Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. First Draft Continuity script for the 1952 film. AFI Catalog notes that the film went into production on December 26, 1951, making this a draft that was probably an iteration or two short of the shooting script. Notable adaptation of Hugo’s 1862 novel, with Michael Rennie...
N.p. N.p., circa late 1970's. Original four-panel artwork by Reg Smythe, undated, of his iconic comic strip "Andy Capp." Inscribed by Smythe in black holograph marker on bottom margin: "Poor little devil. All the best!, Reg. S.." Undated, but clearly circa 1970s, featuring the undaunted Andy venturing into a disco...
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N.p., March 4, 1928. Typed letter signed by Herbert Asbury, on his personal coated stationery, with his New York City address. A letter with significant content, including detailed mention of the author's non-fiction book, "The Gangs of New York," as well as his newspaper work and injuries sustained during the...
London: Queen Anne Press, 2012. First Edition. Folio. Quarter white paper spine, black paper boards, gilt top page edges, titles, and design on the front board and spine, red endpapers and red ribbon marker. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Gilbert. Bibliography at its best. Gilbert meticulously details every...
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. A collection of the title novella and three short stories: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory," with the title novella serving as the basis for the 1961 film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn in perhaps her...
New York: Clifford Hayman, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1959 British play. Copy belonging to Dana Andrews, from Clifford Hayman, the producer for the play in London, with a mimeograph letter signed by Hayman, dated August 25, 1965, suggesting Andrews' production company bring the play to the US for...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film musical, "Springtime in the Rockies," directed by Irving Cummings, based on the screenplay for the 1936 comedy "Second Honeymoon," written for the screen by Walter Bullock, Ken Englund, Jacques Thery, and Philip Wylie and starring Betty Grable, Carmen...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather...
New York: Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. First issue dust jacket, with a price of $2.50 on the front flap and a photograph of the author on the rear flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a classic American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions with...
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman, about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes...
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the 1928 film. Based on Jim Tully's 1924 book, "Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography." The story of a girl (Louise Brooks, known only as "The Girl") who kills her treacherous stepfather, disguises herself as a boy, joins...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Temporary Complete script for the 1939 short film, one of several classic shorts featuring the great Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley. A stereotypically clueless husband is left in charge to show his apartment to a prospective subletting couple while his wife is at...
Los Angeles: Four Star Productions, 1965. Vintage photographic title cards and title design sketches for the seminal 1965 television series, notable for having utilized these photographs rather than filmed performances for its title sequence. Included are ten double weight photographs, several signed by the series' star, Anne Francis, and four...
Paris: Les Films 13, 1966. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1966 film. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the versos. Anne Gauthier (Anouk Aimee) and Jean-Louis Duroc (Jean-Louis Trintignant) meet as they drop their children off at boarding school. She works as a script supervisor and he...
Rome: Daimo Cinematografica, 1978. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph of director Federico Fellini from the set of his 1978 film. With the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon on the verso. In this image, Fellini toys with the idea of learning the tympani while wearing a dust mask. Born in...
Marina Del Rey, CA: Kings Road Productions, Circa 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. With a small newspaper clipping promoting the film laid in. Based on the 1976 novel. A small New England town is stalked by a demonic figure who attacks and sexually assaults women. While filming, director John...
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.
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing Peter Falk's shadowed countenance. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate...
Toronto: Coach House, 1967. First Canadian Edition (and correct first). Nicely INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, in the first year after the book's publication: "For David and Joan and kids on Garside with love. Mike. Nov. 1968." Also SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on the set of the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso. Antonioni’s great American experiment, and...
New York: New American Library (NAL), 1968. First Edition. First issue, with NAL printed in red at the foot of the jacket spine. Basis for (and released simultaneously with) Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction classic, written for the screen by Kubrick and Clarke based on Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel."...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1961 film. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 play, about two teachers at an...
Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year...
New York: The Living Theatre, 1961. Original flyer for an exhibition of six films by Maya Deren held on February 20 and 27, 1961 at the Bleecker Street Cinema, and March 6 and 13, 1961 at The Living Theater. The flyer notes that music for two of the films, "Meshes...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage borderless press photograph of Fondas Henry, Peter, and Jane outside of the a Whelan's Drugstore in New York City, circa the mid-1960s. With the New York stamp of photographer Don Ornitz, and the stamp of UK press agency Pictorial Press on the verso. 8 x....
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Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1973 film. A grim and violent cult classic that tells the story of an outbreak of a highly contagious and untreatable military-developed biological weapon that spreads through a rural Pennsylvania town after a plane transporting the disease crashes nearby...
Los Angeles: Quintet Productions, Circa 1971. Draft script for the 1973 horror film. A social worker Ann Gentry is assigned the case of the Wadsworth family, whose youngest member is a grown man in his twenties, named Baby because of his severely limited mental capacity. Baby is doted on by...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Two vintage borderless photographs of Marc Chagall painting in his studio, Saint-Paul-de-Vance, France, 1957. With agency stamps on the verso. Chagall moved to Saint-Paul-de-Vence in 1948 after seven years of living in exile in the United States during World War II. 7.5 x 11 inches (19 x 28...
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London: P.S. King & Son LTD., 1938. First Edition. One of 500 privately printed copies. Rebound in three quarter leather and marbled boards with gilt title and raised bands. Very Good plus. Light dampstaining to the heel crown, light toning and foxing to the front and rear endpapers.
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. Two copies, one each of the two jacket variants issued, one with the author name on the spine in bright pink, the other in orange. Basis for the 1973 heist film, "Charley Varrick," directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau and Joe...
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New York: Bantam Books, 1973. No. R7678. First Edition, a paperback original. Melvin Van Peebles' copy, with his name, company name ("Y.E.A.H., Inc."), address, and phone number in holograph ink on the inside front wrapper. Contains the script and lyrics for Van Peebles' Broadway play, a series of 19 politically...
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First French Edition, preceded by the Greek edition published by Editions Themelion in 1966. Association copy, inscribed by Vassilikos to author William Styron and his wife: "For Rose and Bill / With all my happiness for the success of the book / Love and nostalgia / from...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final Script for the 1939 Shirley Temple film, "Susannah of the Mounties," directed by Walter Lang, written for the screen by Muriel Dennison, Robert Ellis, Walter Ferris, Fidel LaBarba, and Helen Logan (with only Ellis and Logan credited here), and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott...
Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios, circa 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film, seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a photographically reproduced character list laid in with single holograph ink notation. Text in Japanese. The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one...
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1934-1948. An archive of 7 scripts, including rough drafts, screenplays, post-production scripts and support documentation for the 1947 film, "The Paradine Case," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hichens, written for the screen by a host of...