N.p. Cinema V, 1969. Original silkscreen poster designed by legendary title and poster artist Saul Bass for the US release of the 1968 French film "Alexandre le bienheaureux." Printed at the Art Krebs Screen Studios in Los Angeles, and used for the film's premiere at the legendary Cinema II Theater...
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...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty," seen here under the working title, "Down Went McGinty," corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges, with two earlier titles, "Biography of a....
Cambridge: Leavitt and Peirce, 1958. First Edition, this being the uncommon hardcover variant. A series of recollections about Leavitt and Peirce, a tobacco shop and gathering place for Harvard men, published on the 75th anniversary of the shop. An early appearance by John Updike, who contributes his essay, "The Old...
New York: Billy Rose Theatre, 1962. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original Broadway production of the 1962 play at the Billy Rose Theatre. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" debuted on Oct. 13, 1962 and ran until May 16, 1964, for a total of 664 performances. The...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the 1962 film, showing Leo McCarey directing William Holden from behind the camera while France Nuyen waits just offstage. With a mimeo snipe tipped on the verso crediting photographer Lawrence Schiller and stamps of the Holmes-Lebel and Camera...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to production designer Stephen B. Grimes, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and brief notations on a few pages in holograph ink. Based on Ernest Thompson's play, about a father-daughter relationship that...
Paris: Cinema d'Aujourd'hui no. 44 / Edition Serghes, 1966. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by director John Huston on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / with my best regards / John Huston." An early, critical look at the iconic director of such enduring classics as "The Maltese...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1964 film. In the photo, Hitchcock leans over Tippi Hedren, who sits at a typewriter, portraying her character in the office where she works as a secretary. With a mimeograph snipe on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
Mission Viejo, CA: ASAP Press, 2005. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bruen, Jason Starr (who wrote the introduction) and Phil Parks (the illustrator). Fine in publisher’s green linen-covered boards and a matching clamshell box with a wooden cross and printed bronze plate affixed to the inside...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and former president on the front endpaper: "The Complements of Herbert Hoover." Near Fine in an about Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with offsetting on the front endpaper, and the Herbert Hoover postage stamp on the...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Snipe in manual type on the verso, mentioning Karloff in "his latest picture for Universal, The Black Cat," and rubber stamps crediting photographer Roman Freulich, noting that the struck...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for the 1967 film "Tony Rome," here under the working title "Shamus." Based on the 1960 novel by Marvin H. Albert. Paul Brenner of Allmovie.com notes: "Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony...
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.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with notations in holograph pencil on the versos of pages throughout, mostly numeric notations, with a few pages noting on-the-set supplies, and some personal notations. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1963...
Berlin: Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1821. First Edition. Octavo. xxvi, 355, [1, imprint], with a secondary title page, opposite the primary title page at the left, reading "Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse." Publisher's original paper-covered boards, red leather spine panel with title and rule in gilt, page edges stained red. Completely unrestored...
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933...
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...
Cambridge, MA: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1973. First Edition. Richards' first book, a monograph that consists of photographs taken in West Memphis, Arkansas, during his 1968 tenure with VISTA. An examination into the lives of African-American workers living far below the poverty line. One of the most important...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage double weight, borderless still photograph of actress Shirley MacLaine from the 1966 film. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Although not indicated on the photograph, shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork by Charles K. Hagedon for the 1955 film musical. A bizarre image, showing a sailor with his gall, entering a cave that has bats, skeletons, a raven in the shadows, and in the distance a window outside of which appears a....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. An early draft, in script format, of the 1933 novel, "Gabriel Over the White House," written by Thomas Frederic Tweed. This draft was developed the same year into the 1933 pre-Code film directed by Gregory LaCava, written for the screen by Carey Wilson, and...
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...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Revised Final script for the 1936 film musical, "Stowaway," directed by William A. Seiter, written for the screen by William M. Conselman, Samuel G. Engel, Nat Perrin, and Arthur Sheekman, and starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, and Alice Faye. A Shirley Temple classic, and the...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First Edition, and first printing of this omnibus edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dorothy and Clarence / Still the best in-laws in the world / Ken / See p. vii of 'Foreword.'" The cited...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Wagner / United Artists, circa 1967. Original late 1960s Polish R61 poster for the Polish re-release of the 1939 US film, designed by Jerzy Treutler. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece, "Stagecoach" revolutionized...
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. First Edition. Rare in jacket. A pulp thriller about a criminal mastermind, known only as The Ghoul, who has plunged London into a crime wave. Basis for the 1933 film of the same name, directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff. The film added...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1956. Vintage borderless photograph, showing Bergman conversing with Bengt Ekerot, in costume as Death, on the set of the 1957 film. With the copyright stamp of Svensk Filmindustri, as well as some addition Swedish language stamps, and a date stamp of November 24, 1956 on the...
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France / Italy: Affiches Gaillard / Cineriz, Circa 1961. Archive of 139 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Seen in the images is starring actor Fernandel and other members of the cast in action, and a few images of the film crew at work. Notations...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1931 pre-Code film, and the first adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's classic hard boiled novel. All but two images with the Warner Brothers / Vitaphone logo at the bottom margin. This first adaptation, made well prior to...
New York: Crown, 1952. First Edition. Basis for Sergio Leone's 1984 mob epic, "Once Upon a Time in America," starring Robert DeNiro and James Woods. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket with none of the usual fading to the spine panel, only a tiny hole at mid-spine (see image).
London and New York: Track / MCA, 1974. Original promotional poster for the 1974 album. In the autumn of 1973, while members of The Who were preparing for the film version of "Tommy," John Entwistle was put in charge of compiling an album to counter the widespread bootlegging of the...
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. First Edition. An uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Offsetting to the last two rear blanks, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Jacket is...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Original poster for the 1965 tour by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. This poster given by Baez to Tisha Fein, longtime talent coordinator and producer for the Grammy's, with Fein's holograph notation to the verso: "Joan Baez gave me this when we did her Midnight Special tribute--Tisha...
N.p. Sumar Productions, 1955. Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Based on Ewen Montagu's 1953 book of the same name. A dramatization of actual events that took place during the second World War. Montagu devised a scheme to mislead Nazi intelligence concerning the impending invasion of southern Europe. The...