New York: William Morris Agency, Circa 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Don't Bury Me At All," written by Robert Penn Warren and Max Shulman. An unusual collaboration between screenwriter Max Shulman ("The Affairs of Dobie Gillis," 1953) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Penn Warren. A cursory look...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Basis for Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 film classic, Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, and a bunch of kill-crazy Devon townies, considered by many to be his finest directorial effort in a career that included many important films...
New York: New Directions Books, 1950. First Edition of Tennessee William's 1950 play, profusely annotated for a 1959 West End production. Copy belonging to actor-director-producer Sam Wanamaker, with his holograph annotations throughout. Red boards, worn overall, with Wanamaker's name inscribed in holograph black ink to the front board. Includes a....
New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Rem Koolhaas on the title page, in the year after publication: "To Rochelle / Rem Koolhaas / 1-2-96." Koolhaas' magnum opus, a profusely illustrated guide to his process. Conceptual in its design and execution, much like the architect's work. Near Fine...
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London: Cineguild, 1946. Two vintage black-and-white reference photographs, featuring director David Lean, actors Alec Guinness and John Mills, cinematographer Guy Green, camerman Bob Huke, and others on the set of the 1946 film. Both photos with mimeograph snipes detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and...
France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless, black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in...
N.p. N.p., 1929. Purchase, Rights, and Royalties agreement between James M. Cain and Alfred A. Knopf for Cain's first book, Our Government. SIGNED by both Cain and Knopf, with numerous hand corrections and initials by both parties, the most notable being a notation by Knopf on the first page that...
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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 annotations on the verso. The second film in the trilogy that begins...
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...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Collection of four striking vintage photographs from the 1957 US film. The stills demonstrate the practical effects and extraordinary sets constructed in order to make the picture—at a time when the special effects needed to visualize the world of a man reduced to being...
[unknown]: Brut Productions, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 television film, here under the working title "Welcome to Xanadu," which originally aired on ABC on October 10, 1975. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page. Based on the 1968...
Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night". Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28, 1948." Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in...
Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate proteges, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location...
New York: Dial, 1948. First Edition. Basis for the 1950 film noir, "Where the Sidewalk Ends," directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney. About Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Pages slightly toned at the edges as usual, else book is unread. Jacket is bright, fresh, and colorful, with...
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage photograph of director Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of the 1983 film. Typescript snipe and holograph annotations on the verso. The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Jankovsky) and his interpreter Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano) journey to Italy to research a forgotten 18th-century composer. Winner of three...
N.p. N.p, 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Andy Warhol and the cast of the 1971 play. Mimeo snipe and annotation in holograph pencil on verso. "Pork" opened at LaMama Theatre in New York City on May 5, 1971 and ran for two weeks before transferring to the Roundhouse Theatre in London where...
N.p. Recorded Picture Company, 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes, and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis. A quiet, chilling...
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Early Draft script for the 1946 film. An early draft written by playwright Clifford Odets during his Hollywood tenure, at a point when RKO was considering Gary Cooper and Cary Grant as possible leads in the film. Eventually RKO sold the property to...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter, bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design, with Hunter's name on the front board...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph of director Nicholas Ray on the set of his 1963 film, "55 Days at Peking". Shot by still photographer Dennis Stock, and with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting Ray, screenwriter Philip Yordan, and actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and...
Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie, which originally aired on March 18, 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, filmed once before by...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. First UK edition, and first English-language edition. The film director's first novel, the only English language edition, and with no US equivalent. The story involves a film star who becomes lost in his own character, and devises a scheme to make a film with God...
Rome: Dania Film, 1980. Collection of 10 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film. Most with brief holograph annotations on the verso. A reporter and a psychic try to close the gates of Hell after a priest's suicide on holy ground causes the dead to rise, from the "godfather...
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N.p. N.p., 1982. Vintage double weight photograph of artist Joseph Beuys, shot in 1982 by photographer Klaus Behr. With Behr's stamp on the verso. At this time Beuys was approaching the height of long delayed recognition on an international level. The Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective in 1979, ultimately...
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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London: John Hamilton, 1925. First Edition. Rare in or out of jacket. Pulp thriller in which a journalist and a detective battle the Expropriation Society, a criminal organization whose ostensible goal is the establishment of a worldwide communist utopia. The Society's seemingly impossible crimes are the results of an insane...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Script for the 1966 film, "Fantastic Voyage," directed by Richard Fleischer, written for the screen by Harry Kleiner, and starring Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, and Donald Pleasance. One of the seminal science fiction films of the 1960s, novelized the same year by Isaac Asimov...
N.p. ITC Entertainment, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease, and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow, with a star-studded cast, including Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and producer Carlo Ponti's wife...
Portland, OR: N.p., 1978. Collection of 63 vernacular color photographs of the scene of the crash of commercial United Airlines Flight 173 that occurred on December 28, 1978 in suburban Portland, Oregon. Likely shot by an investigator or airline employee, the photographs in this archive depict a comprehensive survey of...
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on 3 pages. Jerry Belson's cocaine fueled spoof on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," could have only been made in the early 1980's. With...
San Francisco: University of California Berkley Museum, 1970. Original poster for one of the most important events in the Bay Area of California in 1970, a performance by Steve Reich to celebrate the opening of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. With a striking triangular design, mounted as issued, with a....
N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1966 film. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. A flurry of controversy surrounded the production and release of Rivette's film. Upon facing pressure from the French Catholic Church regarding its critical religious and sexual...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / United Artists, 1965. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the release of the 1965 British-American film. All four of the boys wonderfully represented here, gals in tow, having a fine time on the ice (John and George), in the jungle (Paul)...
New York: N.p., 1952. Draft script for the 1952 play production. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who starred in the Broadway production. Set in the ward of a mental hospital, the play follows one of its patients, a theatrical director driven to attempted suicide by his domineering wife, Anne...