Collection of international QSL cards from a radio hobbyist, 1954-1973
by [Ham Radio][QSL Cards]
N.p.: N.p., 1973. Collection of 86 QSL cards from 45 countries, housed in a 32 page generic scrapbook binding, from dedicated radio enthusiast Mark Murphy, 1954-1973, the majority of which dates from the late 1950s. The majority of the QSL cards are addressed to Murphy, at various addresses in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. QSL cards were sent... Read More
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Collection of original Mexican lobby cards, 1955-1971
by [Mexican Film] [Lobby cards]
US: Clasa-Mohme / Azteca Films, 1971. Collection of nearly 62 vintage Mexican lobby cards in 8 original envelopes, for 14 films released between 1955-1971. Included are lobby cards for 12 Mexican films or co-productions, and 2 international Spanish-language films released in Mexico—all of which were distributed by either Clasa-Mohme or Azteca Films. Cards are full-color and universally... Read More
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Kisses Can Kill (First Edition)
by Donnell Carey
New York: Phantom Books, 1951. First Edition. No. 501. First Edition, a paperback original. Near Fine in wrappers, with spine lightly rubbed and a few scattered reading creases. Holroyd, p. 422.
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Oscar and Lucinda (Uncorrected Proof, American Edition)
by Peter Carey
New York: Harper and Row, 1988. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. Winner of the 1988 Booker Prize. Basis for the 1997 film directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase.
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Actualité d'un bilan (First Edition)
by Carl Andre, Arakawa, David Askevold, Robert Barry, Bill Beckley, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Christo, Daniel Dezeuze, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz, David Lamelas, Sol Lewitt, Richard Lond, Robert Mangold, B
Paris: Galerie Yvon Lambert, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Text in English and French. Published in conjunction with a 1972 group show held in honor of the fifth anniversary of Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers, with dampstains on the bottom wrapper edges. Pages 41-44 are ripped in half down center... Read More
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Minimalism (First Edition)
by [Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Fred Sandback]
London: Nicola Jacobs Gallery, 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Nicola Jacobs Gallery between June 27 and September 1, 1990. Near Fine in card wrappers. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers with a small bump to lower right corner.
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Josef the Chaste [Der Keusche Josef] (Original program for the 1953 West German film)
by Carl Boese (director); Franz Arnold, Ernst Bach (play); Vineta Bastian-Klinger (screenwriter); Ludwig Schmitz, Waltraut Haas, Renate Mannhardt (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 German film. Text and titles in German. Not to be confused with the 1930 German film of the same name directed by Georg Jacoby. Based on the 1927 play "Unter Geschäftsaufsicht" by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach. A crusty accountant is sent to Berlin to undercover a case of potential... Read More
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South Seas Adventure (Original pressbook for the 1958 film)
by Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone, Francis D. Lyon, Walter Thompson, Basil Wrangell (directors); Charles Kaufman, Joe Ansen, Harold Medford (screenwriters); Diane Beardmore, Marlene Lizzio, Tommy Zahn, Igor Allan (starring)
Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing, 1958. Vintage program for the 1958 film. The fifth film in the Cinerama travelogue series, following "This is Cinerama" (1952), "Cinerama Holiday" (1955), "Seven Wonders of the World" (1956), and "Search for Paradise" (1957). 20 pages, saddle stitched, 9 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. A striking, colorful copy.
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Cry Wolf (First Edition)
by Marjorie Carleton
New York: William Morrow, 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1947 film noir directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Erroll Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Geraldine Brooks. Very Good plus in an Very Good or better dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, with faint soil on the board edges. Jacket has a short closed tear on... Read More
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Naked Came the Manatee (First Edition, inscribed by Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and Dave Barry)
by Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry (contributors)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Dave Barry: "To Bob / a great fan! / Carl Hiaasen / Elmore Leonard / Dave Barry." Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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Carlo Mollino: Polaroid (First Italian Edition)
by [Carlo Mollino] Giovanni Arpino, Daniela Palazzoli (editors)
Torino: Umberto Allemandi, 1985. First Italian Edition, preceding all others, a trade softcover original. Text in Italian. Monograph of 21 nude Polaroid images shot in both black-and-white and color by Carlo Mollino between 1956 and 1973, unseen until after his death. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Crazy Joe [Crazy Joey] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film)
by Carlo Lizzani (director); Massimo de Rita, Dino Maiuri (story, screenwriters); Peter Boyle, Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson, Rip Torn (starring)
Rome: de Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company, 1973. First Draft script for the 1974 Italian rime film "Crazy Joe," here under the working title, "Crazy Joey." Rubber-stamped Feb. 14, 1973, on the first page. A remarkable transplant of American New Hollywood stalwarts (and some of their elders) to the poliziotteschi genre. Peter Boyle plays a member of the... Read More
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Fast and Sexy [Anna de Brooklyn] (Original press photograph of Vittorio de Sica from the 1958 film)
by Carlo Lastricati (director); Ettore Maria Margadonna, Luciana Corda (screenwriters); Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Dale Robertson, Amedeo Nazzari (starring)
Paris: Pan American Airways, 1958. Original single weight press photograph of Vittorio de Sica smoking a cigarette, smiling, and entering (or leaving) an automobile, during the filming of the 1958 Italian-French film. French titles and de Sica's name in manuscript ink, and a Pan American Airways rubberstamp, on the verso. Parisian paparazzi were likely on-hand as the cast and... Read More
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Carlo Mollino: Polaroids (First Edition)
by [Carlo Mollino] Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari
Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New. Light fading on the endpapers, else about Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.
