::: Spalding Gray Museum

THE SPALDING GRAY MUSEUM
Collected by John Boland

To call my collection a Museum is cheeky at best. However, the purpose of my collection is to preserve Spalding material, and to give it to his children if they want it as they grow older. Hence the name.

A. – Books and Magazines
1) Contemporary Literary Criticism, Ed. Marowski,D et Pollock, S,
Gale Research Inc., 1988
- p.145 –153 – literary articles about the works of Spalding
- discard reference book from Notre Dame
- Mint

2) My First Car , James Lecesne, and Marion Long
- Spalding is interviewed for this book – 2 pages, not previously published in GQ, similar but not the same as monologue in Sex and Death
- VG+

3) The Face, No. 83, March 1987
- Memory Man – short, but good article/interview
- Fair

4) Playbills
- Monster in a Box – Good condition
- Gray’s Anatomy   - VG
- Our Town             - VG
- Morning, Noon and Night – VG+
- The Best Man – SIGNED by cast including Spalding - Mint

5) Sex and Death to the Age 14 (nicknamed SAD)
- first edition – never read - SIGNED
- MINT

      6) Signed Mobil from the The Daily Show, circa 1997
- picture used in the show, has heads of Yanni, Dennis Rodman,         Spalding superimposed on bodies of Hindu Holy Men
- good condition (one crease), SIGNED by Spalding
- very likely one of a kind
6) Alive, the New York Performance Magazine, Nov./Dec. 1982
- Cover Article ‘Spalding Gray: Talk of the Downtown’
- Very early interview with Spalding talking about the earliest monologues such as Rumstick Road
- Includes early family picture – the only one I’ve seen
- VG

7) Monster in a Box, Ad Sheet for theatre use, columns 4”,3 ½”, 3’, 2 ½” , 2                   ¼ “, 1 7/8 “, 1 ¾ “, 1 5/8”
- Mint

8) Theatre Week, Dec.20, 1993.
- Review of Gray’s Anatomy, stage show at Lincoln Center
- Fair

9) GQ, April 1988
- Radio Daze – one page story by Spalding (with wonderful pic)
- VG
           GQ, Oct, 2003
- ‘Man Overboard’ – interview with Spalding, Kathie, pics ****
- VG

10) Playboy, Nov. 1968
- one pic with Spalding in background
- Mint

11) Orchards, 1986
- 7 stories by Anton Chekhov, and the 7 plays they inspire (except Spalding writes a monologue…)
- New

12) In Search of the Monkey Girl, 1982
- Randall Levenson, Spalding Gray
- PB, Mint

13) Homespun, Tales from America’s Favorite Storytellers, 1988
- Edited by Jimmy Smith
- Includes excerpts from Terrors of Pleasure
14) Morning, Noon and Night, 1999
- PB and HC, both New, First Editions

15) Swimming to Cambodia, 1985
- first edition, SIGNED
- good condition

16) Swimming to Cambodia, the Collected Works of Spalding Gray, 1985
- first British Publication, includes Sex and Death
- VG

17) Impossible Vacation, 1992
- PB and HC, both New

18) Monster in a Box, 1992
- PB, New, SIGNED

19) Gray’s Anatomy, 1994
- PB, VG

20) It’s a Slippery Slope, 1997
- PB, VG

21) It’s a Slippery Slope, 1997
                 - Uncorrected Proof/Not for Sale - New

22) Show People, Fall 2002, Premiere Issue
- interview of Billy Joel by Spalding
- Mint

23) A Simple Life, Edited by Tom Morgan, 2001
- articles on the Dalai Lama, including Complete interview of Dalai Lama by Spalding
- HC, New

24) NEW YORK, Feb.2, 2004
- Cover Article, ‘Searching for Spalding’
- New

25) Life Changing Stories of Coming of Age
- Edited by Thomas Dyja
- Excerpt from SAD (Sex and Death)
- New

CDs, VHS, DVDs, CASSETTES

BOOTS: (I do not generally support Spalding boots except these were only available that way)

1) All episodes of The Nanny with Spalding on DVD
2) Spencer for Hire – only episode that had Spalding on DVD
3) Farmer’s Daughters - ADULT XXX – VHS – poor quality video looks like it was video taped from 16 mm screening – don’t buy this unless you find good copy (then let me know) – also very bad film…

ORIGINALS
1) Our Town, 1989
- original PBS Great Performances on VHS
- New – very rare
2) King of the Hill (Soderbergh)
- only available on VHS
- Sealed
3) Brother’s Keeper (10th Anniversary Edition)
- this DVD version includes Theatrical Trailer by Spalding
- mint
4) Stars and Bars
- available on VHS only
- video store box only – looking for minimum video in orginal box – any condition
5) How High
- DVD
- mint
6) Glory Daze
- DVD (awful!)
- mint
7) Coming Soon
- DVD sealed
- VHS - mint
8) Monster in a Box
- Two Cassettes – box only in fair condition (also if there were liner notes they are missing)
- CD – Gang of Seven (rare)
9) Monster in a Box
- VHS
- mint
     10) Swimming to Cambodia
- VHS
- mint
11)   Morning, Noon, and Night
- two cassettes – Sealed
12) True Stories
- DVD (read on a web site somewhere that this was Spud’s first film– LOL)
13) Gray’s Anatomy
- DVD
- mint
14) Bad Company
- DVD (bad film!)
- mint
15) Ilsa, harem keeper of the Oil Sheiks
- DVD – SPALDING IS NOT IN THIS MOVIE !!!
- this movie is HORRIBLE
       16) The Killing Fields
- VHS
- mint
       17) It’s a Slippery Slope
- CD – Gang of Seven (Rare)
- new
       18) Bliss (excellent film – adult orientation)
- DVD
- VHS (Sealed)
       19) Twenty Bucks
- VHS
- Fair, in original box
       20) Imprint, TV Ontario
                - VHS – approx. 15 minute interview with Spalding

Posters & Photos

1) Gray’s Anatomy
- 11 x 17, laminated
- Mint
2) Love In ‘72
- 27 x 40
- Original movie theatre poster
- rare, very good
3) IPA
- photo copyrighted Paula Court
- laminated, Mint
4) Photo by unknown photographer
- from _________ monologue
- Mint
5) Monster In A Box – The Movie
- Mercury Cinema movie poster
- 8 ½ x 11 ½
- Mint
6) Monster In A Box
- a monologue by Spalding Gray
- reading by Mark Mobley Saturday May 7th, 2005
- signed by Mark Mobley, numbered limited edition, #12 of 35
- Mint
7) Impossible Vacation Book Poster
          - Mint, SIGNED