Original Artwork from Royal Books, Inc.

San Diego: Schanes and Schanes, 1981. Vintage "The Heavy Metal Original Pencil Art Portfolio" from the 1981 animated film, one of 1000 copies, this being number 0823. The portfolio, housed in an illustrated folder with an Introduction and credits, features seven original graphite and non-photo blue pencil drawings created during the film's production. Each of the 1000… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Original costume illustration by costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge for the 1974 film. Costume design for actor Lois Chiles who played Jordan Baker, with "Lois Chiles / The Great Gatsby / Theoni V. Aldredge" and a label printed with "N.B. Model" on the upper right. Aldredge won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for… Read more about this item

N.p.: Crossbow Productions, 1980. Three original oversize printed set illustrations and one original graphite set illustration from the 1981 film. The three oversize printed set illustrations are two grand set designs for the Roman Empire sequence and one for the French Revolution sequence, with two of the printed set illustrations stamped with a Crossbow Productions title block with the… Read more about this item

New York: Boo-Hooray / Carl Johan De Geer, 2014. Original color lithographic print created for the Carl Johan De Geer exhibition at Printed Matter's 2014 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, showing Lee Falk's comic strip character The Phantom spanking various women in a collage format. SIGNED, titled, and numbered by De Geer along the bottom margin, noted… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1961. Original eight-panel artwork for a Sunday strip of Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip "Fritzi Ritz," first published on November 19, 1961. "Fritzi Ritz" was originally created in 1922 by Larry Whittington. In 1925 the strip was taken over by Bushmiller, which would eventually evolve into Bushmiller's seminal comic strip Nancy. The Sunday edition of "Fritzi Ritz"… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Original three-panel artwork for the September 15, 1977, daily strip of Ernie Bushmiller's seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features Nancy observing "the meanest kid in town" running to catch his mobile home, which appears in the third panel colored yellow and with Ben Day dots applied to it. An example of a typical practice… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Original two-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the July 5, 1975 daily strip of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular two-panel strip features Sluggo and a carnival fire-eater and a visual pun that is quintessential Bushmiller. With Bushmiller's original signature in the second frame, per standard practice. As with American cinema, it was the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1937. Vintage ink portrait of mystery and crime writer Sax Rohmer by noted caricaturist Louis Ollier. SIGNED by Rohmer, with an accompanying Autograph Note Signed by Rohmer, dated November 6, 1937, thanking the artist for sending the portrait and apologizing for the delay in response. Portrait 6.25 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Note 4… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Seeger Publications, 1950. Archive of photographs, text copy, cartoons, letters, story and photo submissions, banking documents and other ephemera from the short-lived men's magazine "My Escort," published in Hollywood, circa late 1950s. Not to be confused with the British men's magazine "Escort," which began publication in 1980. Detailed inventory available upon request. The majority of the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1942. Vintage photographic print of a portrait sketch of Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt, circa 1942. Insignia of Russian-American portraitist Michael Alexander Werboff from the negative at the bottom right corner of the recto. Hersholt is best remembered for his role in Erich von Stroheim's 1924 film "Greed," and for his performance as Shirley Temple's grandfather in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1934. Vintage photographic print of a portrait of Mexican-American actress Dolores del Rio, circa 1933-1934, created by painter and film director Hugo Ballin. Stamp of photographer Clyde Stoughton on the verso along with the stamp of Acme Engraving Company and annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping. New York-born artist and muralist Hugo Ballin began working… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1968. Vintage jacket art illustration for Joan Aiken's 1968 novel "The Crystal Crow," created for Doubleday by artist James Cooper. Housed in the original frame, with a letter from Harper and Row editor Lawrence Peel Ashmead to Mystery Writers of America member Mary Frisque affixed to the verso, dated March 19, 1987, donating the art for… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 2009. Original printer's proof for the cover of the first edition, published by William Morrow in 2009, SIGNED by editor Michael Connelly. Card stock, 8.25 x 10.75 inches, mechanically folded at the rear spinefold. 14.25 x 10.75 inches unfolded. Fine.

San Francisco: Dadaland, 1970. Vintage Bill Gaglione [Dadaland] rubber stamp, circa early 1970s. An image of the impression, along with the address "Dadaland / 1117 Geary Street / Suite #21 / San Francisco, Ca. 94109" is on a piece of cardstock laid in on top of the stamp under an affixed layer of mylar. An amusing Gaglione piece appropriating… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1986. Two vintage product illustrations for toy racetracks made by German manufacturer Darda, both by illustrator Ken Zaruba, circa 1986. The two track illustrations presented here are variants on Darda's track sets, "Raketenbaum" (Rocket Car) (with an annotation on the overlay of "Rollercoaster Roadway"), and "Bahn mit Tankstille" (Track with Gas Station), both manufactured in 1986, each… Read more about this item

London: 4AD, 1989. Three early never-issued alternate artwork proof designs for the classic 1989 album. Developed by British graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, with photography by Simon Larbalestier. Unique. In 1980, Oliver and photographer Nigel Grierson formed the graphic design partnership 23 Envelope. In 1982 the duo were invited to create sleeve art for the 4AD record label by… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage design illustration for an embroidered uniform patch worn by Burger Chef employees, circa 1964. Sample patch affixed to the top left corner. The first Burger Chef restaurant was opened by Frank and Donald Thomas in Indianapolis in 1957. The chain quickly spread across the United States, with 335 locations across the country in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Three original drawings of comedian Charlie Chaplin, circa 1940s. Executed in black pen on onionskin stock, with white-out additions, drawing adhered to illustration board by the artist. All three drawings with the insignia of Al Kilgore to the bottom left corner, and manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the drawings as property of New York… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Original spirit duplication instructions for Allan Kaprow's "Tree, A Happening," a performance art piece which took place as part of The Yam Festival, at painter and sculptor George Segal's farm in South Brunswick, New Jersey, on May 19, 1963, with Kaprow's contemporary signature, "Kaprow May '63" in manuscript ink on top of first page. The instructions… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage satin banner with hand-sewn lettering, by an unknown artist, made after Paul Krassner and John Francis Putnam's 1963 poster. Krassner created the "Fuck Communism" poster for sale through his satirical underground magazine "The Realist," with typography by longtime "Mad" magazine art director Putnam. In addition to publishing The Realist from 1958 to 2001,… Read more about this item