Photography from Royal Books, Inc.

Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. Vintage gatefold flyer for the 2009 exhibition, featuring posthumous work by Wallace Berman alongside contemporary work by Richard Prince. Conceived by writer and curator Kristine McKenna, and held at the Michael Kohn Gallery in in Los Angeles, January 15 through March 7, 2009. 8.5 x 5.5 to 17 x 5.5 inches. Near… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: California Theatre, 1921. Archive of 41 vintage photographs of the elaborate stage sets and live performers which supported silent film screenings at the California Theatre in Los Angeles, taken during the theatre's first three years in operation, 1919-1921. 20 photographs with blindstamps crediting photographer Dick Stagg, and 14 with blindstamps crediting photographer J.C. Milligan. Photographs housed… Read more about this item

New York: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A collection of photographs by Richard Gere, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama and a poem by Patti Smith. Very Good plus, with no dust jacket as issued, with faint foxing on the text block and endpapers.

New York: United States Rubber Company, 1950. Archive of fifteen vintage photographs of automobile tire testing by the US Rubber Company at the Lancaster, California proving grounds, circa 1950s. All with United States Rubber Company credit stamps and identification number stamps on the versos, and fourteen with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. The tires presented in… Read more about this item

N.p.: John Margolies, 1991. Archive of ten vintage oversize photographs of drive-in theaters across America, taken variously between 1977 and 1982. Three photographs struck in 1981 and seven photographs struck in 1991. All photographs signed by the photographer on the verso, identifying name, date, and location. States represented in the archive are Texas, Virginia, Ohio, California, Washington,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Archive of 26 vintage photographs of mid-Atlantic roadside alert signs with advertisements, circa 1930s-1940s. Includes 21 double weight photographs and two matte-finish. Three photographs bear annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The collection contains thirteen photographs of alert signs advertising Champion spark plugs, seven advertising hotels (the Biltmore in Dayton, Hotel Sinton in Cincinnati,… Read more about this item

New York: Fred Plaut, 1955. Three vintage borderless double weight photographs of author Truman Capote and Colombia Records vice president Goddard Lieberson, taken by Columbia Records recording engineer and photographer Fred Plaut, with Plaut's photographer stamp on the versos, circa 1953-1955. In 1953 Capote made his first spoken word recording for the 1953 "Columbia Literary Series," a twelve… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Archive of 19 photographs of mid-century jazz and blues icons by noted jazz photographer Burt Goldblatt, all but one with his credit stamp on the verso. Included are photographs of Wes Montgomery, Woody Herman (4), Ron Carter, Dexter Gordon, Lionel Hampton (2), Johnny Hodges, Milt Jackson (2), "Cannonball" Adderley, Maxine Sullivan, Nat Adderley (2), Bud… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1910. Two vintage borderless photographs of two Bioscope shows at the Oxford St. Giles Fair, circa 1910s. Both photographs with the stamp of Oxford-based photographer Henry Taunt on the verso, along with a provenance stamp and manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Bioscope shows were a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Archive of 148 photographs of custom truck and tractor pulls, taken by amateur photographer Charles Lloyd Watson, circa 1978-1979. Many photographs with developer dates of 1978 and 1979 on the versos. A former racetrack photographer, Watson was a prolific amateur motorsports photographer from Jeffersonville, Indiana. Included in the archive are 142 standard color snapshot… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1991. Collection of nine vintage photographs of drive-in theaters in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, 1978-1991. Two photographs with photographer "Steve Perille" and "Jul 10, 1978" stamps on the versos, one with a newspaper caption clipping affixed to the verso with an "Apr 14 1986" stamp. One with a "Charlotte News Photo by Elmer Horton / Apri… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1932. Vintage photograph of the Bayonne Bridge, connecting Staten Island in New York City with Bayonne, New Jersey, spanning the Kill Van Kull tidal strait. Shot by photographer F.S. Lincoln, circa 1932. "American Architecture" labels and specifications of the Chief Engineer for the Port of New York Authority on the recto and verso. The photograph was shot… Read more about this item

Charlotte, NC: The Charlotte Observer, 1965. Vintage photograph of a disintegrating screen of an abandoned drive-in movie theater near Charlotte, North Carolina, taken by photographer Hank Daniel for The Charlotte Observer, 1965. On the verso is a "Hank Daniel" stamp, a "JUL 21 1965" stamp, and a Charlotte Observer newspaper clipping of the photograph's corresponding captions with an "AUG… Read more about this item