Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance...
London: Robert Hale, 1963. Original artwork study for the dust jacket front panel and spine panel of the UK edition of James M. Cain's "Mignon," published by Robert Hale in 1963. The artwork consists of ink and watercolor on textured stock, with a transparent negative overlay lending browns and blues...
N.p. N.p. 1967. Collection of 8 borderless reference photographs from the French release of the 1967 film. Arguably Jean-Pierre Melville's crowning achievement (though we feel there are no low points among his crime films), wherein Delon plays an icy hitman who is utterly anonymous, living alone in a single bedroom apartment...
Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1982. Vintage borderless black and white photograph of a crazed Klaus Kinski from the 1982 film. 7 x 9.5 inches. Fine.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film. Based on the 1930 play by Rudolf Besier. A young invalid poetess begins a romantic relationship with a fellow poet and must combat her overprotective father for the right to live her own life. Nominated for Academy Awards...
New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. Original film program for the 1966 screening of six Kenneth Anger films, being shown on the Spring Equinox (March 21, 1966). Screened at Jonas Mekas's Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom...
Universal City: Universal, 1969. Collection of ten borderless press photographs from the set of the 1969 film. Seven photographs featuring director Hitchcock at work. Eight photographs with the stamp of the French news agency BEZ on the verso. Based on 1967 novel by Leon Uris, about a French agent who...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Original one sheet poster for the 1941 film. Frank Morgan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes...
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Mexico: N.p. 1959. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white press photograph of director Luis Bunuel and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa behind the camera in Mexico during the making of the 1959 film (a French-Mexican co-production released during Bunuel's Mexican period). Mexican stamp of photographer Georges Yves Massart on the verso. Handwritten text on the...
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Paris: 1971. Original poster for the 1971 play directed by Robert Wilson. Lauded for its surreal nature and unusual structure, "Deafman Glance" is a play entirely without words, during which a woman first completes household tasks and then methodically murders two young boys while a deaf third child looks on...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film musical. Based on the 1940 French comedy "L'homme qui cherche la verité," written by Poerre Wolff. With three pages of shooting schedule laid in and holograph pencil notations to the verso of the rear wrapper. America's wealthiest bachelor (Eddie...
London: Allen and Unwin, 1920. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. Some offsetting to the second blank, some fading to the book spine, still easily Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the spine ends. A very nice copy...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's breakthrough novel, and winner of the Booker Prize. About Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a hint of the usual fading to the spine.
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1977. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actress Anne Ramsey, who played "Spinster #2" in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the front wrapper, and brief ink notations to preliminary pages. Ramsey's notable film credits include "The Goonies" (1985)...
Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French petite poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate protégés, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location in...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his notations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a....
Beverly Hills: Orion, 1986. Fourth draft script for the 1987 film. Copying belonging to actor Stephen Berrier, who played Roosevelt, one of the scientists responsible for transforming police officer Alex Murphy into The Future of Law Enforcement. With Berrier's name, character name, and signature in holograph ink on the title...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Revised Final Script for the 1943 film musical, here under its working title, "The Girls He Left Behind." Directed by Busby Berekeley, written for the screen by Walter Bullock, Tom Bridges, George Root, Jr., and Nancy Wintner (with only Bullock credited here), and starring Alice...
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1963. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. As with the first edition, this proof contains an afterword by Malamud and a 10-page glossary of baseball terms not found in the American edition. Basis for the iconic 1984 film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Edition. Basis for the 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled, with a shallow vertical crease to the rear flap fold.
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark (Jonathan...
Paris: Paris Audiovisuel, 1988. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by Alice Springs to Robin Gibson of the National Portrait Gallery in London: "Robin / What a wonderful time of my life it was with you and Terence at the N.P.G. / London / 17/11/88." Robin Gibson worked at...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1949. First Edition. The author's first book, one of the best Westerns ever written, which in 1953 was adapted into one of the best films the genre has ever seen (with a script by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.), in which a lone gunfighter comes to the aid of...
N.p. UFA, 1941. First Edition. Hungarian film annual for German films released between 1931 and 1941, containing full page advertisements for 31 films, several with stunning illustrated transparency overlays. Bound in printed wooden boards, as issued. The majority of the films were released by UFA, although Terra-Filmkunst and Wien Film are...
Beverly Hills, CA: The Mirisch Corporation / United Artists, 1967. Collection of five original title card maquettes for the 1967 film hand lettered by Harold Adler. Based on the 1965 novel by John Ball. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with...
Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie, which originally aired on March 18, 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, filmed once before by Lewis...
Munich: Grauf Haufen and Frank Trebbin, 1993. First Edition. An utterly obsessive, minutely detailed examination of Spanish exploitation director Jess Franco's illustrious career, divided into two sections: an extensive, photo-illustrated filmography that includes analysis and reproductions of even the most obscure country-of-origin posters and advertisement for each film, and a....
N.p. N.p. 1966. Set of three remarkable double weight photograph of Carol Burnett, Rock Hudson, Frank Gorshin, and Ken Berry on the set of one of Carol Burnett's earliest television specials, "Carol and Company," which aired on October 9, 1966. CBS tested the waters with Carol Burnett four times with specials...
New York: Grenfell Press, 1986. Deluxe Edition. One of 15 numbered copies (this being No. IV) SIGNED by the author and the artist on the limitation page and bound in full inlaid morocco. Fine and unread in a Near Fine clamshell box. Clamshell has a few light scuffs and a....
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Vintage oversize Swedish still photograph from the 1961 film. With the Svensk Filmindustri logo at the bottom right corner. In a typically heavy moment from the film, Max Von Sydow (Martin) and Lars Passgård (Minus) stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's cinematographer...
Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick International, 1939. Archive of five scripts from the 1939 film, including a Temporary draft script and four post-production scripts: 1939 One Line Continuity for the 1936 Swedish version, Cutting Continuity for a re-release (October 20, 1947), and two drafts, release and re-release, of the Dialogue Continuity...
N.p. N.p. 1945-1963. An archive of 19 mimeograph manuscripts and screenplays, many never published or produced, by W.R. Burnett. All identified by stamp, label or cover sheet as being from H.N. Swanson, Inc., Burnett's literary agent. The prolific author of more than 60 screenplays and two dozen novels, W.R. Burnett’s...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, presumably quite early on, as "John Ross Macdonald." Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Some fading to the topstain and spine panel lightly toned, else book is Fine. Jacket extremities lightly...
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. About Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is lightly chipped, with rubbing to the flap folds, and light soiling the the rear panel.
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Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar, and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from...
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. A collection of lighthearted stories by Zanuck, published at a point when his writing career (if one could call it that) was on the ropes, his screenwriting career was well on its way, and his great fame as a producer was yet to...