Agnes Martin (First UK Edition)
by [Agnes Martin] Frances Morris, Tiffany Bell
London: Tate Publishing, 2015. Softcover. First UK Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened on June 3, 2015, at the Tate Modern in London, later traveling to Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, and New York. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Washington Square (Original photograph from the 1997 film)
by Agnieszka Holland (director); Henry James (novel); Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith (starring)
Burbank, CA: Hollywood Pictures / Caravan Pictures, 1997. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 film, showing actors Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ben Chaplin. Based on the 1880 novel by Henry James, about an untalented, overweight young heiress who falls in love with a poor but handsome man, to the displeasure of her father, who believes the man only wants her for her inheritance. Set in New York, shot on location in Baltimore. ... Read More
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To Kill a Priest (Original photograph from the 1988 film)
by Agnieszka Holland (director, screenwriter); Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Tim Roth, David Suchet (starring); Jean-Yves Pitoun (screenwriter)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1989. Vintage reference photograph from the US release of the 1988 film, showing actor Ed Harris. Loosely based on the murder of Roman Catholic priest Jerzy Popie uszko, who became associated with the Solidarity trade union in communist Poland, and was killed by three agents of the Polish secret police. 8 x 10 inches. Fine.
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Parting Breath (First UK Edition)
by Catherine Aird
London: Collins, 1977. First UK Edition. An Inspector Sloan mystery. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket.
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Archive of 46 original vernacular photographs of a model airliner in wind tunnel tests
by [Transportation] [Airplanes]
N.p.: N.p., 1968. Archive of 46 vintage vernacular photographs of a model airliner in wind tunnel tests, circa 1967-1968. All photographs with an internal reference number, printed from the negative, on the lower right of the image. The photographs on offer are almost certainly internally-produced reference photographs taken during the development of Boeing's 747 airliner, and were likely taken at Boeing's Seattle wind tunnel model shop. Development of the world's first twin-aisle airliner, Boeing's 747, began in... Read More
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Stiletto (Original screenplay from the 1969 film)
by A.J. Russell (screenwriter); Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Harold Robbins (novel); Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Barbara McNair, Patrick O'Neal (starring)
New York: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1968. Revised Draft for the 1969 film. Script belonging to uncredited crew member, with their name in manuscript ink in three places in the script. Additionally included with the script is a vintage reference photograph from the film, showing cast and crew members on location. Based on the 1960 novel by Harold Robbins. A Mafia hit man is ready to retire, but his employers, not happy with this idea, send a hit... Read More
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Friends of Elbows Akimbo Present Armageddon Review (Original flyer for the 1990 avant-garde performance series)
by Elbows Akimbo
San Francisco: N.p., 1990. Vintage flyer for a series of six performances, held on May 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13, 1990, at the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Elbows Akimbo was an avant-garde performance ensemble in the San Francisco underground scene of the late 1980s through the mid 1990s, founded by director Thomas Schulz and singer/songwriter, poet, and author Diana Rosalind. Intersection for the Arts is a Bay Area arts nonprofit founded in... Read More
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The Great Gambini (Original photograph of Marian Marsh from the set of the 1937 film)
by Akim Tamiroff, Marian Marsh, John Trent (starring); Johnny Wallace (makeup artist); Charles Vidor (director); Frederick J. Jackson, Frank Partos, Howard Irving Young (screenwriters); Ray Jones (photographer)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1937. Vintage reference photograph of Marian Marsh and makeup artist Johnny Wallace on the set of the 1937 film. Photograph with two stamps and a mimeo snipe on the verso, one stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography... Read More
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I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director); Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumino Hayasaka, Hideo Oguni (screenwriters); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi (starring)
Tokyo: Kurosawa Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. Title in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese. An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in a nuclear war, and grows obsessed with the idea of moving his family to a rural farm in Brazil. Director Akira Kurosawa's final film collaboration with longtime composer Fumio Hayasaka, made shortly before Hayasaka's death in... Read More
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Dodes'ka-Den [Dodeskaden] [Clickety-Clack] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Shugoro Yamamoto (novel); Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto (screenwriters); Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura (starring)
Tokyo: Toho, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: (a) names of the chosen cast members, (b) set rehearsals and camera rehearsals, (c) times for shooting (e.g., Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night), phone numbers for production personnel, (d) names of potential and/or hired... Read More
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High and Low [Tengoku to Jigoku] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa (starring); Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Eijiro Hisaita (screenwriters); Evan Hunter (as Ed McBain) (novel)
Tokyo: Toho / Kurosawa Productions, 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however, that the boy they have taken is in fact the son... Read More
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Stray Dog (Original screenplay for the 1949 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Ryuzo Kikushima (screenwriter); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring)
Tokyo: Film Art Association, 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations from production on two leaves. Text in Japanese. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan, and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. White titled wrappers. 96 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout, wrapper split at spine with mild... Read More
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Red Beard [Akahige] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Masato Ide, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima (screenwriters); Toshiro Mifune, Tsutomu Yamazaki (starring)
Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co, 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film, preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the director's masterpieces, following a small-town doctor and his new intern, a highly educated, arrogant young man. Set in the Edo district of Koishikawa. White titled wrappers, with a blue... Read More
