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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Original one sheet for the 1955 film. The seventh of nine spectacular revisionist Westerns Anthony Mann directed between 1950 and 1960, and his fifth with James Stewart. One of the best and leanest films by the acclaimed director-actor pairing, one you will hear come...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Draft British script for the 1968 film. A high spot for Vanessa Redgrave in the 1960s, a story that follows the life of the free spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. From Dan Pavlides at Allmovie: Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered the traditional...

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Paris: Theatre Marigny /, 1934. Vintage double weight promotional photograph of Josephine Baker from the 1934 staging of the 1875 opera. With the Studio Piaz logo at the bottom right, and a credit for Baker in white titling along the bottom margin.8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine.

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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...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1956. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and then-husband Arthur Miller arriving in London for Monroe's filming of "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957) with Laurence Olivier. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with photo agency stamps and copyright sticker. 7 x 9.25 inches (18 x 23 cm). Near Fine.

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France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF) / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink notations with the name of the...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1953. Final White script for the 1954 film. A truly bizarre drama, set in South America in 1901, wherein chocolate plantation magnate Heston must put off divorcing his feisty new bride in order to allow her to help him stave off an invasion by a legion of...

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N.p. N.p., 1974. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the March 3, 1974 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features both Nancy, Aunt Fritzi, and Nancy's dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of...

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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....

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Los Angeles: National General Pictures, 1969. Final shooting script for the 1970 film, "Darker than Amber," based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald, featuring his series character Travis McGee. Written for the screen by Ed Waters and starring Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel. Boldly SIGNED by Rod Taylor...

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New York: Exhibitor's Trade Review, 1920. First Edition. Magazine-style format featuring biographical essays by Hastings, profusely illustrated with reproduced images from Griffith's films and newspaper articles about the director. One of the best and earliest overviews of the legendary director. 9.5 x 12 inches (24 x 30.25 cm), printed saddle-stitched...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983. Original press kit for the 1973 music documentary chronicling David Bowie's final live performance as Ziggy Stardust. Included in the press kit are four vintage black and white film still photographs and 21 pages of production information. Shot on location with only four cameras in...

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Paris: Le Cercle du nouveau livre, 1963. First French Edition, preceding all others, one of an unspecified limitation of numbered copies. Published in the US in 1963 (Planet of the Apes) then in the UK in 1964 (Monkey Planet), and finally the basis for the imaginative and very successful 1968...

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New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg to his top editor, Saxe Commins, in the year of publication on the verso of the half-title page: "For Saxe / Dear friend and guide through all these many years. Looking forward to many more fruitful hours and years of...

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Ealing Green: Ealing Studios, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 British horror anthology film. Original typescript and carbon typescript leaves bound throughout. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped SCENARIO DEPARTMENT on the front wrapper. Brief notations throughout in holograph pencil. An architect named Walter (Johns) hosts a party with guests that he...

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Paris: Productions Sigma, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1939 film. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Raymond Voinquel, with his name in tiny print at the bottom left corner of the image, and the film title at the bottom right. A striking image, shot from the...

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New York: Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Boldly INSCRIBED by the author opposite the title page: "Best wishes of / A. Merritt." Basis for the 1936 film, "The Devil Doll," directed by Tod Browning, written for the screen by Garrett Fort, Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim, and starring Lionel Barrymore...

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cliff Robertson, who portrayed the title character in the 1968 film adaptation of Keyes' novel, "Charly." Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An impeccably fresh, Fine copy of Keyes' science fiction classic, normally found well-worn. Basis for the 1968...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Based on the actual events and judgments in Nuremburg, Germany following World War II, an American tribunal tries and convicts four judges who acted by means of the law to promote the legal status of eugenics, violence...

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N.p. Societe Generale des Films, 1933. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1933 sound reissue of the 1928 French film, a 61-minute cut of the film featuring narration by radio star David Ross and no intertitles. One of the most significant films in cinema history, directed by Carl Theodor...

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Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED by the publisher Oscar Baradinsky (later Oscar Baron) to his friend the writer D.S. Savage. One of 750 copies, published in the Alicat Bookshop Press' Outcast series. An uncommon and key document in experimental cinema, published the...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. First Draft script for the 1982 film, "Creepshow," directed by George A. Romero, written for the screen by Stephen King, and starring King, Ed Harris, Ted Danson, and Leslie Nielsen. SIGNED by Romero on the title page: "Stay scared! / George Romero." This an early...

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Cambridge: Sun and Moon, 1985, 1986. First Edition. Three volumes, with each volume SIGNED by the author on the title page. "City of Glass" in the first issue jacket without the publisher's seal on the spine. Each volume Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing to the...

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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1961. First Edition. Beautifully and cryptically inscribed by Cage to longtime friend Ellsworth Snyder, on the printed front endpaper: "'for' Ellsworth Snyder [1] (and our shared devotion to Gertrude) 'in memory of my having ridden past there' in a VW microbus * 'when I was' 50** 'years...

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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: Galeria Bonino, 1967. Complete set of four matching exhibition catalogs for a staggered series of installations by avant-garde film director Robert Breer, held at the Galeria Bonino in New York between 1965 and 1970. The first catalog is for an exhibition at the gallery titled "Constructions and Films,"...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. First Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker. It's a little difficult to believe the Robert Altman was not the first choice to direct the film, as it became the film that, as much as any of his...

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Talent Associates Ltd./N.S.I. / ABC Pictures, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title, and title of the source material, "The Siege of Trencher’s Farm." Based on Gordon M. Williams’s 1969 novel. Director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter David Z. Goodman kept only the central concept...

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N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage photograph of writer, director, and artist Jean Cocteau by Boris Lipnitzki, taken on the set of his 1934 play, "La machine infernal." With the stamp of photo agency Rogers-Viollet crediting Lipnitzki on the verso. The play, based on the Greek myth of Oedipus, premiered on April 10...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1936. Vintage sepia toned double weight photograph from the filming of the 1936 Universal Studios newsreel "You Can't Get Away With It." Shot in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, on October 14, 1936, the photo shows Hoover filming his Assistant...

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Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gregory Peck to film critic and academic Judith Crist, who provides the introduction: "For Judith / With great appreciation and warm regards / Gregory Peck." Laid in are two very interesting pieces of ephemera: a photocopy of a rave review...

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo, three volumes. Beginning with Roman Britain and ending with theatre of the late 1990s, the collection presents a picture of the evolution of British theatre. Includes a bibliography and index. Contributors include Dennis Kennedy, Sophie Nield, Jan McDonald, John Bull, and Liz...

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Paris: Jolly Film, 1967. Original French petite poster for the 1967 French film. Monsieur Hulot first came to the attention of the world during his beach vacation in "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" (1953), then reappeared in a modern French neighborhood in "Mon Oncle" (1958). The third feature finds him in the...

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Los Angeles: Famous Artists Productions, 1967. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1967 film comedy. With the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon on the verso. Born in Rome, Praturlon (better known simply as Pierluigi) embarked upon a career in photography in 1947. The young...

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New York: Various, 1953-1957. Archive of three rare ephemeral items (two posters, one handbill) for early performances by John Cage in the 1950s, all associated with his seminal work as a founder of the New York School. Each flyer represents single event of significance for the composer, and each an...

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New York: Documentext, 1982. First Edition. deluxe issue, one of 200 numbered copies (this being No. 71) SIGNED by Brakhage. Fine in a Fine example of the unprinted laminated dust jacket, as issued. A collection of essays, letters, and interviews by Brakhage, perhaps the most important and influential experimental filmmaker...

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