Paris: Editions Universitaires / Classiques du Cinema no. 21, 1966. Later printing, trade softcover. INSCRIBED by legendary director Howard Hawks on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / Howard Hawks." The genre-hopping director of such classics as "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Big Sleep" (1946), "The Thing from Another...
Los Angeles: Pan Arts / American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film comedy. Director George Roy Hill's working copy, with his typically profuse holograph notations throughout, as well as handwritten drafts and drawings for establishing shots, scene setups, screen credits, sequences, ideas, etc. Also included are...
Mexico City, Mexico: Excelsior, 1975. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and signed simply as "Julio," which is typical of how he signed for friends. Text in Spanish. A critique of large corporations' reach into Latin America, designed as a superhero...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1928. Original oversize tabloid style pressbook for the 1928 silent film. With many images of the iconic Louise Brooks, both illustrated and photographed, and replete with many essays on the making of the film. Included as well is an illustrated section showing some of the various available...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless press photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky directing his third film, "The Holy Mountain." Mimeo snipe on the verso credited to the director's Mexican production company, Procinemex, describing the details of the photo in Spanish. 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24 x 19.5 cm). Near Fine.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good or better example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket has tiny chips at the corners and is frayed at the spine ends, with some clear archival reinforcement at the verso. Still presents quite well. A classic British...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to still photographer Ron Munkasci, with his name in holograph ink to the title page. Henry Jaglom's directorial debut. Tuesday Weld plays an aging, mentally disturbed flower child who lives alone in New York and...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers’ rubber stamp also to the versos. Based on the 1938...
Santa Barbara, CA: Cordelia Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 15 roman-numbered copies issued (this being No. III), SIGNED by both Kenneth Millar and Margaret Millar. Brief owner notation on the rear endpaper, now partially erased, else Fine in full blue leather, with a photo of the two authors with...
Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1985. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The reported first printing of only 500 copies were mainly shipped to libraries. An early collection of stories by the author.
New York: Vanguard, 1959. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The Nobel prize winning author's first book, and basis for the 2001 film directed by Ismail Merchant. Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint splash to the top page edge. Jacket...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To B.T. Harts / with best wishes of the author / Jim Tully." With Tully's homemade "address label" on the front pastedown, with Tully's name and address in holograph black ink, in his hand. The...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis / Alliance Books, 1943. First Edition. Association copy, lengthily INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts, citing New York City as his currently location and noting in part: "I have not forgotten... how instrumental you were in launching me...
London: Merton Park Studios, 1960. Final Shooting script for the 1960 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 1, episode 1 of the British series, "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre." Based on Wallace's 1918 novel. John Lexman, is a murder-mystery writer, happily married but with financial troubles, leading him to borrow...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Original manuscript for a draft of legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor's early song, "Knockin' Around the Zoo," composed shortly after his stay at the Belmont Psychiatric Hospital for severe depression when he was 17 years old. To the best of our knowledge, this is the earliest known handwritten...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Entire screenplay and wrappers bound within red cloth binding with gilt title printed on the spine. Exploitation horror film directed by Michael Winner and starring Cristina Raines as a beautiful, neurotic fashion model who is plagued by demons...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches (119...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing Peter Falk's shadowed countenance. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Emidela / United Artists, 1969. Collection of vintage black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, and mounted slides and transparencies from the 1969 Italian-French film, "Burn!," here under the original Spanish title "Quemada." From the collection of Sam Gilman, with his name on several of the film processing envelopes in...
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "9 July, 1976 / To Joan Alhadeff - The realest lady of all the real ladies / To Morrie Alhadeff - Half angel, half hustler, all street, and all smart - / With...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Collection of 80 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1938 film. Original brown card wrappers present with film title printed on the front wrapper. Men have been going missing after withdrawing money from a local bank. The local police chief, (Tombes) together with a....
New York City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph notations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20th 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances closing January 22nd, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel...
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UK: Attica Film Company, 1957. Collection of 234 vintage French photographs for the 1957 UK film. Printed in Paris, where the film opened in October 1957, a month following the British release. Housed in original box with "Les Stencils Altic Fabriques en France" paper labels, and French promotional "week of...
France: Compagnie Cinematographie de France, 1959. Vintage borderless press photograph from the 1959 film, showing director Robert Bresson on a Paris metro set, going over a script while actor Martin LaSalle and crew look on. With the stamp of French photo agency Dalmas and holograph pencil notations regarding layout and...
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London: Black Dog Publishing, 1999. First Edition, originally issued as a trade softcover original. This copy rebound by Wiering Books in gray cloth with black titles and rule and an original Throbbing Gristle thunderbolt patch inset onto the front board. Artistically INSCRIBED by Throbbing Gristle frontman and COUM founder Genesis...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1942-1943 season, billed as RKO's "Victory Program," to commemorate the studio's World War II efforts. Featured in this annual are full color advertisements for Disney’s "Bambi," as well as 18 single-reel Disney featurettes, two Tarzan...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Early Draft script for the 1964 film. A treatment unrecorded in IMDB, as the final rewrite and screen credit went to novelist-screenwriter Sally Benson. A superb, unheralded 1960s thriller in which an innocent man is convicted of murder, spends 10 years in an insane...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969-1974. Two vintage double weight photographs of The Rolling Stones, circa 1969-1974, with Mick Taylor in the lineup after the departure of Brian Jones. With the stamp of photographer Curt Gunther on the verso of each photograph. From the archive of "Cash Box" magazine. First photograph 9...
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New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Rem Koolhaas on the title page, in the year after publication: "To Rochelle / Rem Koolhaas / 1-2-96." Koolhaas' magnum opus, a profusely illustrated guide to his process. Conceptual in its design and execution, much like the architect's work. Near Fine...
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film, "The Beginning of the End," directed by Bert I. Gordon, based on a story by Gordon (indicated here, though not credited in the film), written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn, and starring Peter Graves...
Culver City, CA: Kelso Film Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Issued a full 18 months prior to shooting. Based on the 1975 novel by Jack Higgins. Colonel Steiner (Caine) is a German soldier sent to England to abduct the British Prime Minister, Winston...
Rome: Cino del Duca, 1960. Vintage oversize double weight borderless glossy press photograph by Enrico Appetito from the 1960 film. Bold notation on the verso noting that the photograph is from the archives of the French cinephile magazine, “Cinema 60.” The first film in Antonioni's famed trilogy, followed by La Notte...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely notated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Laid in is a vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment...
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Tony Hillerman's original typescript for his novel "The Fallen Man," with his original holograph corrections in ink. Housed in a plain orange publisher's box, with a memo from Hillerman, on his stationery, affixed to the lid. The history of the manuscript is explained in three documents...
Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Edition. One of 100 lettered copies (this being No. 41) SIGNED by both Barney Imes and Richard Ford, with Ford contributing the introduction. A stunning color monograph of the juke joints of Mississippi, birthplace of the Delta blues, many of which have...