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Rashomon (Four original photographs from the 1950 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Shinobu Hashimoto (screenwriter); Ryunosuke, Akutagawa (story); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Four vintage double weight satin-finish reference photographs from the 1950 Japanese film. Provenance labels and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Few foreign language films have made such a lasting impact on American audiences as director Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon," a revolutionary cinematic work in terms of style and substance that challenged audiences about the nature of subjective experience. Winner of an honorary 1951 Academy Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Language Film Released... Read More
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Kagemusha (Original screenplay for the 1980 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Masato Ide (screenwriter); Tatsuya Nakadai (starring)
Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co, 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy (or kagemusha) of a dying feudal lord, based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen, and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange... Read More
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Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (Three original photographs from the 1980 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter, subject); Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas (subjects); Masato Ide (screenwriter); Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara (starring)
N.p.: Toho Company, 1980. Three vintage photographs from the 1980 film, two film still photographs, and a photograph of director Akira Kurosawa on the set with executive producers, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy (or kagemusha) of a dying feudal lord, based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen, and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. When Toho Studios could not... Read More
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Drunken Angel (Original screenplay for the 1948 film noir)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Keinosuke Uekusa (screenwriter); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring)
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film noir. Text and titles in Japanese. The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation, forbidding criticism of Americans, leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan, satirizing jazz, "pan pan" girls (unlicensed prostitutes catering to... Read More
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Rhapsody in August (Original screenplay for the 1991 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter); Kiyoko Murata (novel); Sachiko Murase (starring)
Tokyo: Shochiku Films, 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts leading up to the bomb. Kurosawa's response was simple: he wanted his film to say that war was... Read More
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![Confessions of a College Girl: Red Temptation [Joshidaisei no kokuhaku: Akai yuwakusha] (Three original photographs from the 1980 Japanese film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/946/875/1370875946.0.l.jpg)
Confessions of a College Girl: Red Temptation [Joshidaisei no kokuhaku: Akai yuwakusha] (Three original photographs from the 1980 Japanese film)
by Akira Kato (director); Ryoko Kinokawa (screenwriter, starring); Miyako Yamaguchi, Yuka Asagiri, Tomonori Fujii (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1980. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1980 Japanese pinku [pink] film. Also included with the set is a film program in Japanese. Housed in a studio envelope. Photographs 6 x 4.25 inches, Near Fine. Film program is 28.25 x 6.75 inches, one sheet, folded four times, Near Fine. Weisser and Weisser, The Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, p. 89.
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The Lower Depths (Original screenplay for the 1957 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring); Maxim Gorky (play); Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto (screenwriters)
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. All titles and text in Japanese. Based on the 1902 play by Maxim Gorky, and filmed several times prior, most notably by Jean Renoir in 1936. In Kurosawa's version, the story is moved from Gorky's Volga (Russia) setting to the Edo period in Japan. Off-white perfect-bound titled wrappers, with a protective plastic cover adhered to the spine. Approximately 53 leaves, with last page of text numbered... Read More
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The Hidden Fortress (Original screenplay for the 1958 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring); Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, (screenwriters)
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1958. Draft script for the seminal 1958 film. Text and titles in Japanese. Director Akira Kurosawa's first widescreen feature, hugely successful and named by film critic David Ehrenstein as "one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made." George Lucas has long since acknowledged "The Hidden Fortress" as a major influence on "Star Wars," and indeed the plot is essentially the same. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Approximately 77 leaves, with last page of text... Read More
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Madadayo (Original screenplay for the 1992 film)
by Akira Kurosawa (director); Michael DeForrest (novel); Tomomi Tsukasa (screenwriter); Michiko Sakyo, Yuichi Minato, Akihiko Kanbara, Naomi Tani (starring)
Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment, 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II, a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers, perfect-bound, dated 1992.11.5. 107 leaves, with last page of text numbered 197. Xerographic duplication, printed on rectos... Read More
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Shigaraki Antique Vases (First Edition)
by Akita Hiroki, Hatanaka Akiyoshi, Fujimori Takeshi (contributors)
Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Text and titles in Japanese and English. Features over 200 color photographs of vases and numerous black-and-white illustrations of vase fragments from the Muromachi period. Near Fine in cloth-covered boards, housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase.
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Aktual Art International: Stanford Art Book 8 (First Edition)
by [Aktual Art International] Jeff Berner, Françoise Forster-Hahn
Stanford: Stanford University, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held at Stanford Art Gallery from December 2-28, 1967. Wrappers lightly faded near the spine, else Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
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Mean Mother (Original Film Pressbook)
by Al Adamson Leon Kilmovsky (directors); Joy Garrison, Charles Johnson (screenwriters); Luciana Paluzzi, Dobie Gray (starring)
New York: Independent-International Pictures, 1974. Original Pressbook for the 1974 Blaxploitation film "Mean Mother." Notable as a slightly atypical Blaxploitation film hailing from Italy, "Mean Mother" tells the story of two Vietnam War deserters who flee to Spain and Italy and get involved in the European crime world. Shot partly on location in Italy. Largely low-budget and geared towards a young urban audience, Blaxploitation films often depicted African Americans overcoming hostile authorities through cunning and... Read More
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