New York: William Morrow, 1946. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gardner to the great American mystery writer Raymond Chandler. “To Raymond Chandler, from a fan. Yours, Erle.” Additionally signed in full and dated February 1948. An extraordinary association copy, linking two of the giants of American detective fiction, both Grand Masters...
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso ("Robert et Raymond Hakim"), and a printed list of credits in French. Buñuel's first...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Revised Final Script for the 1967 film musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," directed by George Roy Hill, written for the screen by Richard Morris, and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing. Oscar-winning director George Roy Hill's working copy, with his...
Paris: N.p., Circa 1980. Vintage borderless photograph of mystery writer Georges Simenon in his office, as photographed by Pierre Vauthey. Photographer's rubber stamp, holograph pencil annotations, and a mimeograph text description in French and English to the verso. Best known as the creator of fictional French detective Jules Maigret, Georges...
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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Brighton, UK: The Rock Music Photographs of Ian Dickson, 2006. First Edition. Number 5 of an unspecified limitation of "DeLuxe" editions produced by photographer Ian Dickson, containing 7 black-and-white photographs struck from the original negatives, taken on June 13, 1977 for "Sounds" magazine during a performance by The Jam at...
N.p. N.p., 1959. Hand tinted woodcut by Kurt Seligmann in 1959 as a Christmas card, titled "Moor," SIGNED and dated in pencil by Seligmann just below the image, and further INSCRIBED to Amos Vogel: "We loved your card - with Jean Durand! / Season's greetings / Arlette and Kurt." Kurt Leopold...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter, Dwight Taylor, Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer, NY columnist, playwright and screenwriter, streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at...
Paris: Librairie d'art Louis Reynaud, 1931. Small folio. Portfolio by Alfred Janniot, INSCRIBED by Janniot on the title page. Additionally, an inscription on the front pastedown to John Amore is signed by six of the architects of Rockefeller Center and two of its most important contributing artists. The architects who...
Los Altos, CA: National General Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Rare. Obscure documentary about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, exploring the possibility of a second gunman having been involved. Folded as issued. Near Fine.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a small rubber stamp for the "Booth Memorial Hospital" on the front endpaper. Bump to the heel, some minute rubbing at the corners. An attractive copy of the author's fourth novel.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. INSCRIBED on the title page by actor John Derek to collector Nick Beck: "Nick -- This was a long time ago! John Derek." Based on the 1953 biography, "Prince of Players: Edwin Booth," by Eleanor Ruggles. An account...
Munich / Paris: UFA / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1933. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original French release of the 1933 film. With the UFA logo at the lower left corner of each. Each still mounted on UFA / ACE boards as issued, with credit for both studios and...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil notations on the verso. Known as the father of documentary, Flaherty mixed real life footage with staged events to capture portraits of people surviving in extreme environments in...
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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...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of 22 color photographs of automobile crashes testing highway safety hi-dro cushion cell barriers along an unopened section of I-95 in Philadelphia. Each photograph with a holograph reference number on the verso, one with a notation detailing the device being tested and location. Hi-dro cushion...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1961. Archive of material belonging to set director Jim Payne, largely related to the 1961 Jerry Lewis film "The Ladies Man." With a typed letter signed by Jerry Lewis and a second typed letter signed by Bobby Darin thanking Payne for his work on "Too Late Blues"...
N.p. N.p., 1969. Single page, carbon typescript (the original letter presumably sent to Burroughs, this copy from Southern's estate), single spaced, with several typeovers. A friendly, sassy letter to Burroughs, beginning with an expression of Southern's great anticipation of a visit from Burroughs: "Buzz along the rialto has it that...
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Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece--an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early Draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited as screenwriter on the title page. The screen credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Based on the 1973 novel by Lawrence Sanders. Notable both for being one of...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced 1964 British remake of Robert Siodmak's 1933 German-Austrian film (the remake directed by Siodmak as well), based on the 1913 novella "Brennendes Geheimmnis" by Stephan Zweig, and with Siodmak once again attached to direct. Copy belonging to screenwriter Arbeid, with his...
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...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Safari guide Van Heflin is hired to hunt murderer Abel McCracken in the wilds of Africa, though the guides motives may go beyond his assigned task. Pink titled wrappers, noted as Final Screenplay...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Collection of three reference photographs featuring Roman Polanski and Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by still photographer Laurie Turner. Two of the photos in this set reflect one another, one showing Polanski in the foreground and Deneuve in a mirror, and the...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition, a paperback original. Perfect bound in illustrated wrappers. Copy belonging to ex-Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam, and colorfully INSCRIBED by Spike Lee: "To David Puttnam / Thanks for everything / I appreciate it / Fuck Columbia!!! / love, Spike Lee." Housed in...
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London: Ealing Studios, 1947. Original British program for the 1947 film. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, and starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sally Ann Howes. This Dickens adaptation has gone down in critical history as being truly one of the most Dickensian, with a dark mood and attention...
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N.p. N.p., circa 1930s. Collection of 40 black-and-white photographs by Carl Van Vechten, printed on card stock, many as postcards, as was the case with many of the photographs he developed. The collection of photographs shows a variety of subjects and styles representing a little-seen side of Van Vechten, who...
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First Edition. An exceptionally attractive copy of this uncommon Burnett title, basis for the 1941 film, "Dance Hall," with Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Hanna 525.
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Distribution, 1976. Original US one sheet poster, "dancing woman with hat" style, for the 1976 film. One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself, and made small runs...
Paris: Franco London Films, 1952. Original French program for the 1953 film, starring Gina Lollobrigida. A typically artful Rene Clair production, which like the director's earlier "Le Silence est d'Or" presents a highly stylized (and lushly romanticized) vision of a bygone France. A young composer, bored and irritated with the...
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Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 150 vintage black-and-white keybook contact sheet photographs and 8 loose photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film. The film is represented in test shots, set design shots, and many candid moments from the set, including dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors, Bardot amply represented in the...
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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First American Edition. Very Good in publisher's standard card wrappers, stating "SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY: For private and confidential use only." Tipped on to the front wrapper, as issued, is the full-color illustration from the first edition jacket. Basis for...
Cincinnati, OH: Stewart Kidd and Co, 1912. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Book and jacket are lightly rubbed at a few extremities, else and exceptional copy of a key Strindberg drama.
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Rainbow Draft script for the 1994 film. Keanu Reeves is a Los Angeles police officer who must rescue a city bus that has been rigged with an unusual bomb by Dennis Hopper, an ex-cop with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Sandra Bullock plays...