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CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL (1980) Theatre window card
by Elliott Martin, Columbia
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print F. Scott Fitzgerald (subject) Tennessee Williams (playwright) Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) window card poster, USA. [Washington, D.C.]: Elliot Martin, Donald Cecil and Columbia Pictures, Jan. 28-Feb. 23, [1980]. ""A play about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime. The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays...
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$750.00
LENA HORNE / BLACKGLAMA (1969) "What Becomes a Legend Most?" poster
by Blackglama
New York: Blackglama, 1969. Vintage original 32 x 22" (81 x 56 cm.) poster. Unfolded, with some light marginal tears and creases, very good+.This advertising campaign ("What becomes a legend most?"), which featured celebrities wearing Blackglama furs, started in 1968. Lena Horne was asked to model in 1969 along with Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford. She was the first African American celebrity to do so.
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$450.00
![AMOR DE PERDIÇÃO [DOOMED LOVE] (1978)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/149/567/1349567149.0.b.jpg)
AMOR DE PERDIÇÃO [DOOMED LOVE] (1978)
by Manoel de Oliveira
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 40 x 27 3/4" (102 x71 cm.) one sheet poster, Portugal. Antonio Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallenkamp, dir: Manoel de Oliveira. With only one single horizontal fold at center, JUST ABOUT FINE. Extremely scarce original Portuguese poster for one of the Portuguese modernist film classics of Oliveira, adapted from a play of the same name by Camilo Castelo Branco. Oliveira is one of the great filmmakers of the 1970s and onwards, and the...
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$500.00
Nicaragua un paÃs que se descubre in turismo
by Meiselas, Susan
N.P.: N.I., N.D. [1979?]. Offset lithograph poster. [27¾ x 21 inches]. Wear to edges, pinholes on corners, Very Good. The photograph is the work of Susan Meiselas, credited on the poster. "Ocultando su identidad detras de su mascaras tradicionales, nativos del rebelde barrio Monimbo de en Masaya, preparan bombas de contacto para combatir el ejercito de la Dictadura, durante la Guerra de Liberacion." (Foto de Susan Meiselas) Rough translation: Nicaragua a country that discovers itself: Inturismo. Hiding...
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$1,250.00
STRANGE FASCINATION (1952)
by Columbia
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 81"" (103 x 203 cm.) three sheet poster, USA. Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Mona Barrie, Rick Vallin, dir. Hugo Haas; Columbia Pictures. A renowned concert pianist sets himself on the road to ruin when he marries a sweet yet sexy younger nightclub dancer. Actor turned ""auteur"" film maker Hugo Haas had just established his production company at this time and he went on to make more lurid fare during the 1950s, often with Cleo Moore as star. Folded,...
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$500.00
PARTY, THE (1968) One sheet poster style B
by Jack Davis
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 27 x 41"" (68 x 103 cm.) one sheet poster style B, USA. Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Natalia Borisova, Jean Carson, Marge Champion, dir: Blake Edwards: United Artists. Hurndi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an actor from India. During the filming of a costume epic a list of those to fire on the film gets confused with the studio head's guest list for a party and Hurndi appears for the party, where everyone assumes he belongs. A series of hilarious...
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$500.00
A RAT'S MASS: PROCESSION IN SHOUT (1976) Theatre poster
by Adrienne Kennedy (playwright)
La MaMa. No binding. Fine. Adrienne Kennedy (playwright) [New York]: La MaMa Annex, [1976]. Vintage original 28.5 x 19.75" (72 x 50 cm.) theatre poster, unfolded, fine. "A Rat's Mass is a poetic, magical-realist one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy, a 20th-century African-American playwright. The play portrays the negative aspects of the black experience in the United States by depicting two African-American children longing for a...
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$600.00
VIOLATORS, THE (1957) One sheet poster
by Universal
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27" (102 x 68 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Arthur O'Connell, Nancy Malone, dir: John Newland; Universal. Folded, with some minor wear along fold lines, very good.An exploitation story about a wayward girl, here given a dynamic poster treatment, with its almost fluorescent orange background.
