Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated by Ron Bachardy & Christopher Isherwood to Robert Lewis (depicted in Plate No. 100). A volume of one hundred drawings by Don Bachardy (b. 1934), the acclaimed & venerable American portrait artist who was the life partner of Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), the canonical British-American author. Arranged chronologically from 1961 through 1982, these drawings are..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "...the story of a man whose name is synonymous with the American movie, from its beginnings through its golden age. Samuel Goldwyn's story is a pioneer story, a folk story, a movie fantasy that came true; it is a story about creativity, ambition, money, drive...about a time in America when there was a pot of gold at the end..... More

New York, NY, USA: Film Culture Inc., 1963. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Here is METAPHORS ON VISION: it is a collection of writings on the film and, in particular, on the film as Stan Brakhage sees and makes it. Yet more significantly it is a testament of what makes mythopoeic art. Mythopoeia is the often attempted and seldom achieved result of making a myth new or making a new myth."..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. “In The Raymond Chandler Papers, Chandler biographers Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane bring together a new selection of his correspondence—much of it never before made public—that reveals all aspects of his powerful personality, artistic sensibility, and broad intellectual curiosity. These include such gems as a blistering critique of James M. Cain’s (1892-1977) ‘faux-naif’ hardboiled style, an analysis of the pleasures of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harmony Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "He is Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904, in the seaport village of Bristol, England. Combining the captivating beauty of silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino with the masculine irresistibility of Clark Gable, Grant emerged as Hollywood's quintessential leading man. Today, "the man from..... More

New York, NY: Crown Publishers Inc., 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. “Warner Bros. has been one of the foremost Hollywood studios for most of the movie industry's history- the company's first feature film was released in the pioneer days of 1918. This fascinating book charts the story in incredible detail, from the tentative beginnings to the present. It is the definitive record - every feature film that the studio made or..... More

New York, NY, USA: Arlington House/ Crown, 1982. First American Edition. Hardcover. "RKO Radio Pictures existed in an atmosphere of almost continual chaos, from its optimistic beginnings in 1928, until it collapsed into ruins at the hands of the megalomaniac Howard Hughes nearly 30 years later. In its comparatively short and always turbulent history RKO made some of the greatest films and nurtured some of the finest talents ever to..... More

New York, NY, USA: North American Library, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Ira Konigsberg to Laurence Goldstein. “The Complete Film Dictionary provides a comprehensive lexicon of the motion picture as art, technology, and industry. It is the only work of its kind to provide definitions in the categories of practical terminology – words dealing with camera or lighting techniques; technical terminology – dealing with how..... More

San Francisco, CA: Coyote, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. “Michael McClure’s [1932-2020] The Beard is a mysterious piece of work, for while its surface seems simple, repetitive and obscene, there is an action working which is dramatic and comic at once, and the play emits an odd but intense field of attention, almost like a magnetic field, almost as if ghosts from two periods of the American past were speaking across..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Edition. “To do Kaye justice in terms of your question here would take a book-length response. She was a constant presence (as much as she could be working a full-time job at a San Francisco printing business) in North Beach and at any Beatitude or literary events. She had been in San Francisco for quite a while when I arrived on the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Privately Printed, 2001. First Printing. With hand-dated, written & signed cover letter by H. David Moe to Thomas Rain Crowe. H.D. Moe, a.k.a., David Moe (1937-2013) was an American poet deeply fascinated with surrealism and a core, if not slightly older, member of the Second San Francisco Renaissance/Baby Beat Generation. His poetic activities included publishing Lovelights, the Erotic Poetry/Art Newspaper of San Francisco (at one time the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Dover Publications, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual." (Nickolas Muray, quoted in introduction by Marianne Fulton Margolis). American writer, curator and Kent State student in 1970 Marianne Fulton Margolis curated this collection of photographs, "Celebrity Portraits..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations- harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred, and intimate in this world- move from the admission that Snyder's mother was a devout atheist to his..... More