A selection of items related to film, music, theater, and dance around the world and across multiple centuries.
Poster printed on pink paper stock announcing the festival in Paris organized by Jean-Jacques Lebel, with a series of performance art, happenings, and other events taking place from May 17 through May 25, 1965, featuring contributions from important Fluxus figures such as Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Charlotte..... More
A beautiful group of 16 examples of early to mid-20th century American sheet music, most 4-8 pp., the covers noteworthy for their bright and colorful patriotic imagery, including Uncle Sam, military figures, war scenes, the Statue of Liberty, and women wearing flags, by a wide range of composers. Some minor..... More
Kingston Upon Hull, UK: Endless Road Publications, 1981–1984. Various sizes (no. 1: 30 × 21 cm., nos. 2 and 3: 25.5 × 20 cm, nos. 4 through 7: 21 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers, nos. 1 through 3 printed on light blue heavy paper, nos. 4 through 7 with..... More
Small collection of items related to the Tenjo Sajiki Japanese avant-garde theater troupe co-founded by Shuji Terayama, Kujo Kyoko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi, including: Tenjo Sajiki: A Laboratory of Play, an 8-pp. English-language booklet containing a history of the troupe, some brief essays on the troupe's development..... More
Paris: Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin, 1952. 22 x 17.5 cm. Original cardstock wrappers, light green front cover and black-and-white illustrated rear cover featuring a drawing by Gabriel Pomerand. 286 pp., scattered illustrations showing images from photographs. Some creasing to front cover, light browning and dust-staining to wrappers, minor wear along spine, slight..... More
Paris: L'Organe, 1975. Quarto (38 x 28 cm). Original illustrated self-wrappers, with cover illustrations by Thierry Dalby and Mick Haggerty; 32 pp. each, profusely illustrated throughout with drawings, comics, and photographs. Some browning, some light chipping, some tears along crease lines, professionally repaired. A complete run in two issues of..... More
![Book ID: 48645 Nuevo Film [New Film], no. 1 (1967) through no. 4 (1969) (all published](https://bernettrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48645_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710789208)
A complete run in four issues (151, 203, 147, 135) of the Uruguayan film journal, under the editorial direction of Luis Elbert and A. Sanjurjo Toucon, containing essays and interviews on topics including the history of color film, Fellini, the directorial style of Richard Lester, Uruguayan film, the future of..... More
A complete run in 6 unpaginated issues of the journal put out by the eponymous socialist Danish artist's and musician's collective, forming a sort of catalogue of the group's activities through comics, photos of happenings and concerts, reproductions of posters, songs, and other works. 8vo. Original saddle-stapled cardstock wrpps., each..... More
A complete run in 42 issues of the scarce French news and sound journal published with the assistance of the radio station Europe No 1 and edited by Cl. Claude-Maxe, Ithier de Roquemaurel, and Jean-Pierre Castel, each issue comprised of six record-style sound sheets related to the news, culture, and..... More
A complete run of 62 issues in 61 fasciscules of the early British folk music revival magazine, under the primary editorial direction of Beryl Davis, wife of Spinners lead singer Tony Davis, with the first few issues also edited by Dennis Smithson, Val Evans, Tony Davis, John Fargher, and Jim..... More
Altogether 23 issues, each circa 19 pp., of the rare postwar German film magazine documenting the lives and work of German and American film actors, each issue including profiles of actors such as Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando, and Marilyn Monroe..... More
Manchester, England: Wanted Man, 1981–1997. Octavos (21 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; pagination varies from just 10 to ca. 200 pp. per issue. Illustrated throughout, primarily from photographs. Light wear to edges and spines; overall very good. A complete run of the fan-oriented Bob Dylan magazine, published and primarily..... More
Double LP vinyl record, three sides total, documenting a concert held two months after the death of the founding member of the Fluxus movement. Square quarto (12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches). Original portfolio cardstock illustrated record sleeve, vinyls loose as issued. Records not play-tested, some light soiling, overall very..... More
Rome: Giovanni Battista Cannetti, 1795. Octavo (20.5 x 15.5 cm). Marbled paper wrappers; 55 pp. with nine folding plates (largest when open measures approx. 35.5 x 48.5 cm). Some scattered toning and foxing, overall very good. Rossetti 5384, Schudt 1158, Olschki 17031, Cicognara 758, 3747. A scarce and elegant work..... More
Carrara: Bottega d'Arte di Corrado Lattanzi/E. Bassani, [1934]. Oblong octavo (19 × 22.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers on blue stock; 42 pp. Not illustrated; bright blue typographic titles throughout; frontis portrait of Giuntini. Llight toning and water-staining to wrappers; handwritten ink inscription to front flyleaf; still about very good. Volume..... More
131 pp. play by the German literary master, including 6 plates showing drawings by Goetz Freiherrn von Seckendorff (1889-1914) of characters in the play, delicately hand colored with watercolors by Emil Wöllner, additional engraved title-page by E.R. Weiss. 8vo. Embossed leather, front cover slightly rubbed. Munich (Marées-Gesellschaft) 1918. (Marées-Gesellschaft, 1)..... More
Unpaginated (6) pp. title and introductory matter, including list of exhibited works, accompanying 57 plates (3 in superb color) showing excellent photographs of dramatic Noh masks, most from the collections of private individuals (mainly patriarchs of Noh acting families) and a few held by National museums. Folio. Paper-covered boards, tie-bound..... More
Various cities, Poland: Various publishes, 1976-1979. Small octavo (20 x 13.7 cm and 19.7 x 1.7 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 12 pp. each. Very good condition overall. Jolanta Marcolla (b. 1950) is a groundbreaking contemporary Polish photographer, painter, illustrator, and experimental filmmaker. She studied painting in Wroclaw and at..... More
12-page whimsical avant-garde piano composition dating to very early in the career of the accomplished Egyptian-born Italian composer, one of a few of his works from the early 1920s dating to his days as a Futurist, comprised of three movements: I. Marcia funebre per un uccellino, II. Marcia nuziale per..... More
62 pp. text discussing Eurythmy, developed by Rudolf Steiner, a performing art using rhythmic movement to express emotions in response to music, including examinations of the art's origins, its use as a dance therapy, etc., notes, text illustrations, 17 plates showing images from photographs of various movements. Large 8vo. Wrpps...... More
Untitled and unpaginated program or brochure, possibly from a dance performance or festival, featuring a black-and-white cover image of Stuyf and Edinoff with one of the spheres from Stuyf's contemporary ballet "Mutations", an excerpt from a poem by Erik Satie, program of personnel involved in the happening or performance, an..... More
N.p. [Nice, France]: self-published, undated [circa 1967]. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Textured wallpaper wrapper with perforated holes, bound with two metallic clips. Unpaginated (16 pp. printed recto and verso). Fine condition. An artist's book divided into several parts: Theatre, Musique, and Cinéma, with listings of numerous works and performances, each..... More