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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Four original costume designs intended for Jerry Lewis's character in the 1955 film "Artists and Models," with holograph notations and illustrations painted by costume designer Edith Head. The illustrations largely feature simple shirt-and-pants combinations. One, a white t-shirt and nerdily rolled-up blue jeans, features a silk...

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N.p. N.p. circa early 1950s. Two vintage black and white photographs advertising the legendary Ohrbach's department store in the Wilshire Prudential Insurance Company building (today home of the Screen Actors Guild). An strong example the apex of its mid-century design in Los Angeles. Stamped on the verso by Woro Studio...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Shot by Jean Schmidt for the French magazine Cinema, with stamps for both parties on the verso. A cinematic experiment tailor made for Welles, in which three actors portray two...

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New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script, with "Budgeting" in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Notations in holograph blue and black ink throughout.A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the mid-late...

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New York: Pascal Covici, 1928. First Edition, preceding all others. One of 750 copies (this being No. 141) published for subscribers. Tan and gold paper over boards, quarterbound in dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in black on the front board. Deep yellow topstain...

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Daytona Beach, FL: N.p. 1958. Collection of 24 vintage vernacular photographs documenting the final NASCAR race at Dayton Beach, Florida, 1958. Occasional holograph pencil notations or rubber stamps to the versos. The photos in this collection document the final year the iconic Daytona NASCAR race took place on two miles...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Draft script for the 1944 film, complete through page 94, scene 203. The remainder is not present, but the condition of the script would suggest that this draft is as issued. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with notations in holograph pencil and...

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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the Blackmon to author Peggy Gaddis (Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, 1895-1966) on the front endpaper, in the year of publication: "Affectionately, to the Best of Friends / Peggy Gaddis / From the author / Anita Blackmon (Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith) /...

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New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. Octavo, two volumes. First American Edition. Published one year after the English first (and correct first) edition, and a Canadian edition. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles and spine rule, top page edges gilt, single rule in blind on the front boards. Maps present at the...

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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage contact sheet containing 12 test images of a sultry Kim Novak in a somewhat otherworldly parlor room setting, shot by noted photographer Peter Basch for the 1955 film. With Basch's name and studio address along two margins of the recto, and two different...

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France: Cinedis, Circa 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical notations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph pencil, several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1962 film, showing directed Quine scrutinizing the setup of a dinner scene with Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak. Based on the short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp, first published by "Colliers" in 1956...

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964. First Edition in hardcover, originally published as a paperback original by Fawcett Gold Medal under the pseudonym Harry Longbaugh. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "9 Sept 80 / For Doug Pagen / William Goldman."Basis for the superb 1968 thriller directed...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early treatment for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The...

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Italy: Nepi Film, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1961 film. A candid aerial photograph of Mastroianni, Moreau, and two other cast members conversing around a table. With a stamp for Telecine and a few notations on the verso.The second film in the trilogy that begins with...

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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....

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Some of the usual toning to page edges, and a few nicks to the jacket, else a lovely copy. Basis for the groundbreaking 1954 western directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his notations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Seventh Revised Shooting Final script for the 1946 film. A few notations in holograph pencil, and a single typeover, throughout. Includes two vintage reference still photographs from the film.Early examples of this script state W. Somerset Maugham as the sole screenwriter, commissioned in mid-1945 by...

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London: Methuen, 1918. First Edition. A collection of short stories, written by the prolific, early twentieth century British husband-and-wife mystery writing team.Very Good in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Pages significantly toned though still somewhat supple. Jacket with minor chipping along the top and bottom edge...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / APJAC Productions / Rollins-Joffe Productions, 1971. Revised Shooting script for the 1972 film. A comedy that is pretty difficult to overestimate: even though it was not directed by Woody Allen, it was the template for the many great films he would subsequently write and direct in...

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Los Angeles: Beacon Productions, 1946. Final draft script for the 1947 film. Copy likely belonging to an uncredited costume designer, with notations in holograph pencil throughout. Groucho Marx's first solo film appearance, and his first with a real mustache as opposed to one made with grease paint. Marx plays an...

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Sherman Oaks, CA: Republic Pictures, 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. Screenplay by noted screenwriter Steve Fisher.One sheet folded once as issued, 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine, with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages.Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Lyons...

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Paris: Paris Audiovisuel, 1988. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by Alice Springs to Robin Gibson of the National Portrait Gallery in London: "Robin / What a wonderful time of my life it was with you and Terence at the N.P.G. / London / 17/11/88."Robin Gibson worked at...

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France: Euro International Film, 1972. Vintage borderless oversize photograph from the 1972 film, showing director Jean-Pierre Melville making a point to actors Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set. With the stamp of photographer J.P. Bonnotte on the verso. A police detective, played by Delon in a switch from...

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London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in plain brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.

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New York: The Living Theatre, 1961. Original flyer for an exhibition of six films by Maya Deren held on February 20 and 27, 1961 at the Bleecker Street Cinema, and March 6 and 13, 1961 at The Living Theater. The flyer notes that music for two of the films, "Meshes...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Final draft script for the 1948 film. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward. The story of a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and who we then follow through her long recovery at a mental institution. Filming...

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Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs." Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1976 film. This set dated 1975, one year before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement.A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter...

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New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition. Fine in a lovely, Near Fine dust jacket. A bit of the usual fading to the jacket spine (but only to the titling), some slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners, else an exceptionally sharp, unread copy of Hillerman's first book.

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Japan: Toho Company, Ltd. 1964. Original Japanese B2 poster for the 1964 film. With the English language title for the film discreetly rubber stamped onto the poster in two spots, and with a tiny copyright notice in black at the bottom right corner for the Toho Company, dated 1964.A masterpiece...

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Germany: Filmverleih Die Lupe GmbH, 1960. German poster for the original release of the legendary 1960 jazz documentary, set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, shot in high style by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern. In addition to the iconic figures noted on the poster, the...

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Author's first book.Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a tiny touch of wrinkle at the crown, else pristine.

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1914. First Edition. Although uncredited in the final production, Edginton’s novel is the basis for the stage play "My Lady Friends" (The New York Times, “One Farce – Seven Authors,” December 14, 1919). The play, in turn, became the basis for the Broadway musical "No, No, Nanette,"...

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