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2000ref. 201879Chicago IL: Thomas McCormick Gallery Modern and Contemporary Art 2000. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 5-27 2000. Text by Mark Pascale and Lynne Warren. Includes 12 color illustrations along with information about each artist. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers and with laid in gallery card. Thomas McCormick Gallery Modern and Contemporary Art unknown books
1969ref. 281217Garden City New York: Doubleday 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine lightly age-toned dustwrapper. Contributos include but not limited to Jacques Barzun John Berryman Herbert Brucker Melville Cane Theodore Caplow David Cort Norman Cousins Paul Douglas and many more. Doubleday hardcover books
1994ref. 18654New York: Putnam 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's first book the first installment in a series of mysteries featuring a black woman detective by an executive editor at Essence magazine. As the first book in a series presumably destined for scarcity as the series progresses. Putnam hardcover books
1997ref. 171046Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1997. 23 vintage color slides from the 1997 film. A FBI agent undergoes a face transplant to look like a terrorist in order to infiltrate the terrorist's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile the terrorist who has awakened to discover out his face has been removed and placed on the agent forces the doctors to transplant the agent's face onto his in order to get his revenge. The second and most highly regarded of the six films legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo made in Hollywood and perhaps the purest distillation of his wildly over-the-top neo-noir aesthetic ever put to celluloid. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California 1.5 x 1 inches housed in 2 x 2 cardboard sleeves. About Fine. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir: The Complete List #154. Spicer Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1924ref. 9033958New York: Candid Institute 1924. Hardcover. Very good. Candid Institute hardcover books
1954ref. 147878Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1954. Three vintage proof photographs from the 1954 film. A woman finds herself implicated in a stagecoach robbery due to her father's notoriety as a famed outlaw. Shot on location in Utah and Arizona. 10 x 8 inches with two images 4.5 x 3.5 inches and one image 2.25 x 2 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 2963. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1940ref. 148993Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1940. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Harry Davenport Melvyn Douglas and Jean Arthur. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1919 play which was in turn based on his 1864 poem "Enoch Arden." A man declared dead after disappearing in a boating accident returns home several months later only to find his wife married to his best friend. 8.75 x 7.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light adhesive residue to the verso. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 161847N.p.: N.p. 1959. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film one photograph under the original release title "Steam Heat." Director Russ Meyer's first commercially successful film. Shot without sound with a voice-over narration and a musical theme added and noted for extensive female nudity. Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman selling dentists' appliances who seems to encounter buxom nude women everywhere he goes. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with faint creasing light edgewear and four pinholes and one with light edgewear a half inch closed tear to the upper right side and a small chip in the bottom margin. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 167912Los Angeles: Showtime 1985. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 film originally aired on July 28 1985 on Showtime. During their return trip to Earth members of the crew of a Mars space mission begin showing up dead. Shot on location in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. One with layout annotations in manuscript ink on the bottom recto margin else generally Near Fine. Showtime unknown books
1990ref. 168504N.p.: N.p. 1990. Four vintage color transparencies from the 1990 film. Spike Lee's fourth feature film written on the set of "Do the Right Thing" 1989 about a talented jazz trumpeter whose selfishness leads to a decline in his professional and personal relationships. Shot on location throughout New York. 5 x 4 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 88770Santa FeNM; Albuquerque NM: School Of American Research/University of New Mexico Press 1978. First American Edition. Quarto. 26cm. Publisher's oatmeal cloth titled an decorated in green to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 260pp. Clean and strong some light spotting to cloth very little wear; internally clean and fresh bookplate to front pastedown some mild spotting to page edges illustrated throughout; in a bright strong dustjacket with some light wear to edges and extremities and a little spotting to the pale portions. A very good copy. Part of the Southwest Indian Arts Series from the library of Nathaniel Tarn noted poet translator and anthropologist with his bookplate. School Of American Research/University of New Mexico Press unknown books
1995ref. 207544Chicago IL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1995. First edition. Softcover. 20 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 3 through August 27 1995. Features a foreword by Kevin E. Consey and an essay by Lynne Warren. Includes 7 color illustrations a checklist list of previous exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some slight sunning to and along the spine. Uncommon. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
1996ref. 167519Los Angeles: Douglas/Reuther Productions 1996. Final Draft script for the 1997 film. A FBI agent undergoes a face transplant to look like a terrorist in order to infiltrate the terrorist's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile the terrorist who has awakened to discover out his face has been removed and placed on the agent forces the doctors to transplant the agent's face onto his in order to get his revenge. The second and most highly regarded of the six films legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo made in Hollywood and perhaps the purest distillation of his wildly over-the-top neo-noir aesthetic ever put to celluloid. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 17 1996 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary and revisions by Wesley Strick. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir: The Complete List #154. Spicer Neo-Noir. Douglas/Reuther Productions unknown books
