2006réf. 303090New York: Guggenheim Museum 2006. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with color paintings. 445 pages. Thick 4to black cloth. d.w. New York: Guggenheim Museum & Seacex 2006. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. Published on the occasion of the exhibition. Guggenheim Museum unknown books
2011réf. 1001510Mexico: Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana 2011 Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. With a list of works. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana, unknown books
2009réf. 85431New York: Semiotext 2009. First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards. 196pp. Some very slight wear to boards mostly limited to a couple of small scratches to the laminate clean and bright; internally clean signed and dated with kisses and hugs by Penny Arcade to the title page. A very good attractive copy. A collection of essays and performance pieces interspersed with interviews and editorial commentary providing a kind of retrospective of Penny Arcade's long career as an incendiary and divisive performance artist she is virtually the originator of the term in its modern context and her collaborations with artists like Jayne County Patti Smith Mink Stole John Waters and the majestic Quentin Crisp. Semiotext unknown books
1971réf. 162265N.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 superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A British sexploitation film about the sexual goings-on at a medical clinic. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1979réf. 158775Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions 1979. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1979 film. A film that left an indelible imprint on the horror genre with one of the most terrifying opening acts of cinema history. The film derives its plot from the 1974 classic "Black Christmas" and was the basis for a made-for-television sequel as well as Wes Craven's 1996 film "Scream." Shot on location in Los Angeles and Sacramento California. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches five photographs 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Weldon 1983. Columbia Pictures / Melvin Simon Productions unknown books
2009réf. 48418Castello Spain: Espai d'art contemporani de Castello 2009. Very Good. Castello Spain: Espai d'art contemporani de Castello 2009. First bilingual edition with half in Spanish and half in English. Quarto 27 cm; 4221pp. White glossy card wrappers printed simply in blue and black. Binding cocked scuffs to cover panels and mild shelfwear but interior clean. A Very Good copy of a catalogue and dialogue on John Cage's work. Espai d'art contemporani de Castello unknown books
2017réf. 1406818Minneapolis Minnesota: Graywolf Press 2017. Limited Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 245 pages. In Very Good condition with no dust jacket as issued. Spine red and black with white lettering. Boards bound in black and pictorial paper with mild shelfwear to edges. Flat signed by author to edition page. Shelved in Room C. 1406818. Special Collections - Upstairs. Graywolf Press hardcover books
2012réf. 213443Munich Germany and New York: DelMonico Books and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 2012. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 227 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran October 5 2012 through January 23 2013 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and then February 20 through may 28 2013 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Features texts by Carmen Gimenez Richard Shiff Dore Ashton and Olivier Berggruen. Includes numerous illustrations and a checklist. A fine copy in black cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear. An attractive book that focuses on the monochromatic work from Picasso's large oeuvre. DelMonico Books and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum unknown books
1920réf. 4086Boston. The Bibliophile Society. 1920. 1/2 cloth and paper covered boards with gilt titled spines. teg. 8vos. Illustrated with photographic frontises and facsimiles. Some light soiling to spines wear to corners else Very Good. Interior clean and tight. The Bibliophile Society. hardcover books
1970réf. 532460San Francisco: 101 Productions 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Illustrations by Duff Wyllie. 64pp. Slight toning else near fine. 101 Productions) unknown books
1940réf. 206001940. Very Good Plus. The popular Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat 1900-1990 had a tradition of sending out custom Christmas cards with amusing caricatures of himself and his wife whomever she happened to be at the time. This card shows his first wife of four Carmen Castillo 1900 - 1966 with whom he was married from 1929 to 1947. Castillo was a singer who encouraged Cugat to form his first band with whom she also performed. In this card five stockings are arranged on atop a brick fireplace. The three small stockings are stuffed with three dogs and Castillo and Cugat are shown in profile their heads contorted to look like dog heads the canine likeness may not strike one with a quick glance but it will provoke a chuckle once it reveals itself. The card colored with vivid red and green only as befits the occasion. There is no date but since Cugat and Castillo divorced in 1947 we would say it was almost certainly from the early 1940s. The fireplace looks like the kind one would find in LA -- Hollywood or Beverly Hills -- and as anyone familiar with MGM musicals of the day Cugat was very active in screen appearances by then playing himself generally. The much married Cugat never had children or human children with any of his four wives. The card is a single card sheet measuring 18.5 by 16 cm. The back of the card is blank. We would deduce that he was a dog lover though and at the time of this card had three. Light wear. unknown books
1969réf. 424201New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 121 2pp. Illustrated from photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Presumably an Advance Review Copy with a photograph of author Moore laid in. YA biography of Smith by an African-American author. Issued in the series Women of America mostly concentrating on progressive women. Very uncommon title. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1972réf. 437949San Francisco: Billy Hicks Publishing 1972. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 32pp. Stapled photographic wrappers representing we think images of the authors. Rubbing and age-toning on the wrappers else about very good. Short anthology of counterculture-style poetry. Inscribed by one of the represented poets Lee McCullough. OCLC locates a single copy. Billy Hicks Publishing unknown books
réf. 502504See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good LOMBARDO Carmen Lebert and Victor. PENCIL PORTRAIT SKETCH of all 3 brothers by Edwin Appel signed by all 3 in ink ca. 1937. Oblong small 4to sheet. Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
