Los Angeles: William Fox, 1927. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1927 film. Portrayed are star-crossed lovers Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien, in the midst of their romantic city adventure, boarding a trolley. Murnau's first film to be made in the US, a rare and poignant studio photograph from...
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gardner to one of his secretaries: “To Noni, Who wrote it—from the guy who only had to talk it. Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner.” About Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, which is lightly worn at top of spine and corners...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Parklane Productions, 1954. Original one sheet poster for the 1954 film noir. One of the best psychological B-noirs of the 1950s, beautifully photographed by Franz Planer and tightly directed, with a plot strain that is kin to "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) and "Impact"...
New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Early Draft script for the 1964 film. A treatment unrecorded in IMDB, as the final rewrite and screen credit went to novelist-screenwriter Sally Benson. A superb, unheralded 1960s thriller in which an innocent man is convicted of murder, spends 10 years in an insane...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To E.F. / With appreciation for all your kind encouragements / Fondly / Harold R." Basis for the 1958 film "King Creole," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring a different king, Elvis Presley, in...
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New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1999. First Edition. Profusely illustrated in color throughout with Basquiat's substantial oeuvre. Fine and unread in illustrated boards and a just about Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has a bump to one corner else Fine.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film, director Wilder's final work. SIGNED by director Wilder and screenwriter Diamond in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Based on a play by French playwright Francis Veber, and on the 1973 French-Italian film, "L'emmerdeur." A professional killer...
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France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF) / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink notations with the name of the...
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with an accompanying sketch of a bird. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing at the spine ends and corners. An...
New York: La Mama ETC, 1975-1976. Archive of four posters from productions hosted by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, including "Fragments of a Trilogy" (Andrei Serban & Elizabeth Swados, 1975), "A Rat's Mass" (Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor, 1976), "Anais" (Tom O'Horgan, 1976), and "Quarry" (Meredith Monk, 1976). Founded in...
Rome: Cino del Duca, 1960. Vintage oversize double weight borderless glossy press photograph by Enrico Appetito from the 1960 film. Bold notation on the verso noting that the photograph is from the archives of the French cinephile magazine, “Cinema 60.” The first film in Antonioni's famed trilogy, followed by La Notte...
France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and...
N.p. N.p., 2004. Vintage double weight photograph of Amos Vogel, taken by Gerard Malanga and gifted by Malanga to Vogel in 2004. Malanga's trademark name blindstamp is at the bottom right corner of the image, and he has inscribed the verso: "Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 / October 22...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Richard Lupoff on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dick Lupoff / Best of luck to a fellow Creature-Feature fan / Anne Rice / May, 1976." Anne Rice was still attending school in San Francisco at this time...
Los Angeles: National General Pictures, 1969. Final shooting script for the 1970 film, "Darker than Amber," based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald, featuring his series character Travis McGee. Written for the screen by Ed Waters and starring Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel. Boldly SIGNED by Rod Taylor...
New York: The Seabury Press, 1973. First Edition in English, preceding the UK edition that was published by Methuen two years later in 1975. Quite scarce in jacket. An intense work of speculative science fiction, basis for the challenging and highly praised 2013 film by Aleksey German, which played festivals...
New York: John Day, 1931. First Edition. First issue with "flees" on page 100, and "John Day Publishing Company" on the copyright page. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Basis for the 1937 film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, who won an Academy Award for her role, and directed by...
Italy / France: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate / Franco London Films, 1954. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1954 film, showing Ingrid Bergman tied to the titular stake, with actor Tullio Carminati beside her, and director Roberto Rossellini in the foreground. With stamps identifying the film (under the English...
Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Top Gun Productions, 1959-1961. Archive of 26 scripts from the early revisionist television Western, the working copies of producer Michael Kraike, consisting the second half of the first season (1959-1960) and the first half of the second season (1960-1961). These two halves are...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1940-1941 season. Notably, this annual is the earliest advertisement for "Citizen Kane," with a full-page spread featuring Orson Welles, against the working title, "John Citizen, US." Notable among the offerings featured are several literary adaptations...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Jay Grobart (Reynolds) kills a man who raped and murdered his wife, Cat Dancing. He is arrested, but soon after...
London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, presumably quite early on, as "John Ross Macdonald." Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Some fading to the topstain and spine panel lightly toned, else book is Fine. Jacket extremities lightly...
New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance...
US: Cannon, 1985. Draft script and archive for the 1986 film belonging to actor Lainie Kazan, who played Sylvia in the film, with her holograph notations throughout, and various other ephemera, including call sheets, cast and crew lists, two thumbnail sized photographs of her in character, and 16 additional revised...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First Edition. Signed by author Gordon Kahn and by each of the ten men indicted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, known collectively to history as the "Hollywood Ten": Herbert Biberman, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, Edward...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969-1974. Two vintage double weight photographs of The Rolling Stones, circa 1969-1974, with Mick Taylor in the lineup after the departure of Brian Jones. With the stamp of photographer Curt Gunther on the verso of each photograph. From the archive of "Cash Box" magazine. First photograph 9...
N.p. Matrixbest production, 1977. Seventh Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph signature and copy number 80 in black marker by production designer John Beard on the title page. Beard is best known for his work on "Brazil" (1985), "The Meaning of Life" (1983), "Bad Timing" (1980), and "Life of...
Tokyo: Toho Company, circa 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film, crediting Masahiro Makino as the director, who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi, originally released in 1937 as two parts, "Saga of the Vagabonds Part...
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Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, many unique to this publication. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because...
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To (Mrs.) Ralph's Mother [sic] / Mima / Respectful and Sincerely / Igor Stravinsky / July 13, '59." A deeply personal revelation of the variety of interests of the Russian composer, pianist...
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.
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.
New York: William Sloane, 1947. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "For Miss Margie / With sincere good wishes always / Bud Guthrie / Lexington, Ky. / April 28, 1947." Not to be confused with the signed limited edition, printed in...