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1964réf. 163682New York: Stevens Productions 1964. Draft script for the 1965 play undated circa 1965 and seen here under the working title "Bummidge." Working copy belonging to actor Ted Schwartz with his last name on the title page and his extensive annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on virtually every page marking deletions revisions additions to dialogue and stage direction. Saul Bellow's only theatrical effort about a New York comedian who conducts a psychiatric examination on himself in his own apartment which he televises and broadcasts to a group of therapists at the Waldorf. The play debuted on October 1 1964 at the Belasco Theatre and ran for 28 performances closing on October 24 1964. Black titled Hart Stenographic Bureau wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Bellow. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-65. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver screw brads. Stevens Productions unknown books
1975réf. 162376Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage pressbook for the 1975 film. Five daughters of influential men are kidnapped off the yacht "Rosebud" by anti-Israel terrorists in the Palestinian Liberation Army. Peter O'Toole stars as an undercover CIA agent masquerading as a "Newsweek" reporter who must fight for the release of the girls. Shot on location in Corsica France and Germany. 13.25 x 18 inches. Four leaves saddle stapled. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1955réf. 62843New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vi23-3433pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Light wear to extremities some trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $4.00 gently spine-sunned with modest external wear and a few tiny nicks tears and attendant creases; Very Good. With the business card of Asa B. Elliott V.P. at G.P. Putnam's Sons laid in. A novel set during the Old Testament presaging the arrival of the Messiah. Uncommon signed. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1966réf. 157335N.p.: N.p. 1966. Eight vintage oversize borderless hand-tinted color reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 American sexploitation film. Stamp of French distributor Les Films Hustaix on the versos. Lonely men seek companionship from a variety of increasingly odd sources including an embittered prostitute and the jealous madam of a brothel catering to sadomasochists. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with several with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1953réf. 60081New York: Viking Press 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; gray and black cloth titles decoratively stamped in orange on spine and front cover; 536pp. Mild bumps to board corners else tight and Fine. In the original Robert Hallock designed dustwrapper unclipped priced $4.50 on front flap gently rubbed overall more pronounced at spine ends; small snag at crown of spine panel and a few tiny nicks and closed tears to margins; Very Good. A quite presentable copy of Bellow's third novel a National Book Award winner. Viking Press unknown books
1964réf. 154240N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage reference photograph of playwright Saul Bellow and actor Sam Levene on the set of the 1964 play. Printed mimeo snipe with a full description affixed to the verso and noting a date of 9/24/64 along with the stamps of The Salt Lake Tribune Library. Bellow's only theatrical effort about a New York comedian who conducts a psychiatric examination on himself in his own apartment which he televises and broadcasts to a group of therapists at the Waldorf. The play debuted on October 1 1964 at the Belasco Theatre and ran for 28 performances closing on October 24 1964. Set in New York. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1976réf. 155319N.p.: Rex Features 1976. Vintage photograph of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow sitting at his desk in 1976. 10 x 8 inches. Manuscript ink annotations on the top margin noting Bellow's name the year and the name of photograph agency Rex Features else Near Fine. Rex Features unknown books
1973réf. 151057Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1973. Vintage borderless compilation photograph of six Saul Bass title designs and portrait of Saul Bass to promote the 1974 Bass directed film. Bass' title designs shown are "The Man with the Golden Arm" "Carmen Jones" "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "Seconds." Mimeo snipe affixed to verso and folded over recto. Bass' first and only directorial effort now a cult favorite which was featured on Season 1 Episode 9 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" which aired on January 15 1989. Ants suddenly begin building strange towers and geometric designs in the Arizona desert and begin to exhibit greater intelligence threatening the scientists studying them and ultimately all of humanity. Set in the Arizona desert shot on location in Rift Valley Kenya and Eloy and Yuma Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1116. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1991réf. 45005Lanham MD: University Press of America 1991. First Printing of this edition. Octavo 22.25cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi1546pp. Family association copy inscribed by the translator to his sister on the front endpaper: "2/25/92 / To my beloved sister Sophie - on her birthday - with gratitude for the abiding presence of her translators genius which has been a constant source of inspiration / Love / Ephraim." Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket with some trivial wear along the flap folds. Important English-language translation of Ginsburg's work on the history of Russian Jewry under Tsar Nicholas I based on archival and other primary sources gathered in St. Petersburg at the turn of the century. University Press of America unknown books
1991réf. 39554New York: Albondocani Press 1991. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author this being copy no.68. Octavo; maroon cloth and marbled paper-covered boards wtih titles stamped in gilt on spine and title label mounted to front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 506pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Albondocani Press unknown books
1965réf. 143145Culver City CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions 1965. Seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War an obsessed glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers Confederate POWs and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns in the US. 11.75 x 9.25. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners. Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions unknown books
