Santa Ana, CA: Western Directory Company, 1950, 1954. Pictorial wrappers. A pair of surprisingly elusive Palm Springs phone directories from the early 1950s. As if to confirm that Palm Springs really was the playground for Hollywood, the directories include both the phone numbers and street addresses of such luminaries as..... More
Paris: Cinemonde, 1935. Magazines. The April 11th 1935 issue of this elegant French film weekly issued out of Paris. This is the Joan Crawford issue, with a wonderful provocative photo of her gracing the cover. A sharp, clean copy to boot of the folio. Crisp and VG+ in its stapled..... More
Original wraps. A nice collection of "Exorcist"-related signatures (all gotten by the same person) on a photograph of the iconic image of the exorcist himself (Max Von Sydow) standing in front of the fog-enshrouded Georgetown home. SIGNED BY WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, LINDA BLAIR AND AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE COMPOSER GEORGE..... More
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979. Original wraps. An immaculate copy of the catalogue based on the May-June 1979 exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery. Crisp and Fine in its decorative wrappers. Tall quarto, black-and-white photos and film stills thruout. Also includes a laid-in example of the publisher's uncommon stapled..... More
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1930. Original wraps. The scarce 1930 French novelization of Greta Garbo's "The Single Man" (Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1929). The film is essentially a forward-thinking, "feminist" take on the right ("le droit") of women to be held to the same standard as men and to take on multiple..... More
Chicago: Motion Picture Publications, 1929. Original wraps. A crisp, very sharp copy of the November 1929 issue of "Motion Picture", with a radiant Lupe Velez gracing the cover. Clean and Near Fine in its colorful pictorial wrappers. Articles include "Hollywood Whoopee Handbook", "His Unwedded Wife", "The Girl with Six Careers"..... More
New York: Film-Maker's Cinemartheque, 1967. Pictorial wrappers. A scarce early run (20 issues) of this New York-based film monthly: New York Film-Maker's Newsletter. The earliest issues can be very elusive; in this case we have all but a complete run of the newsletter's first 2 years (late 1967 thru late..... More
Japan. Magazines. Lovely Japanese film magazine (circa late 1920s), paying tribute --largely through admiring photographs-- to Western cinema as well as its own nascent film industry. Several bright chromolithograph protraits in addition to dozens and dozens of black-and-white ( anumber of them gravures). A bright, presentable copy, with just a...... More
New York: Screenland Magazine Inc., 1931. Original wraps. A clean, well-preserved copy of the September 1931 issue of "Screenland", with a startlingly young Tallulah Bankhead gracing the cover (portrait by Edward L. Chase). Crisp and VG+ in its colorful pictorial wrappers, with light wear at the spine ends and a...... More
Original wraps. Crisp, clean photograph of Robert De Niro, posing in front of his cab in his Vietnam jacket and sporting his new mohawk, in Martin Scorcese's timeless 1976 film "Taxi Driver". Signed by De Niro in a clear blue marker across the photograph. All-but-pristine except for a small former..... More
Original wraps. Crisp, very sharp color photograph of Robert DeNiro in the ring as Jake LaMotta in a scene from "Raging Bull". Signed by DeNiro in a clean, clear blue marker. The photograph measures 8"x10" and, except for a small tag at the rear which has been neatly crossed out..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1932. A. Frederick Collins. Pictorial cloth. A fresh, bright copy of the 1932 1st edition, IN THE UNCOMMON ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial blue cloth with crisp, silver-decorated front panel and spine. And in a sharp, VG+ to Near Fine..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes Bloch, 1965. Pictorial wrappers. A nice Beatles curio, the 1965 1st Portugues edition (published the same year as the original edition) of "Help!". Solid and VG in its wonderful blue pictorial wrappers, with light creasing --and one small closed tear-- along the panel edges and a...... More
Columbia University Press, 1978. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1978 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a clean, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, more hand grenades lobbed by the "outspoken critic for The Vilage Voice, the American progenitor of the 'auteur' theory, a historical axiom that emphasizes the personal..... More
Allied Artists, 1948. Pictorial wrappers. A wonderful piece of baseball --and specifically Babe Ruth-- ephemera. The uncommon official booklet, issued just before the film's premiere in late July of 1948, of "The Babe Ruth Story", Hollywood's "semi-fictional biopic" of the great slugger, starring William Bendix as Babe Ruth. Ironically, the..... More
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1993. Cloth. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR DAVID KRAEUTER on the title page. A pristine copy to boot of the 1993 1st edition. Clean and Fine in its oatmeal cloth. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1931. Cloth. The 1931 1st edition --in the very uncommon pictorial dustjacket-- of this (extremely) early textbook on the uses and methods of the nascent invention known as television. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG- to VG dustjacket, with chipping (especially along the spine crown..... More
New York: Film Culture (Jonas Mekas), 1965. Pictorial wrappers. The Winter 1964/65 issue, issue no. 35, of Jonas Mekas's highly-respected "independent" film magazine, Film Culture. A very sharp copy. Crisp, clean and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Contributions by Jack Smith, Andrew Sarris, Gregory Markopoulos, Eric Breitbart, etc. Cover..... More
Philadelphia: Warren Publishing Co., 1963-64. Magazines. Here offered are 4 crisp, very well-preserved issues of "Famous Monsters of Filmland", 2 from 1963 and 2 from 1964. All 4 issues unusually bright and Near Fine in their wonderful pictorial covers. They are: June 1963 ("Most Unusual Frankenstein Photo Ever!"), October 1963..... More
New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1963. Pictorial wrappers. The 1963 signed/limited of the premiere issue (Monograph Series #1) of Film-Makers' Cinema. #110 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY GREGORY MARKOPOULOS. A very presentable copy to boot. Tight and VG+ in its stapled pictorial wrappers, with light soiling along the rear panel. Quarto..... More
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Original wraps. The uncommon April 1st, 1971 original screenplay for "Dirty Harry", written by H.J. Fink and Dean Riesner, and produced by Warner Brothers (and, within Warner Brothers, specifically from the office of Don Siegel, who both directed and produced the film). Solid and VG..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. Cloth. The 1929 1st photoplay edition AND true 1st edition of the novelization by Irwin R. Franklyn, "from the all-talking Columbia picture by Howard Green and Henry McCarthy". Solid and VG+ in a bright, VG- dustjacket, with chipping at the tipds and spine ends..... More
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR J.H. MATTHEWS TO PRE-EMINENT LITERARY SCHOLAR AND YALE PROFESSOR HENRI PEYRE on the front free endpaper. (Also includes a laid-in, affectionate, half-page typed letter from the author to Henri Peyre as well). A very solid copy to boot of the..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1950. Cloth. A presentable copy of the 1950 1st American edition of Jean Cocteau's "day-to-day account of how the film 'La Belle et La Bete' (Beauty and the Beast) wss made". Clean and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with a couple of tiny chips..... More
New York: Film Culture Non-Profit Corpopration, 1965. Pictorial wrappers. Issue #37, the "Harry Smith" issue, summer 1965. With New York artist and filmmaker Harry Smith (1923-1991) adorning the front cover and featuring a lengthy Harry Smith interview. Clean and very sharp. Easily VG+ to Near Fine. Also features a piece..... More
