Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage double weight, borderless photograph of Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, and Maurice Chevalier from the 1960 musical film, based on the 1953 Broadway musical by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby...
Rome: Copisteria Attilia, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "Stress." With two holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page noting the name of the film. Text in English. Two young hippies who smuggle pornography for a living hide out in a....
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....
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Andy Warhol lying amongst his "Cow Wallpaper" (silkscreen on wallpaper, 1971), from his May 1971 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Jack Mitchell. Mimeo snipe on verso. The Whitney Museum of American Art's 1971 Andy Warhol Retrospective...
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London: J. Arthur Rank, 1957. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to novelist and screenwriter John Masters, with his name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper, his holograph pencil annotations to virtually every page, and two handwritten pages stapled to the verso of the front wrapper...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC], 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel...
Paris: Les Films Imperia / Films Around the World, 1960. Original French pressbook for the 1960 film. A fascinating object, created in a die-cut style we have never seen duplicated, made by Films Around the World, the distributor that picked up the film for international distribution. The only copy we...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an English-language stage adaptation of Jean Renoir's 1960 French play that was ultimately produced as a televised stage production on the series program "Hollywood Television Theater" on WNET in New York, on February 3, 1973. The production starred Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director John Huston and playwright Tennessee Williams on location for the 1964 film. With the stamp of National Film Archive on the verso. Based on Williams' 1961 play. An alcoholic former priest finds himself caught between the attentions of...
N.p. Caddo Company, 1930. Vintage program for the premiere of the 1930 Pre-Code film, which was famously held as a gala event at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Howard Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production, a story about World War I combat pilots, today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action...
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1958. First American Edition, and first English language edition, originally published in Austria in 1955 by Universal Edition. First issue of an eight issue journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, this...
Paris: Dargaud Films, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 French-British film. Based on the "Asterix" comic book series by writer Goscinny and illustrator Uderzo, a series that began in 1959, serialized in Pilote magazine, and ran until Goscinny's death in 1977, afterwards written by Uderzo until 2009. The series...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. The author's first book. Basis for the classic 1963 film, "Hud," directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Melvyn Douglas, the latter two in Oscar-winning performances. Easily Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A strip...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987. Second Revised Draft script for the 1988 film. Copy belonging to "B. Daniel" with their name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. A crackerjack thriller, probably the best action film of the 1980s, based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel, "Nothing Lasts Forever." The film...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play, which premiered on October 7 at the Theatre de Lys in New York. Copy No. 38 notated in holograph ink on the title page. An open homage to Homer's "Odyssey," wherein a big game hunter returns home after eight years away only...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage matte-finish photograph of actor, dancer, and activist Josephine Baker, inscribed by Baker in holograph ink to the recto: "Pour la maison / un souvenir de Josephine Baker / 1940" ("For the house / a memento from Josephine Baker / 1940"). With the logo of Harcourt photography...
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Frank Partos on the half title page: "For Frank Partos / with love / Raymond Chandler." Partos and Chandler co-wrote the screenplay for "And Now Tomorrow" (1944), one of Chandler's few screenwriting efforts. As a screenwriter, Partos was responsible for some...
N.p. N.p., 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike, standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni, using...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Heavily corrected original typescript for a story by Dieter Dengler and ghost-writer Trevor Armbrister, "Dengler" (here with the hand-corrected title, "Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison"). The story first appeared in the December 3, 1966 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post," and was adapted many...
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New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976. First Edition. Basis for the 1983 television film directed by Gary Nelson and starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. SIGNED on the front endpapers, half-title, and title page by Nelson, Cash, Griffith, and other actors in the film, including Robert Schenkkan and Earl Poole...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1956-1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois, satirizing (or perhaps elucidating) the dress habits of their distinguished friend, American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s, both under the tutelage of William Styron, while both of them were...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the 1931 film, with annotations in holograph pencil, primarily in later half of script, largely regarding dialogue, but also setting and shots. A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, exotic dancer and courtesan, who was executed by France...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience, particularly through World War II, told through the perspective of a woman named Tome, born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat, repeating the...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John M. Stahl. Included with the book is an extraordinary original bi-fold program for the April 17, 1931 Hollywood premiere of Stahl's film at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, printed in black and gold...
Troy, MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1969. First Draft script for the 1971 film. With several annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. Here under the working title "Somewhere in the Mountains There is a Last Valley." Based on the 1959 novel by J.B. Pick. Cited often by actor Michael Caine...
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Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1952. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs, seven borderless, from the 1952 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipes on the verso, and all with holograph ink and pencil annotations as well as the stamp of Svensk Filmindustri. While vacationing at a summer home, four sisters-in-law tell each other...
Mexico City: Libreria Madero, 1969. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Slim quarto, perfect-bound softcover. A cornerstone of Latin American pop photography, and included in "The Latin American Photobook." Designed by Vicente Rojo, with photographs by Hector Garcia, one of the most important Mexican photojournalists. A private edition published by a....
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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...
London: Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures, 1963. Final shooting script for the 1963 film, "The Yellow Teddybears," here under both that title and the film's working title, "The Yellow Golliwog," and released in the US as "Gutter Girls." Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and written for the screen by...
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New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black...
N.p. Paramount Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System," about a plainclothes police officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department, only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated...
Burbank, CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates, 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter, released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1978. While written as...
N.p. N.p., 1967. Archive consisting of 42 vintage vernacular photographs of the Camrod Corporation, a motorcycle and motor scooter dealer and repair shop in New York City. Included are 15 loose black-and-white photographs, 7 black-and-white photographs stapled to the inside of a manila folder with two business cards and a....
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N.p. Alfieri, 1969. Vintage oversize double weight color photograph of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, at an outdoor press conference held in front of the Carlton Hotel at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hopper was awarded the Cannes First Film Prize. Shot by Marc Alfieri, and signed by him in...
New York: Music Theatre, Inc, circa 1960. Draft script for the 1965 play. Revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," two...