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$200.00
Ceci N'Est Pas Un Livre
by Wexner Center Bookshop
Columbus, OH: Wexner Center Bookshop, n.d.. First printing. 17 x 24 inches. Lithographic poster from photograph by Kevin Fitzsimons. Very slight rumpling, and faint unevenness in printing of solid black background, but essentially fine. One of several posters created for a sale at the shop of the Wexner Center (located on the OSU campus), which specializes in books by and about artists. In this clever image, copies from a series of twenty-six letter-titled books by Jan Voss are arranged to spell CECI...
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$58.00
Ten Minutes for Refreshments
New York: Great American Tea Company, 1886. Near fine. Original chromolithograph advertising poster, 22 x 32 inches. A stunning print with exceptionally rich color, archivally backed. Professional restoration to edges and a few small spots on the printed area. Near fine. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" was the well-known cry of railroad conductors across the United States before dining cars became common on trains. Hungry and thirsty passengers would rush off the train and into the depot, where they...
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$3,250.00
The Gods can do anything . . .
by Liston, Gabriel; Pindar; Theodore Enslin (trans.)
Portland, OR: Passages Bookshop, 2017. First printing. 15 x 22 inches. Three-color screenprint on Arnhem White paper, printed in an edition of 130 numbered copies, of which 30 have been signed and titled by the artist. This is one of 100 unsigned copies. New. A poster published to celebrate the new year, as well as the first anniversary of Passages BookshopÂ’s retail storefront and gallery in Portland, Oregon. Designed by Portland painter and printmaker Gabriel Liston, and printed under his...
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$29.00
Exhibition of Fornasetti's Decorative Objects
by Fornasetti, Piero
London: The Tea Centre, 1958. First printing. 18.75 x 26.25 inches. Vintage color lithographic poster designed by Fornasetti, with a self-portrait of the artist placed in a sun-figure on a painter's palette. Two or three very small closed edge tears; a fine, bright copy that otherwise is essentially as new. Featured in the 1991-92 Fornasetti retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and illustrated in the catalogue that accompanied the show.
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$518.00
LA LIBRE ESTHETIQUE
by JO, LEO a.k.a. LEONTINE JORIS (1870-1962)
1900. Lithograph. In red, orange, green, black and violet. Printed by Affiches d'Art, I. de Rycker & Mendel, Brussels. 59 1/2 x 29.
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$6,000.00
MAN IN THE DARK (1953)
by Columbia
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27"" (104 x 69 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, dir: Lew Landers; Columbia. Notable 3-D film strip artwork on right for this film noir starring bad girl stalwart Audrey Totter. Folded, there are no pinholes, there is a small fold tear at bottom middle center fold, NEAR FINE.
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$200.00
Mark Twain (source) LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI (ca. 1956) TV script adapted by Willam Robert Yates
by Willam Robert Yates, Mark Twain (source)
KNXT (KCBS-TV). No binding. Near Fine. [Hollywood: KNXT, ca. 1956]. Vintage original television script, brad bound, mimeograph, quarto, 35 pp. Near fine. An early television adaptation of Mark Twain for a local live dramatic series on KNXT, which was then the West Coast flagship of CBS. This script has Mark Twain and Huck Finn alternate as narrators.
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$300.00
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (1966) Theatre window card
by David Merrick
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Shirley Jackson (source) Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) theatre window card poster, USA. Washington, D.C.: David Merrick, Sept. 28-Oct. 15, [1966]. Minor wear at extreme blank edges, NEAR FINE. Poster for a month-long tryout for this play by Hugh Wheeler, adapted from one of Shirley Jackson's most famous (and harrowing) works of fiction, with its overriding theme the persecution of people who exhibit ""otherness"". The play, despite...
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$750.00
SAY BABY, LET'S BOOGIE! (1972) Silkscreen poster
by AA Sales Inc
AA Sales Inc. No binding. Fine. Seattle: AA Sales, Inc., 1972. Vintage original 35 x 24" (89 x 58 cm.) poster, unfolded, fine.
What an emblematic image from the early 1970s! This silkscreen poster, with bright day-glo colors, shows two African American characters: a man dancing while a woman stands under a streetlight. This is a very scarce poster, not listed in OCLC, and with no record of it having appeared at auction.
What an emblematic image from the early 1970s! This silkscreen poster, with bright day-glo colors, shows two African American characters: a man dancing while a woman stands under a streetlight. This is a very scarce poster, not listed in OCLC, and with no record of it having appeared at auction.
