[San Francisco]: Privately Printed, 1930. Large, thin quarto. Cloth, paper label. Frontispiece. Usual slight offset of letterpress from first page of text to frontis, some very faint, scattered dust marks to cloth, otherwise near fine in lightly hand-soiled slipcase with small label shadow at lower corner of one panel. First.....

[New York]. 18 April 1961. Original borderless gelatin silver print, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (9 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches). Somewhat amateurishly matted. Small spot on verso, else fine. A striking and characteristic portrait by Van Vechten of the American dramatist, seated, semi-profile, with smile and cigarette, dating from the.....

[Germany. ca, 1932]. Seventeen glossy black & white stills (8 x 10.75"), all but one (the title image) borderless. Some light dust smudging and identification stamps on blank versos, small blindstamp of the Berlin office of the Filmprüfstelle at edge of each still, otherwise very good to near fine. A.....

[New York]. [29 January 1959]. Original borderless gelatin silver print, 25.5 x 19.5 cm (10 x 7 3/4 inches). Matted. Old mat mounting tape on verso, otherwise about fine. A striking and characteristic portrait by Van Vechten of the Danish author, most widely known for her 1937 memoir, OUT OF.....

New York: Freidman-Abeles, [1960]. Nine original b&w photographs, plus a duplicate. Several show marginal cropmarks for use in publication, production info stamps on versos, several printed paper squibs (now loose) have left adhesive darkening on versos, photographer's credit stamp on one verso, but generally very good or better. A sequence.....

[Beverly Hills]: Twentieth Century Fox, [1947]. Three 8 x 10" black & white publicity stills with legends. Each has pinpricks from a staple in lower margin, minor creasing to left lower margin, else very good. Three representative stills from Dorothy Bennett and Leonard Perkin's screen adaptation of Chandler's third novel.....

Hollywood. [image ca. 1920s, but inscribed in] January 1942. Original 8 x 10" sepia-toned print. Very good. Likely a publicity portrait, quarter-length right profile, the image showing signs of having been heavily doctored in the negative in the background areas. After a false start in a darker portion of the.....

[London: The Rank Organization, 1957]. Sixteen borderless b&w U.K. stills (7.5 x 9.25 inches). Most with mimeo squibs on (or loose from) versos, studio credit stamps on versos, but very good to near fine. A substantial selection of stills for this 1957 adaptation of Graham Greene's 1938 short- story, based.....

[New York?]: Philippe Halsman, [nd. but ca. 1949]. Original b&w silver print, 35 x 28cm (14 x 11 inches) with extended upper border. About fine. A striking photo of an opera rehearsal, tentatively identified by a former owner as the 1949 production of Mozart's DON GIOVANNI, starring Marguerite Piazza and.....

[Location: New Orleans]: Philippe Halsman, [nd. but ca. 1953]. Original b&w silver print, oblong 27.5 x 32 cm (10.75 x 12.5 inches) with extended right border. Old coffee ring mark in blank right border, a few minor creases, but very good. A fine portrait of the Broadway director, from a......

London: Charles Sawyer, 1927. Small quarto. Gilt polished buckram, t.e.g. Photogravure frontis portrait by Alvin L. Coburn. Trace of sunning to spine, small finger smudge on limitation leaf, else near fine. First edition, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, printed on handmade paper, specially bound, and signed by.....

[New York & London: Paramount Pictures / Cinema International Corp, 1976]. Twenty-two 8 x 10" glossy b&w borderless stills. A few have printed blurbs attached to the versos, with the name of the star in the image underlined. One of the blurbs has a corner torn away, otherwise uniformly fine.....

[ Paris]: Editions Analeph, [ 1981]. [2] leaves letterpress, plus four mounted silver prints (image size 17 x 11 cm plus borders). Quarto. Laid into folding cloth portfolio. Portfolio somewhat worn at corners, signs of past display on versos of matboards, at some point the original mounting tabs were somewhat.....