Original vinyl record of radio spot advertisements for CHAMBER OF HORRORS, a TV movie that was spiced up for the big screen with additional gore and violence and a marketing campaign focusing on two technical "innovations" — the "Fear Flasher" and the "Horror Horn," both designed to warn the audience of impending violence.
First edition thus, of this play based on Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of a pair of short stories by Ryunoske Akutagawa, a psychological murder mystery set in Heian era Japan.
![Item #46215 PLAYS [Winesburg; Triumph of the Egg; Mother; They Married Later]. Sherwood Anderson](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46215_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1675807238)
First printing of this collection of four plays by short story writer and novelist Sherwood Anderson, his only foray into drama.
First edition in English of Beckett's influential and enigmatic "tragicomedy in two acts."
First edition of this early handbook on writing film scripts by a silent-film screenwriter who was credited on over eighty productions.
Ephemeral program for the Boston Theatre's April 9-10 showings of THE FEMALE DETECTIVE, played by American "Golden Girl" Lotta Crabtree.
Limited first edition of this play written early in Carver's career, which "revealed the depths of [his] anguish" at being locked into a domestic life (30).
Inscribed true first edition of the legendary actor's memoir.
First edition thus of this pair of comedies by 18th-century playwright William Congreve, with stylish Beardsley-esque illustrations.
First printing of this history of the Granada Television series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, published in tribute to Jeremy Brett and the role that "fascinated, frightened, and consumed him."
First printing of this collection of plays about the Black American experience, selected by two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and with cover design and ornaments by the legendary Aaron Douglas.
Signed first edition of this beautifully-produced book charting the first cross-country America road trip, based on a Ken Burns documentary of the same title.
First edition of this illustrated "first definitive study of the detective in motion pictures," with heavy emphasis on Sherlock Holmes.
First printing of this examination of the Moscow Revolutionary Theater, established in 1922 to stage productions that promoted Soviet ideology – with signed woodcut print by Vladimir Favorsky.
![Item #45685 Петр, Петр [PETER PETER]. Vladimir Favorski, Andrei Globa, Vladimir Favorsky](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45685_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1651608061)
First printing of this tragedy-farce by Soviet playwright, poet, and translator, with attractive cover and frontispiece art by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski.
![Item #45686 Домик в Коломне [DOMIK V KOLOMNE]. Vladimir Favorski, Alexander Pushkin,...](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45686_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1651608067)
Signed limited first edition thus, illustrated by Favorsky, of this Pushkin comic poem with a striking modern design.
![Item #22509 Ма́ленькие траге́дии [MALEN'KIE TRAGEDII]. Vladimir Favorski,...](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22509_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1651607781)
First printing of this collection of four short plays by Pushkin, with atmospheric woodcut illustrations by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski – one of Favorski's final works.
First printing of this pair of screenplays by the iconic Italian director, including that of his first film "Luci del varietà" ("Variety Lights").
First printing of this trio of screenplays by the iconic Italian director, including the oft-referenced and imitated "I Vitelloni," an inspiration for George Lucas's "American Graffiti."
Signed first edition thus, with illustrations by Foreman, of this short symbolic play about each of the SEVEN DEADLY SINS, taking place in several locations across the US.
Gorgeous and intricate original Gaultier press kit for the Tonie Marshall film.
First US edition of this historical comedy, an ironic portrait of English manners, morality and attitude at the turn of the century.
Warmly inscribed first edition of this play inspired by a con artist who ingratiated himself with New York's elites.
Inscribed first printing of this history of cinema and development of talkies by the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, the author of the Hays Code moral censorship guidelines for American movies.
Limited first edition, one of less than 100 copies in the rare first issue with F.A.I. endpapers, of Hemingway's narration of the film THE SPANISH EARTH, produced to raise funds for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.