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$1,250.00
ANNA KARENINA (1935) Window card poster
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print. Vintage original 14 x 22" (35 x 55 cm.) window card poster, USA. Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, dir: Clarence Brown: MGM. Unrestored poster has some minor stains, chips, and tack holes, but colors are bright, and poster is overall very pleasing to look at, near fine.Based on Tolstoy's novel, Greta Garbo's favorite writer Salka Viertel adapted the book along with S.N. Behrman and...
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$1,000.00
August Wilson (playwright) TWO TRAINS RUNNING (1992) Window card NY theatre poster
by Serino Coyne
Walter Kerr Theatre. No binding. Fine. [New York]: Walter Kerr Theatre, [1992]. Vintage original 22 x 14" (56 x 36 cm.) window card poster, fine. Artwork by Serino Coyne for this August Wilson play, set in Memphis Lee's restaurant in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1969. The opening night cast for the play's Broadway debut included Roscoe Lee Browne and Lawrence Fishburne.
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$350.00
![NON SIATE TRISTI PER ME [NO SAD SONGS FOR ME] (1950)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/087/567/1349567087.0.b.jpg)
NON SIATE TRISTI PER ME [NO SAD SONGS FOR ME] (1950)
by Anselmo Ballester
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 39 x 54"" (100 x 138 cm.) due folio / 2-fogli poster, Italy. Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood, John McIntire, Ann Doran, dir: Rudolph Maté; Columbia. The ultimate woman's self-sacrifice melodrama with Margaret Sullavan the perfect choice to play such a heroine. This film was the great star actress' swan song to the silver screen. She would appear in just three television dramas during the next few years. The story was...
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$1,500.00
MULE BONE (1991)
by James McMullen
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston (playwrights) New York: Lincoln Center Theater, 1991. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) poster, USA. Artwork by James McMullen. Archivally mounted on artboard, FINE. Due to an acrimonious falling out between Hughes and Hurston, it took six decades for this play about African American life in '20s rural Florida to finally get its world premiere. ""Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston...
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$450.00
![SINDACATO DEL PORTO [RUMBLE ON THE DOCKS] (1956) Italian quattro foglio](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/133/567/1349567133.0.b.jpg)
SINDACATO DEL PORTO [RUMBLE ON THE DOCKS] (1956) Italian quattro foglio
by Anselmo Ballester
No binding. Near Fint. Fine Art Print Vintage original 55 x 78" (140 x 200 cm.) quattro foglio / 4-fogli poster, Italy. James Darren, Laurie Carroll, Michael Granger, Edgar Barrier, Robert Blake, dir: Fred F. Sears; Columbia. On linen, near fine.Italian poster artist Anselmo Ballester has created atmospheric art of the waterfront setting against which a stunning male pin-up portraiture of young James Darren has been juxtaposed. The story is about a teenage gang member who sets out to expose the...
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$2,000.00
![THREEPENNY OPERA, THE [DIE DREIGROSCHEN OPER] (1955) Theatre window card](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/853/566/1349566853.0.b.jpg)
THREEPENNY OPERA, THE [DIE DREIGROSCHEN OPER] (1955) Theatre window card
by Carmen Capalbo & Stanley Chase
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 23 x 15"" (59 x 38 cm.) window card poster, USA. Archivally paper-backed, with conservation done to address wear in blank right-hand upper side, now VERY GOOD+. With music by Kurt Weill and text and lyrics by Bertold Brecht, this musical play was one of the cornerstone dramatic works of the Weimar Republic -- and it was subsequently banned by the Nazis. It was an unfamiliar work in the US until the debut off-Broadway production, with a new...
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$1,250.00
ASPHALT JUNGLE, THE (1950)
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" (55 x 70 cm.) half sheet poster, USA. Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, Marilyn Monroe, dir: John Huston, MGM. Classic film noir about a heist which, after being successfully executed, unravels with tragic consequences. Though John Huston intended the role of Angela Phinlay for Lola Albright, Marilyn Monroe won the role and it was the first in which her great dramatic abilities were explored. Poster...
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$1,000.00
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Poster by Carroll, Lewis
by Carroll, Lewis
Last Word Press. New. 11 x 17 Poster created on our AB-Dick Offset at Last Word Books & Press in Olympia, Washington. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.
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$11.99