1957réf. 142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's Specially bound copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1948réf. 140733Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1948. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1948 film. Photographer's rubber stamp and mimeograph snipe to the verso. Featuring an image of Lee J. Cobb and William Holden at a chess board. A psychopathic killer takes a young psychoanalyst and his family hostage never expecting that the psychoanalyst would cure him of his murderous urges. 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1965réf. 135341Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1965. Vintage studio still photograph of Noel Coward from the 1965 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer UK. Grant UK. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1947réf. 64666New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1947. New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. 1947. First edition. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm. 8 1-294 2 blank pp. Original full black cloth blue lettering on spine. Top edge blue fore-edge uncut. With original pictorial dust jacket. Sight foxing to endpapers and inner flaps of the dust jacket. Back panel of the dust jacket with a small closed tear. Otherwise near fine. This author's first two books Dangling Man and The Victim 1947 had a profound impact on the mid-twentieth century literary scene. "Together they effectively introduced a new style of American fiction. The "Gentile" era of Fitzgerald Hemingway and Faulkner began with Bellow to give way to a new Jewish tradition and a sense of moral and social alarm. Bellow's characters are generally anti-heroes caught up in the existential dilemma of trying to define themselves with some measure of dignity despite the constant impediments of objective and subjective circumstances." Benet's The Reader's Encyclopedia fourth edition. Bellow is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Humbolt's Gift 1975 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. HBS 64666. $750. The Vanguard Press, Inc unknown books
1972réf. 132104Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1972 film featuring an invested George Harrison singing and playing guitar. Harrison arranged a concert to benefit the people of Bangladesh at the behest of Ravi Shankar and staged the show in New York's Madison Square Garden in 1971. Bob Dylan Eric Clapton Ravi Shankar and many others performed alongside Harrison and it is considered one of the first foreign-aid benefit concerts. 7 x 9.25 inches with no borders as issued. A hint of rubbing to the corners else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960réf. 131763Los Angeles: Saul Bass and Associates 1960. Original glossy photographic title card for plate No. 3 in the title sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film "Spartacus." This plate was used for the portion of the title card sequence showing "LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus." Only a small portion of the photographic image here was used in the sequence with the entire photograph offered here being quite striking. With a vinyl pull attached to the right as originally designed "Saul Bass & Associates" rubber stamp and pencil annotations on the verso the number "3" in blue manuscript pencil on the recto. 20 x 22 inches. Near Fine. Saul Bass and Associates unknown books
1956réf. 131647Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Original pressbook for the 1956 film starring Davis as a small town librarian branded as a communist and a subversive for refusing to remove a controversial book from the shelves. With striking poster and ad designs by the legendary Saul Bass. 16 pages 12 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with some light rubbing else a bright front wrapper. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1965réf. 122002N.p.: N.p. 1965. A dazzling collection of ten original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s 60s and 70s. Several of the pressbooks defy the conventions of pressbook design with custom shapes to represent items in keeping with the films for which they were made: "Advise and Consent" resembles a briefcase "In Harm's Way" is designed as a dossier with a string tie "The Cardinal" as a parcel and "Bunny Lake is Missing" as a newspaper. Other key titles in the collection include "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "The Man with the Golden Arm." For most of the pressbooks in this collection we have never seen another example. A fascinating example of the advertising work done by the premiere title and ad designer of the twentieth century. Various sizes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine condition. Complete details available on request. N.p. unknown books
1973réf. 51653New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. First printing. Fine in fine jacket. First edition of the poet's only novel a semi-autobiographical story of addiction treatment and analysis left unfinished at the time of his death and published posthumously with his notes. 8'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Bright yellow endpapers. Black topstain. In original unclipped $6.95 dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson. 254 pages. Minor wear to jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1954réf. 1306041954. Signed. LEITER Saul. Photograph: ""Bus New York"" New York 1954 but printed later. Fujicolor Crystal Archive print signed titled and dated on print verso. Image measures 13-1/2 by 9 inches print measures 14 by 11 inches; handsomely framed entire piece measures 21-3/4 by 17-1/2 inches. $12000.Original color photograph signed by Saul Leiter one of the masters of mid-twentieth century photography.""The American artist Saul Leiter 1923Ã2013 became enchanted by painting and photography as a teenager in Pittsburgh. After he relocated to New York City in 1946 his visionary imagination and tireless devotion to artistic practice pushed him to become one of the iconic photographers of the mid-twentieth century. An innate sense of curiosity made him a lifelong student of art of all kinds and he retained his spirit of exploration and spontaneity throughout his long career in both his fashion images and his personal work. Leiter began experimenting with color photography in New York in the late 1940s using slide film such as Kodachrome. The 2006 release of his first monograph Early Color revealed radically innovative compositions and a groundbreaking mastery of color that permanently changed the history of photography. Though Leiter sometimes defended the use of color in fine-art photography he refused to analyze or explain his own work. 'I don't have a philosophy' Leiter said. 