Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Complete script for the 1952 film. The seventh of the nine legendary films made by the acting team who redefined onscreen chemistry for a generation, and whose long-time offscreen romance gave their work an added depth. The second of two masterful screenplays by Ruth...
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...
Tokyo: Shochiku, Circa 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines. Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set, two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike...
Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises / S.A.C.L., 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film from Argentina for distribution...
Paris: Librairie d'art Louis Reynaud, 1931. Small folio. Portfolio by Alfred Janniot, INSCRIBED by Janniot on the title page. Additionally, an inscription on the front pastedown to John Amore is signed by six of the architects of Rockefeller Center and two of its most important contributing artists. The architects who...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Draft script for the 1938 film. Here under the working title, "Blonde Poison." The fourth of nine films in the very popular B-movie series featuring tenacious female journalist Torchy Blane, which ran from 1937 to 1939. In this installment, Torchy is engaged to be married...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1973 film. Name of an uncredited cast or crew member ("R. Gold Pub.") annotated in pencil at the top left corner of the front wrapper. A Blaxploitation fantasy study of superwomen in a world of passive men. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones...
London: Palace [Absolute Beginners] Limited, 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 film musical. With a single holograph ink notation to the title page. Based on the 1959 novel. A rock musical set in London during the late 1950s, following two former lovers on their parallel paths to fame. David Bowie...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight publicity still of charismatic Arctic adventurer Peter Freuchen, shot by George Hurrell, likely taken to promote the 1934 release of "Eskimo," based on his 1927 book "Storfanger" and 1929 book "Die Flucht ins weisse Land." Intimately INSCRIBED at length...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication to actress Kay Campbell: "For Kay Campbell / who is almost my favorite actress - and so damned nice (plus attractive) besides / Love and kisses from / Charlie...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. Based on a 1946 children’s novel by Michio Takeyama, about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an...
London: Haskins Press, 1975. Limited Edition, preceded by the original 1965 edition. One of 1500 copies (this being No. 511) SIGNED by the photographer on the tipped in limitation page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed, with a few short closed tears at the...
N.p. N.p., 1976. Original Treatment script for the 1977 Italian giallo film. Director John Huston's copy. Laid in is a typed letter signed, dated January 28, 1977, from noted agent Paul Kohner on Kohner's stationery, encouraging Huston to read the script and consider directing the film: "Dear John, / Please...
N.p. N.p., 1979. Original arwork depicting exotic birds in a glorious psychedelic landscape, also known as Don Van Vliet's mind. Signed "Van Vliet / 79." From the collection of Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, for whom the painting was made. It was around this time that Van Vliet famously began to...
New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Joy Williams' scarce second novel, which many claim was "killed" from going into a second printing by an especially scathing review by New York Times writer Anatole Broyard. The novel would remain out of print until...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff." A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection...
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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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon...
Paris: Albien Michel, 1930. First French Edition (and correct first). Presentation copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. The large paper edition, one of 40 copies (this being No. 31) printed on Hollande paper. Basis for two superb films: director Jean Renoir's "La Chienne" (1931) and the American...
New York: Factory Films, 1968. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Paul Morrissey and actor Joe Dallesandro, shot during the making of Andy Warhol's 1968 film "Flesh." Photographer Werner Bokelberg's rubber stamp and holograph pencil annotations to the verso. Morrissey's first production for Warhol, Dallesandro's second leading role...
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N.p. N.p., 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film, each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with cropping annotations in blue holograph wax pencil to five images. Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah (Zsa...
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Small quarto. First printing of this edition. First published in 1842 by Rudolph Ackerman in London. Thirty-five color illustrations by Henry Alken, all present. One page of ads at the rear. Marbled boards in half-bound red morocco leather, compartments, titles and designs all gilt...
Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare, this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1963. Draft post-production script for the 1963 film. Round robin copy, SIGNED by director Shohei Imamura and six members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper, including Sachiko Hidari, Kazuo Kitamura, Shoichi Ozawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, with signatures dated in the mid-1990s...
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film. A rare glimpse behind the scenes of a film that was a triumph of design, practical effects, and cinematography. Fay Wray, the actors playing the natives of Kong Island, and the crew prepare for...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Collection of seven vintage vernacular color photographs from the 1973 film, five featuring actress Gilda Arancio being tortured by kidnappers. One shot (shown) shows Arancio and Joëlle Coeur on their initial hike in the woods, and the final shot shows Coeur late in the film, where she...
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N.p. N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in his studio, New York City, 1985. Snipe, agency and photographer's stamps, and holograph annotations on the verso. Christo Vladdimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon worked together on environmental artworks for nearly 50 years. Christo is pictured here...
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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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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957...
France: Limot, Circa 1961. Collection of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots, pinup images of actress Castel, Bourvil mending fences, and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes, gunfights in the...
N.p. The Landau Company, 1963. Draft script for the 1968 film. As early as 1950 there was talk of adapting Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the screen. In 1963 producer David Susskind took over Jose Quintero's attempt at adapting the novel, which began...
N.p. N.p., 1955-1965. A dazzling collection of 10 original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass, documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Several of the pressbooks typically defy the existing conventions of pressbook design, utilizing a wild...
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Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all...
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New York: Signet Books, 1952. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by Caldwell to the publisher: "To Kurt Enoch / with the grateful thanks of Erskine Caldwell." The first paperback printing of the Broadway play, based on Caldwell's novel, with a new introduction written by Caldwell. Photo-illustrated with stills from...