New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Wonderfully INSCRIBED by the author to actor Paul Muni's wife: "For Bella Muni / Dear Bella / Early in our acquaintance, I reckoned my obligation to you in the terms of light-years / But lately I've lost count and given up. / Sincerely...
New York: Arthur Allen Studios, 1915-1925. Photo album portfolio sold to subscribers by Allen from his Arthur Allen Studios circa 1915-1925, containing more than 40 pages of original nude photographic prints pasted onto stiff pages. Each photo is discreetly rubber stamped (1 to 40) at the bottom right corner. Each...
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...
France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim, 1960. Collection of six vintage borderless still photographs from the 1960 film. With rubber stamps on the verso of each. Based on the 1955 novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith. One of greatest of the French post-noirs, and easily one of...
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...
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Hulme, Manchester: Factory Records, 1979. Evocative original poster advertising a performance by Joy Division at the Factory in Hulme, Manchester, on July 13, 1979. The show was the band's first performance at the now-legendary club, following the release of their first LP, "Unknown Pleasures," in 1979. Accompanying the poster is...
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New York: Two Faces / New Yorker Films, 1969. Vintage poster for the 1969 film, an experimental mix of documentary and fiction. Poster designed by Robert Frank. Director Robert Frank's first feature film, in which he follows poet Peter Orlvosky and his mentally ill brother Julius as they move through...
n.p. N.p., 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman, credited for adding additional dialogue, holograph pencil signature on front wrapper. Holograph ink and pencil notations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the...
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on...
N.p. N.p., 1968. Collection of three and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now," performed on July 24 at a Caramelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon, France. Three of the...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless film still from the 1960 musical film depicting Shirley MacLaine involved in a hand of cards with assistant director Joseph E. Rickards while Frank Sinatra and director Walter Lang look on. Based on the 1953 Broadway musical by Abe Burrows...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Original treatment (titled "Characters and Premise") and complete set of continuities for the 1945 13-episode film serial, including a continuity for the trailer, constituting a virtually complete record. Hammett debuted his Nazi-fighting agent in 1934 in comic book form, with artwork by the legendary...
Paris: Albin Michel, 1926. First Edition, volume two only. Ex-library copy, with contemporary hardcover library binding and a rubber stamp to a number of pages. Very Good plus, with foxing and toning to pages and hinges starting. Without dust jacket. A book of political cartoons and anecdotes by the active...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Windsor Project." Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. Set in Maine, shot on location in Crofton, British Columbia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/25/77...
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1948. First Draft script for the seminal 1949 film noir, "The Third Man," directed by Carol Reed, based on an original screenplay by Graham Greene. "The Third Man" was a co-production between London Film Productions in England and Selznick Studios in Hollywood, this being a....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1957. American one sheet film poster for the witty 1950s romantic comedy, "Designing Woman," directed by Vincente Minnelli, written for the screen by George Wells, and starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall. Style B, with striking original illustration of Bacall and Peck by Kapulick. Folded...
New York: Viking Press, 1974. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "June 1st, 1975 / M'Lady Roberta Felsen: Now the reason why I used the sub-title of "M'Lady" - is because you have got to be a Queen...because your husband, Milt, is definitely a King!...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph notations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950. Revised Composite script for the 1951 film. Two front wrappers present, one with the script department receipt intact, both noting changes (dated 5-12-50) to the script. Tom and Ellen Bowen (Astaire and Powell) are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Original conceptual artwork the 1960 film. Featuring a drawing of Burt Lancaster with Audrey Hepburn clasped against him. Based on the 1957 novel by Alan Le May. In many ways a reflection on John Ford's 1956 film "The Searchers," which was also based on...
New York: Macaulay, 1939. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by the author in the year and month of publication to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts: "January 3rd 1939 / To Walter C. Roberts / In friendship and as a belated Xmas gift. / Your friend / Martin M. Goldsmith." With...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actress Anne Ramsey, who played "Spinster #2" in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the front wrapper, and brief ink notations to preliminary pages. Ramsey's notable film credits include "The Goonies" (1985)...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis / Alliance Books, 1943. First Edition. Association copy, lengthily INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts, citing New York City as his currently location and noting in part: "I have not forgotten... how instrumental you were in launching me...
N.p. N.p., 1922-1927. Archive 163 vintage photographs by Ernest B. Schoedsack detailing expeditions taken by him and filmmaking partner Merian C. Cooper between 1922 and 1927, while the pair were also filming their groundbreaking documentary films "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life" (1925) and "Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness"...
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Paris: N.p., 1966. Archive of 16 vintage photographs of Henry Moore and his sculptures. With the photographer's stamp on the verso of five photographs, and the photographer's signature in holograph black ink on the verso of four photographs. Henry Moore (1898-1986) was an English sculptor best known for his semi-abstract bronze...
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USA: Woodstock Editions, 2000. First Edition. One of 200 numbered suites of 14 three-color prints, each print SIGNED by Hans Gissinger. These prints are from Gissinger's monograph, published simultaneously in 2000 by Woodstock Editions. 25 x 39 inches. Fine condition. An exquisite production.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Carver's first book of short stories. A couple of tiny scratches to the teal topstain, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A superb copy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. SIGNED by Charles Mingus on the dedication page. One of the most uncommon signatures in jazz history, this being only the second example we have ever encountered. A highly unorthodox, stream-of-consciousness autobiography, on which Mingus reportedly worked for over twenty years. Told...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1959. Vintage double weight press photograph of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on location at Coronado Beach. Shot by photographer Tess Michaels for United Artists (so noted on the verso). Several holograph pencil and ink notations on the verso, as well as an inventory...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan J. Pakula, Donald Sutherland, and Jane Fonda on the set of "Klute" in the summer of 1970. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Collection of 84 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1938 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with film title written on the wrapper Margot Weston (Stanwyck) is left heartbroken and pregnant as her husband dies speeding to their wedding. The newborn is given...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1954 film, nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp...
Prague: Elektafilm, 1940. Collection of 44 vintage oversize, double weight photographs from the 1940 film, based on the 1897 novel by Vilem Mrstik. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album with a title page executed in holograph paint, and tissue paper between each page. The sweet and...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Draft British script for the 1954 UK film, released in the US as "Crest of the Wave." Copy belonging to sound recordist Peter Handford, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. At a top secret naval base is located on an...
Paris: Editions Pierre Horay, 1957. Later printing, trade softcover. INSCRIBED by Orson Welles on the page following the title page: "Pour Pierre Goulliard / Orson Welles." French trade softcover edition of film critic and journalist Peter Noble's biography "The Fabulous Orson Welles," originally published in the UK by Hutchinson in...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his...