 with blindstamps crediting photographer J.C. Milligan. Photographs housed... Read More
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Water's Edge (First Edition)
by Harry Callahan
Lyme, CT: Callaway Editions, 1980. First Edition. First Edition. Small bump to the rear bottom edge, else Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Parr and Badger, Vol. II, p. 33.
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Stèles (Limited Edition)
by Victor Segalen (poems); Michael Taylor (translation); Sam Taylor (lithograph); Walasse Ting (calligraphy)
Santa Monica and San Francisco: Lapis Press, 1987. Limited Edition, one of 150 copies SIGNED by translator Michael Taylor and artist Sam Francis. A collection of prose-poems first published in 1912, written in French and Chinese, inspired by inscriptions author Victor Segalen saw on stones along the road during a stay in China. Fine in... Read More
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Orson Welles: Hello Americans (First UK Edition)
by [Orson Welles] Simon Callow
London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. First UK Edition. The second volume of Simon Callow's legendary biography of Orson Welles. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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Chasing Smoke (First Edition)
by Bull Cameron
Madison WI: Bleak House Books, 2008. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. The author's second novel, set in Portland.
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Say Anything... [Say Anything] (Archive of three screenplays for the 1989 film)
by Cameron Crowe (director, screenwriter); John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988. Archive of three screenplays for the classic 1989 film, including one Shooting script, one Re-shoot script, and one Final Draft script. Shooting script with several manuscript ink annotations throughout, mostly noting editorial revisions. Bound in after the Shooting script is a 34-page, xerographically duplicated Re-shoot script dated November 4, 1988. Cameron Crowe's... Read More
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Singles (Original photograph from the 1992 film)
by Cameron Crowe (director, screenwriter); Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Sheila Kelley, Jim True (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1992. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1992 film. A comedy about the romantic misadventures of a group of young adults living in Seattle during the grunge rock craze. Three members of the real-life grunge rock group Pearl Jam appeared in the film under the band name "Citizen Dick." Set and shot... Read More
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Francis Picabia: His Art, Life, and Times (First Edition)
by [Francis Picabia] William A. Camfield
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Flesh of the Earth (First Edition)
by Alexander Campbell
New York: Pyramid Books No. G-511, 1960. First Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. An emotionally immature woman meets a forlorn sailor at a church in Liverpool. It doesn't get any better. Cover at by Victor Kalin, who, in addition to magazines and paperbacks, illustrated military training manuals and three-dimensional assembly drawings. He also illustrated covers for all of... Read More
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Archive of 42 original vernacular photographs of the Camrod motorcycle shop, 1967
by [Motorcycles] [Camrod]
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Archive consisting of 42 vintage vernacular photographs of the Camrod Corporation, a motorcycle and motor scooter dealer and repair shop in New York City. Included are 15 loose black-and-white photographs, 7 black-and-white photographs stapled to the inside of a manila folder with two business cards and a clipping of a contemporary newspaper ad, and 20 color... Read More
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The Day the Fish Came Out [Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria] (Original photograph from the 1967 film)
by Candice Bergen, Tom Courtenay (starring); Michael Cacoyannis (director, screenwriter); Colin Blakely, Sam Wanamaker (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing actors Candice Bergen and Ian Ogilvy during a dance scene. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. A NATO plane carrying atomic weapons is forced to crash-land and abandon its cargo on a remote Greek island, causing consternation and delight among the Greek... Read More
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Libraries (First German Edition)
by Candida Höfer, Umberto Eco (authors)
Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 2005. First German Edition. Text in English. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Terry and the Pirates: Shipwrecked on a Desert Island (Hardcover)
by Milton Caniff
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing / Big Little Books, 1938. No. 1412. First printing of this Big Little Books edition. Very Good plus to Near Fine in illustrated boards. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped with the usual toning to the pages, else a tight, attractive copy. Lowery, "The Collector's Guide to Big Little Books and... Read More
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1964 Cannes Film Festival promotional folder and program for The World of Henry Orient, including programs for Black God, White Devil, The Price of Victory, Li mali mestieri, and "1, 2, 3...
by [Cannes Film Festival] George Roy Hill, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Gyula Macskassy and Gyorgy Varnai, Nobuko Shibuya, Glauber Rocha (directors)
Cannes, France: N.p., 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival, the seventeenth one to be held, that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the name used until 1974 when it returned... Read More
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Save the Children (Seven original photographs from the 1973 film)
by Cannonball Adderley, Sammy Davis Jr., Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight (starring); Stan Lathan (director); Matt Robinson (screenwriter)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Seven vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1973 documentary film. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos, along with the stamps of Israel Film Archive. Filmed at the 1972 Chicago exposition sponsored by People United to Save Humanity. Largely a compilation of musical performances by heavyweight African American musicians, including Marvin Gaye,... Read More
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Pepe (Original press kit for the 1960 film)
by Cantinflas (starring); George Sidney (director); Leslie Bush-Fekete (play); Claude Binyon, Dorothy Kingsley (screenwriters); Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. Vintage press kit for the 1960 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing one oversize matte-finish borderless reference photograph, showing actors Cantinflas and Janet Leigh. A ranch hand goes to California to rescue a white stallion (which he considers to be his family) from the hotshot Hollywood director who has purchased it.... Read More
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Adlai Stevenson's Public Years (First Edition)
by Capa, Cornell, John Fell Stevenson, Inge Morath (photography)
New York: Grossman Publisher, 1966. First Edition. First Edition. The story of Adlai Stevenson's career told through photographs, including texts from his essays and speeches. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light rubbing to the board edges. Jacket has moderate edgewear and rubbing overall.
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Truman Capote and Anita Loos at the El Morocco Club, NYC, July 11, 1956 (Original photograph)
by Capote, Truman, Anita Loos (subject)
N.p.: N.p., 1990. Vintage photograph of Truman Capote and Anita Loos at the El Morocco Club, New York City, July 11, 1956, struck circa 1990s. "PPCM," "Corbis-Bettmann" labels, and a third obscured label on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Original press photograph of Frank Capra, William Wyler, George Stevens, and Samuel J. Briskin announcing the formation of Liberty Films
by Capra, Frank, William Wyler, George Stevens, Samuel J. Briskin (subjects)
N.p.: N.p., 1945. Vintage press photograph of Frank Capra, William Wyler, George Stevens, and Samuel J. Briskin announcing the formation of the independent motion picture production company Liberty Films. French annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on verso. Frank Capra, dissatisfied with the Hollywood studio system, had attempted to set up an independent production studio on three occasions,... Read More
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A Racing Car Driver's World (First Edition)
by Rudolf Caracciola
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. German racing driver Rudolf Caracciola was a three-time winner of the European Drivers' Championship—the precursor to the Formula One World Championship—and three-time winner of the European Hillclimbing Championship. Faint foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket... Read More
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