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Carlo Mollino: Arabesques (First Italian Edition)
by [Carlo Mollino] Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari (editors)
Milan: Electa, 2006. Softcover. First Italian Edition. Text in English. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from September 20, 2006, through January 7, 2007, at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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The Furniture of Carlo Mollino (First Edition)
by [Carlo Mollino] Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari
New York and London: Phaidon Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white and color illustrations and photographs of Mollino's work. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers [Cronache di poveri amanti] (Original photograph of Cosetta Greco from the 1954 film)
by Carlo Lizzani (director, screenwriter); Cosetta Greco (starring); Vasco Pratolini (novel); Osvaldo Civirani (photographer); Sergio Amidei, Giuseppe Dagnino, Massimo Mida (screenwriters); Gabriele Tinti, Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Maria Ferrero (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1954. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Cosetta Greco from the 1954 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on bottom left margin, "Georges Sadoul" and "Foto Civirani" stamps on verso. Based on the acclaimed 1947 Italian novel by Vasco Pratolini.Carlo Lizzani's Neo-Realist portrait of Fascist Italy, wherein young typographer Mario (Gabriele Tinti), after moving to via del... Read More
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Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho (Original Spanish brochure from the 1943 film)
by Carlos Jr. Vejar (director, screenwriter); Salvador Bartolozzi, Magda Donato (screenwriters); Carlos Amador, Paco Astol, Lucila Bowling (starring)
N.p.: Cimesa, 1943. Original small Spanish language brochure for the 1943 Mexican film. The second color feature film and the first children's fantasy film produced in Mexico. With a live-action cast set in a fantastical world, the film follows the adventures of Pinocho, the same character revived in Disney's classic 1940 animation. 4.5 x 6... Read More
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Die verschwundene Miniatur [The Missing Miniature] (Original program for the 1954 German film)
by Carl-Heinz Schroth (director); Erich Kästner (screenwriter); Paola Loew, Paul Westermeier, Paul Bildt, Lina Carstens (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1954. Vintage program for the 1954 German film. Text and titles in German. A butcher from Hamburg is unwittingly drawn into a smuggling scheme in Copenhagen when a young woman asks him to take a valuable miniature back with him to Hamburg. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bifold. Near Fine.
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The Thrill of It All (Original photograph from the 1963 film)
by Carl Reiner (screenwriter, starring); Norman Jewison (director); Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film, a Doris Day vehicle and the screenwriting debut of Carl Reiner (he also starred). The photo shows an extraordinary prop, a full size billboard advertising a product called "Happy Soap," which plays a part in the film's story. With the stamp of director-editor Barrie Pattison on... Read More
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The Jerk (Original press kit for the 1979 film)
by Carl Reiner (director); Steve Martin (screenwriter, starring); Carl Gottleib, Michael Elias (screenwriters); Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Jackie Mason (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 5 black and white photographs, and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. A lovable idiot accidentally strikes it rich after leaving his adopted family in rural Mississippi and moving to St. Louis. Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film. ... Read More
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The Passion of Joan of Arc [La passion de Jeanne d'Arc] (Original double weight photograph from the 1928 film)
by Carl Theodor Dreyer (director); Jean Soulat, Maurice Boussus (photographers); Maria Falconetti (starring)
Paris: Studio Soulat-Boussus, 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shot by Jean Soulat and Mauric Boussus of Studio Soulat-Boussus in Paris, with respective stamps on the verso. An excessively rare photograph from Dreyer's masterpiece, capturing Maria Falconetti in what one could accurately described as "in character." Franconetti became a stage actress... Read More
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With These Hands (Two original photographs from the 1971 film)
by Carmen Silvera, Windsor Davies, Vincent Bell (starring); Don Chaffey (director); Hazel Adair, Kent Walton (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 film. One with a Québec censorship stamp on the verso and stamps noting the same on the recto. 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... Read More
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Michael Strogoff (Original screenplay for the 1956 film)
by Carmine Gallone (director); Sauvajon, Marc-Gilbert (screenwriter); Verne Jules (author); Curd Jurgens, Genevieve Page, Jacques Dacqmine, Sylva Koscina (starring)
France: Illria Film, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1876 oft-produced novel by Jules Verne of the same title. Michael Strogoff is the courier of the Tsar, tasked to deliver a very important message to the Tsar's brother who is in Siberia, cut off from the main army due to the Tatar Army... Read More
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The Affairs of Messalina [Messalina] (Original Italian Souvenir Program for the 1951 film)
by Carmine Gallone (director, story); Vittorio Nino Novarese, Albert Valentin, Pierre Laroche, Cesare Ludovici (screenwriters); Maria Felix, Georges Marchal, Memo Benassi, Delia Scala (starring)
Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. With several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and black-and-white films stills and on-the-set images. Based on the powerful and influential wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, who conspired to kill him and was executed as a result.... Read More
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