Posters And Prints from Royal Books, Inc.

San Francisco: 6th Street Rendezvous, 1990. Vintage flyer for an unidentified show at The 6th Street Rendezvous (also known as Chel's Rendezvous), San Francisco, on Monday, July 23, 1990. Flyer features a collage of portraits including Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Carly Simon, Spiro Agnew, Miles Davis, and a Gary Panter / Big Daddy Roth-style cartoon character,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1990. Vintage flyer for two San Francisco performances, one at Above Paradise (a short-lived venue above The Paradise Lounge) on Tuesday, February 27, 1990, and one at The Albion on Friday, March 2, 1990. Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hannah Marcus located to San Francisco in the late 1980s after graduating college, where she credits seeing a performance… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1990. Vintage flyer for a 1990 art exhibition and happening held on Friday May 4, 1990, at the San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall. 11 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus with eight small pinholes.

San Francisco: Art Lick Gallery, 1990. Vintage flyer advertising San Francisco-based Art Lick Gallery, circa 1990. The Art Lick Gallery was opened by artists David Seibold and Luiz da Rosa in 1989, and was at that time the only art gallery located in the Castro District. Founded just as the catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis was beginning… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1994. Vintage flyer for a fundraiser evening held at the San Francisco Art Institute on Friday December 9, 1994. Underground film director and video artist George Kuchar was known for his "low-fi" and DIY aesthetic, and was a decisive influence on No Wave Cinema, as well as artists and filmmakers such as… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco State University, 1989. Vintage flyer for a multimedia performance at Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University, on Wednesday, May 3, 1989. Artist unknown. 8.5 x 11 inches. Small pinholes to the corners, else Near Fine.

New York: Michael White Productions, 1975. Vintage Rocky Horror Show poster for the original Broadway production at the Belasco Theatre, which opened March 10, 1975 for 45 performances before closing on April 6, 1975. The poster for the original Broadway musical which spawned the iconic 1975 cult film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," directed by Jim Sharman, and… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: WGBH, 1984. Vintage one-color poster for a Premiere WGBH Jazz Concert of The Mingus Dynasty at the Berklee Performance Center, Saturday, September 15, circa 1984, with the supporting act of the Jay Brandford Septet.. The Mingus Dynasty jazz ensemble formed in 1979 following the death of legendary jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus, taking their name… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Artists' Television Access, 1994. Vintage flyer for a screening of nine industrial and experimental films at the Artists' Television Access (ATA) Gallery, Saturday December 10, 1994-grouped under the conceptual title, "Theatre of Cruelty." The nine films screened at the event were: "Glimpses of Soviet Science" (1942), produced by Moscow Techfilm Studios "This is Cybernetics" (1975?),… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Kennel Club, 1989. Vintage "Kennel Club Experimental Film Festival" one-color flyer, San Francisco, for Wednesday, September 13, 1989, "featuring 2 films by: Tom Palazzolo / As well as those wacky contributions by local & regional filmmaker freaks, including films by the following people: Julie Murray, Mark Street, Thomas Hollier-Larousse, Steve Jensen, David Dickerson, and maybe Marc… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Vintage flyer, advertising "6 two-hour personal sessions," with performance artist and author Frank Moore, 1989. An appropriately psychedelic flyer advertising personal sessions "guided by the nationally known shamanistic teacher, author and performer Frank Moore," "for warriors who want to go into the taboo areas, to push beyond where it is comfortable and safe, to explore… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Vintage flyer for a performance by Danielle Hell and Iao Core on Saturday, September 2, 1989, at the Hat Heads Gallery of the San Francisco College of Art. Danielle Willis, a self-described San Francisco-based poet, writer, and vampire, who often went under the pseudonym Danielle Hell in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is best… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Club Oasis, 1990. Vintage flyer, produced by Club Oasis, circa early 1990s, advertising its weekly funk night, featuring "Annie 'Fingertips' Buerhaus." The popular San Francisco LGBTQ nightclub Club Oasis first opened in 1982. Following its decline in the early 2000s, the club was bought by actor, writer, musician, director, producer, and choreographer D'Archy Drollinger, who… Read more about this item

New York: The Day School, 1980. Vintage mailer for "Zoot," a performance by Zoot Sims and his ensemble, for the third performance of the Church of the Heavenly Rest's fourth "Heavenly Jazz Concert" season, Sunday, February 3, 1980. Sims ensemble includes Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Joe Cohn, and Mike De Pasqua. The Heavenly Jazz Concert series were… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Maryland State Arts Council / National Endowment for the Arts, 1987. Vintage one-color Julius Hemphill and Baltimore Jazz Workshop Big Band poster for a performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21, 1987. One of free jazz's most visionary composers, Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophonist best known as the founder of the… Read more about this item

New York: Avery Fischer Hall, 1981. Vintage fold-out mailer for two performances by Dizzy Gillespie's Dream Band, at the Avery Fisher Hall, on February 16, 1981. Stamped on the bottom of the verso from Universal Jazz Coalition, Inc., to noted jazz photographer Jeffrey Kliman (J.G. Kliman), and postmarked February 12, 1981. The legendary concerts at Avery Fisher Hall… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Folcrom, 1988. Vintage flyer announcing four performances of an opera entitled "Watt," adapted from the Samuel Beckett novel, performed by The Tiny Dead Bodies Opera Company at The Folcrom, San Francisco, October 21 and 22, 28 and 29, 1988. Based on the 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. The Folcrom was a non-profit installation and performance… Read more about this item

Dallas: Dallas Jazz Society, 1981. Vintage 8th Annual Charlie Parker Festival poster at the Recovery Room Revisited, featuring James Moody, presented by the Dallas Jazz Society, August 28-30, 1981. The Recovery Room of Dallas, Texas, hosted annual Charlie Parker Festivals for seven years, until the famed jazz club closed in 1980. Thanks to the Dallas Jazz Society, the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Klub Komotion, 1989. Vintage flyer for a 1989 film screening at San Francisco's Klub Komotion, held on December 2, 1989. In addition to the screening, the flyer advertises poetry by Q.R. Hand accompanied by Lewis Jordan on sax, and music by Fuzz Factor. Based on the 1950 French novel "La Rue Cases-Nègres" by Joseph Zobel. Set… Read more about this item