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Freaks [DVD]

By: Browning, Tod, director

Price: $25.00

Publisher: np, Turner Entertainment Co.: 2004

Seller ID: 2980

Binding: DVD

Condition: New

DVD, black and white, 62 minutes, Region 1. New, still sealed in shrink wrap, with light sun fading on the spine. “Tod Browning directs this landmark 1932 movie in which the true freaks are not the story’s sideshow performers, but “normal” who mock and abuse them. Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast real-life sideshow professionals. A living torso who nimbly lights on cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics (whom the film calls “pinheads”) – they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on the trapeze artist who treats the...
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Paparazzi! Photographers, Stars, Artists

By: Chéroux, Clément, ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, Flammarion: 2014

Seller ID: 3272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Hardcover with illustrated boards, 22.4 by 24.5 cm, 320 pp., illus. New, sealed in the publisher’s shrinkwrap. From the publisher: “All aspects of the paparazzi’s craft are examined in this volume that unveils the complex love-hate relationship between photographer and celebrity, and the role of the oft-disparaged profession in contemporary art today. In 1960, Fellini invented the now infamous paparazzi character in La Dolce Vita. The profession has since alternated between parasite and indispensable marketing tool in the lucrative business of celebrity branding that has become a mains...
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The Final Comedown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Movie Soundtrack, Vinyl Record]

By: Green, Grant; Wade Marcus.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, United Artists Records, Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 3349

Binding: Vinyl Record

Condition: Near Fine

Catalog no. BST-84415. Twelve-inch vinyl LP in original sleeve. The disc is near fine with awesome sound; the sleeve is very good with light rubbing and corner wear. Includes the original Blue Note catalog inner sleeve. Not only a surprisingly good soundtrack but a hoppin’ one! On the first track, you may wonder “why does it sound like a collegiate-level marching band doing music for a porno?” But then the funk kicks in and tympanist gets a little crazy, and it sounds great! It’s no wonder that Grant Green is now considered a jazz guitar genius and why Blue Note chose this album ...
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Genii: The International Conjurors’ Magazine - Thirty-One Issues, Magic, Illusions

By: Larsen, Jr., William W., ed., publisher

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Genii: 1976-1997

Seller ID: 768

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Staple-bound periodicals, 8 1/4 by 11-inches, most average 60 to 70 pp. This broken run includes Sept. 1976; March, April, May (crease on back cover) 1980; Jan., Aug. (rubbing along top of front cover), Dec. 1981; March – July, Sept., Oct. 1982; Oct. 1983; Aug., Dec. 1985 (corner creases on front cover); Jan., Feb., April, Nov., Dec. (large crease on front cover) 1986; April, Sept., Oct. (some scratches on front cover), Dec. 1987; Jan. 1988; March 1989 (creases and rubbing to the covers); April, Sept. (small tear at head of spine) 1991; and May 1992 (wrinkles on back cover). Light wear and...
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The New Tops Magazine - Sixteen Issues, Magic Illusions

By: Miller, Gordon, ed

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Colona, MI, Abbott’s Magic Mfg. Co.: 1978-1992

Seller ID: 769

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Published monthly. Staple-bound periodicals, 8 1/4 by 10 1/2-inches (with a little variation from issue to issue), most average 50 to 60 pp. This broken run includes: January 1978; April, Oct., Nov. 1984; March, April (dampstain on lower corner) 1985; Dec. 1986; Feb. (tear at head of spine), March, April (creases to upper corner of front cover) 1987; July – Oct. 1991; May 1992; and March 1993. Light wear to the covers and corners. Published in Colona, Michigan, “the magic capital of the world,” Tops is similar in content to Genii but with more of a ‘zine feel. Lots of ads for book...
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Breakdancing along with the Companion Album [Breakdancing, Book & LP]

By: Mr. Fresh and The Supreme Rockers

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Avon Books, Columbia Records: 1984

Seller ID: 3000

Binding: Paperback and LP Record

Condition: Very Good

Book: Staple-bound wraps, 13.3 by 20.3 cm, 128 pp., illus. Very good with light wear to the edges and corners. Record: Vinyl LP in original sleeve, original inner sleeve printed with step-by-step dance instructions. The LP is very good with a few faint scratches and a record store stamp on the A-side label; the sleeve is good with edge wear and corner creases. In this well-illustrated book, Mr. Fresh takes you step-by-step through all the basic breakdancing moves from the wave on through to uprock, the “fighting dance.” The companion LP alternates instruction with songs by Malcolm McL...
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Behind the Red Curtain: Sensational, Revealing, Intimate [Humor, Altered Book]

By: Offilitch, Ivan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, H. Fishlove & Co.: 1948

Seller ID: 3338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Grey cloth with black and red spine titles that read “The Great Chicago Fire” and a paper cover label, 15.5 by 23.6 cm, 85 pp. (see below). Very good with light wear at the extremities. Behind the red Curtain, or, a creative use of remainders. Once a book on the Chicago fire, Fishlove & Co. had a rectangle die-cut through the endpapers and entire textblock to reveal the joke – a cloth red curtain that you lift up to reveal an illustration of a young boy with bare buttocks. The buttocks appear to be made from some sort of plastic. A great gag.
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Containing All Those Great Songs, the Singing of Which Has Made This Great Original Clown the Most Popular Jester and Vocalist that Ever Trod the Arena

By: [John Foster]

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, New York Popular Publishing Company: not dated, c. 1880

Seller ID: 3308

Binding: paperback

Condition: Fair

Staple-bound wraps with hand-colored cover, small loop of grey string at the head of the spine, 10.4 by 16.2 cm, 32 pp. Tattered, though intact wraps with chips and small tears, chipping to the upper corner of the textblock, light stains here and there, and some spotting from insect leavings on the back cover. Scarce booklet of songs performed at the Great Barnum and London Circus on its tour of America, including acts written and sung by John Foster, Tony Pastor, Cool Burgess, Lulu Mortimer, P.C Loy, the “great Dutch clown” Arthur Johnson, etc. Foster was “born into poverty in Pennsy...
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