2006réf. 165787New York: Guggenheim Museum 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which ran from February 3 through May 14 2006 at the Guggenheim Museum from June 14 through September 11 2006 at the Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou and from October 25 2006 through January 14 2007 at the Tate Modern. Slight lean else about Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Guggenheim Museum unknown books
2013réf. 212852New York: Guggenheim 2013. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 127 pages. Published in conjunction exhibition at the The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that ran June 21 through September 25 2013 with concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles CA and Houston. Features a foreword by Richard Armstrong acknowledgements by Carmen Gimenez and Nat Trotman along with essays by Gimenez Trotman and Arthur Zajonc. Inclues numerous illustrations and a checklist. A fine copy in blue cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Guggenheim unknown books
2006réf. 9029431New York: Guggenheim 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and front coger stamped in blind. Illustrated. 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 447 pages. Guggenheim hardcover books
1940réf. 151800Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film. A wealthy young Argentinean visiting the US to sell his father's prize racehorses falls in love with a girl in New York. The first of several films made by Twentieth Century-Fox in accordance with Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy in the hope of strengthening the influence of the US in Latin America. Set in New York and Argentina. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 505 dated JUNE 10 1940. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 5 with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 10 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with two blue revision pages dated 6-10-40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1973réf. 171005N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 film showing Jesús Franco directing Doris Thomas and Britt Nichols. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and ink and the stamp of photographer Mario Lippert on the verso. A group of nuns are possessed by demons and are subsequently subjected to torture and destruction. Hot on the heels of Ken Russell's "The Devils" 1971. Shot on location in Alicante Cascais and Sintra Portugal. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Thrower "The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco: Volume Two. N.p. unknown books
1929réf. 03341THE STUDIO MURDER MYSTERY Reilly & Lee 1929 first edition a bright vg or better copy in a bright vg full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear tear and chipping. A curiously uncommon book. Listed in Anthony Slide's "The Hollywood Novel. Reilly & Lee unknown books
1894réf. 5785Puebla 1894. About very good. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling. Thesis publication of Carmen M. Castillo on the "Necesidad de la educacion del caracter y medios que deben emplearse para realizarla" translated as the need for character education and the means to achieve it. The author posits that most families completely neglect the instillation of moral fiber in their children and therefore it is up to the education system to remedy this issue. Not located in OCLC. unknown books
réf. 4912Publicity Photograph in color signed measuring 8 x 10 inches. The bright half length photograph shows Miranda costumed as she often performed and is best remembered. Inscribed and signed vertically in black ink "To. Carmen Miranda." Condition: Bends at corners and along margins overall condition slight background discoloration in several spots. unknown books
1895réf. 6744Boston: Copeland & Day 1895. First Edition. First Edition. 6.5 x 5 inches. Original publisher's grayish olive laid paper wrappers. Partially unopened. Occasioned by the death of Stevenson Copeland and Day to publish this book which was the first book printed by the Everett Press for Copeland and Day John Wilson and Son had printed all the books up to that time. Some fraying to fragile wrappers with small loss of paper bookplate of Edwin Holden to verso of front wrapper. No copies located at time of writing. Fine internally with a few signatures unopened. Copeland & Day unknown books
1943réf. 152846N.p.: N.p. 1943. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film. Specially bound copy belonging to William Bendix with his name in gilt on front board and title in gilt on spine. Bound in before the title page is a handwritten note not in Bendix's hand reading "Bendix Played 'Danny' / Blaine " Bonnie." Laid in is a small typescript note titled "Tentative Schedule for Week beginning 11/22" providing a brief shooting schedule. William Bendix was an American stage film radio and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life of Riley" first on the 1944-1951 ABC and NBC radio serial then in the 1949 film directed by Irving Brecher then finally in the 1953-1958 NBC television series. Bendix was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for his supporting role in the WWII drama "Wake Island" directed by John Farrow. A vivacious speakeasy entertainer befriends an aspiring composer whom she mistakenly believes to be wealthy drawing him into-what else-the financing of a musical production. Set in Greenwich Village New York City. Maroon three quarter leather binding over brown leather boards with title in gilt on spine and William Bendix in gilt on lower right of front board with endpapers crediting BooKraft Hollywood. Title page present dated October 19 1943 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Earl Baldwin and Walter Bullock. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 10/30/43. Pages Near Fine leather binding Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. N.p. unknown books
1953réf. 38191Buenos Aires: Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos 1953. First edition. Loose quires in glassine covered printed wrappers within a portfolio in slip case. A fine copy in a very good portfolio with tears along joints. Cardboard slip case present but in parts. 36 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w plates. 4to. No. 6 of 88 numbered copies of a run of 100. Printed with Garamond types and specially drawn initials on Charter Eggshell paper. Composition directed by Dr. Eduardo J. Bullrich the President of the Argentine Society of Bibliophiles who completed this work shortly before his death. The drypoint illustrations by the artist sculpture and printer Maria Carmen Portela 1898-1984 were printed by Raul Veroni. Joaquín Víctor González 1863-1923 studied law at the University of Cordoba was Congressman Senator Governor of La Rioja Minister of Interior Minister of Justice and Public Instruction. He founded the University of La Plata. As a writer his most famous book is "My Mountains!!" As a lawyer He published the" Manual of the Constitution Argentina." Colombo Fine Printing 219. El Art del Libro 115. Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos unknown books