1992ref. 167496Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on the 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes star as two LAPD detectives called in to assist in an investigation of the murder of a call girl in a boardroom of a large Japanese company and act as a liason between the Japanese executives and the investigating officer played by Harvey Keitel. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. Yellow titled wrappers dated April 21 1992. Title page present dated April 21 1992 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Philip Kaufman and author Michael Crichton. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1993ref. 167532Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Silver Pictures 1993. Final Draft script for the 1993 film. Laid in with the script is a call sheet dated March 1 1993. An overly aggressive police officer and a homicidal crime lord are both cryogenically frozen in the year 1996 reawakening in 2032 to a futuristic supercity known as "San Angeles." Loosely based on Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel "Brave New World" and on H.G. Wells' 1899 novel "The Sleeper Awakes." Set and shot on location throughout Los Angeles. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 1 1993 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Peter Lenkov Daniel Waters and Jonathan Lemkin. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers / Silver Pictures unknown books
1939ref. 167664Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1939 film showing actors Marion Martin Fred MacMurray and Irene Dunne listening while director Wesley Ruggles describes a scene with a script supervisor intently taking notes on the right. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A boxer from the lower class successfully romances a wealthy patron's daughter though their courtship is plagued by his devotion to the sport. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
2000ref. 201880Chicago IL: McCormick Gallery 2000. First edition. Softcover. 24 pages. Features brief texts by Monique Meloche and James Yood along with an excerpt from John Ashbery's poem "April Galleons." Includes numerous color images list of previous exhibitions and a list of selected collections. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. McCormick Gallery unknown books
1984ref. 163349Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1984. Revised Estimating Draft script for the 1986 film seen here under both the release title and the working title "Jocks." Another early working title was "First and Goal." A divorced high school track coach lands a position as a college football coach in spite of her lack of experience and is tasked with working the team's players into shape. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 21 1984 noted as REV. ESTIMATED DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Ezra Sacks and Michael Leeson. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only with yellow pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/11/85 and 3/7/85. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1989ref. 161172Burbank CA: Jacmac Film 1989. Draft script for the 1991 film. Mario Van Peebles' directorial debut about a rising drug lord in Harlem during the crack epidemic of the late 1980s. Loosely based on a 1987 article "Kids Killing Kids: New Jack City Eats Its Young" written by former "Village Voice" investigative reporter Barry Michael Cooper. Set and shot on location in New York. White untitled wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1989 with credits for screenwriters Barry Michael Cooper and Thomas Lee Wright. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Jacmac Film unknown books
1934ref. 158026Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1934. Vintage double weight photograph of director Wesley Ruggles left eating lunch with actors Bing Crosby right and Adolphe Menjou center in the Paramount commissary in 1934. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Ruggles directed Crosby in "College Humor" 1934 and the pair would go on to work together in "Mississippi" 1935 and "Sing You Sinners" 1938. Crosby and Menjou appeared together in the Paramount short "Hollywood on Parade A-9" 1933. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1996ref. 155767Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1996. Revised Draft script for the 1998 film copy belonging to Master Lead Painter Charlie Palazzo with the annotations in manuscript ink of "Charli P. / Print Dept." and copy number "301" on the front wrapper. "Blue Rev.1" script on blue paper dated 12/11/96 with copy number "707" in manuscript ink on the top right corner of the title page. Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Followed by two sequels "Blade II" 2002 directed by Guillermo del Toro and "Blade: Trinity" 2004 directed by screenwriter David S. Goyer all starring Wesley Snipes. Snipes stars as the Dhampir Blade a half-man half-vampire protecting the human race from evil vampires. The beginning of Marvel Comic's success in film adaptations which still continues unabatedly two and a half decades later. Set in and shot on location in Long Beach Death Valley and Los Angeles California and London Moscow and Vancouver. White titled self wrappers noted as Production Draft on the front wrapper dated 9/19/96 with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. Title page present dated 12/11/96 noted as "Blue Rev. 1" with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. New Line Cinema unknown books
1959ref. 152047Hollywood: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. Vintage pressbook for the 1959 film. A door-to-door dental appliance salesman has a chemical reaction to an anesthetic which grants him X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He subsequently overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie the film that basically launched the lighthearted nudie pictures of the early 1960s. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and nightclub circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. For his debut Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "Frenchy" "nudist" film but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots an arguably feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. One leaf bi-fold. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
1900ref. 155031900. WISHART ALFRED WESLEY. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries. Trenton: Albert Brandt 1900. 454 p. Plates. Bound in full red crushed levant all edges gilt by Trenton's Ralph Brandt. Extremities a bit rubbed and discolored front free endpapers browned. One of the more handsome books printed on Albert Brandt's short-lived Trenton press. A smaller-format less expensive edition was printed by Brandt two years later. unknown books
1940ref. 150548N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photographs of director Wesley Ruggles on the set of the 1940 film by photographer Irving Lippman. Mimeo snipe and photographer "Irving Lippman" stamp on verso. Based on the 1919 play by W. Somerset Maugham which was based on the 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Tennyson. Soon after presumed window Vicky Jean Arthur marries her late husband's friend and business partner Henry Melvyn Douglas her first presumed dead husband Bill Fred MacMurray shows back up and now she's got one too many. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1993ref. 146059Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film. In order to track down a gang of hacker crooks known for skydiving onto the buildings they plan to rob a disgraced cop turns to a skydiving expert to learn the tricks of the trade and infiltrate the criminal team. Shot on location in Florida California and Washington DC. Red titled wrappers noted as DRAFT on the front wrapper dated November 8 1993. Title page present dated November 8 1933 with credits for director John Badham and screenwriters Jeb Stuart Peter Barsocchini and John Bishop. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
