Paris: Editions 213 / Steidl, 2015. Deluxe Limited Edition portfolio. One of five copies (this being copy No. 1) of photographer Sophie Bramly's portfolio of 47 matte finish photographic prints in both black and white and color, depicting the emerging hip hop scene of 1980s New York. Signed and numbered...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of...
Burbank, CA: Batjac Productions / Warner Brothers, 1972. Revised Final script for the 1973 film. Fast-paced John Wayne train heist film, with Ann-Margret starring as a widow who needs to recover gold stolen and stashed by her late husband. She persuades a gunhand named Lane (Wayne) to ride into Mexico...
New York: Dial Press, 1958. First printing of this edition (first published in 1929). INSCRIBED by W.R. Burnett to press agent and Hollywood figure Jimmy Starr in the year of publication on the second blank: "Apr 14 '58 / Dear Jimmie / Here's the new edition of Little Caesar. I....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Original dialogue notes for the 1933 Tod Browning film, "Fast Workers." Handwritten notes on two pages of legal-size notebook paper in holograph pencil, presumed to belong to one of the screenwriters for the film. The notes are as follows, with several lines marked through in various...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. Obsessed with the teenage trends of the time including going to the beach, jazz music and progressive attitudes toward sex, this film features a gang of high school students having fun at an amusement park, including one harrassing...
Tokyo: Shochiku Films Ltd., 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics...
1980. Draft script for the 1980 stage version of "Harold and Maude," adapted by Colin Higgins from his 1971 novel and screenplay. Actress Ruth Ford's copy, effusively inscribed to her on the title page by Higgins, actress Janet Gaynor (who played Maude, 23 years after her last film appearance), Keith...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Final script for the 1966 film. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his notations throughout. 1960s remake of the 1939 John Ford Western. Studio self-wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, dated June 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriter Landon. 130 leaves...
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...
Rome: Igor Film, 1966. Two oversize borderless double weight black and white photographs from the 1966 film. With a few identifying notations in holograph pencil and ink on the verso. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on...
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New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Joy Williams' scarce second novel, which many claim was "killed" from going into a second printing by an especially scathing review by New York Times writer Anatole Broyard. The novel would remain out of print until...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1934 film. The second Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller, with Jane famously portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. One of the best Tarzan films, and a landmark film in the history of film censorship. A big budget followup to MGM's first...
Paris: Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film, circa 1936. Draft script for the 1937 French film. An English-language version of the text issued by the Hakim brothers for use in the US. James M. Cain and John Howard Lawson adapted the story for a US film version in 1938...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1983. Original Press Kit for the seminal 1983 crime film, "Scarface," directed by Brian DePalma, written for the screen by Oliver Stone, and starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. 18 still photographs from the film, all black-and-white silver gelatin prints. Alongside the...
Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film...
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits...
N.p. N.p., 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced version of the film, dated February 21, 1967, the year of the source novel and nearly a decade prior to the eventual film’s release. Written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson based on their novel. Perhaps the first of...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940. First American Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A spectacular copy. Lord Peter Wimsey.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First American Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper: "To Mrs. Norman / from / Liam O'Flaherty / Sept 27th 1925." The author's landmark first novel, a Haycraft Queen cornerstone, and basis for two films, one in...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage candid double weight photograph of the cast and crew of "The Night of the Hunter," on the set of the film, including director Charles Laughton, stars Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish, director of photography Stanley Cortez, all the children from the film's final...
New York: Arbor House, 1975. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Block as Jill Emerson on the title page. The author's second book under this female pseudonym, as nice a copy as we have seen.
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1977. Revised Shooting script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones, who played a police officer in the film, with his name in blue holograph ink to the front wrapper and his notations throughout. Six pages of call sheets and production information...
New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. First Edition. Basis for the classic 1937 screwball comedy, written for the screen by Eric Hatch (among others) and starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. Fine in a Very Good plus, unrestored example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is bright, with a few...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition. The author's first book, with art deco jacket design by Bobritsky, priced $2.00. From the collection of Otto Penzler. Woolrich's first novel, one of six novels written in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other Jazz Age writers, before his permanent turn to...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1983. Shooting script for the 1984 film. With a few holograph notations in ink and pencil throughout. A teenager moves to a rural town and comes into conflict with the local preacher and his "no dancing" ordinance. The film's soundtrack reached number 1 on the Billboard charts...
New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Draft script for the 1930 film. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel, "Victory," the second of ten feature adaptations, preceded by Maurice Tourneur's 1919 film. Heyst (Arlen) is a hermit on an island who offers shelter...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Post-production Release Dialogue Script for the 1946 film. The only script associated with the legendary noir that we have ever seen, and presumably the earliest continuity, dated 7 months prior to the film's release. "The Blue Dahlia" got off to a shaky start, as Raymond Chandler...
Tokyo: Toei Animation, circa 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun," also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. A milestone in the history of Japanese animation, heralded as...
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Venice: Venice International Film Festival, 1952. Director John Ford's framed International Award from the Venice International Film Festival for his classic 1952 film, "The Quiet Man." Ford also received a nomination for the Golden Lion Award at the same festival and went on to win the 1953 Academy Award for...
New York: Aperture, 1972. First Edition, first issue with "Two Girls in Identical Raincoats." Published in conjunction with a posthumous exhibition of the photographer's work at the Museum of Modern Art which helped establish her deserving reputation. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood, and a prescient one in terms of LGBT interests, which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myron...
Berlin: August Scherl, 1928. First Edition, preceding all others, including the movie tie-in edition, published later the same year by Scherl. Rare in dust jacket. Basis for the German silent film classic by Fritz Lang, with a screenplay adapted by von Harbou from her novel. Released in the US as...
New York: Walker, 1965. First Edition. A late collection of stories, notoriously difficult to find in collector's condition. Fine and unread in a beautiful, about Fine dust jacket with only the most minute rubbing at the spine ends and folds.