'I have a camera.'"" Saul Leiter Foundation. ""Saul Leiter American painter and photographer was part of what was known as the New York school of photography of the 1940s and 50s and resided on East 10th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues for 61 years until his death in 2013. His photographs from the 1950s experimented with color unlike those of his contemporaries and many were street scenes of his East Village neighborhood. Also unlike many of his contemporaries the significance of this work has only recently come to be recognized and he is now duly credited as an early pioneer of color photography. The son of a well-known Talmudic scholar and rabbi Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on December 3 1923 and expected to follow in his father's footsteps. Much to his family's dismay he left religious school at the age of 23 and went to New York City to pursue painting. While at art school he befriended abstract-expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart who encouraged Leiter's experiments with photography. He also became acquainted with photographer W. Eugene Smith who would introduce him to members of what would be known as the New York school of photography and included such noted photographers as Diane Arbus Robert Frank William Klein and Richard Avedon. Leiter had begun to experiment with color photography by 1948 using an inexpensive 35mm camera and film which was sometimes past its date of expiration. The main subjects during this time in the 1950s were his friends and street scenes mostly in the East Village. He said that he was especially fond of photographing First Avenue due to the lighting along the thoroughfare as a result of the low buildings. His plays with focus light form reflection and composition generated an innovative and painterly quality to his work which makes his photos stand out from those of his contemporaries"" Sarah Bean Apmann. Provenance: from Howard Greenberg Gallery. Fine condition. unknown books
1960réf. 1306021960. Signed. LEITER Saul. Photograph: Untitled. ""Snow"". New York 1960 but printed later. Fujicolor Crystal Archive print signed in ink on print verso. Image measures 13-1/2 by 9 inches print measures14 by 11 inches; handsomely framed entire piece measures 21-3/4 by 17-1/2 inches. $18000.Original color photograph signed by Saul Leiter one of the masters of mid-twentieth century photography.""The American artist Saul Leiter 1923Ã2013 became enchanted by painting and photography as a teenager in Pittsburgh. After he relocated to New York City in 1946 his visionary imagination and tireless devotion to artistic practice pushed him to become one of the iconic photographers of the mid-twentieth century. An innate sense of curiosity made him a lifelong student of art of all kinds and he retained his spirit of exploration and spontaneity throughout his long career in both his fashion images and his personal work. Leiter began experimenting with color photography in New York in the late 1940s using slide film such as Kodachrome. The 2006 release of his first monograph Early Color revealed radically innovative compositions and a groundbreaking mastery of color that permanently changed the history of photography. Though Leiter sometimes defended the use of color in fine-art photography he refused to analyze or explain his own work. 'I don't have a philosophy' Leiter said. 'I have a camera.'"" Saul Leiter Foundation. ""Saul Leiter American painter and photographer was part of what was known as the New York school of photography of the 1940s and 50s and resided on East 10th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues for 61 years until his death in 2013. His photographs from the 1950s experimented with color unlike those of his contemporaries and many were street scenes of his East Village neighborhood. Also unlike many of his contemporaries the significance of this work has only recently come to be recognized and he is now duly credited as an early pioneer of color photography. The son of a well-known Talmudic scholar and rabbi Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on December 3 1923 and expected to follow in his father's footsteps. Much to his family's dismay he left religious school at the age of 23 and went to New York City to pursue painting. While at art school he befriended abstract-expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart who encouraged Leiter's experiments with photography. He also became acquainted with photographer W. Eugene Smith who would introduce him to members of what would be known as the New York school of photography and included such noted photographers as Diane Arbus Robert Frank William Klein and Richard Avedon. Leiter had begun to experiment with color photography by 1948 using an inexpensive 35mm camera and film which was sometimes past its date of expiration. The main subjects during this time in the 1950s were his friends and street scenes mostly in the East Village. He said that he was especially fond of photographing First Avenue due to the lighting along the thoroughfare as a result of the low buildings. His plays with focus light form reflection and composition generated an innovative and painterly quality to his work which makes his photos stand out from those of his contemporaries"" Sarah Bean Apmann. Provenance: from Howard Greenberg Gallery.Fine condition. unknown books
1967réf. 311657New York: Viking 1967. First edition. 487pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Lacks jacket near fine. First edition. 487pp. 8vo. Inscribed "For Roslyn Targ with every good wish Saul Bellow." Targ was a successful literary agent who represented Bellow as well as Samuel Beckett Italo Calvino Henry Miller and Henry Roth among others. Burgess 99 p.110 Viking unknown books
1975réf. 55095London: Secker & Warburg 1975. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. First UK edition of Bellow's Pulitzer-winning roman à clef. Heavily based on his friendship with poet Delmore Schwartz HUMBOLDT'S GIFT was specifically cited by the Nobel Committee when it awarded Bellow the prize the following year. 8.5'' x 5''. Original full black cloth. In original unclipped 4.90 net printed jacket. 488 pages. Minor rubbing touches of shelfwear. A few small bumps at extremities. Else clean and sound. Secker & Warburg unknown books
1947réf. 55106New York: Vanguard Press 1947. First edition. Very good. Rare advance copy of the Nobel winner's second book. VICTIM follows the acclaim and success of Bellow's first novel THE DANGLING MAN. At the time V.S. Pritchett in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS said: "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation." Bound from gathered signatures of the trade edition and issued in small numbers for review before publication a rare format of an important book from this major writer. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original plain paper perfectbound hand-titled wrappers over brad-bound signatures. 296 pages. Some soil shelfwear. Creasing toning to spine. Faint foxing to endpapers. Else sound. Vanguard Press unknown books
