Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. A satirical neo-noir following a professional hit man who is contracted by a local mob boss to take out the competition, but soon finds himself the target of several personal attacks in retaliation. Shot on location in Seattle...
Los Altos, CA: National General Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Rare. Obscure documentary about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, exploring the possibility of a second gunman having been involved. Folded as issued. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1973 film. A musical based on Mark Twain's classic coming-of-age adventure novel, that introduced an entirely new generation to Twain's story, with a very hip cast from today's perspective, including Warren Oates, a young Jodie Foster, and the great...
Amsterdam: Paradiso, 1981. Vintage multi-color silkscreen poster for a May 29, 1981 performance by Prince at Paradiso, Amsterdam, designed by Martin Kaye. Dutch band Streetlight, listed as the supporting act on the poster, didn't actually open for Prince, but played earlier the same night in the upstairs secondary auditorium. Prince's first...
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage poster for a performance by jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin at the Gyllene Cirkeln (Golden Circle) club in Stockholm, Sweden, circa 1960s. Text in Swedish, with a brief biography of Griffin, noting this is his first visit to Sweden, and he is accompanied by Jimmy Woode...
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Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Collection of ten vintage borderless photographs (five black-and-white and five in color) from the 1975 film. Generally considered the peak of the collaborative work on video done by Godard and Mieville, presenting scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family, with a special focus on...
Tokyo: Toho Company, circa 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. With the stamp of cast/crew member Takahashi Toshihiro to the page edges, and holograph ink annotations to the rear wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese. A film that bought depictions of modern life into Japanese films of the 1960s, particularly...
London: Compton-Tekli Film Productions / Sir Nigel Films, 1965. Draft script for the 1965 horror film, here under the working title "Fog." With a single holograph ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the number 8. Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson team up once again to stop Jack the Ripper from...
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 Passgard (Minus) stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's...
[unknown]: Brut Productions, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 television film, here under the working title "Welcome to Xanadu," which originally aired on ABC on October 10, 1975. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph ink annotations on the front wrapper and title page. Based on the 1968...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Sueko Yasumoto's novel, and one of the first examples of media dealing with the plight of zainchi or ethnically Korean Japanese citizens, and their identity and struggles. One man has always worked faithfully for the Toho...
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Austria: Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner, Circa 1947. Original 1947 Austrian A1 poster for the 1935 French film, the first sound adaptation of the novel by Dostoyevsky, and still a key version of the often-filmed story. Design by Hans Hillmann. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full...
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Paris: Albina Productions, 1971. Original French theatrical release poster for the first of three films made by Robert Bresson in the 1970s. "Quatre nuits d'un reveur" is based on a short story by Dostoevsky titled "White Nights," originally published in the magazine "Annals of the Fatherland" in 1846. A typically...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage program for the Royal Premiere of the 1962 film at the Odeon Leicester Square on Monday, December 10. Laid in with the program is a small invitation to a party at the ballroom at Grosvenor House following the film. From the collection of...
New York: B.W. Huebsch / Viking Press, 1925. First Edition. Very humorously INSCRIBED by co-author Joseph Freeman to Rex Stout and his wife on the front endpaper, with a drawing of a naked man and woman embracing: "For Rex and Fay / Casanova's Homecoming; or, The Technique of Peaceful Economic...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1956 film, here under the working title "Children of the Covered Wagon." Walt Disney's working copy, with "Walt Disney," in holograph ink on upper left margin of Walt Disney Productions label on the front wrapper (not in Disney's hand), and...
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Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree, from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager (Van Heflin) is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Copy belonging to crew member Susan Bender (the film's assistant location auditor), with her name in holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page. A blend of science fiction and romance that has over...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. Based on a 1946 children’s novel by Michio Takeyama, about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an...
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK edition. While the UK edition of Stout's book is itself a rarity, this proof likely the only surviving copy. Found in the author's attic after his death. Very Good in brown wrappers, title label on the spine. Square and...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Library Edition, but not an ex-library copy. About Fine in brown cloth covered boards and a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. Just a hint of a spine lean, with a gift inscription on the front end paper. Jacket is bright and intact...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Second Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film. Cast list with holograph ink and pencil annotations tipped in, and distribution receipt signed by composer and lyricist George Marion Jr. laid in. A young man is set to inherit a large sum from his uncle on the...
New York: Roger L. Stevens / Joel Schenker, 1963. Two draft revisions of the script for the 1963 play. Based on the 1961 memoir, "My Life in Court," by Louis Nizer. Copies belonging to actor Van Heflin, with his noted throughout. Van Heflin played the lead character in the play...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here under a working title, "The Heretic." Illegible name in holograph ink on one page. Sequel to William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), and the second of five Exorcist films. A priest investigates the death of Max von Sydow's...
London: Arthur Barker, 1937. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the 1956 British film noir "Soho Incident" (released as "Spin a Dark Web" in the US), directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Faith Domergue and Lee Patterson. Very Good in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Moderate offsetting...
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso ("Robert et Raymond Hakim"), and a printed list of credits in French. Buñuel's first...
New York: Signet Books, 1964. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback. SIGNED by the author on the title page to publisher Kurt Enoch. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Webb's 1963 novel follows emotionally lost college graduate Benjamin Braddock and his...
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha, 2009. First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 50 copies (this being No. 15) signed by the photographer Eduardo Hernandez Santos, with two signed original prints all housed in a gray clamshell case. A photographic exploration of one...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1963. Archive of 15 vintage borderless photographs from the 1963 film, each photograph showing director Alain Resnais on the set, often accompanied by cast, crew, or camera and lighting set ups. With holograph annotations on the verso of a few photographs. In a small seaside town...
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N.p. N.p., 1970. Second Draft script for the 1974 film. In 1969, Julian Barry was hired by Columbia Pictures to write the screenplay for a dramatic biographical account of comedian Lenny Bruce's life. Shortly thereafter the project was delayed, reportedly due to studios' demand for romances as a result of Arthur...
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
London: John Lane, 1917. First Edition. A classic of horror fiction from Robbins, about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Basis for two films, the first a....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration...
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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915. Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 French silent film, a fourth wall breaking moment featuring actors Josephine Baker and Adolphe Cande. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. A beautiful, lonely islander falls in love with a visiting French engineer, unaware of his forthcoming nuptials to...
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